GOTTSCHALK, LOUIS M. 



GOUGE, HUGH. 



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est is taken in missions among the ministers 

 and members, and the contributions for this 

 purpose are larger in proportion to the num- 

 bers and resources of the denomination than 

 ever before. But little progress has been made 

 in educational enterprises. Plans prepared at 

 the previous triennial meeting for the estab- 

 lishment of, a central school have not, for pru- 

 dential reasons, been carried into effect. A 

 new appeal was made to the members for do- 

 nations and bequests for the endowment of the 

 proposed institution; Permission was given 

 the German Eldership to extend its work 

 throughout the United States, without con- 

 fining itself to particular bounds. The Church 

 Advocate at Lancaster, Pa., was adopted as the 

 organ of the Church, and provision made for 



Eublishing the proceedings of the elderships 

 i its columns, so that no pamphlet reports 

 will be issued. The next session of the Gen- 

 eral Eldership will be held at Mt. Carroll, 111., 

 on the last "Wednesday in May, 1872. 



GOTTSCHALK, LomsMoKEAF, an American 

 pianist and musical composer, born in New Or- 

 leans, La., May 8, 1829 ; died at Tijuca, a suburb 

 of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, December 18, 1869. 

 His fondness for music, and his precocious skill 

 as a player, were remarkable. He gave his 

 first concert when but seven years old. He 

 was but twelve when his father sent him to 

 Paris to complete his musical education. In 

 April, 1845, he made his first appearance in 

 that city as a pianist, after four years of close 

 application under MM. Halle and Bamaty to 

 the mastery of the piano, and a very thorough 

 course in harmony under M. Maleden. He 

 continued his studies in the higher branches of 

 musical composition till 1848, when he gave a 

 series of public concerts in Paris, in which he 

 achieved a great success. In 1849 he appeared 

 through the season, in the principal towns of 

 Switzerland; in 1850 and '51 he was again in 

 Paris, and again won the highest praise, and 

 his concerts were thronged. In 1852 he tested 

 with equal success the extremely critical and 

 not easily satisfied musical world of Spain. In 

 1853 he returned to the United States, where 

 he was everywhere warmly welcomed. He 

 had given numerous concerts in all our prin- 

 cipal cities, and had also visited Mexico, the 

 western coast of South America, and Australia. 

 In June, 1869, after having spent considerable 

 time at Buenos Ay res and Monte Video, he 

 came to Rio Janeiro, where he was most cor- 

 dially received. He showed the same generous 

 and liberal nature there which had always dis- 

 tinguished him, responding freely to every call 

 for his services for institutions of charity, and 

 winning the love and esteem of all the mem- 

 bers of the musical profession by his cordial 

 and affectionate manners. After giving numer- 

 ous concerts, he had arranged for a great mu- 

 sical festival of some weeks, which was to 

 commence on the 24th of November. The first 

 evening he was very successful, and the per- 

 formance was the delight of the thousands who 



attended ; on the second evening he fell to the 

 floor unconscious, at the very beginning of the 

 programme, and was only restored after he had 

 been removed to his hotel. He lingered in 

 great suffering for a little more than three 

 weeks, and died, mourned by many thousands 

 of the best citizens of Rio Janeiro. Mr. Gotts- 

 chalk was as distinguished as a composer as he 

 was as a pianist; indeed, his composition was 

 of very much the same character as his playing, 

 brilliant, ingenious, dashing, at times dreamy, 

 and always gracefully adapted to the sentiment 

 of the hour. Many of his compositions are 

 well known and familiar to thousands of play- 

 ers. His "Banjo," "Night March," "Soldier 

 Song," "Apotheosis," "The Bamboo," "The 

 Plantain-Tree," "Savannah," "The Ossianic 

 Dance," "The Harvest Girl," "The Night of 

 the Tropics," "Young Harry's Chase," "Iota 

 Aragonesa," "Manchega," " Portorella e Cava- 

 liere," and his arrangement of "God save the 

 Queen," are among those of his pieces which 

 will live. His private life was very gentle and 

 amiable, and, among the members of the nota- 

 bly irritable musical profession, few men have 

 been so widely and greatly loved as he. He 

 had received several foreign orders and dec- 

 orations for his eminence as a pianist ; among 

 them the decoration of the Legion of Honor, 

 and that of the order of Isabella the Catholic. 



GOUGH, Field-Marshal HUGH, Viscount, K. 

 S. P., G. 0. B., G. 0. S. L, a distinguished British 

 soldier, commander-in-chief of the British Army 

 in the Chinese and Sikh Wars, born in Limerick, 

 Ireland, November 3, 1779 ; died in London, 

 March 2, 1869. He entered the army in 1794, 

 and in 1795 participated in the capture of the 

 Dutch fleet, in Saldanha Bay, and the Dutch 

 colony of the Cape of Good Hope. He next 

 served in the West Indies ; was present at the 

 attack on Porto Rico, and at the capture of 

 Surinam. In 1809 he went to the Peninsula 

 and commanded the Eighty-seventh Infantry 

 at the battles of Talavera, Barossa, Vittoria, 

 and Nivelle, for which he received a cross. He 

 also took an active part in the sieges of Cadiz 

 and Tarifa, and was severely wounded in the 

 head. It was his regiment that at the battle 

 of Barossa captured the eagle of the Eighth 

 French regiment, and at Vittoria he secured 

 the baton of the French Marshal Jourdan. He 

 was severely wounded a second time at Nivelle. 

 In 1841-'42 he commanded the land forces in 

 China, and for the gallant manner in which he 

 made the attack on Canton he was made a 

 G. C. B., and when the campaign was concluded 

 he was knighted. He was next dispatched to 

 India, where, on the 29th of December, 1843, 

 with the right wing of the army of the Gwalior 

 he defeated a Mahratta force at Maharajpore 

 and captured fifty-six guns. In > 1845-'46 he 

 gained several important victories over the 

 Sikh army, for which services he received the 

 thanks of both Houses of Parliament and was 

 raised to the peerage. He also conducted the 

 campaigns of 1848-'49 against the Sikhs in their 



