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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



the author of the first congressional bill for 

 the emancipation of slaves in any part of the 

 United States, and with his own hand wrote 

 the bill for the emancipation of slaves in the 

 District of Columbia, and urged it upon the 

 attention of Congress. After the war he re- 

 turned to Ohio, and took a prominent part in 

 the political campaigns of that State. His 

 death was the result of pulmonary disease. 



Jan. 15. LEONARD, JAMES, Inspector of 

 Police in New York City ; died suddenly at his 

 residence, of rupture of an aneurism of the 

 aorta. He was born in Plattsburg, N. Y., 

 August 19, 1820. In 1845 he became connected 

 with the police force, and in 1848 was ap- 

 pointed Captain of Police of the Second Ward. 

 While here he became identified with the Dem- 

 ocratic organizations of the ward, and was 

 looked upon as a leader of great strength. 

 Subsequently, under the police law, he was ap- 

 pointed to the position of inspector, which he 

 filled with marked ability. In 1851, on the 

 occasion of the World's Fair in London, he 

 was, at the request of Sir Eichard Mayne, 

 Chief of the London Police, sent over to look 

 after criminals from this country, and re- 

 ceived a handsome reward for his services. 

 To his duties as inspector was added the 

 supervision of the School of Instruction for 

 the Police, and to his capacity as instructor 

 New York is mainly indebted for the efficiency 

 of the present police force. He had just or- 

 ganized a class for sergeants, and superintended 

 the exercises as usual on the day of his decease. 



Jan. 17. BLAND, HUMPHREY, a well-known 

 actor and theatrical manager, died in New 

 York City, aged 57 years. He was a native of 

 England, and in that country won some dis- 

 tinction as a representative of the young heroes 

 of tragedy and comedy. After coming to this 

 country he achieved considerable success, and 

 at the time of his death was manager of Wall's 

 Opera-House, in Washington. He was a dili- 

 gent and devoted student of his art, and a 

 faithful, conscientious actor. 



Jan. 17. YOSE, Judge HENEY, an able jurist, 

 died in Boston. He was born in Charlestown, 

 in 1817, graduated at Harvard College in the 

 class of 1837, studied and practised law in 

 Springfield, Mass., and represented that city in 

 the Legislatures of 1857 and 1858. He was ap- 

 pointed Judge of the Superior Court on its 

 organization in 1859, and remained on the 

 bench till his death. He was a man of ster- 

 ling qualities, and greatly beloved and respected 

 in all the relations of life. 



Jan. 18. PEEOE, ELBEET, an author and in- 

 ventor, died in Brooklyn, L. I., aged 37 years. 

 He was born in New York, August 17, 1831, 

 but the early part of his life was spent in Buf- 

 falo. Returning to New York, he devoted 

 himself to literary pursuits, and in 1851 pub- 

 lished "Gulliver Joi," in the succeeding year, 

 u Old Karl, the Cooper, and his Wonderful 

 Book," and many translations from the Swed- 

 ish novelist, Madame Carlen. In these he 



met with remarkable success, and subse- 

 quently compiled "The Battle Eoll," a work 

 giving statistics of all the important battles 

 ever fought. He added to his literary taste and 

 ability a decided genius for mechanics, and was 

 the inventor of the Magnetic Terrestrial Globe 

 which bears his name. He was a man of fine 

 literary ability and wide 'popularity. 



Jan. 20. EODNEY, HENEY F. ; died at Lewes, 

 Delaware, aged 69 years. He was repeatedly 

 chosen a member of the State Legislature, and 

 was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention 

 of 1832, in which he advocated the right of 

 colored citizens to suffrage. 



Jan. 21. CALLIGHAN, Eev. JOSEPH, S. J., a 

 Eoman Catholic priest, rector of the novitiate of 

 the Society of Jesus at Frederick, Md. ; was 

 killed by the disaster to the steamship Pereire, 

 off Brest, France, aged 45 years. He. was a 

 native of Boston. He was for four years presi- 

 dent of Loyola College, Baltimore, and, at the 

 time of his death, was returning from Eorne, 

 whither he had gone as a representative of the 

 Eoman Catholic Societies of Maryland. 



Jan. 23. LEACH, Eev. BEEIAH N., D. D., a 

 Baptist clergyman, died in Middletown, Conn., 

 aged 67 years. He was a native of Vermont, 

 graduated at Hamilton Literary and Theolo- 

 gical Institution, now Madison University, 

 Hamilton, N. Y., in 1828. He had been forty 

 years in the ministry, and was the author of 

 several religious works. 



Jan. 24. OLDS, Dr. EDSON B., member of 

 Congress from Ohio; died at Lancaster, Ohio, 

 aged about 66 years. He was a native of Ver- 

 mont, and was a Eepresentative in Congress 

 from Ohio, from 1849 to 1855, in the Demo- 

 cratic interest. He had also been for six 

 terms a member of the Ohio Legislature, and 

 one term Speaker of the State Senate. He had 

 taken strong ground in his denunciations of 

 the Government while in the Ohio Legislature, 

 and in 1862 was arrested for disloyalty, and 

 imprisoned for a few months in Fort Lafayette. 

 A short time previous to his death, he erected a 

 new church, with the understanding that it 

 should be free from "the heresy of regarding 

 slavery and rebellion as sins." 



Jan. 26. WEIGHT, F. M., a prominent and 

 popular politician of Central Ohio; died at 

 Urban a, Ohio. He was Auditor of the State 

 from 1856 to 1860, under the Chase adminis- 

 tration, and in 1862 was appointed Collector of 

 Internal Eevenue for the Fourth Congressional 

 District of Ohio. He was very much beloved 

 in Urbana and its vicinity, and had a high 

 reputation for business ability. 



Jan. 27. WALBEIDGE, HENRY S., formerly 

 member of Congress from New York; was 

 killed on the railroad in Bergen tunnel, Hobo- 

 ken, N. J., aged about 60 years. He was a 

 brother of General Hiram Walbridge; was a 

 Eepresentative in Congress from New York, 

 from 1851 to 1853, and had also been a Judge of 

 the Supreme Court of that State. 



Jan. 29. McMAHON, Colonel Jonx II., a 



