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cipal and proprietor of the Leavenworth Aca- 

 demic and Collegiate Seminary for Young La- 

 dies, which had a high reputation throughout 

 the South. His scholarship was of a high order, 

 and his qualifications as a teacher rare and 

 peculiar; he was thoroughly devoted to the 

 cause of education. He was a vigorous and 

 ready writer, and as Corresponding Secretary 

 of the Virginia Educational Association exert- 

 ed a powerful influence for good upon the 

 Southern educational institutions. 



Feb. 14. HUNT, L. ALVIN, a New York 

 journalist; died at Unadilla, Otsego County, 

 N. Y., aged 28 years. He was born in Jefferson 

 County, N. Y., and was originally a compositor. 

 His editorial career was commenced upon the 

 Argus, and, when that journal and the World 

 were consolidated, he accepted the position of 

 night editor upon the new paper, and continued 

 to hold it four years, resigning on account of 

 his health. For many years he was the New 

 York correspondent of the London Morning 

 Herald, and the Standard. 



Feb. 14. SMITH, SOL, an actor and stage 

 manager ; died at St. Louis, Mo., aged 68 years. 

 He was born in Oswego County, N. Y., in 1801, 

 learned the printer's trade, and while yet a 

 young man joined a company of strolling play- 

 ers, at Louisville, Ky. He was so well adapted 

 to the business, that he soon became a leading 

 actor, then a star, and finally a manager in 

 many of the Western theatres. He was the au- 

 thor of an autobiography and reminiscences 

 of the stage, published by Harper & Brothers 

 in 1868. 



Feb. 14. WASHINGTON, JOHN NICHOLSON, a 

 kinsman, in the fourth remove, of General 

 Washington ; died at Newbern, N. C. He was 

 born in Spring Bank, Wayne County, N. 0., 

 November 19, 1819, graduated at Yale Col- 

 lege in 1841, and, after a course of study in the 

 Law School at New Haven, Conn., returned 

 to his native State and practised law, success- 

 fully till 1854, when he visited Europe, and, 

 after his return, lived in retirement, in the en- 

 joyment of a large fortune. During the late 

 war he was for a time an officer in the Confed- 

 erate army, and subsequently removed to Pitts- 

 borough, Chatham County, Va., where he 

 taught a private school. Immediately after 

 the surrender of Lee, he returned to Newbern, 

 and in the summer of 1865 was elected mayor 

 of the city, and, after the expiration of his 

 term of office, resumed the practice of his pro- 

 fession. 



Feb. 15. HICKET, Rev. JOHN F., a venerable 

 Roman Catholic priest and teacher; died at St. 

 Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Md., aged 81 years. 

 He was born in Georgetown, D. C., in 1788, 

 studied at St. Mary's Theological Seminary, 

 Baltimore, and in 1814 was ordained to the 

 priesthood. After ministering for a time in 

 Emmettsburg, he taught some years at St. 

 Mary's College. Subsequently he acted as as- 

 sistant in the Cathedral, and St. Vincent's and 

 St. Peter's parishes, in New York City, until ill 



health compelled him to retire to St. Agnes 

 Hospital. 



Feb. 16. MOORE, General WYMAN B. S. ; died 

 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was born in Wa- 

 terville, Maine, November 3, 1814 ; graduated 

 at Waterville College (now Colby University) ; 

 studied law at Cambridge, and was admitted 

 to the bar in 1834. He was a member of the 

 Maine Legislature in 1839 ; Attorney-General 

 of that State from 1844 to 1848 ; and, by ap- 

 pointment, succeeded John Fairfield as a Sen- 

 ator in Congress, serving from January to June, 



1848. He subsequently devoted much atten- 

 tion to the railroad interests of his State, and, 

 in 1857, was appointed by President Buchanan 

 Consul-General to the British- American Prov- 

 inces, continuing in that office till 1861. His 

 health had lately been very poor, and he had 

 visited Virginia in the hope of benefiting it. 



Feb. 19. JONE.S, THOMAS, Jr., a politician 

 and editor ; died in New York, aged 45 years. 

 He was born in Oneida County, studied law 

 and was admitted to the bar, but never engaged 

 actively in the practice of his profession. For 

 some years he served in the State Legislature. 

 Having had some practical experience in the 

 insurance business, he afterward became an 

 agent for the Mutual Life Insurance Company 

 of New York, and removed thither for a resi- 

 dence. In 1853 he established a publication 

 called the Insurance Monitor and Wall Street 

 Review, now the oldest and most widely-circu- 

 lated paper of the kind in this country. 



Feb. 22. VAILL, Rev. JOSEPH, D. D., an em- 

 inent Congregationalist clergyman ; died at 

 his residence in Palmer, Mass., in the 79th 

 year of his age. He graduated at Yale College 

 in 1811, and soon after completing his theo- 

 logical studies entered upon the work of the 

 ministry, in which he was actively engaged for 

 a period of fifty-five years ; preaching in- Brim- 

 field, Mass., Portland, Me., and Palmer, Mass. 

 In the fall previous to his death he was elected 

 a member of the Massachusetts Legislature. 

 He retained in full vigor his powers, both 

 of body and mind, until his death. Dr. Vaill 

 was for several years financial agent of Am- 

 herst College, and during a period of great 

 embarrassment, in 1841-' 45, raised for its en- 

 dowment the sum of $100,000. He received 

 the degree of D. D. from Amherst College in 

 1851. 



Feb. 24. DINSMOOR, SAMUEL, LL. D. ; died at 

 Keene, N. H., aged 70 years. He was a native 

 of Keene, New Hampshire, graduated at Dart- 

 mouth College in 1814, and was admitted to 

 the bar in 1818. He visited Arkansas in 1819, 

 and spent some time there. From 1826 to 

 1831 he was Clerk of the N. H. Senate. He 

 was elected Governor of New Hampshire in 



1849, and reflected in 1850 and 1851. His 

 integrity and his amiable and genial tempera- 

 ment caused him to very generally esteemed. 



Feb. 25. ROBB, Rev. JOHN, a Methodist local 

 preacher, and Clerk in the Treasury Depart- 

 ment ; died in Washington, D. C., aged 78 years. 



