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but did not sail till June, 1862, and arrived at 

 Nowgong in November, 1862. He had been a 

 most faithful and devoted missionary, and had 

 so far exhausted his own strength in minister- 

 ing to the natives who were suffering from the 

 terrible disease, that he readily fell a victim 

 to it. 



May 21. MCCATJLEY, Commodore CHAELES 

 S., U. S. A., a veteran officer of the Navy ; died 

 in Washington, D. 0., aged about 75 years. 

 He was born in Pennsylvania, from which 

 State he received his appointment; entered 

 into the naval service January 16, 1809, and 

 spent twenty-two years afloat. In 1830 he was 

 disabled from active duty, and the last few 

 years of his life were spent in Washington. 



May 23. SHEPHERD, NATHANIEL G., poet 

 and artist ; died in New York City, aged 34 

 years. He was a native of New York, and en- 

 tered business life as an artist, studying for 

 that profession in his native city, but subse- 

 quently spent several years in Georgia as a 

 teacher of writing and drawing; and, upon 

 his return North, engaged in the insurance 

 business, devoting his leisure time to study, 

 and especially to that of poetry, for which he 

 evinced a decided talent. Upon the outbreak 

 of the war he accepted a position as war cor- 

 respondent for The Tribune, and in this capa- 

 city visited the scene of conflict in Virginia, 

 and the vicinity of Fort Sumter. Eeturning 

 some time in the fall of 1863, he once more re- 

 sumed his favorite study, and many exquisite 

 poems were the product of his pen. "The 

 Dead Drummer Boy," which appeared in Har- 

 per's Magazine, was one of the finest poems 

 elicited by the war. His best efforts saw the 

 light in the Harpers' publications ; but he also 

 wrote for The Ledger, The Chimney- Corner, 

 and a number of other periodicals, with almost 

 equal success. 



May 24. ALLTN, Judge JOSEPH P. ; died in 

 Paris, France, aged 36 years. He was born in 

 Hartford, Conn., and at thirteen years of age 

 was compelled, by reason of poor health, to 

 relinquish his studies and enter the store of his 

 father, a wholesale merchant in that city, but, 

 the winters proving too severe, he was obliged 

 to try the effect of a Southern climate. Sub- 

 sequently, he returned to his native city and 

 entered into a partnership business, but failing 

 health again drove him abroad. During the 

 Thirty-sixth Congress, he was residing in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., and held a subordinate office in 

 the House. Having been appointed, by Presi- 

 dent Lincoln, one of the Judges of Arizona, in 

 1863, he proceeded thither with the other Ter- 

 ritorial officers and a military escort, perform- 

 ing the journey from St. Louis to Arizona upon 

 horseback. He discharged the duties of his 

 position for nearly four years, during which 

 time he was once run for Congress by the Re- 

 publican party. In July, 1867, he sailed for 

 Europe for the benefit of his health. He was 

 an able correspondent of The Hartford Even- 

 ing Press. 



May 24. BBISCOE, Brevet-General JOSEPH 

 C., major U. S. A. ; died in New York City, 

 aged 35 years. He was born in Wilmount, 

 County Kilkenny, Ireland ; graduated, with dis- 

 tinction, at Trinity College, Dublin, and' in 1854 

 came to the United States, where he was con- 

 nected as a civil engineer with many impor- 

 tant public works in the Pennsylvania coal- 

 fields. At the breaking out of the war, he 

 enlisted in the First New- York Volunteers, 

 and from that time until the close of the strug- 

 gle he remained in the service of the United 

 States. At the battle of Big Bethel he carried 

 the regimental colors, and was wounded in the 

 foot. For his gallantry on that occasion he 

 was commissioned a lieutenant. In Kearny's 

 Division he made the campaign of the Peninsula, 

 and, while in charge of the construction of one 

 of the forts at Fair Oaks, attracted the atten- 

 tion of that general by the engineering skill 

 displayed in the work. By him he was made 

 engineer officer of the division. He served on 

 that general's staff till the latter's death at 

 Chantilly. After that he was detailed on the 

 staff of General Stoneman and then upon that 

 of General Birney, where he remained, serv- 

 ing occasionally with Generals Hancock and 

 French. When Birney was appointed to the 

 command of the Tenth Corps, he appointed 

 Captain Briscoe chief of staff, with the rank of 

 major, and strongly recommended him to Gov- 

 ernor Curtin, who gave him the colonelcy of 

 the 199th Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the 

 capture of Petersburg, Colonel Briscoe com- 

 manded a brigade, and distinguished himself 

 by the storming of Fort Gregg, for which ac- 

 tion he was brevetted general. When the war 

 closed, he was appointed president of the Ex- 

 amining Board for officers in the regular Army, 

 under the rank of major. 



May 26. RUSH, JAMES, M. D., a physician 

 and author; died in Philadelphia, aged 83 years. 

 He was a native of that city, and was a son of 

 Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the 

 Declaration of Independence. Young Rush 

 graduated at Princeton College in the class of 

 1805, studied medicine with his father, and re- 

 ceived the degree of M. D. from the University 

 of Pennsylvania in 1809. He subsequently pur- 

 sued his studies at Edinburgh, Scotland, and, 

 returning to Philadelphia, practised his profes- 

 sion for some years, but finally relinquished it 

 for the purpose of devoting himself to scientific 

 and literary pursuits, for which he had a de- 

 cided talent. The productions of his pen are 

 of the most varied kind. Among them are 

 " Hamlet, a Dramatic Prelude ; " "Rhymes of 

 Contrast on Wisdom and Folly ; " " An Anal- 

 ysis of the Human Intellect," an attack upon 

 Metaphysics, and " The Philosophy of the Hu- 

 man Voice," which is confessedly the ablest 

 work upon the subject. The large fortune 

 which he received from his wife was devoted 

 to the founding and endowment of the Ridg- 

 way Branch of the Philadelphia Library. 



May 26. WEST, Captain W. H., commander 



