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MORSE, SIDNEY E. 



MtNCH-BELLINGHAUSEN, BARON. 



missions as follows : Greenland, 1,731 ; Labra- 

 dor, 1,124; North-American Indians, 355; 

 St. Thomas, 1,948; St. Jan, 725; St. Croix, 

 2,737; Jamaica; 12,587; Antigua, 0,206; St. 

 Kitts, 3,313; Barbadoes, 2,353; Tobago, 

 2,059 ; Surinam, 24,385 ; South Africa, West, 

 7,125; South Africa, East, 1,194 ; Australia, 

 74 ; West Himalaya, 14. 



The expenses of the missions exclusive 

 of those of the missions in Surinam and Lab- 

 rador, which are supported by missionary so- 

 cieties, and of a part of those in the West In- 

 dies, South and West Africa, which are sup- 

 ported from local resources, were 105,658 tha- 

 lers (about $76,000, gold). 



By the report of the "Diaspora" Mission 

 on the Continent of Europe, it appears that 

 there are 124 missionaries, male and female, 

 two more than during the previous year. The 

 total expense of the work, including the cover- 

 ing of a deficiency of 2,009 thalers on the pre- 

 vious year's account, was 8,747 thalers. The 

 work in Livonia has a deficit of 133 thalers. 

 Excepting Strasbourg, the activity of the mis- 

 sionaries in France is for the time at an end, 

 owing to the bitterness of feeling against 

 every thing German. The opposition of the 

 Lutheran clergy in Livonia and Esthonia con- 

 tinues unabated, and embarrasses the work. 

 The stations of the Diaspora Missions are dis- 

 tributed through the countries of Bohemia 

 and Moravia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, 

 Germany, Eussia, and Switzerland. An agent 

 of the German Province is stationed at the 

 Leper-house in Jerusalem. 



MORSE, SIDNEY EDWAEDS, an American jour- 

 nalist, inventor, and author, born in Charles- 

 town, Mass., February 7,1794; died in New York 

 City, December 24, 1871. He was the son of 

 Rev. Jedediah Morse, D. D., and a younger 

 brother of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor 

 of the telegraph. He entered the Freshman 

 Class in Yale College in 1805, when but little 

 more than eleven years old, and graduated at 

 fourteen years of age. When Mr. Morse was 

 only sixteen years old, he wrote a series of 

 articles in the Boston Centinel on the dangers 

 from the undue multiplication of new States, 

 thus early in life connecting himself with the 

 newspaper press. He then studied theology 

 at Andover, and law at the Litchfield (Conn.) 

 Law School. His father and Mr. Evarts (father 

 of William M. Evarts), and other clergymen 

 and laymen in and near Boston, wishing to 

 establish a religious newspaper, at their in- 

 vitation, Mr. Morse undertook it, wrote the 

 prospectus, employed a printer, and, as sole 

 editor and proprietor, issued the Boston Re- 

 corder, the prototype of that numerous class 

 of journals now known as " religious news- 

 papers." In 1823, in connection with his 

 younger brother, Richard C. Morse, he estab- 

 lished in New York the New York Observer, 

 now the oldest weekly newspaper in the city, 

 and the oldest religious newspaper in the State, 

 of which he continued to be the senior editor 



and proprietor until the year 1858, when he 

 sold his interest to its present senior editor, 

 and retired to private life; Mr. Morse was 

 the author of a school geography which has 

 had a vast circulation, and his father before 

 him was the pioneer in the same field. No 

 name is more intimately associated with Amer- 

 ican school geography. His genius was also 

 inventive. In 1817, he and his elder brother 

 patented the flexible piston-pump. In 1839 

 he produced the new art of cerography, for 

 printing maps on the common printing-press, 

 illustrating his new geography with it, 100,000 

 copies being sold the first year. This art has 

 not been patented, and the process has never 

 been made public. Within the last few years 

 lie had been engaged with his son, Mr. G. Liv- 

 ingston Morse, in a great invention for rapid 

 exploration of the depths of the sea. The 

 " bathometer " was exhibited at the Paris Ex- 

 position of 1867, and, last winter, was illus- 

 trated before the New York Association for 

 the Advancement of Science and Art. T P er ~ 

 fecting this instrument he gave the last years 

 of his life, and on Friday evening, December 

 15, 1871, he was engaged until a very late 

 hour writing upon the subject, and on rising 

 to go up to his bedchamber was stricken with 

 paralysis, from which he gradually sank, and 

 finally expired, eight days later. 



MO WRY, SYLVESTER, an ofiBcer of the IT. S. 

 Army, explorer, and author, born in Rhode 

 Island ; died in London, Eng., October 16, 

 1871. He was educated for the army, and 

 appointed a cadet in the United States Military 

 Academy, West Point, July 1, 1848, graduated 

 July 1, 1852, and was commissioned brevet 

 second-lieutenant of the Third Artillery. He 

 served on frontier duty at San Francisco from 

 1852 to 1853, and the exploration of the Pa- 

 cific Railroad route in 1853-'54. He marched 

 through Utah to California in 1854-'55, and 

 served at Bemcia and Fort Yuma, in the 

 Golden State, in the years 1855 and 1857. Mr. 

 Mowry was elected delegate to the United 

 States House of Representatives from the then 

 proposed Territory of Arizona, and served in 

 Congress in 1857 and 1859. He was appointed 

 United States commissioner to rim and mark 

 the boundary-line between the State of Cali- 

 fornia and the Territories of the United States. 

 He was the author of the work, " The Geogra- 

 phy and Resources of Arizona and Sonora," 

 and of various articles relating to the Western 

 country, published in magazines and peri- 

 odicals. 



MUNCH -BELLINGHAUSEN, ELICITS 

 FEANZ JOSEPH von, Baron, a German poet and 

 dramatic author, better known in literature 

 under his psuedonym of FBIEPEICH HALM, 

 born at Cracow, April 2, 1806 ; died in Vienna, 

 in June, 1871. The son of a magistrate and 

 Imperial Councillor in the service of the Aus- 

 trian Government, he was educated for a po- 

 litical career, but his strong passion for litera- 

 ture drew him away from political life. He 



