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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



Feb. 11. BAGIOLI, Signer ANTONIO, an emi- 

 nent singer and teacher of music; died in New 

 York City, aged 76 years. He was born at 

 Bologna, Italy, in 1705, and bejran the study 

 of music at a v ery early age. After a prepara- 

 tory course in several schools, he entered the 

 Conservatory of Music at Naples, where lie 

 remained seven years, under the instruction of 

 the celebrated Zingarelli. He graduated, in 

 the same class with Bellini, Mercadante, Conti, 

 and the two Rossi. In 1832 Bagioli accom- 

 panied, as musical director, the Montr6sor 

 Troupe, the first Italian opera troupe which 

 ever appeared in this country. Its perform- 

 ances at the Old Richmond Hill Theatre, in 

 Varick Street, arid subsequently at the National 

 Theatre at the corner of Leonard and Church 

 Streets, were under his sole direction, and were 

 exceedingly popular during an entire season. 

 The following year the troupe went to Havana, 

 but Bagioli preferred to remain in New York, 

 where he at once began the profession of music- 

 teaching, and attained a success probably un- 

 surpassed by any professor in this country. 

 Many well-known public singers have been his 

 pupils. He was largely instrumental in mak- 

 ing Italian music popular here, and was always 

 regarded as a thorough master of the art him- 

 self. In private life he was held in high esteem 

 by all who knew him. 



Feb. 12. CONDIT, ROBERT TV., D. D., a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman ; died at his residence in 

 Oswego, N. Y., aged 75 years. He was a na- 

 tive of New Jersey, and graduated at Prince- 

 ton College in 1814. In 1816 he was chosen 

 tutor of that college, was licensee! to preach in 

 1818, and, after a pastorate of nine years in 

 Orange, was called, in 1831, to the church 

 in Oswego, where he remained pastor until 

 his death. He received the degree of Doc- 

 tor of Divinity from Hamilton College, in 

 1847. 



Feb. 12. TAYLOR, WILLIAM B. ; died in New 

 York City, aged 71 years. He had been con- 

 nected with the Post-Office Department for 

 nearly fifty years. He was born at Trenton, 

 N. J., in 1800, whore, as a boy, he was em- 

 ployed in the post-office. Removing to New 

 York in 1822, he obtained, soon after, a place 

 in the post-office, became chief clerk in 1825, 

 and in 1861 was appointed Postmaster, to fill 

 the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gen- 

 eral Dix, and remained in office till 1862, after 

 which, except at intervals, he held the office 

 of Assistant-Postmaster. 



Feb. 14. CIIICKERINO, Colonel and Brevet 

 Brigadier-General THOMAS E., Massachusetts 

 Volunteers; died in Boston, aged 47 years. 

 He succeeded his father, the late Jonas Chick- 

 ering, as head of the piano-manufacturing 

 firm, of which he became a member when but 

 twenty-one years of age. For many years be- 

 fore the war he was personally interested in 

 the State militia, and in 1862 he left Boston in 

 command of the Forty-first Massachusetts Vol- 

 unteers. The regiment was sent to New Or- 



leans in December of that year, and performed 

 efficient service in the field. In April, 1863, 

 Colonel Chickering was appointed Military 

 Governor of Opelousas. In ah official letter, 

 dated New Orleans, July 29, 1863, General N. 

 P. Banks described him as among the most 

 faithful and efficient officers of the army, al- 

 ways prompt, fearless, strong, and ready for 

 duty. For his services during the war he was 

 brevetted a brigadier-general. General Chick- 

 ering had held many offices of trust in various 

 organizations, having been president of the 

 Handel and Haydn Society, a member of the 

 board of trustees of the Massachusetts Chari- 

 table Mechanics' Association, and connected 

 with several Masonic bodies. 



Feb. 16. OLEMM. Mrs. MARIA, aunt and 

 mother-in-law of Edgar A. Poe ; died in Bal- 

 timore, Md., in the 81st year of her age. She 

 was born in Baltimore, and was the daughter 

 of David Poe, Quartermaster-General of the 

 old Maryland line during the Revolution, and 

 the intimate friend of Washington, Lafayette, 

 and other leading men of the time. Her 

 daughter, Virginia Clernm, was married to 

 her cousin Edgar A. Poe, but did not long 

 survive. She was the " Lost Lenore " of his 

 extraordinary poem. Mrs. Clemm was a de- 

 voted mother to her adopted son, and, in his 

 sonnet " To My Mother," he testifies to her 

 unselfish regard, calling her his " more than 

 mother." She was a woman of rare loveliness 

 of character, and, although dependent the lat- 

 ter portion of her life, was blessed with warm 

 and faithful friends. 



Feb. 16. LOCKE, RICHARD ADAMS, author 

 and journalist; died on Staten Island, aged 

 71 years. He was a native of New York, and 

 followed the profession of journalism from an 

 early date. In 1835 he created a great stir in 

 the American scientific world by the publica- 

 tion of what purported to be the discoveries 

 of Sir John Herschel (the younger), at the 

 Cape of Good Hope. The article, as originally 

 printed, appeared under the following title: 

 " Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made 

 by Sir John Herschel, LL. D., F. R. S., at the 

 Cape of Good Hope;" and stated that this 

 astronomer, by means of a vast telescope con- 

 structed on an entirely new principle, and 

 placed upon an elevated point in South Africa, 

 had made the most extraordinary discoveries 

 in every planet in the solar system, but espe- 

 cially had penetrated all the mysteries of tho 

 moon. Every detail of the information was 

 accounted for with mathematical accuracy 

 and scientific ingenuity, and scholars who had 

 devoted their lives to the study of astronomy 

 could see no just ground for doubting the truth 

 of the pretended discoveries. The " Moon 

 Hoax," as it was termed, was his most suc- 

 cessful literary effort, though a subsequent 

 article, entitled "The Lost Manuscript of Mungo 

 Park," was widely rend and believed. Some 

 years aga Mr. Locke's health declined some- 

 what, and, being incapacitated for journalistic 



