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efforts, lie accepted an easy position in the 

 New York Custom-House. 



Feb. 17. CAUSEY, Hon. P. F., ex-Governor 

 of Delaware ; died at his residence in Milford, 

 aged 70 years. He was in the mercantile 

 trade ; and was elected Governor by the "Na- 

 tive American" or "Know-nothing" party in 

 1854, and served four years. 



Feb. 19. TURNER, PETER, commodore IT. 

 S. N. ; died at Philadelphia. Pie was born in 

 Rhode Island, commissioned as midshipman 

 U. S. Navy, March 24, 1823, lieutenant in 

 1832, commander in 1861, and commodore in 

 1862. He was commandant of the U. S. Naval 

 Asylum, at Philadelphia, from 1863 to 1808, 

 and had afterward been on the retired list. 



Feb. 21. ELZET, ARNOLD, a brigadier-gen- 

 eral in the Confederate army ; died in Balti- 

 timore, Md. He was born in Maryland, in 

 1816; graduated from "West Point in 1837; 

 served with distinction in the Florida, Mexican, 

 and Seminole Wars ; was commissioned cap- 

 tain in the U. S. Army in 1849, and was mostly 

 on frontier duty till 1861, when he resigned to 

 join in the rebellion, and was commissioned 

 brigadier-general. 



Feb. 21. GIBBS, WILLIAM C., a Rhode Island 

 statesman, Governor of the State from 1821 

 to 1824 ; died at Newport, R. I., aged 85 years. 

 He was a brother-in-law of the eminent Wil- 

 liam Ellery Channing, D. D. Though a life- 

 long Democrat, he was stanchly loyal during 

 the late civil war, and sent two or three of his 

 sons into the army. 



Feb. 23. CLAFLIN, Hon. LEE, a prominent 

 citizen and philanthropist, of Boston, father 

 of the late Governor of Massachusetts ; died 

 there, in the 80th year of his age. He was one 

 of the oldest shoe-manufacturers in the State, 

 and was remarkable for his enterprise, benevo- 

 lence, and integrity. His gifts were munifi- 

 cent and wisely distributed. He was espe- 

 cially a patron of education, and had aided 

 in endowing Wesleyan University, Middle- 

 town, Conn., Wilbraham Academy, and the 

 Boston Theological Seminary. His death was 

 the result of accident ; some broken glass 

 penetrated his hand, causing inflammation of 

 the nerves and bone, and the subsequent am- 

 putation of a finger, added to the prostration 

 from previous suffering, reduced his strength 

 beyond the rallying-point. 



Feb. 23. MONROE, JOHN T., a prominent 

 citizen, and former Mayor of New Orleans ; 

 died in Savannah, Ga. He was a native of 

 Virginia, but spent the greater part of his early 

 life in the West, where he engaged in several 

 trading expeditions to Santa Fe and the city 

 of Mexico. Having wearied of his adventurous 

 life, he went to New Orleans and engaged as 

 a common laborer on the levee, and soon by 

 his industry formed a partnership with his 

 employer in the business of stevedoring. In 

 1858 he was chosen President of the Board of 

 Aldermen, and in 1860 was elected mayor. 

 In May, 1862, soon after the Federal authorities 



had taken possession of the city, he was im- 

 prisoned by General Butler, for disobeying a 

 military order, and was not liberated until the 

 expiration of nearly two years. In 1866 he 

 was again elected to the mayoralty, which 

 position he held until displaced by order of 

 General Sheridan, in 1867. After his retirement 

 from public life, Mr. Monroe at once became 

 actively reengaged in stevedoring in New Or- 

 leans, but, business in his line falling off in 1868, 

 he removed to Savannah, Ga., where, until 

 his death, he was engaged in the pursuit of his 

 favorite calling. Mr. Monroe was a self-made 

 man, and, although not a scholar, was singu- 

 larly gifted in many respects, and his kindly 

 nature rendered him popular. 



Feb. 24. MAGRTTDER, General JOHN BANK- 

 HEAD, an officer of the Confederate army ; died 

 in Galveston, Tex., aged 61 years. He was 

 born in Virginia ; and graduated from West 

 Point in 1830; was assigned to the artillery 

 service, and gained some honor in the Mexican 

 War. Upon the outbreak of the late war, 

 holding the rank of captain and brevet lieu- 

 tenant-colonel, he went over to the Confed- 

 erate army. He held command at Yorktown, 

 where he was forced to retreat by Generals 

 Hooker and Kearney, and subsequently ap- 

 peared only at intervals during the war, serv- 

 ing mostly in the Trans-Mississippi Army. A 

 short time previous to his death he settled in 

 Galveston. 



J?eb. 25. MORTON, ALVIN C., an able and 

 eminent civil engineer; died in New York t 

 aged 61 years. He had located and surveyed 

 the routes for the New York and Erie, the 

 Grand Trunk, Great Western, Nova Scotia, 

 Sacramento Valley, and other important rail- 

 roads of the United States and Canada. 



Feb. 26. HAWTHORNE, Mrs. SOPHIA, widow 

 of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the well-known nov- 

 elist; died in Kensal Green, London, aged 

 60 years. She was a native of Salem, Mass., 

 where her father was a physician of respecta- 

 bility and worth, who, in the latter part of his 

 life, took up his residence, with his family, in 

 Boston. She was a woman of rare accom- 

 plishments, remarkable for her skill as an ar- 

 tist, and her ability as a writer, as well as for 

 the refinement and beauty of her character. 

 After the death of Mr. Hawthorne, she de- 

 voted herself to the preparation of his "Note 

 Books" for the press, and during the last year 

 had resided chiefly in London, where she had 

 a numerous circle of friends. 



March 18. BUCHANAN, McKEAN, paymas- 

 ter, U. S. N. ; died in Charlestown, Mass., 

 aged 71 years. He was born in Wheatland, 

 Pa., and entered the navy, August 21, 1826. 

 In 1862 he was placed on the retired list, 

 having served for a period of thirty-nine years. 

 He was an uncle of McKean Buchanan, the 

 actor. 



March 18. NISBET, EUGENIUS, a political 

 leader in Georgia ; died at Macon, Ga., aged 

 68 years. He was for some years Judge of the 



