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cultnrist ; died in Michigan. He had made the 

 subject of farm-stock and stock-breeding a 

 specialty, and twice had visited Scotland for 

 the purpose of selecting and purchasing Ayr- 

 shire stock for parties in Massachusetts previ- 

 ous to his removal to Michigan. He had been 

 the associate editor and conductor of the agri- 

 cultural department of the Boston Cultivator 

 from January 17, 1852, till May, 1864. At the 

 time of his death he was acting secretary of 

 the Michigan Board of Agriculture. 



April 12. CHAUNCEY, Commodore JOHN 

 S., U. S. K, died in Brooklyn, L. I. He was 

 born in New York,, from which State he re- 

 ceived his appointment, entering the service 

 January 1, 1812 ; commissioned lieutenant 

 in 1825 ; commander, in 1841 ; captain, Sep- 

 tember 14, 1857; and commodore, July 16, 

 1 862, with which latter rank he was retired. 

 He was attached to the frigate Delaware, 

 Mediterranean Squadron, in 1829, and again in 

 1837, serving meanwhile on the frigate United 

 States, to which he was ordered in 1834. He 

 was on ordnance duty in 1840-'43, and again 

 in 1847-'50 ; commanded the Vandalia, Home 

 Squadron, 1845, and the steam sloop Susque- 

 hanna 1861, during the greater part of the 

 war which followed immediately after he was 

 on special duty. During his nearly sixty years 

 of service, Commodore Chauncey was some 

 eighteen years at sea, ten years on shore-duty, 

 and over thirty-one years unemployed. 



April 12. RUSSELL, ARCHIBALD, a promi- 

 nent citizen and philanthropist of New York 

 City; died there, aged 60 years. He was the 

 founder of the Five Points Mission, and Vice- 

 President, of the Historical Society, and of the 

 Half-Orphan Asylum. 



April 16. DUMOXT, EBENEZER, brigadier- 

 general U. S. Volunteers ; died in Indianapolis, 

 Ind., aged 56 years. He was the son of John Du- 

 mont, a prominent and influential lawyer and 

 politician of that State, and was born in Ve- 

 vay, Switzerland County, Ind., November 23, 

 1814. Upon the outbreak of the war, he 

 tendered his services to the Governor for its 

 suppression, and was appointed colonel of the 

 Seventh Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. At 

 the head of this regiment he served with dis- 

 tinction during the three-months campaign of 

 1861 in West Virginia, being prominently en- 

 gaged in the surprise of Philippi, the skirmish- 

 es at Laurel Hill, and the battle of Carrick's 

 Ford. After the campaign he reorganized the 

 regiment for three years, and, at the head of it, 

 returned to "West Virginia, and while there 

 participated in the battle of Greenbrier, under 

 General Reynolds. Soon after this engage- 

 ment he was appointed a brigadier-general by 

 the President, and ordered to Louisville. He 

 passed the winter of 1861-'62 at Bardstown, 

 Bacon Creek, and other points between Louis- 

 ville and Nashville. He was subsequently 

 placed in command of Nashville, Tenn., where 

 his spirit and earnestness secured the flag more 

 kindly treatment from its enemies than it 



would otherwise have received. It was while 

 here that he organized and led his celebrated 

 pursuit of John Morgan, whom he wellnigh 

 captured at Lebanon. His health, however, 

 finally disqualifying him for the field, he ac- 

 cepted the nomination for Congress on the 

 part of the Union or Republican party, in 1862, 

 and was in due time elected a member. He 

 was reflected in 1864. A short time previous 

 to his death General Dumont was appointed 

 Governor of Idaho. 



April 17. MARSHALL, THOMAS ALEXANDER, 

 LL. D., Judge of the Court of Appeals of Ken- 

 tucky ; died at Louisville, aged 77 years. His 

 father, Humphrey Marshall, was a United States 

 Senator, and his mother was a daughter of 

 Colonel Thomas Marshall of Virginia, and a 

 sister of Chief-Justice Marshall. He was born 

 in Woodford County, Ky., January 15, 1794. 

 He graduated at Yale College in 1815 ; studied 

 law at home, and in 1817 began the practice 

 of his profession in Frankfort. Family con- 

 siderations induced him to move to Paris, Ky., 

 in 1819, where he closely pursued his practice 

 until his election to Congress in 1831. He 

 served for two congressional terms, and was 

 then (March 18, 1835) commissioned a Judge 

 of the Court of Appeals. He retired to private 

 life in August, 1856. In 1836 he removed 

 to Lexington, and was soon after appointed a 

 professor in the law-school of Transylvania 

 University, and held that position until 1849 

 or 1850. In 1857 lie removed to Frankfort, 

 and in 1859 to Louisville. In 1866 he was ap- 

 pointed to complete the unexpired term of 

 Judge Sampson, and he served as Chief Justice 

 for six months thus making twenty-twc 

 years of service on the bench of the Court ol 

 Appeals seven years as Chief Justice. In 

 1866 Yale College conferred on him the degree 

 of Doctor of Laws. 



April 20. PLATT, Hon. ZEPHANIAH, United 

 States Circuit Judge of the Second Circuit, S. 

 C. ; died at Aiken, S. C., aged 75 years. His 

 grandfather was one of the signers of the Dec- 

 laration of Independence, and his father one 

 of the Supreme Court Judges of the State, and 

 the originator of the great Erie Canal. Judge 

 Platt inherited the strong elements of charac- 

 ter which distinguished his ancestors, and 

 through life was fearless in the performance 

 of his convictions of duty. As a lawyer, he 

 was employed by the General Government in 

 settling the complicated claims of the United 

 States on the Pacific coast. He served with 

 distinction as Attorney-General of the State 

 of Michigan, and in all the relations of lifa 

 appears to have won that credit which at- 

 taches to high integrity in the discharge of 

 official duty. At the close of the late war he 

 removed his residence to South Carolina, and 

 in 1868 was elected by the General Assembly 

 to the position which he held at the time oi' 

 his death. 



April . DABNET, CHARLES W., United 

 States consul at Fayal ; died there, aged about 



