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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



Democratic National Convention which nom- 

 inated President Polk. For many years Colo- 

 nel Seaver was editor and proprietor of, and 

 for some thirty years a contributor to, the 

 Batavia Spirit of the Times, a paper now in 

 the fifty-second year of its publication, and 

 favorably known to the press of the country. 



Sept. 25. SHUTTLE WORTH, Colonel WILLIAM 

 L., IT. S. Marine Corps; died in Brooklyn. 

 He was appointed from New York, and entered 

 the service February 28, 1839, as first-lieuten- 

 ant in the Marine Corps. In the Mexican War 

 he distinguished himself by his bravery; and 

 having been appointed first-lieutenant in 

 March, 1847, was brevetted captain for gallant 

 and meritorious conduct in the bombardment 

 and capture of Vera Cruz. At the time of his 

 death he held the rank of colonel in the TL S. 

 Marine Corps. He was attacked with paraly- 

 sis a few years since, and placed on the re- 

 tired list December 4, 1867. 



Sept. 25. WESSON, DAVID, an old and influ- 

 ential citizen of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; died there, 

 aged about 75 years. He was for many years 

 engaged in active business in New York, but 

 retired in consequence of impaired health in 

 1850. He had, however, continued to be a 

 prompt and faithful director and manager of 

 some of the leading banking-houses and insur- 

 ance institutions with which he had long been 

 connected, and was greatly esteemed, by all 

 who knew him, for his sterling integrity and 

 the purity and dignity of his character. 



Sept. 29. BULLUS, Commodore OSOAB, U. S, 

 IS". ; died in New York City. When about 

 eighteen years of age he entered the Military 

 Academy at West Point, and after passing a 

 year at that institution resigned his cadetship, 

 entered the Navy as a midshipman, and passed 

 through a long term of varied and arduous sea 

 service with great credit. With Captain Bid- 

 die, he served in the Pacific during the com- 

 mand of that gallant officer while representing 

 our neutral position and protecting American 

 commerce ; subsequently acted as flag-officer to 

 Commodore Elliot in the Mediterranean ; was 

 assigned to a separate command during the 

 Mexican war, and afterward appointed to a 

 command upon Lake Erie. While a midship- 

 man and aloft on duty, a sling, or lift of the 

 yard, supporting him, parted, and he was 

 thrown into the " top," and but for the grasp 

 of a shipmate would have been precipitated to 

 the deck. An injury to the spine resulted, 

 which, although not at once materially inter- 

 fering with duty, gradually developed in so 

 aggravated a form as nearly to paralyze the 

 lower extremities, and eventually so far unfit- 

 ted him. for active sea-service as to place him 

 upon the list of retired officers, to which posi- 

 tion he was assigned before the opening of the 

 late civil war, during which the important 

 duty of recruiting for the Navy, extensively 

 organized in New York, was placed under his 

 intelligent and efficient supervision. 



Sept. . BROWN, Rev. GEORGE, D. D., a 



clergyman of the Protestant Methodist Church, 

 and formerly editor of the Methodist Recorder, 

 died in Springfield, Ohio, aged 80 years. He 

 was for some time president of a college in 

 Uniontown, Pa., and was in the ministry more 

 than fifty-six years. 



Sept. . CAMPBELL, Lieutenant-Governor 

 BENJAMIN; died at Austin, Texas, aged 41 

 years. He was born in Alabama, in 1830 ; 

 graduated at the East Tennessee University, at 

 Knoxville, and went to Texas in 1858. He 

 settled in Jefferson, and pursued the business 

 of a druggist : was appointed postmaster in 

 1865, was elected to the Constitutional Con- 

 vention in 1868, and chosen President of the 

 Senate and Lieutenant-Governor on the elec- 

 tion of Lieutenant-Governor J. Flanegan to 

 the United States Senate in April, 1870. 



Oct. 1. WASHINGTON, Colonel LEWIS W., of 

 a collateral branch of the family of the first 

 President; died at Harper's Ferry, West Va. 

 He was one of the hostages held by John 

 Brown in his famous raid on Harper's Ferry 

 in 1859. He possessed a valuable collection 

 of relics of General Washington, among others 

 the elegant sword sent by Frederick the Great 

 with the inscription, "From the oldest gen- 

 eral in the world to the greatest." 



Oct, 7. HOWE, FISHER, a philanthropic citi- 

 zen and author of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; died in that 

 city, aged 73 years. He was successful as a 

 business-man, and, having accumulated a hand- 

 some fortune, gave liberally of his time and 

 means to benevolent purposes. About 1852 

 he made an extended tour in the East, and 

 after his return home published a volume of 

 "Oriental and Sacred Scenes," an important 

 contribution to the literature of Bible lands. 

 A short time previous to his death he published 

 a valuable treatise on the "True Site of the 

 Cross," the result of years of study, and dis- 

 playing a wealth of biblical wisdom which 

 brought complimentary letters from some of 

 the best scholars in the country. 



Oct. 7. PURDY, ELIJAH, an influential Dem- 

 ocratic politician of New York City; died 

 there. He had been alderman, and president 

 of the board ; a member of the Legislature, 

 and of the Tammany Society, and from his 

 energy and political influence was often styled 

 the " War-Horse " of the Democracy. 



Oct. 10. MOFARLAND, Rev. FRANCIS, D. D.. 

 an aged clergyman of the Southern Presby 

 terian Church; died at Bethel, Va., in the 

 84th year of his age. He was born in 

 the county of Tyrone, province of Ulster, in 

 the north part of Ireland. Coming to this 

 country very early in life, ho was educated at 

 Washington and Jefferson College, and Prince- 

 ton Seminary. lie was a well-read theologian, 

 averse to speculations, but fond of friendly dis- 

 cussions. His preaching, when in his prime, 

 was highly attractive, and often evinced great 

 power of thought, especially in illustration. 

 His eminent piety, the uncommon soundness 

 of his judgment, his remarkable prudence and 



