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conciliatory spirit though none were more in- 

 flexibly firm and true to principle gave his 

 opinions great weight, from the Church Ses- 

 sion up to the General Assembly. In the 

 Assembly of 1856, having been chosen as the 

 Moderator, he presided over its deliberations 

 with a dignity and skill not only satisfactory 

 to all, but which excited general admiration. 

 Dr. McFarland was formerly Corresponding 

 Secretary of the Old School Presbyterian 

 Board of Education in Philadelphia. 



Oct. 13. BANKS, DAYID, a law-book pub- 

 lisher ; died in New York, aged 85 years. He 

 was born in Newark, N. J., and began the 

 study of law in New York in 1806, in the 

 office of Charles Brainard, whose partner he 

 afterward became. In 1809 he began the law- 

 publishing business with Stephen Gould, and 

 the establishment of Banks & Gould was 

 soon known as the most extensive of the kind 

 in the country. For nearly ten years he held 

 the offices of Alderman and Assistant Alder- 

 man, being President of the Board of Alder- 

 men part of that time. During the later years 

 of his life he was President of the East River 

 Bank. 



Oct. 15. PBYOE, THEODOEE B., a young 

 scholar of remarkable attainments ; drowned 

 himself in the East River, Brooklyn, during a 

 temporary attack of insanity, aged 20 years. 

 He was a son of Roger A. Pryor, of Virginia, 

 and was born July 3, 1851. He was an enthu- 

 siastic student, and led his class at Princeton 

 in every study, although one of its youngest 

 members. lie delighted in the highest ranges 

 of mathematical problems, and to exercise his 

 mind with questions that the ripest of our 

 scholars had not ventured to reach. All meta- 

 physical subjects had a deep interest for him, 

 especially the metaphysics of theology. He 

 had strong religious tendencies, and the im- 

 pression was, when at Princeton, that he 

 would enter the ministry. When he came to 

 graduate it was hard to find a parallel for his 

 standing. For a hundred years no student 

 had stood so high, and the one who came 

 nearest to him a student whose college-life 

 is also historic was Aaron Burr, who gradu- 

 ated just a hundred years ago. The highest 

 average mark in the college is 100. Young 

 Pryor's average was 99.9. He gained the Jay 

 Cooke Prize of $1,000 for excellence in mathe- 

 matics, and a year ago went to England, and 

 entered at Cambridge. The same success at- 

 tended him there as at Princeton. He re- 

 mained five months, and received a scholar- 

 ship. When he returned to America he was 

 affectionately urged, in a letter from the mas- 

 ter of his college at Cambridge, to resume his 

 studies, as all academical honors awaited him. 

 His intention, when he left college, was to en- 

 ter the ministry. Finally, he concluded to be- 

 come a lawyer. At the time of his death he 

 was pursuing his studies at the law school, 

 where his preeminence was as marked as it 

 had been at Princeton and Cambridge. Short- 



ly before his death, signs of mental weariness 

 were seen, but too late to avert the conse- 

 quences. 



Oct. 18. WHITTLESET, Captain and Brevet- 

 Major CIIAELES H., Thirteenth Infantry U. S. 

 A., a brave young officer of volunteers in the 

 late war, who was transferred to the regular 

 army at its close ; died at Fort Bridger, Wy- 

 oming Territory. He was a native of Connect- 

 icut, and entered the army from New York, 

 having been appointed captain -of the Thir- 

 tieth Infantry July 28, 1866, and assigned to 

 the Thirteenth Infantry, September 1, 1869. 

 During the war he served as major of volun- 

 teers, and was brevetted brigadier-general of 

 volunteers. 



Oct. 20. ATWOOD, Lieutenant WILLIAM, 

 U. S. A., aide-de-camp and acting assistant ad- 

 jutant-general on the staff of Brigadier-Gen- 

 eral P. St. George Cook, U. S. A., commanding 

 the Department of the Lakes ; lost during a 

 tempest on Lake Huron. Soon after the com- 

 mencement of the late war he entered the 

 Independent Pennsylvania Battery, which was 

 organized in Pittsburg, engaged in active ser- 

 vice throughout the war, and was in many of 

 the prominent battles. Before the close of the 

 war he was made a captain in the volunteer 

 force, with the brevet rank of major. He en- 

 tered the regular army in March, 1866, being 

 attached to the Nineteenth Infantry. In the 

 month of July, 1867, he was commissioned 

 second-lieutenant, and promoted to the place 

 of first-lieutenant during the year 1869. In 

 December, 1870, he was assigned to the Twen- 

 ty-first U. S. Infantry, stationed in Detroit, in 

 which position he was serving at the time he 

 was lost, having been up the lakes to attend a 

 court-martial. 



Oct. 20. GEOSVENOE, Colonel THOMAS W., 

 prosecuting attorney of Chicago ; was killed in 

 that city, aged 37 years. He was a native of 

 Utica, N. Y., was educated for the law, and 

 admitted to the Illinois bar in 1857. ^ At the 

 commencement of the late war he joined the 

 Twelfth Illinois Volunteer Cavalry as cap- 

 tain, and served during the entire war with 

 honor, losing an arm in the service. He was 

 brevetted brigadier-general. After the war, 

 he became the city editor of the Chicago Even- 

 ing Post, subsequently resigning his position, 

 and accepting the appointment of district 

 Government inspector of tobacco and cigars. 

 He afterward resigned that position, and re- 

 sumed the practice of law, and lastly was ap- 

 pointed City Prosecuting Attorney by the 

 Common Council. During the confusion follow- 

 ing the great fire in Chicago, when the city 

 was placed under martial law, Colonel Gros- 

 venor refused to stop at the challenge of the 

 sentry, and was shot, in obedience to orders. 



Oct 20. SMITH, RICHAED M., U. S. Indian 

 Agent ; was lost during a tempest on Lake 

 Huron. He was formerly a resident of Penn 

 Yan, N. Y., but removed to Detroit about the 

 year 1850, and during a period of twenty 



