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BOND, THOMAS E. 



BOWRING, JOHN. 



terfered and social order was reestablished. An 

 ancient copper and gold mine, known by the 

 name of the original discoverer, Narango, was 

 again discovered, and found to contain 20 per 

 cent, of the precious metal. By supreme decree 

 of June 7th, foreigners living in Bolivia were 

 exempted from service in the National Guard. 



A conspiracy against the Government, by 

 Quintin Quevedo, for the purpose of reinstat- 

 ing the old Melgarejist party in power, was 

 discovered and frustrated on the 20th of June, 

 On the 23d of August Augustin Morales was 

 elected constitutional President of the repub- 

 lic. For some months before and after the 

 election, unfriendly sentiments existed between 

 the President and the Congress, that body 

 persistently refusing to sanction the President's 

 scheme to possess himself of the valuable 

 Aullagas mines. On the 24th of November, 

 the President, in a state of intoxication, left a 

 banquet in which he had been celebrating the 

 second anniversary of the downfall of Melga- 

 rejo, and proceeded to the halls of Congress 

 for the purpose of using his personal influence, 

 in the hope of obtaining his desired end. 

 Seeing that his endeavors were in vain, he 

 sought to intimidate the members of the House 

 by the presence of troops ; a similar attempt 

 was made on the following day, when Morales 

 declared the labors of the legislature at an end. 

 In the evening, while Morales was in his pal- 

 ace, still under the influence of passion and 

 wine, his nephew, La Fay<3, entered and read 

 aloud a letter in which it was stated that one 

 of the President's aides-de-camp designed to 

 arrest him that very night. On hearing this, 

 Morales, losing all further control of his rage, 

 flew to an adjoining apartment where his aides 

 were in waiting, called them traitors, and ad- 

 dressed them in a tone so violent and so insult- 

 ing as to render necessary the interference of 

 his daughter and nephew, who implored him 

 to desist. All was in vain : blows, epithets, and 

 invectives, were showered upon the officers, 

 until La Faye, infuriated by the outrage, shot 

 Morales with a revolver, inflicting a wound of 

 which the latter died after a lapse of two 

 hours. Don Adolfo Ballivian was selected as 

 President in his place, and with the downfall 

 of the tyrant the country became more tran- 

 quil ; the apple of discord was cast out, and 

 opposing interests conciliated. Morales met 

 his fate in the same apartment in which Mel- 

 garejo had assassinated Belzti. 



Bolivia and Brazil are strengthening their 

 good relations, inaugurated a few years back 

 by the treaties concluded by Sefior Lopez Netto, 

 through the appointment of a resident minis- 

 ter at Rio Janeiro. One thousand Bolivians 

 were, in December, at work on the Madeira 

 Eailway in Brazilian territory. 



BOND, Eev. THOMAS EMERSON, M.D., a 

 Methodist clergyman, physician, and journal- 

 ist, born in Baltimore, in 1813; died in Har- 

 ford County, Md., August 18, 1872. He was 

 the son of Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Bond, who was 



also a Methodist minister, physician, and jour- 

 nalist; and inherited his father's talents as 

 well as his professional occupations. Whether 

 Dr. Bond passed through a full collegiate 

 course or not, we are not informed, but he 

 early became a local Methodist preacher, and 

 studied medicine and took his degree in one 

 of the Baltimore medical schools. His father 

 was at that time editor of the Baltimore Chris- 

 tian Advocate and Journal, and in the office 

 of that paper young Bond first took his lessons 

 in journalism. For some years previous to his 

 father's death in 1856, he had been his efficient 

 assistant in both his editorial and professional 

 labors, and was distinguished for his vigor, hu- 

 mor, and sarcastic power, as a writer, and his 

 ability in conducting a religious journal. In 

 1860, pending the difficulties which culminated 

 in the late war, he joined the Methodist 

 Church South, and gave his fine abilities to 

 the cause of the South. After the close of the 

 war, he was one of the originators of the 

 Episcopal Methodist, the organ of the South- 

 ern Church, but subsequently severed his con- 

 nection with that paper, and established an- 

 other journal in the same interest. After pub- 

 lishing that for a short time, he consolidated it 

 with the St. Louis Southern Christian Advocate, 

 which was published simultaneously in Balti- 

 more and St. Louis, and of which he was asso- 

 ciate editor. For some time before his death, 

 Dr. Bond suffered from cancer in the stomach. 

 He was an earnest and devoted friend, and in 

 all the relations of life was highly esteemed 

 for his integrity and unwavering adherence to 

 the cause and principles which he believed to 

 be right. 



BOWRING, Sir JOHN, K. C. B., LL. D., an 

 English poet, publicist, philologist, and diplo- 

 matist, born at Exeter, England, October 17, 

 1792; died in London, November 22, 1872. 

 He was descended from a Puritan family, and 

 was himself a dissenter. He was a pupil and 

 disciple of Jeremy Bentham, who made him 

 his literary executor, and whose works he 

 published in twenty-two volumes royal 8vo, 

 with an added volume of his memoirs. Mr. 

 Bowring possessed a wonderful facility for the 

 acquisition of languages, and his poetical fac- 

 ulty made the national poetry of the different 

 nations whose languages he had acquired very 

 attractive to him. His translations of the 

 Russian, Batavian, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, 

 Servian, and Bohemian national songs and lyr- 

 ics, the greater part of them ' prepared before 

 his thirtieth year, gave evidence alike of his 

 learning, his poetical abilities, and his unwea- 

 ried industry. But he was as deeply interested 

 in political and politico-economical science 

 (the result of his studies with Bentham) as in 

 poetry and linguistics. He was a contributor 

 to the Westminster Review from its establish- 

 ment in 1824, and from 1825 to 1830 its edi- 

 tor. He visited Holland in 1828, and his let- 

 ters from that country, which appeared in the 

 Morning Herald, and were soon afterward 



