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saw him at this time as Laertes, Gratiano, and 

 Marls Antony. His last professional appear- 

 ance in New York was made at the Winter 

 Garden, May 6, 1865, on which occasion he 

 acted for his daughter's benefit. During the 

 last few years he has heen acting, and mana- 

 ging the stage, at the California Theatre, and 

 he had become a favorite in San Francisco. 

 He deserved his reputation. His art was intel- 

 lectual, truthful, conscientious, significant with 

 thought and purpose, and warm with emotion. 

 His life was that of a gentleman and he wore 

 the " grand old name without dishonoring it." 



Jan. 18. BERGEN, Eev. JOHN G., D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, who had been a pi- 

 oneer settler of Illinois, and had largely con- 

 tributed to its growth and development, both 

 in secular and religious matters; died at 

 Springfield, 111., aged 81 years. He was a na- 

 tive of New Jersey, a graduate of Princeton 

 College in 1808, and a tutor in that college in 

 1810. He was licensed to preach in 1811, and 

 soon became the pastor of the Presbyterian 

 Church of Madison, N. J. From this place he 

 removed with his family to Springfield, 111., 

 in 1823, where he became pastor of the First 

 Presbyterian Church, and in which place he 

 resided for more than forty-eight years. He 

 resigned the pastorate at Springfield in 1845, 

 but had been unceasingly active in promoting 

 all good causes from that time to his death. 



Jan. 19. ELDEE, Eev. ALEXIS JOSEPH, a 

 venerable Eoman Catholic priest, professor 

 and seminary officer of St. Mary's Seminary 

 and College for more than fifty years ; died at 

 the seminary in Baltimore, in the 81st year 

 of his age. He was born at or near Em- 

 mitsburg, Md., October 15. 1791, came to Bal- 

 timore in 1815, and in 1817 commenced his 

 theological studies in St. Mary's Seminary. 

 He received the clerical tonsure at the hands 

 of Archbishop Carroll, the first bishop of the 

 Catholic Church in the United States ; was 

 ordained priest by Archbishop Marechal, was 

 admitted into the Society of St. Sulpice in 

 1822, and retained his connection with the 

 college and seminary of that society (St. 

 Mary's) till his death, being one of its instruc- 

 tors, treasurer, etc. 



Jan. 19. LYMAN, Eev. O. A., D. D., a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman, pastor of the Euclid Ave- 

 nue Presbyterian Church, in Cleveland, Ohio, 

 who died from apoplexy induced by excessive 

 labor in his profession, in that city, in the 48th 

 year of his age. He was born in Northern 

 Ohio, in 1824, graduated from Western Eeserve 

 College in 1844, studied law, and was admit- 

 ted to the bar in 1846, and commenced a brill- 

 iant career as a lawyer in Dayton, Ohio, the 

 same year. He practised law there with great 

 success for nearly twelve years ; removed to 

 New York City, and was converted in the great 

 revival of 1858. He then decided at once to 

 enter the ministry, and, after an abbreviated 

 course of study at Lane Seminary, took the 

 position of chaplain successively to two Ohio 



regiments; at the close of the war he was pas- 

 tor from 1865 to 1868 of the Seminary Church 

 at W'alnut Hills, near Cincinnati, and was 

 called thence to Cleveland. He had won a 

 high reputation for ability, eloquence, and 

 faithfulness, in that city, and his excessive la- 

 bors hastened his untimely death. 



Jan. 21. BRAGG, THOMAS, a political leader 

 and Governor of North Carolina ; died in 

 Ealeigh, N. C., aged 62 years. He was of 

 humble parentage, and was born in Warren- 

 ton, Warren County, N. C., November 9, 1810. 

 He was educated at the military academy at 

 Middletown, Conn., studied law, and was a 

 mitted to the bar in 1831, and entered th 

 North Carolina House of Commons in 1842. I: 

 1854 he was elected Governor of North Ca 

 lina, and held that position two terms. He 

 was elected U. S. Senator in 1859, but with- 

 drew in 1861, on the pretext that his State had 

 seceded. Pres. Davis made him Attorney-Gen- 

 eral in his Cabinet, February 22, 1861, and he 

 acted in that capacity two years. In July, 

 1861, he was expelled from the U. S. Senate 

 for having taken part in the civil war. Hav- 

 ing lost all his means by the war, Governor 

 Bragg resumed the practice of his profession, 

 and also mixed in politics. He was very ac- 

 tive in the impeachment proceedings against 

 Governor Holden. He was a brother of Gen- 

 eral Braxton Bragg of the Southern army. He 

 was chairman of the State Democratic Com- 

 mittee of North Carolina, and exercised con- 

 siderable influence in directing its course of 

 action. 



Jan. 22. WASHINGTON, Colonel BENJAMIN 

 F., a Californian journalist and politician, a 

 Virginian by birth ; died in San Francisco. He 

 was editor of the San Francisco Examiner, 

 and had been mayor of the city, collector of 

 the port of San Francisco under President 

 Buchanan, and State Tide-Land Commissioner. 



Jan. 23. CONEY, JABEZ, an eminent engineer 

 and iron manufacturer of Boston ; died there, 

 aged 67 years. He had commenced business, 

 just before attaining the age of twenty-one, 

 in Mill Village, Dedham, Mass., his first work 

 being the construction of a large water-wheel. 

 He had planned and constructed many manu- 

 facturing establishments previous to 1837, 

 when his machine-shop was burned. He then 

 moved to South Boston, and entered upon a 

 much more extensive business building ma- 

 chinery for boring and finishing cannon, con- 

 structing the first iron vessel ever built in 

 New England, and the first marine engine of 

 large size, the first gravel excavator, and many 

 other great enterprises. He had suffered from 

 a paralytic affection for more than twenty 

 years before his death. 



Jan. 24. DAVIS, Mrs. JOHN, a venerable 

 lady of Worcester, Mass., widow of the late 

 Governor and U. S. Senator John Davin, and 

 sister of George Bancroft, the historian ar.cl 

 diplomatist; died in that city, aged 80 years. 



Jan. 24. HOPKINS, Eev. ERASTTJS, a former 









