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Not. 13. FRY, Captain JOSEPH, of the steam- 

 er Virginias ; was executed by the Spanish Vol- 

 unteers, at Santiago de Cuba. He was a son of 

 Major Fry, of the U. S. Army, was educated at 

 the Naval Academy, and was appointed a mid- 

 shipman in the navy in 1841, and, after studying 

 at Annapolis a year, was graduated a passed- 

 iiiidshipmaii. In 1847 he fought a duel with 

 Midshipman Brown, of Mississippi, near Wash- 

 ington, but, after drawing his antagonist's fire, 

 generously refused to return it. He served for 

 twenty years in the U. S. Navy, but, when his 

 native State seceded, he threw up his lieuten- 

 ant's commission, and accepted a command in 

 the Confederate army. After the war he re- 

 sided in Albany. He was appointed to the 

 command of the Virginius a few months pre- 

 vious to his death. 



Nov. 16. PERRY, Captain MATTHEW C., U. 

 S. Navy ; died in New York City. He was a 

 nephew of the famous Commodore Perry, and 

 was born in New York about the year 1820. He 

 received his first appointment in 1835, serving 

 in the first three years of his naval career as 

 an officer of the frigate Potomac, attached to 

 the Mediterranean Squadron. He served also 

 in the Mexican War, and was in active service 

 during the civil war. In April, 1862, he was 

 retired on the rank of lieutenant, and in 1867 

 received the commission of captain. 



Nov. 17. MELLON, WILLIAM P., Special 

 Treasury Agent under Secretary Chase ; died 

 in Cincinnati, aged 60 years. Ho was a native 

 of Dunkirk, N. Y., studied law in the office of 

 Salmon P. Chase, and entered upon the prac- 

 tice of his profession with much credit to his 

 scholarship, but subsequently turned his at- 

 tention to the development of the coal-fields 

 of Western Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. 

 When Mr. Chase became Secretary of the 

 Treasury, he tendered to Mr. Mellon the posi- 

 tion of Supervising Special Agent, and, through- 

 out the war, the latter was one of the Secreta- 

 ry's most efficient political supporters. After 

 retiring from public life, he entered business 

 in New York, but, proving unsuccessful, bad 

 removed to Colorado, where the later years of 

 his life were spent. 



Nor. 18. HUGHES, Rev. MELANCTHON, a 

 Presbyterian clergyman and missionary ; died 

 at Santa F6, New Mexico. He graduated from 

 Miami University and Princeton Theological 

 Seminary, and for a time was settled at Atlan- 

 tic, Iowa. At the time of his death he was 

 pastor of a Presbyterian church in Santa Fe. 



Nov. 18. STANTON, Mrs. EDWIN M., widow 

 of the late Secretary of War ; died at Chestnut 

 Hill, near Philadelphia. She was a native of 

 Pittshirrjr, and was there married to Mr. Stan- 

 ton, at that time a prosperous lawyer. 



Nov. 19. BLACK, JOHN, an American diplo- 

 matist ; died in Albany, aged 81 years. He 

 was forty years a resident of the city of Mexi- 

 co, where he was a long time consul, and af- 

 terward minister resident, holding the latter 

 office during the Mexican War. 



Nov. 19. MOSELET, WILLIAM ABBOTT, M. D., 

 a political leader of Western New York ; died 

 in New York City. He graduated from Yale 

 College in 1816; was a member of the New 

 York Assembly in 1835 ; of the State Senate 

 from 1838 to 1841 ; and a Representative in 

 Congress from 1843 to 1847. 



Nov. 20. LINEN, JAMES, a popular poet of 

 Scottish birth ; died in New York City, aged 

 65 years. He spent many years in California, 

 where he was a prominent and active member 

 of the Scottish Benevolent Society. He was 

 a frequent contributor to the Knickerbocker 

 Magazine. The greater part of his poems 

 were written in the Scottish dialect, and some 

 of his earlier pieces were popular in the draw- 

 ing-room circles of New York, his verse being 

 pure, sweet, and simple. 



Nov. 22. CURTIS, NATHAXIEL, father-in- 

 law of Mr. Mixter, an eminent merchant of 

 Boston; was lost on the Ville du Havre, aged 

 76 years. He graduated from Harvard in 1818, 

 and afterward entered into partnership with 

 his father in commerce and real estate, con- 

 tinuing in active business up to the time of 

 his death. Having recently lost his wife, his 

 deep depression induced him to yield to the 

 entreaties of his son-in-law and daughter, and 

 take a trip to Europe for the purpose of 

 changing the current of his thoughts. 



Nov. 22. HUNTEB, Captain CHARLES, U. S. 

 Navy ; was lost on the Ville du Havre, in mid- 

 ocean, aged about 60 years. He was a son of 

 John Hunter, minister to Brazil, and brother 

 of William Hunter, Assistant Secretary of 

 State. He was born in Newport, R. I. ; en- 

 tered the United States Navy as midshipman 

 in April, 1831, and was assigned to the frigate 

 Potomac of the Pacific Squadron, on which 

 he served until 1834. He was then transferred 

 to the frigate Constitution of the Mediterrane- 

 an Squadron, and served on her during 1835 

 and 1836. Returning, he was assigned to the 

 navy-yard in this city, and remained there 

 during 1837. In June of that year he was 

 promoted to be passed-midshipman, and was 

 soon afterward transferred to the receiving- 

 ship at the Philadelphia Navy -Yard, and 

 served on her for the succeeding three years. 

 He was commissioned lieutenant September 8, 

 1841, while serving on the sloop Concord of 

 the Brazil Squadron. He was subsequently 

 transferred to the sloop Saratoga of the same 

 squadron, and served on her in 1845 and 1846, 

 and on the brig Bainbridge of the same squad- 

 ron in 1846 and 1847. In 1850 he was as- 

 signed to the sloop Albany, of the Home Squad- 

 ron, and served on her for a little more than a 

 year. He was on shore duty until 1855, and 

 then retired at his own request. At the out- 

 break of the civil war he offered his services 

 to the Government, and was commissioned 

 commander on April 21, 1861, and assigned 

 to the command of the steamer Montgomery, 

 attached to the Gulf Blockading Squadron. 

 In 1862, while in command of the Montgom- 



