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icol leader and prominent military offl< 

 New York Ciiv; iiii-,1 ut Tarrytown, .V 

 aged 79 years. lie was an alderman in 1826, 

 and for nmny years after; a member of tli 

 Tammiiny Society, was a cavalry officer and 

 commandant of a cavalry regiment in 1824, 

 and acted as General Lafayette's escort, re- 

 ceiving him at Castle Garden, and attending 

 him t<> I'litniuu Hill. Ho became, a few years 

 later, brigadier-general in the First Division 

 of the N. G. N. Y., and retained that position 

 for twenty years. He was Commissary-Gen- 

 eral of the State in 1842, and Inspector of 

 State-prisons for several years. A few years 

 since he removed to Tarrytown, whore he had 

 been prominent in religious matters. 



April 18. BOGABDCS, JAMES, an American 

 scientist and inventor, born in Catskill, N. Y., 

 March 14, 1800; died in New York City, aged 

 74 years. Ho possessed in on eminent degree 

 an inventive genius. After receiving an ordi- 

 nary English education in his native town, ho 

 was apprenticed to a watch-maker at the ago 

 of fourteen years, and soon became a skillful 

 die-sinker and engraver. His first invention 

 was an eight-day three-wheeled chronometer 

 clock, for which he received the highest pre- 

 mium at the first fair of the American Insti- 

 tute. Ho next invented an eight-day clock, 

 with three wheels and a segment of a wheel, 

 which struck the hours, and, without dial- 

 wheels, marked the hours, minutes, and sec- 

 onds. In 1828 he invented the "ring-flier," 4 

 for cotton-spinning, now in general use; in 

 1829 an eccentric mill, which differs from all 

 other mills, the grinding-stones or plates run- 

 ning the same way with nearly equal speed ; 

 in 1831 an engraving-machine, which cut the 

 steel die for the gold medal of the American 

 Institute, and engraved many beautiful medal- 

 lions ; and another machine for transferring 

 bank-note plates. In 1832 he invented and 

 patented a dry gas-metre, and for this received 

 the gold medal from the American Institute ; 

 he improved it in 1836, by giving a rotary mo- 

 tion to the machinery, thereby overcoming the 

 difficulties which had appeared in the origi- 

 nal meter. Being in England in 1836, and 

 noticing in the newspaper a challenge to pro- 

 duce an engraving from the head of Ariadne 

 (a medal in very high relief), he accepted it 

 and produced a medallic-engraving machine, 

 which not only made a perfect fac-simile of the 

 head of Ariadne, but from the same medal en- 

 graved comic distortions of the face. This ma- 

 chine engraved a portrait of the Queen, dedi- 

 cated to herself by her own request ; one of 

 Sir Robert Peel, and of several other distin- 

 guished persons. He contracted with a com- 

 pany in London to construct a machine for 

 engine-turning which not only copied all kinds 

 of machine-engraving, but engraved what the 

 machine itself could not again imitate ; and a 

 machine for transferring bank-note plates, and 

 other work. In 1839 a reward was offered by 

 the English Government for the best plan for 



manufacturing postage-stamps, and ont of twen- 

 ty-six hundred applicant)* his plan wns one of 

 those to which a prize won awarded. After 

 vi-iting France and Italy, Mr. Bogardos re- 

 turned to Now York in 1840. He invented a 

 machine for pressing glass, another for shirring 

 India-rubber fabrics, and fdr cutting India-rub- 

 ber in fine threads. He also made an impor- 

 tant improvement in the drilling-machine, and 

 improved and adapted the eccentric mills 

 for a great variety of purposes. In 1848 he 

 invented and patented a planetary horse-power 

 and a dynamometer for measuring the speed 

 and power of machinery while in motion. In 

 1847 he put in execution his long-cherished 

 idea of iron buildings, by constructing his fac- 

 tory in New York entirely of iron. This build- 

 ing, five stories high and ninety feet in length, 

 was the first cast-iron building erected in the 

 United States. He subsequently went largely 

 into the business of erecting iron warehouses. 

 A pyrometer which he invented is remarkable 

 for delicacy and accuracy ; simply breathing on 

 the object, or a touch of the finger, is instant- 

 ly responded to by the dial-pointer. Like 

 several other of his inventions, no description 

 of it has yet found its way into print. 



April 13. TAYLOR, EMMONS, an eminent 

 lawyer of Wisconsin, born in Rupert, Vt., June 

 26, 1828; died in Portage, Wis., aged 46 

 years. He was a graduate from Williams Col- 

 lege, in the class of 1847, studied law in Gran- 

 ville, N. Y., and was admitted to the Washing- 

 ton County (N. Y.) bar. In 1857 he removed 

 to Portage, Wis., and became the partner of 

 Hon. S. S. Dixon, now Chief- Justice of Wis- 

 consin. Ho soon attained eminence in his pro- 

 fession, and at his death was regarded as the 

 ablest advocate before a jury in the State. He 

 was greatly esteemed by all who knew him. 



April 14. CLAKK, HENBY S., a politician 

 and political leader in North Carolina; died at 

 Tarboro', N. 0., aged about 65 years. He was 

 born in Beaufort County, N. C., received a 

 good education, studied law, was a member of 

 the State Legislature 1834-'36, State Solicitor 

 1842-'45, and member of Congress from 1845 

 to 1847. He was for a time acting Governor 

 of the State. 



April 14. WARREN, JOSIAH, an eccentric 

 but benevolent reformer and author; died in 

 Boston, Mass., aged 75 years. His views on 

 the organization of society were very peculiar. 

 He took an active part in Robert Owen's com- 

 munistic experiments at New Harmony, Ind., 

 during the two years of 1825 and 1826, but he 

 was so discouraged by the failure of that en- 

 terprise that he was on the point of abandon- 

 ing any further attempt in that direction, when, 

 as he has said in his book, "a new train of 

 thought seemed to throw a sudden flash of 

 light upon our past errors, and to show plainly 

 the path to be pursued." He abandoned the 

 idea of maintaining a communal system of 

 society, and sought to attain the same ends 

 through individual sovereignty. He held that 



