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months after his release he was tried at Sa- 

 vannah by a military commission for attempted 

 bribery of Government officers, and was sen- 

 tenced to several years' imprisonment and a 

 very large fine, but the sentence was remitted 

 by President Johnson. This prosecution led 

 to counter-suits by him against the Govern- 

 ment in the New York district. In private 

 life Mr. Lamar was a generous, liberal, whole- 

 hearted man, ardent in his friendships, exem- 

 plary in his character, and ready to every 

 good word and work. That he should have 

 erred in his estimate of the war, its causes and 

 consequences, is greatly to be regretted, but 

 his position in this matter was the legitimate 

 result of his love for his native State, and his 

 intense though mistaken attachment to South- 

 ern institutions and policy. 



Oct. 7. EDDY, Eev. THOMAS M., D. D., a 

 Methodist clergyman, journalist, and author; 

 born in Hamilton County, N. Y., September 7, 

 1823 ; died in New York City, October 7, 1874. 

 He was educated in the Classical Seminary at 

 Greensboro', Ind., joined the Indiana Confer- 

 ence as a circuit-preacher in 1842, received ap- 

 pointments within the bounds of that confer- 

 ence till 1853, when he acted as agent of the 

 American Bible Society for a year, and was 

 then elected presiding elder of the Indianapo- 

 lis district. In 1856 he was appointed, by the 

 Quadrennial Annual Conference, editor of the 

 Northwestern Christian Advocate, at Chicago, 

 and entered at once upon his duties. He was 

 continued in this post, which he filled with 

 marked ability, for twelve years, but in 1868 

 returned to the pastorate, being in charge of 

 the Charles Street Methodist Episcopal Church 

 in Baltimore. At the close of that service he 

 was assigned to the Metropolitan Methodist 

 Episcopal Church in "Washington, was a mem- 

 ber of the General Conference of 1872, and 

 was by that body elected one of the corre- 

 sponding secretaries of the Missionary Society. 

 The duties of this new field involved an excess 

 of labor, especially in the visitation of confer- 

 ences. On his return from a protracted and 

 very fatiguing journey about the 1st of Octo- 

 ber, 1874, Dr. Eddy was attacked with bilious 

 fever, from which he did not recover. Though 

 a copious and brilliant writer for the press, Dr. 

 Eddy had published but little in a permanent 

 form. His " History of Illinois during the Civil 

 War," published in 1867 (2 vols. 8vo), was 

 creditable alike to his patriotism and his intel- 

 lectual ability. He had also published a few 

 small books, occasional sermons, etc. 



Oct. 12. PERKINS, Jons', a New York pub- 

 lisher, for many years at the he.ad of the school- 

 book publication department of the house of 

 D. Appleton & Co. ; died in New York City, 

 of apoplexy, aged 51 years. He was a native 

 of Cooperstown, N. Y., and a brother of the 

 eminent mathematician, Prof. George R. Per- 

 kins, in whose series of mathematical works 

 he was greatly interested. He retired from 

 his connection with Messrs. Appleton in 1871. 



Oct. 14. KELLER, CHARLES M., an eminent 

 patent-lawyer of the firm of Keller & Blake, 

 of New York City ; died at his country resi- 

 dence, Millburn, N. J., aged 64 years. He was 

 born in Southern France, but came to this 

 country when a child. He was employed in 

 the old Patent-Office, and in 1836 he framed 

 and secured the passage of the act upon which 

 the American system of patent-law is founded. 

 He also prepared the amendments to that act 

 passed in 1839. He afterward came to this 

 city and rose to the first rank in the practice 

 of patent-law. He took part in nearly every 

 important case of that kind in this country. 



Oct. 16. WELLBORN, Rev. MARSHALL J., a 

 Baptist clergyman of Georgia, and previously 

 to his entering the ministry an eminent lawyer, 

 circuit judge, and member of Congress ; died 

 in Columbus, Ga., in the 68th year of his age. 

 Educated at Mercer University and possessing 

 talents of the highest order, he early became 

 one of the ablest lawyers of the Georgia bar. 

 About 1840 he was elected Judge of the Cir- 

 cuit Court in the Columbus Circuit, and in 

 1848, when Hon. Alfred Iverson was trans- 

 ferred from the national House of Represent- 

 atives to the U. S. Senate, Judge Wellborn 

 was elected his successor from the Columbus 

 district. After serving one term in Congress 

 he returned to his profession, and in 1858 

 commenced a religious life, uniting with the 

 Baptist Church in Columbus. In 1864 he 

 abandoned his legal profession and entered the 

 ministry. Possessing an ample fortune, he re- 

 fused the call of any of the wealthy city 

 churches to which his eloquence and ability 

 would have made him very welcome, and took 

 charge of some poor and dependent churches 

 around Columbus, which he served with great 

 zeal but almost entirely without money com- 

 pensation. He was meantime a most bounti- 

 ous giver to the poor and to all objects of 

 Christian benevolence. 



Oct. 17. SHTTRTLEFF, NATHANIEL BRAD- 

 STREET, M. D., A. A. S., an American physi- 

 cian, naturalist, antiquary, and author, Mayor 

 of Boston 1868-'70; died in that city, of paral- 

 ysis, aged 64 years. He was born in Boston, 

 June 29, 1810, graduated from Harvard Col- 

 lege in 1831, and from the Medical Depart- 

 ment in 1834. He devoted much of his time 

 to literary and scientific pursuits after receiv- 

 ing his medical degree, though he could at any 

 time have commanded a large practice. Among 

 his published works were: "Epitome of Phre- 

 nology" (1835); "Perpetual Calendar for Old 

 and New Style" (1848); "Passengers of the 

 May Flower" in 1620" (1849); "Brief Notice 

 of William Sburtleff, of Marshfield" (1850); 

 " Genealogy of the Leverett Family " (1850) ; 

 " Thunder and Lightning and Deaths in Marsh- 

 field in 1658 and 1666 "(1850): "Records of 

 Massachusetts Bay," 1628-'86," 6 vols., 4to; 

 ,' Topographical Description of Boston," 8vo 

 (1871) ; and, with David Pulsifer, edited " Rec- 

 ords of New Plymouth," 12 vols., 4to. Dr. 



