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nalist, editor of the Boston Transcript; died 

 in Boston, of pneumonia, aged 57 years. He 

 was born in Newburyport, Mass., January 1, 

 1818, received a good academic education, was 

 apprenticed in Boston, afterward entered the 

 fancy-goods trade, but was a constant writer 

 for the press, and in 1853 became editor of the 

 Transcript, and remained its editor till his 

 death. Mr. Haskell was from early manhood 

 an industrious student, his taste being for his- 

 torical research. He wrote with vigor and 

 plainness, paying little regard to the graces of 

 composition, but devoting special care to ac- 

 curacy and clearness. His imagination rarely 

 found expression in poetic sentiment, and he 

 never professed to be familiar with the refine- 

 ments of art. His rare common-sense, quick- 

 ness of judgment, and aptitude for journalism, 

 enabled him to attain prominence as an editor 

 and conduct successfully one of the leading 

 evening papers of Boston. In old Whig times 

 Mr. Haskell took an active part in politics, but 

 was always indifferent to official honors, the 

 only public position he ever held being that 

 of councilman for three years during the 

 mayoralties of John 0. Bigelow and Benjamin 

 Seaver. He was in latter years a supporter of 

 the liberal antislavery wing of the Whig party, 

 merging thence into the Republican ranks. 



Nov. 14. BILLINGS, HAMMATT, a celebrated 

 artist and architect, of Boston ; died there. He 

 possessed exquisite taste as a designer, and his 

 reputation extended over the whole country. 

 He was successful alike in making designs for 

 a pictorial work or a' book-cover and in the 

 most stately monumental or architectural sub- 

 jects. The Pilgrim monument at Plymouth 

 was built from his designs, as was also the 

 ease of the great organ in Music Hall, Boston, 

 and many churches and public buildings in 

 other cities. 



Nov. 16. MAT, Mrs. LEWIS, nee KING-, a 

 Jewish lady of great refinement and culture, 

 well known in New York City and elsewhere 

 for her many works of charity ; died suddenly 

 in that city, in the 46th year of her age. Her 

 husband was a banker, and president of the 

 Temple Emanuel. At the time of her death 

 Mrs. May was vice-president of the Ladies' 

 Auxiliary Society of the Mount Sinai Hospital, 

 and a director in the Hebrew Home and many 

 other charitable societies. 



Nov. 17. ENO, WILLIAM, an eminent law- 

 yer of Dutchess County, N. Y. ; died at Pine 

 Plains, Dutchess County, aged 74 years. He 

 was a prominent member of the Dutchess bar 

 for forty years, and conducted a large practice. 

 He was a member of the Legislature in the 

 year 1836, and district attorney two terms for 

 Dutchess County at a time when the office 

 was filled by appointment by the Supreme- 

 Court Justices. Soon after the adoption of the 

 constitution of 1846, his name was mentioned 

 by his brethren of the bar for the office of Su- 

 preme Court Justice, but he refused the nomi- 

 nation, preferring the retirement of his farm. 



Nov. 18. STUAET, JOSEPH, a New York 

 banker, of the firm of J. & J. Stuart ; died of 

 apoplexy, in New York City, aged 71 years. 

 He was born November 25, 1803, in the County 

 Armagh, Ireland. He emigrated to this coun- 

 try in 1827, and in the following year estab- 

 lished the existing dry-goods firm of Stuart 

 Brothers in Philadelphia, in connection with 

 his brothers John and David, now heads of 

 Manchester and Liverpool banking and mer- 

 cantile houses. Shortly after, the Philadelphia 

 house was joined by the two other brothers of 

 the Stuart family, George H., the distinguished 

 philanthropist, and president of the United 

 States Christian Commission, and James. Mr. 

 Stuart removed to New York in 1833, and 

 took charge of the dry-goods house of J. & J. 

 Stuart, which was founded in 1831, and con- 

 tinued until 1851, when the character of the 

 business was changed to that of banking. His 

 reputation as a financier and business-man 

 was very high. He was a trustee of the Emi- 

 grants' Savings-Institution, a director and vice- 

 president of the National Mercantile Bank, 

 and was connected with several insurance and 

 other companies. He was also largely inter- 

 ested in most of the benevolent institutions of 

 the day, and his house were the bankers through 

 whom the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis- 

 sions effected their foreign money transactions. 



Nov. 19. QTTAOKENBOSS, HEMAN J., a veter- 

 an legislator of New York ; died at Lansing- 

 burg, N. Y., in the 85th year of his age. In 

 early life a tanner, he conducted his businesss 

 with such energy, intelligence, and integrity, 

 as to secure himself a competency and a good 

 name. In 1825 he was a member of the As- 

 sembly from Delaware County ; in 1830 he 

 represented Greene County in the same body. 

 In 1831 he was elected Senator from the 

 Greene and Delaware district, and after serv- 

 ing there for four years was elected to the As- 

 sembly again from New York in 1835. Some 

 years afterward he removed to Michigan, where 

 he was twice elected judge, and on his return 

 to New York, in 1853 or 1854, withdrew from 

 business and from public life. 



Nov. 20. BUTTS, ISAAC, a wealthy citizen 

 and journalist of Eochester, N. Y. ; died there. 

 He was for many years editor of the Rochester 

 Union, a Democratic journal of that city, and 

 author of a pamphlet on the national finances. 



Nov. 22. BARCLAY, J. T., M. D., a former 

 missionary at Jerusalem, and long a resident 

 there, an author, and since 1871 a professor in 

 Bethany College, W. Va. ; died there, aged 

 67 years. He was born in Hanover Court- 

 House,Va., in 1807, but resided for many years 

 in Philadelphia, where he studied medicine. 

 He went as a missionary to Jerusalem, we be- 

 lieve, under the patronage of the " Christian 

 Connection" or the "Disciples," about 1850, 

 and remained in that capacity three and a half 

 years, when he resigned his connection with 

 the Missionary Board, and devoted some time 

 to a very careful exploration of Jerusalem. 



