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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



politician and political leader, a member of the 

 State Senate in 1843 or 1844, Democratic can- 

 didate for Governor in 1858, 1859, and I860, 

 and for many years Judge of Probate ; died in 

 Concord, N. H. 



Dec. 13. ROBERTS, Mrs. CAROLINE D. 

 (SMITH), wife of Marshall O. Roberts, Esq., of 

 New York ; died in London, Eng. She was a 

 daughter of the late Normand Smith, Jr., of 

 Hartford, Conn., was highly educated, and car- 

 ried to her prominent and exalted position, as 

 the wife of a great merchant, the graces of a 

 well-cultivated and remarkable intellect, a 

 sweet and winning manner, an ardent yet un- 

 obtrusive piety, great executive ability, and a 

 benevolent, philanthropic disposition, which 

 enabled her to devise wise measures for the 

 relief of the poor and unfortunate, as well as 

 to give liberally for their help. Mrs. Roberts 

 was the acknowledged, though never the self- 

 appointed, leader in many of the organizations 

 for the aid of the suffering. 



Dec. 13. SILL, Rev. FREDERICK "W., an 

 Episcopal clergyman, rector for sixteen years 

 of St. Ambrose Church, and a most active and 

 devoted philanthropist, the friend of the poor, 

 the miserable, and the unfortunate ; died in 

 New York City, aged 62 years. 



Dec. 13. UMBSOHEIDEN, FRANZ, a German 

 scholar, revolutionist, and journalist, a resident 

 of the United States since 1852 ; died at New- 

 ark, N". J., in his 54th year. He was born in 

 Gruenstadt, Rhenish Bavaria; was educated 

 at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich, 

 studying law and political economy at both. 

 In 1848 he plunged into the revolution, trav- 

 eling and making inflammatory speeches. His 

 oration over the sanguinary death of Robert 

 Blum was so revolutionary in its tone, that he 

 was compelled to flee to France. When the 

 revolution broke out in Rhenish Bavaria he 

 returned, took an active part in it, and was 

 made major and adjutant on the staff of Gen- 

 eral Blenker. He was present at the occupa- 

 tion of Worms and the storming of the fortress 

 of Landau. He was subsequently made a civil 

 commissioner with Dr. Greiner, who recently 

 died in Newark. He then went to Baden un- 

 der General Sigel, and when the latter was 

 defeated he went to Switzerland. During his 

 absence he was tried and sentenced to death. 

 In Switzerland he became a private tutor, and 

 was expelled in April, 1852, to appease Louis 

 Napoleon. In May, 1852, he came to Newark, 

 and resumed the occupation of teaching. In 

 the Fremont campaign he joined the Repub- 

 lican party, and in 1859 he cooperated with 

 the Democrats. In 1860 he became local edi- 

 tor of the New York Staats Zeitung, which 

 position he filled till 1864, when he returned 

 to Newark and started the Newark Vollcsmann. 

 In 1867 he took the editorial chair of the 

 New Jersey Demolcrat, and from 1869 to 1871 

 he edited the Vollcsmann. 



Dec. 22.- TILGHMAN, General TENCH, an in- 

 fluential citizen of Talbot County, Md., a grad- 



uate from West Point in 1832 ; died in Balti- 

 more, aged 65 years. On his graduation from 

 West Point, he was made second-lieutenant in 

 the Fourth Artillery. He resigned in Novem- 

 ber, 1833. He returned to Maryland, and took 

 charge of his farm at Oxford, Md., from 1834 

 to 1861, being inspector, brigadier-general, and 

 major-general of the Maryland militia, Com- 

 missioner of Public Works from 1841 to 1851, 

 superintendent of the military department of 

 the Maryland Military Academy at Oxford, 

 Md., 1847-'57 ; was U. S. consul at Mayagues, 

 Porto Rico, W. I., 1849-'50 ; collector of cus- 

 toms for Oxford, Md., 1857-'60 ; president of 

 National Agricultural Society, 1858-'60, and 

 of the Maryland & Delaware Railroad Com- 

 pany, 1855-'61. He took part with the Confed- 

 erates in the late civil war, but was not, we 

 believe, in any important action. 



Dec. 24. CHASE, Mrs. ANN, wife of the Hon. 

 Franklin Chase, late U. S. consul-general at 

 Tampico, Mex. ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 

 65 years. She was a woman of remarkable 

 bravery and executive ability ; born in the 

 north of Ireland in 1809, emigrated to this 

 country in 1818, and acquired a good general 

 and mercantile education to assist her brother 

 in his business. In 1832, with her brother, 

 she removed to New Orleans, and thence, in 

 August, 1834, to Tampico, where she became 

 acquainted with Mr. Chase, to whom she was 

 married in 1836. In 1846, during the Mexican 

 War, on account of his official character as 

 U. S. consul, Mr. Chase was compelled to 

 leave the city of Tampico, but, with his con- 

 currence, Mrs. Chase remained to protect the 

 Government property, the records of the con- 

 sulate, and the interests of the American peo- 

 ple. In his absence an infuriated mob at- 

 tempted to tear down the flag that floated over 

 her residence, whereupon Mrs. Chase ascended 

 to the house-top, and declared that no one 

 should touch that flag except over her dead 

 body. With revolver in hand, she defied 

 them. That flag had such priceless value in 

 her memory that she never parted with it, and 

 her husband draped her casket in its folds when 

 her remains awaited removal to the final rest- 

 ing-place. When Mr. Chase left Tampico, in 

 1846, he confided to his wife all his plans, and 

 authorized her to use his fortune for their 

 consummation. So successfully did this brave 

 lady carry them out, that she communicated 

 with Commodore Conner, then commanding 

 the United States fleet -in the Gulf of Mexico, 

 and the city of Tampico through her instru- 

 mentality was surprised and taken by the 

 American forces without expenditure of life 

 or treasure. The letters written to Mr. Bu- 

 chanan, then Secretary of State, detailing her 

 plans, created a conviction in his mind of the 

 capture of the city before its consummation. 

 In honor of Mrs. Chase's agency in this im- 

 portant event, and as a token of their appre- 

 ciation of her heroism, the army named the 

 fortress of the city Fort Ann, and the ladies of 



