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ment of tlie agricultural interests. He had told me his plans for the 

 future, his hopes and ambitions. When I needed a friend among New- 

 York journalists, he extended the hand of friendship, and he not only 

 continued to give me his own personal influence, but he also used 

 his own friends to aid my plans. In him I have lost a friend, 

 Mr. Chairman, my feelings since this loss I do not know how to 

 express. It is impossible for me to do so in tame words. It has been 

 well said that Mr. Lyman was peculiarly a domestic man. lie seemed 

 ever to be studying how he could educate his children mentally and 

 physically. He strongly believed that a sound mind should be in a 

 sound body. I remember some time since that he told me, in his 

 opinion, one of the first things to be instilled in a child's mind should 

 be a thorough knowledge of the earth's surface, and that, in building 

 his new house at Richmond Hill, he intended to paper the walls of his 

 sitting-room with Guyot's series of maps. In his religious culture, 

 Mr. Lyman partook fully of those principles which were so carefully 

 instilled into the young of New England country homes. He firmly 

 believed in prayer, and never undertook any business, no matter what, 

 without making it the subject of earnest prayer. I remember his 

 allusion to this in the days of his courtship ; that he felt that he 

 was not living, in New Orleans, the right character of life ; and after 

 careful prayer the Lord directed him to Laura, and he knew that she 

 was the one above all others for him. We all know that he believed 

 thus at the day of his death. He has often told me that he did not 

 believe any one's life could be a perfect success without prayer. In 

 his agricultural department, Mr. Lyman carried the same earnest devo- 

 tion to principle and right as in his family; he ever endeavored to do 

 justice to all sections. No one knew better the great value of our 

 vast western prairies, and no one was more able to state the needs of 

 the south in her new position. He was ever ready to give information 

 of either, and always heard with fairness the advocates of any section 

 or measure. His style of writing was a type of himself, smooth, 

 polished, no harsh, grating words or sentences. Removed but lately 

 to a new home at Richmond Hill ; he had hoped there to gather around 

 him a circle of literary and agricultural friends, attractive to himself 

 and his talented wife, and make there his permanent abiding-place. 



Col. J. A. Slipper — After wdiat has been said, I can hardly add to 

 the eulogy of our late associate. I must bear my testimony to the 

 esteem in which I held him. Sitting in my seat adjoining his, I have 

 felt as if this death-bolt has struck very near me. Our relations were 

 not of an intimate character, and yet so favorably impressed have I 



