upon any given question, referring with accuracy to volume and page without taking the books from their cases; and yet he was by no means a "book lawyer." He was master of the great principles of jurisprudence; and with a mind of great logical acuteness as well as comprehensiveness, he applied those principles with wonderful readiness and discrimination. The writer of this well remembers to have heard the late Chief Justice Mellen remark that he knew no man so thoroughly endowed with all those qualities which go to make the great lawyer, and entitle him to be a worthy successor of Marshall, as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, as Rufus B. Allyn." But he was a man of great eccentricity of character, reserved to the very borders of misanthropy, of an hereditary temperament which oftentimes induced very great depression, which tended to obscure his faith, and obliterate the faintest trace of ambition or desire to be known or noticed by his fellow-men. He shunned distinction, and every thing like notoriety he avoided with disgust. He might at one time have removed to Boston, and become a partner in business with Daniel Webster; but he preferred a life of absolute seclusion. In all the business relations of life he was rigidly prompt and methodical, and of an integrity unsullied. Towards the close of his life, those gloomy doubts, superinduced by his melancholy temperament, which had at times obscured his religious faith, were dispelled, and he often prayed, "Lord, I believe: help thou mine unbelief." It is at all times gratifying to be able to record the religious convictions of a great mind. There were few who were permitted to know the character of the mind of the subject of this notice, but will, in this instance, fully appreciate the extent of that gratification. Late in life Mr. Allyn married the eldest daughter of his friend, the late Samuel Upton; and he perhaps was the only person not connected by family ties to ward whom he had any feeling deserving the name of friendship. Mr. Upton resided in Belfast for some years prior to his removal to Washington, where he died in 1840. This friendship, which was the sunny spot in Mr. Allyn's early life, was strengthened by the family tie, which united them after Mr. Upton's removal to Washington, and was only dissolved by death; and now in firmer, purer, better bonds and brighter realms, the friends are reunited. His widow and five children survive him. - N. Y. Tribune. ALLING, Pruden, Newark, N. J., Jan. 31, æ. 75. He was the postmaster of that city under the administration of President Van Buren. ALRICKS, Mrs. Mary E., Harrisburg, Pa., March 30, æ. 47, wife of Hennan Alricks, and daughter of the late Rev. Wm. Kerr, of Lancaster Co. ALTER, Mrs. Catharine, near Funkstown, Md., æ. 66. The deceased was extensively known and universally respected, and but few, very few persons have departed this life as deeply regretted as this estimable lady, as the lengthened funeral cortege which accompanied her body to the grave, and the many bitter tears which were shed around that grave, fully attested. Her heart was ever open to sympathy and pity for the misfortunes and necessities of the poor; none ever appealed to her in vain, and she dispensed her charities, as dews from heaven, with a liberal hand upon all who sought them. She was devoted to the wants and interests of her family, and well and faithfully discharged all the various duties of life. Hers was indeed a well-spent life. AMBLER, Rev. Silas, Stanford, N. Y., Nov. 23, æ. 60. AMES, Mrs. Eliza A., San Diego, Cal., Mar. 14, æ. - wife of Judge J. J. Ames. AMIDON, Dea. Elijah, Belchertown, Ms., June 7, æ. 70. He sustained the office of a deacon during many years, to the entire satisfaction of his Christian brethren in the Congregational church at Hardwick, and also in the church at Belchertown. He was able, faithful, and useful in the discharge of the various duties of this honorable and important office. He was a decided and steadfast friend of evangelical truth, which he ably and boldly defended in his intercourse with his fellow-men. He made no compromise with error; he stood firmly on the ground of the Puritan faith. ANDERSON, Dr. Isaac, Maryville, E. Tenn., Jan. 28, æ. -, one of the "fathers" of Presbyterianism in E. Tenn., and for many years President of Maryville College. ANDERSON, Mrs. Martha, Athens, Ala., April 6, æ. 79. She was an accept able member of the M. E. Church 57 years; she possessed a strong, vigorous, clear mind, and was in possession, apparently, of all her faculties, in full action to the last. ANDERSON, Orville M., Rome, Italy, Feb. 12, æ. 29, son of the late John F. Anderson, and a resident of Louisville, Ky. ANDERSON, Richard, Powhatan Co., Va., March 1, æ. 78. He was long and intimately known to the citizens of Richmond as a merchant, and as the president of the Branch Bank of the U. States until its close. His best epitaph is the esteem of all who knew him. Having connected himself with the church in the meridian of life, his efforts have ever been to be a consistent Christian, at the same time giving his aid and countenance to all works of morality. ANDERSON, Gen. S. H., Jefferson Co., Ill., Sept. 24, æ. 56. Gen. Anderson was a prominent man in the ranks of the democratic party, and held several offices under the state and U. States government. At one time he was lieutenant governor of the state. He was much respected as a man, and leaves many warm personal friends. ANDERSON, Thomas, Austintown, O., April 11, æ. 87. He was a native of Holland, early took to seafaring life, was impressed into the British service, managed to escape to the U. S., and was aboard the old U. S. frigate Constitution in the memorable engagement when she captured his majesty's vessels, the Cyane and Levant. After peace had been declared, he came to the west, and was engaged for a number of years in the military service of the government, in defending the forts and trading stations of the then western wilderness beyond the Mississippi. After becoming exempt from duty by age and limitation, he came to the vicinity of Beaver, Pa., where he resided for a number of years. Although no scholar, he conversed readily in some half a dozen different languages French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and English-acquired during his rovings as a sailor in various quarters of the globe. ANDERSON, Hon. Walker, Pensacola, Fa., Jan. 18, æ. —. A native of Va., but for many years a resident of this state. Judge Anderson was ever one of its most prominent and distinguished citizens, for a time filling the office of chief justice of the Supreme Court. A Christian gentleman, a lawyer of eminent ability, and ever foremost in the advocacy of measures of general weal, his memory demands no eulogy at the hands of the public journalist, for his name and character are familiar to all. ANDREW, Wm. A., N. Orleans, -, æ. -. He was well known for his firmness, reliability, high sense of justice, unwavering attachment to friends, and nice sense of honor. His character was deserving of the highest encomiums and greatest respect. As a merchant, Mr. Andrew had secured for himself and the house of which he was the senior partner a very high place, and on public as well as private grounds, the demise of such a citizen at any time is a serious loss, for in all things he was thoroughly identified with N. Örleans. ANDREWS, Dea. Peter, Ballstown, N. Y., March 24, æ. 76. ANDREWS, Mrs. Mary, Frankfort, Me., March ―, æ. 83. ANDREWS, Mrs. Sarah, Marietta, O., Feb. 26, æ. 76, wife of the late Rev. Wm. Andrews. ANDREWS, Mrs. Mary, Kennebunkport, Me., æ. 64, widow of the late Capt. Ebenezer Andrews. JOSEPH K. ANGELL, ESQ., Boston, May 1, æ. 63. Mr. Angell was born in Providence, April 30, 1794, being a lineal descendant of John Angell, one of the earliest settlers of the town, and at the time of his death he had just entered upon the sixty-fourth year of his age. He graduated at Brown University in the class of 1813, and having studied law in the office of the late Hon. Thomas Burgess, he was admitted to the bar in 1816. Though we believe he never engaged in the practice of his profession, he was exceedingly fond of jurisprudence as a study. For many of its investigations his mind was singularly fitted, and in several special branches of the science he had made large acquisitions. He was editor of the "United States Law Intelligencer and Review," from 1829 to 1831, and also for several years reporter to the Supreme Court of R. I., being the first who received that appointment, and the editor of the earliest volume of the R. | I. Reports. He was distinguished throughout his life for his rare simplicity of character, his kindly feelings to all around him, his attachment to his friends, and his singular freedom from all prejudice or malevolence of spirit. His life was solitary; the members of his immediate family had long ago passed away, and he was, we believe, without any near relatives; but in his unobtrusive career, he had never made an enemy, and his amiable qualities had won for him many valuable friends, who were strongly attached to him, and took a lively interest in all his fortunes. Among those who knew him best, it has been remarked that no small part of the intellectual power which his writings display arose from the singular honesty and directness of his nature. He brought to every subject upon which he wrote a sincere and earnest desire to ascertain and express the simple truth; and under the influence of this spirit did he prosecute his inquiries upon the several important branches of law which his writings have done so much to explain. This childlike simplicity in action might have sometimes made him the dupe of the artful, but in the search for legal truth it secured for him many great advantages. As a legal writer, Mr. Angell has acquired a wide and enduring reputation, and as such his name is honorably known, not only throughout the United States, but also in Great Britain, where, as we have had the opportunity to know, his works have repeatedly received the most flattering commendations. The subjects which he has treated are all of unusual practical importance, and the selection of such subjects is of itself a favorable indication of the cast of his mind and the character of his judgment. His published works, as well as we can now recall them, relate to the "Law of Watercourses," the "Law of Tide Waters," the " Law of Private Corporations," the "Limitations of Actions at Law and in Equity and Admiralty," the "Law of Carriers," and the "Law of Fire and Life Insurance." These are the honorable achievements of his life, and, what is no common proof of success for any writer, each one of them, on its first publication, has im 66 66 mediately become an authority, and taken a high position in the legal literature of the age. Of the treatises we have named above, that on Watercourses was first published in 1824, and has passed through four editions; that on "Tide Waters" was published, we believe, in 1829; and it passed to a second edition in 1847. The work on " Corporations," in the preparation of which he was associated with Hon. Samuel Ames, the present chief justice of the state, was first published in 1832, and has passed through five editions; that on Limitations" first appeared in 1839, and had reached a third edition in 1854; the excellent treatise on the "Law of Carriers by Land and by Sea," in many respects the most widely useful of his works, was first published in 1849; the first edition being soon exhausted, a second was issued in 1851, and a third has already passed through the press, and is on the eve of publication by Messrs. Little & Brown, of Boston. His latest published work is that on the "Law of Fire and Life Insurance," which was issued in 1854, and was received with such favor that a second edition was demanded, and made its appearance within a year from the date of the first. In addition to these well-known works, which constitute the basis of his reputation, he was, at the time of his death, engaged in the preparation of an elaborate treatise on the "Law of Highways," a subject which, in the present condition of society, ranks in importance among the foremost of those to which his writings relate. This work, we believe, is nearly all written, and some of the early chapters are already printed. It was, as has been intimated, in order to attend to the passage of this volume through the press, that he had gone to Boston on the day of his death. We have already referred to the high estimation in which these works of Mr. Angell are held by the members of the legal profession. We have repeatedly heard gentlemen of eminent legal and judicial position, both in his state and in Massachusetts, express the opinion that, after Story and Kent, no common law writer is so widely known or so highly respected. Lord Brougham also, while lord chancellor of England, pronounced his treatise on the "Limitations of Actions" to be "much the best treatise on that important subject in the English language." His fame is thus not only an honor to his native state, but forms no inconsiderable item in the juridical reputation of the country. readily be filled, and the community sustained a loss which will be only the more felt as time advances. A long list of descendants, some fifty or sixty in number, down even to the third generation, were left to mourn his loss. Friends, neighbors, and acquaintances, united in paying their last tribute of respect to the departed, in the long train that accompanied his remains to the neighboring cemetery, where he sleeps in full view of the land where he so long toiled. There let him sleep. There is no sweeter resting place. În the gorgeous cemetery, the marble tomb and sarcophagus, are enclosed the remains of the wealthy and distinguished citizen, as a testimonial of his former position in life, while in the green upon the grave of the farmer, nature's own emblem of silent and unpretending worth. ANKRIM, Hon. Joel L., Philadelphia, Pa., 14, æ. 46. President judge of the Eleventh Judicial District in Texas. ARMIGER, Wesley F., Peoria, Ill., Jan. 9, æ. 27, youngest son of Benja min Armiger, of Baltimore. ARMISTEAD, Mrs. Joanna T., Norfolk, Va., April 1, æ. 72, widow of the late William A. Armistead. ANKENY, Mr., Clearspring, Md., July 11, æ. 70. Mr. Ankeny was a very respectable farmer, extensively known and universally esteemed in his portion of the country. His history is intimately connected with its growth. Commencing life when the log cabin and the shed were the only dwellings, when the native forests encroached upon the diminutive fields of the farmer, he lived long enough, and contrib-country graveyard, the sod grows uted in no small measure, to open the hoed fields redeemed from the rock and stump of the wilderness, to erect the snug farm houses and capacious barns which stud the country; to cultivate successfully the stubborn soil which now yields abundant harvests, and which enables that vicinity to compare favorably with other favored sections of our country. As a farmer, Mr. Ankeny stood almost unrivalled. His untiring industry, acute observation, and long experience, enabled him to succeed when others failed, and to gather round him a handsome fortune by his own unaided exertions. He possessed talents which, if cultivated, would have insured him an enviable distinction in any pursuit of life; as it was, his strong common sense and clear perception enabled him, although at an advanced age, to undertake and successfully carry out projects from which the young and the vigorous would have shrunk with fear. As is usual with a strong intellect, he maintained the vigor of his faculties up to the last moment of his existence, his mind remaining clear and unclouded in the frail fabric that was tumbling to ruin around it. Although in affluent circumstances, he was plain and unostentatious in his life and habits, was kind to the poor-none asked for assistance without receiving it - benevolent and obliging to a fault, ever ready to incur a heavy responsibility to save a friend from ruin. His death left a void in the circle of friends and in the sphere of usefulness which could not ARNELL, James B., at Columbia, Tenn., œ.-. He was a young man just commencing his career, and gave every indication of promise and of future eminence in his profession. ARNOLD, Mrs. Cataline, Albany, N. Y., Jan. 29, æ. 94, widow of the late Isaac Arnold. ARNOLD, Henry, Lancaster, O., Sept. 8, æ. 82. He had been a most reputable citizen for the last fifty years, and died lamented by all who recognize the value of goodness, justice, and truth. ARNOLD, Hiram, Albany, N. Y., Mar. 17, æ. 51, the oldest son of the late Gen. B. Arnold, of Amsterdam. ARNOLD, Mrs. Susan P., Covington, Ky., at the residence of Dr. Blackburne, Feb. 4, æ. 80. She was the widow of the late Thomas Arnold, for many years the clerk of the Bourbon Circuit Court. ASBERY, Mrs. Mary, Hunt Co., Tex., Aug. 18, æ. -, wife of Rev. J. A. Asbery. Mrs. Asbery was the daughter of Jacob Houffer, Esq., and was born in Maryland, near Hagerstown. ASHCRAFT, Dr. N. B., Northfield, Vt., Mar. 11, æ. 69. ASHLEY, Mrs. Ann E., Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 18, æ. 61, relict of the late Capt. Richard Ashley, U. S. army, and daughter of James Robinson, Esq., formerly of Newport. ASHMEDE, John, Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 9, æ. 73. ASKEY, Samuel, Snowshoe Township, Pa., May 28, æ. 81 yrs. 3 ms., was born in Path Valley, Franklin (then Northumberland) Co., Pa. He was for some time in the service of his country under Gen. Harrison, and after his services were no longer required, he returned to the place of his nativity. He afterwards visited the wilds of the Snowshoe country, with a view of seeking a new home. He settled about one mile from the Little or Black Moshannon, and 17 miles from the Bald Eagle Valley, the then nearest settlement. He was one of the first two settlers that followed in the trail of the Indians, they having left but a short time previous, leaving their hunting grounds to be occupied by the white man. The life of Mr. Askey as a pioneer and hunter would compare with that of Daniel Boone or Col. Crockett. Many of the most thrilling adventures with, and hairbreadth escapes from, the wild denizens of the forest, have been heard from the lips of the deceased by the writer. He carried with him to the grave scars, the results of wounds received in several contests with panthers, in which his life depended on his own presence of mind, and the faithfulness of his dog. Much of his time was spent in hunting, which proved the most lucrative business in which he could engage in his new home. He killed, during the time he lived in Snowshoe, 60 panthers, 98 wolves, (to this the records of Centre Co. will bear testimony,) about 500 deer, and a large number of bears the precise number could not be ascertained, but in a statement given by himself to the writer, he sold, in one season, 2700 weight of bear's meat. ATHON, Mrs. Rebecca, Indianapolis, Ind., June 10, æ. -, a very excellent and estimable lady, and her loss was severely felt by her husband, son, daughters, relatives, and personal friends. ATKINS, Mrs. Lydia Dyke, Putnam, Ct., June 18, widow of the late Rev. Mr. Atkins, æ. 82. ATKINS, William Dexter, Sing Sing, N. Y., Mar. 3, æ. 69. ATKINS, Mr. John, East Boston, Ms., Sept. 5, æ. 60. He was a native of Truro, Ms., and followed the sea many years, both as a fisherman and a whaler. Having acquired a moderate competency, he retired from the sea, and settled in Provincetown, which he represented several sessions in the legislature. During the collectorship of the late Philip Greeley, he filled an office in the Boston custom house, and during the past 15 years has resided in East Boston. He was 60 years of age at the time of his death; his father, mother, brothers, and sisters are yet living; he is the first of the family who has died. His father is 88, and mother 86 years old; they had six children— three of each sex. He was a man of great mental fortitude, acquired, no doubt, by early familiarity with danger. ATKINSON, Dea. Josiah L., Newburyport, Mass., Jan. 18, æ. 65. ATKINSON, Maj. S. W., of Russellville, Ky., Oct. 2, æ. -, one of the oldest and most highly esteemed citizens. He was a gentleman of many ennobling qualities, and his death is sincerely lamented by a large circle of friends. ATKINSON, Mrs. Jane, of St. Stephen Parish, Cecil Co., Md., wife of the Rev. John Atkinson, and only daughter of Dr. M. Barr, of Middletown, Del., Feb. 1, æ. —. ATWATER, Mrs. Belinda, Circleville, O., Jan. 5, æ. 69, wife of Caleb Atwater, Esq. AULABAUGH, Dr. James S., Greenfield, Ill., Jan. 1, æ. 29, formerly of Berkeley Springs, Morgan Co. AULT, Frederic, Knoxville, Ten., Jan. 31, æ. 72. He was an industrious and worthy citizen, and an honest man, and passed away from earth quietly and peacefully, without a struggle or a groan, with no dread of death, feeling that "all was well." AUSTIN, Mrs. Hannah, Queensbury, N. Y., Jan. 1, æ. 102. She was born in Washington Co., and resided over 60 years in Queensbury. She was perfectly familiar with the stirring scenes of the revolution, and lived to see a small band, battling for liberty, become a mighty and powerful nation, able to defend, if willing, that freedom that was bought with choice blood. AUSTIN, Mrs. H. B., West Spring |