rah Hawes, of Haddam, Ct., who were the parents of nine children, all of whom were professors of religion. She retained her faculties in her old age, and was a woman of eminent faith and piety. BARTLETT, Charles, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., April 24, æ. —, principal of the Collegiate School.

BASFORD, Jona., Belfast, Me., June 2, æ. 82, formerly of Chester, N. H.

BASKERVILLE, Mrs. Mildred, Burt Creek, near Lynchburg, Va., June 12, æ. 95. She was the widow of John Baskerville, a revolutionary soldier, and the sister of the late Micajah Pendleton, so long identified with the temperance reform. She was a Christian by profession about sixty years.

BASS, Maj. George, Westford, Ms., of Boston, Sept. 6, æ. 78.

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BASYE, Hon. Thomas, Granada, Ni., Judge of the First Instance Oriental Department of Nicaragua, of cholera. He was a native of Northumberland Co., Va., and represented that county three years in the Virginia legislature. He emigrated to Nicaragua in June.

BATCHELDER, Dr. Josiah, Falmouth, Me., March 5, æ. 82, formerly of Beverly, Ms.

BATCHELDER, Mrs. Sarah, Falmouth, Oct. 19, æ. -, widow of the late Josiah Batchelder.

BATES, Caleb, Boston, Ms., æ., left, we learn, to the Third Congregational church in Hingham, of which he was a member, the handsome bequest of $2000. Numerous worthy individuals were also made recipients of his bounty, he leaving to various persons small legacies.

BATES, Mrs., Townsend, Washington Ter., Oct. 8, æ. -, wife of Lieut. Francis H. Bates, U. S. A., and daughter of Peter Swain, Esq., of New York.

BATES, Moses D., Marion Co., Mo., Aug. 18, æ. 65. Mr. Bates was born in Louisa Co., Va., from thence he removed to Louisville, Ky., when that was yet a forest, and the savages were yet roaming the "dark and bloody ground." From thence he soon after removed to St. Louis, and was appointed sheriff of St. Louis Co. by the late Gen. Clarke. There he took an active part in business and politics, and by his prompt business habits and qualifications soon laid the foundation to amass a large for

tune, of which he availed himself, and was the richest man in Marion Co. A year or two after he went to St. Louis he commenced the business of transporting goods in keel boats up the Mississippi River, which he followed for several years. It was Mr. Bates and the late Mr. Rector, the then surveyor general of Mississippi, that laid off the present town site of the city of Hannibal, and he was the man that built the first log cabin ever built in Hannibal. Although Mr. Bates had never attached himself to any church, yet for several years previous to his death he often spoke of a hereafter, and it was his daily practice to admonish those around to prepare themselves to meet him in a brighter and better world, and especially did he admonish his children to make themselves worthy and useful members of society.

BATES, Maj. J. C., Montgomery, Ala., editor of the "Journal." Maj. Bates was born in Vermont, and educated at Middlebury College, of which his father (now deceased) was the president for many years. Maj. Bates came south about 1839, and soon took charge of the whig paper at Wetumpka. After a year or two he removed to Montgome ry, where he married the only daughter of the late Gen. Taliaferro. His connection with the Journal was continuous for fifteen to seventeen years. We suppose his age to have been about forty-five.

BATES, Phineas P., Ontario, N. Y., æ. 75. He was a native of Granville, Ms., but came to this town at the age of nine years, and has lived ever since on the place then purchased by his father. Coming thus early, his individual history has been intimately associated with that of the town and county, of which he was one of the oldest and most respected residents. It was his lot to witness the settlement and mark the growth of the "Genesee country," and to share largely with its hardy pioneers the privations, toils, and hardships, by which an unbroken wilderness was transformed to cultivated fields, and the haunts of savage beasts to the abode of industrious, orderly, and thriving communities. Taking the impress and imbibing the spirit of surrounding scenes and influences, his own character was moulded to a kindred type of ener

BEDIENT, D. N., Millport, N. Y., Jan. 22, æ. -. Mr. B. was well known throughout the county, and universally respected. He was for the two years previous to last year, superintendent of the Chemung Canal, which office he filled with great credit to himself, and with satisfaction to the state. BEEBE, Major David, Ridgeville, O., æ. 76. Major Beebe was one of the pioneers of Ridgeville. In April, 1810, he, in company with his father and brother Lowman, Lyman Root, Oliver and Philander Terrell, and Ira B. and Sylvester Morgan, left Waterbury, Conn., to seek homes in the then far distant west. They fixed upon Ridgeville, then an unbroken wilderness, for their future place of residence, and it is believed that Major B. cut the first tree in the township. Some time during the summer he was sent back to Conn. after the families, and on the 11th of Sept., he with his father's family, and his own, in company with Ichabod Terrell and his family, left the "land of steady habits," with ox teams bearing their families and such of their household goods as they could conveniently bring with them, and arrived in Ridgeville Oct. 27. The road was then cut from Cleveland as far as Rocky River, but west of the river the forest was unbroken. They were three nights and four days in travelling from Rocky River to Ridgeville, having to cut out the road as they proceeded. They found that Tillotson Terrell had arrived with his family some three months before them, having come from Columbia, where there was a small settlement. Mrs. Tillotson Terrell still survives, and is believed to be the first white woman in Ridgeville. Of this first company of settlers, Harry Terrell, Esq., and Ichabod Terrell, who were children at that time, still reside in Ridgeville, Oliver, their brother, and Ira B. Morgan, Esq., then young men, are living in Eaton. It would be exceedingly interesting to give a history of the early struggles of these pioneers. We are informed that a history of the township is in the course of preparation. We have only time to

had landed at the mouth of Black River, for the purpose of cutting off the settlements. The few settlers in Ridgeville buried part of their goods, and loaded the remainder, with their wives and little ones, on an ox wagon, to which they attached six yoke of oxen, and cut a road through Eaton Swamp to Columbia, where they got authority from some military officer at Cleveland, organized a company of militia, built a blockhouse, and put it in as good a state of defence as possible. Major B. was orderly sergeant in this company, and was ordered, with a file of six men, to the mouth of Black River, to reconnoitre. Carefully following the river somewhere in the neighborhood of the Stave Landing, they heard the sound of human voices coming up from the river. The major ordered his men to get on their hands and knees, and with cocked muskets to approach the river bank and look down. Reaching the river, he found but one man, Oliver Terrell, with him. The rest had fled, and the major has always declared that he could scarcely resist the temptation to fire at his retreating soldiers.

BEECKMAN, Mrs. Margaret G., June 2, æ. -, at the residence of her brotherin-law, Ex-President Tyler, Charles City Co., Va.

BEESON, Sally Ann, Niles, Mich., May 2, æ. 30, wife of Dr. W. B. Beeson. BELCHER, Hon. Hiram, Farmington, x.-. Formerly a mem

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BELKNAP, Mrs. Ruth, Framingham, Ms., March 1, æ. 83, widow of the late Dea. Enoch Belknap.

BELL, Mrs. Elizabeth, Washington, Feb 10, æ. -, wife of Samuel P. Bell.

HON. JAMES BELL.

We can do no greater service to the character and memory of Mr. Bell than arrange the sentiments and opinions of his compeers and neighbors expressed at their meetings of respect and condolence after his death. The various events of his life, the marked features of his character as a citizen, a lawyer, a politician, a gentleman and a friend, are so fully and eloquently exhibited in

the publications at the time that we have no occasion to detain the reader by any new arrangement of our own. The Congressional Globe gives the remarks of the Hon. J. P. Hale, of N. H., in the U. S. Senate, upon the announcement of Mr. Bell's death, as follows:

“Mr. President, it is my duty, in obedience to a long-established, and, in my judgment, peculiarly appropriate custom of the Senate, to announce to the body the decease of my late colleague, Hon. James Bell, which occurred at his residence in Gilford, N. H., on the 26th of May last.

"Mr. Bell was the son of the late Samuel Bell of our state, who, for a time, was one of the justices of our highest judicial court; subsequently, for several years, governor of the state, and for 12 years a member of this body. My late colleague was born in Francestown, county of Hillsborough, on the 13th of Nov., 1804; finished his studies, preparatory to entering college, at Phillips Academy, in Andover, Mass., and in Sept., 1819, before he had completed his 15th year, he entered the sophomore class in Bowdoin College. He was graduated in 1822, and immediately commenced the study of the law with his brother, Hon. Samuel D. Bell, who is at this time a justice of our Supreme Court. He finished his course of study to qualify him for admission to the bar, at the celebrated law school at Litchfield, Ct., and, in the fall of 1825, before he was quite 21 years of age, he was admitted to the bar, and immediately commenced the practice in Gilmanton, then in the county of Strafford, in his native state. He remained at Gilmanton about six years, when he married a daughter of the late Hon. Nathaniel Upham, of N. H., and removed to Exeter, in the county of Rockingham, where he remained, constantly and sedulously engaged in the practice of his profession, till the year 1846, when he removed to Gilford, and continued to reside there till his death.

"In the year 1846, he was elected a member of the legislature of N. H., by the town of Exeter, and in 1850, by the town of Gilford, a member of the convention to revise the constitution of the state. These two offices are believed to be the only political stations occupied by him till 1855; when he was elected

by the legislature to the senate for six years from the preceding 4th of March. He served during the whole of the 34th Congress, and during the executive session of the Senate commencing the 4th of March following.

"Of Mr. Bell's success at the bar, it may be sufficient for those conversant with the character of the men practising in the counties of Rockingham and Strafford, at the time he came to the bar, viz., Jeremiah Mason, of whom Judge Story said, in the dedication of one of his volumes to him, that he 'long held the first rank in the profession, supported by an ability and depth and variety of learning which have had few equals;' George Sullivan, whose mellifluous eloquence and captivating tones carried the hearts, while his logical argumentation convinced the understanding of his audience; Ichabod Bartlett, second to no man who ever addressed a N. H. jury, and second to no man to whom I have ever listened; and Levi Woodbury, too well known to the Senate and to the country to need any eulogium from me, that, with such men for competitors, he very soon, by the common consent of the bar and the community, was ranked among the leading advocates of those two counties.

"In private life, in the community in which he lived, he was respected, confided in, and beloved to a very remarkable degree; and I have never witnessed a community apparently more deeply impressed by the death of one of their members, than was that of which our deceased associate was one.

"The integrity of his character, the soundness of his judgment, and the kindness of his heart, were well attested by the confidence and affection bestowed upon him in his life, and the intense sorrow with which his untimely death was deplored.

"While Mr. Bell was with us, he was but the wreck of what he had been: months before he took his seat here the hand of an incurable and inexorable disease had fastened itself upon him. Beneath its grasp his strength decayed, his vigor wasted, and he gradually sank till he went home to die in his rural and romantic retreat on the banks of the Winnipiseogee, which his own taste had selected and his own hand decorated. He leaves a widow and five children, all

of whom were with him in his last sickness-whose privilege it was to minister to his wants, alleviate his sufferings, and by their affectionate assiduity, smooth his pathway to the grave.

"No man more clearly understood, or more faithfully and affectionately discharged, all the duties of a husband and a father than my deceased colleague, and to his family his loss is indeed irreparable; but I shall not invoke the public gaze upon the grief of that stricken circle, but leave them to the tender mercies of Him who has smitten them, but not in anger, and who alone can heal the wound his hand has made." Hon. Mr. Fessenden, of Maine, followed Mr. Hale, and said,

"Mr. President, I have listened, with emotion, to the eloquent remarks of the senator from N. H., in announcing the death of his late colleague. That colleague was one of my early associates and friends; I hope to be excused, therefore, for rendering, in a few words, my public tribute to his many virtues.

"It was my good fortune, Mr. President, to spend some years with him at the same collegiate institution, and to be associated with him in one of those literary fraternities which often add much to the interest and value of college life.

There I learned to respect and love him, as did all equally fortunate in his companionship. There, too, were developed the many rare traits of character by which he was distinguished through life, giving unmistakable promise of that worldly eminence which he soon attained. His was a youth of promise well performed in after years, securing for him in life hosts of admiring friends, and a memory among men, which, like

'The actions of the just, Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust.' "Our late associate was gifted with a high order of intellect, which was carefully and assiduously cultivated. But excellent as were his intellectual powers, he was equally distinguished by great firmness of purpose, united with singular modesty and remarkable moral purity. It was these last characteristics which invested his youth with a peculiar charm, and won for him universal admiration and regard; for while, as a scholar, he might have been surpassed by some, as a conscientious and high

bred gentleman he was a model for all his fellows, and was so regarded by all. Of a sensitive and refined nature, he shrank, instinctively, from the slightest approach to vulgarity, either of language or demeanor. Adding to all these a loving heart, with manners frank and cordial, it is not remarkable that associates became friends.

"I have said, Mr. President, that Mr. Bell was a man of singular modesty. Indeed, he exhibited this trait of his character in excess; and in such excess as to excite apprehension that it would seriously impair his prospects of future usefulness, by obstructing the avenues to distinction, broadly open, in our country, to abilities and acquirements like his. But those who thus reasoned did not sufficiently appreciate his great firmness of character. With him, duty was paramount; and while this controlled his actions, it impelled him onwards with equal force. This was, in fact, his great motive power-ministering to, and aiding, that personal ambition which is inseparable from a noble nature, and sweeping away all those difficulties arising from mere temperament which would have daunted and discouraged one cast in a weaker mould.

"Though not an eye-witness of his eminent career in after life, yet, knowing him as I did, it occasioned me no surprise. Such men seldom fail. With qualities like his, eminent usefulness is almost a certainty. It came early, and remained with him to the last. When such a man places his foot upon the ladder, he is sure to ascend. Fate only can cast him down. With him life is success. Our lamented associate verified this truth. And I am well assured that the high moral qualities which distinguished his boyhood illustrated and adorned his riper years. As was the youth, so was the man- a lover of virtue, a friend and champion of truth.

"Mr. Bell's career in the Senate was checked and oppressed, from the beginning, by the malady which terminated his life. But he was with us long enough to secure the respect and regard of all his associates. His efforts in the Senate, though few, evinced an accuracy of judgment, a power of analysis, and a clearness of statement, which marked him for an accomplished debater. Those who best knew him were confident that,