studies. Soon after graduating he entered upon the study of law in Albany, finishing his course in the office of the great statesman and lawyer, Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar in 1833, but did not practise his profession, as the charge of his immense estate required his whole attention. A few years later Mr. Wadsworth turned his attention somewhat to local politics. A Federalist by education and a Democrat by conviction, he early took part in the "Free Soil" movement that divided the Democracy of the State, and gave a zealous support to the Presidential candidate of that party in 1848, and to the Republican candidates of 1856 and 1860. Like his father, he manifested a deep and active interest in the cause of education. He founded a public library at Geneseo; was a liberal subscriber to the endowment of Geneseo College; aided in the establishment of the school district library system, and in every way did what lay in his power to relieve suffering and diffuse the benefits of our free institutions. Acting as a commissioner to the Peace Convention held in Washington, in 1861, under an appointment from the Legislature of New York, when it became evident that war was inevitable, he was prompt to offer his services to the Government. When communication with the capital was cut off, he chartered two ships upon his own responsibility, loaded them with provisions, and proceeded with them to Annapolis, where they arrived most opportunely to supply the pressing necessities of the Government. Commencing his military career as a volunteer aide to Gen. McDowell at the first battle of Bull Run, upon the recommendation of that General, Wadsworth was appointed Brig.-Gen. of volunteers August, 1861, and in March, 1862, became Military Governor of the District of Columbia. In the election of Governor of New York, in November, 1862, Gen. Wadsworth was the Republican candidate, but was defeated by Mr. Seymour. In the following December he was assigned to the command of a division in the Army of the Potomac. At Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville he displayed great military skill, and at Gettysburg his division saved the first day. Upon the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac for the campaign of 1864, Gen. Wadsworth was assigned to the command of the fourth division of the fifth corps, at the head of which he bravely met his death.

WALDO, DANIEL, an American clergyman, born in Windham, Conn., September 10, 1762, died at Syracuse, N. Y., July 30, 1864. His early years were spent in laboring upon his father's farm, and attending a district school in the neighborhood. He remained at home til the year 1778, when, at the age of sixteen, he was drafted as a soldier for a month's service during a time of imminent peril at New London, and soon after enlisted as a volunteer in the service of the State. At the battle of Horseneck he was captured, taken to New York, and

imprisoned in the "Sugar House," then the grand depot for prisoners, but after a confinement of two months was exchanged. Subsequently he resumed his labors on the farm, continuing there until he was twenty-one. At the close of the war he commenced study, and graduated at Yale College in the class of 1788. On leaving college he entered upon the study of theology under Dr. Levi Hart, of Preston, Conn. After prosecuting his studies for about a year, he was licensed to preach by the Association of Windham County. In May, 1792, he was ordained and installed pastor of the church at West Suffield, Conn., where he remained, with an interval of a few months of missionary labor, until 1809, when he resigned his charge, and after preaching at Colchester, Salem, and Cambridgeport, Mass., went to Rhode Island, under the patronage of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, visiting schools and laboring in the cause of education. Subsequently he preached at Harvard, Mass., and finally at Exeter, R. I., where he labored twelve years, resigning at the end of that period on account of the inability of the parish to pay his salary. He then retired from any stated charge, frequently preaching, however, for various ministers. In 1856 Mr. Waldo, then ninety-four years of age, was elected Chaplain of the House of Representatives, discharging the duties of that position with general acceptance. His mind seemed to operate with a freedom little, if at all, diminished; and he died not from a decay of physical powers, but from the effects of a fall, leaving a record bright with patriotism, generosity, and purity of life.

WALLACK, JAMES WILLIAM, an English actor, born in London, August 24, 1795, died at New York, December 25, 1864. He inherited his theatrical vocation from his parents, both of whom had attained distinction upon the stage. His father, William Wallack, was a comedian of excellent reputation, and his mother, Elizabeth Field, had played for many years with Garrick. It was intended that he should enter the navy, but the fondness for his father's profession so strongly manifested itself in childhood that the effort to overcome it was abandoned. He joined the "Academicals" in the establishment in Leicester Street, where juvenile performances were regularly given. His talent was observed by Sheridan, who transferred him, at the age of twelve, to the regular company of Drury Lane Theatre, where he remained until the destruction of that house by fire, steadily rising in public favor. He then visited Ireland; but, on the opening of the new Drury Lane, returned to play Laertes to the Hamlet of Elliston. He was then eighteen years old. Not long after, during the engagement of Kean, he was given the characters of Macduff, Edgar, Richmond, Iago, and others second only in importance to those of the great tragedian of that day. In 1817 he was married to the daughter of Mr. John Johnstone, a celebrated Irish actor, shortly after which he visited America for the

first time. He appeared in "Macbeth," at the Park Theatre in New York, on the 7th of September, 1818, and achieved an immediate and remarkable success. For two years he acted in this country, and in 1820 returned for a single season to Drury Lane. The popularity and prosperity he had experienced in America led him to adventure a second visit in 1822, when he again met with a brilliant New York reception. While journeying to Philadelphia, the stage coach in which he travelled was overturned, and he suffered a compound fracture of the leg, which interrupted. his professional labors for eighteen months, and the effect of which was always partially discernible throughout his life. This recess was passed in England, but his reappearance took place in New York, where he had left his wardrobe and personal effects. The New York public had shown great regret at his misfortune, and assembled in overflowing numbers to welcome him, all the more heartily because of a general conviction that his thorough recovery was impossible, and that his future career must be limited to the representation of a few exceptional parts. He came forward in the character of Captain Bertram, an old sailor on crutches, and the apprehensions of his friends thus seemed to be realized; but in the second piece, "My Aunt," he electrified the audience by bounding upon the stage with an elasticity and vigor hardly surpassed in his earlier engagements. After the close of this visit Mr. Wallack became stage manager of Drury Lane Theatre, where he remained for a considerable number of years, making only occasional appearances on this side of the Atlantic. His popularity was such, however, that in certain cities he was enabled to play four long and brilliant engagements in a single season. In 1852 he ceased to travel as a "star," and became manager of the theatre which now stands near the corner of Broome Street and Broadway, to the advancement and improvement of which he honorably devoted nine years. During this period he was the acknowledged leader of dramatic art in America, and his theatre rose to a rank which no other had ever held in this community, and which, we are disposed to believe, no other had ever merited. In 1861 he built a new theatre, at the corner of Broadway and Thirteenth Street, the success of which has been deservedly uninterrupted. The same conscientious adherence to the most refined purposes of the drama, and the same strict care, delicate taste, and sound judgment which were conspicuous in his administration of the old establishment, have been exhibited in perhaps even a greater degree in the new. His eminence as an actor was a well-established fact. His reputation was highest in dramas of a romantic and picturesque order, in which his vigor and energy produced extraordinary effects. His Shakespearian personations, although striking, and popularly successful, were not remarkable for breadth and majesty, but seemed rather to be composed of a series of delicate, carefully

studied, and elaborately wrought points, worked together with exquisite skill, like a piece of intellectual mosaic work. His Rolla, in "Pizarro," is universally pronounced to have been an unrivalled performance of its kind. The last representations in which he took part were at his theatre near Broome Street, where, in 1859, he played most of his principal parts, besides sustaining for upward of a hundred nights the leading character in "The Veteran." His last appearance in any public capacity was at the close of the season of 1862, at the new theatre, when he delivered a brief address to the audience. Since that time he has only been seen on special occasions in his box, from which it was his habit, when not prevented by illness, to overlook the representations of all “firstnights." To the last, his mind was intent upon the practical supervision of his theatre. His death will be a serious and almost irreparable loss to the dramatic interests of the community, no matter how powerfully his influence and teaching may continue to guide the destinies of his theatre.

WATSON, WILLIAM R., died at Providence, R. I., Aug. 29, 1864, aged 64 years. He was born in South Kingstown, in Rhode Island, Dec. 14, 1799. He pursued his early classical studies at the Plainfield (Ct.) Academy, and was graduated at Brown University in 1823, in the same class with Chief Justice Ames of R. I., George D. Prentice, the distinguished editor of the "Louisville Journal," and Judge Mellen, of Mass. He studied law with Samuel W. Bridgham, in Providence, and was admitted to the bar, but engaged only to a very limited extent in the practice of his profession. His life was devoted preeminently and almost exclusively to politics. For nearly forty years he was one of the most active and prominent politicians in Rhode Island, and probably no individual ever exerted a greater influence in its local politics. In June, 1827, he was chosen by the General Assembly, then controlled by the National Republicans, to the office of Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Providence, at that time the most lucrative office in the State, and in consequence a place much contended for by political parties and their rising favorites. This office he held until May, 1833, when he was displaced by a combination of opposing parties. He, however, regained the office in 1835, but held it only for a single year. In 1841, on the accession of President Harrison, he was appointed Collector of the port of Providence, which office he held till the beginning of President Polk's administration in 1845. In 1849 he was again appointed to the same office by President Tyler, and retained it four years, till he was removed by President Pierce. Through his influence while Collector of the port of Providence, a construction is now given to a provision of the tariff of 1833, relating to the compensation of certain collectors, adverse to the written opinions of John J. Crittenden and Reverdy John

son, both given while those eminent lawyers were holding the office of Attorney-General of the United States. In 1854 he was chosen Secretary of State in Rhode Island, but lost his election the following year, when the "Know Nothing" or Native American Party, of which order he was not a member, swept the State by such immense majorities. In 1856 he was chosen by the General Assembly State Auditor, and continued in that office until May, 1863.

Mr. Watson was also, during much of his life, a writer for the political press, and in several instances, usually at seasons of election, for brief periods, conducted as editor certain papers with which he was politically connected. The most elaborate of his writings were a series of papers, first published in the "Providence Daily Journal" in 1844, over the signature of "Hamilton," which were afterwards collected and printed in a pamphlet form. The doctrines then held by the Whig party, of which he was over the devoted champion in Rhode Island, were there explained and vindicated with remarkable force and vigor. Amidst the personalities of local politics he did not fail to make many enemies, but none ever questioned the integrity or the ability with which he discharged the duties of the varied public offices which he held. Mr. Watson married a daughter of Caleb Earle, of Providence.

WEST, Rev. NATHANIEL, D. D., an American Presbyterian clergyman, born in the north of Ireland, September, 1794, died in Philadelphia, Penn., Sept. 2, 1864. His father was of English and his mother of Scottish descent. Though not favored with a collegiate or university education, he was an excellent scholar, and thoroughly versed in English studies and literature. He received his theological training under the immediate instruction of Dr. Chalmers and Dr. Turner, of Edinburgh, and after receiving ordination labored for several years in that city as a missionary, and was one of the founders of the first temperance society there. In 1834 he came to the United States, and was installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Meadville, Penn., and subsequently was a pastor successively of Presbyterian churches in Monroe, Mich., North East, Pittsburg, McKeesport, and Philadelphia, Penn. In 1853 he received the degree of D. D. from Jefferson College, Penn., and was also honored by being elected a corresponding member of numerous literary and scientific societies. At the outbreak of the rebellion he resigned his pastoral charge in Philadelphia, and devoted himself to the service of his adopted country. In May, 1862, he was appointed by the President chaplain of the Satterlee United States General Hospital at West Philadelphia, one of the largest military hospitals in the United States, and the thorough manner in which he performed his arduous and exhausting duties at this hospital it is believed hastened his death. Dr. West's published works were: "The Ark of God the

Safeguard of the Nation," 1850; "Popery, the Prop of European Despotisms," 1852; "Babyon the Great," 1852; "Right and Left Hand Blessings of God; or a Cure for Covetousness," 1852; "Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible," royal 8vo, 958 pp., 1853, and four subsequent editions; "The Overturning of Tyrannical Governments," preached before and published at the request of Louis Kossuth when in this country, and by his order and at his cost translated into Magyar; "The Causes of the Ruin of Republican Liberty," 1862.

WINSLOW, HUBBARD, D. D., an American author and educator, born in Williston, Vt., Oct. 30, 1799, died at Williston, August 13, 1864. He prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and graduated at Yale College in the class of 1825, standing among the first three of his class in both institutions. He studied theology at New Haven, under Dr. Taylor, and preached a short time at Litchfield, Conn. Receiving various calls, he was settled at Dover, N. H., Dec. 4, 1828. Married May 21, 1829, the daughter of Hon. Pliny Cutter, Boston, Mass. During his settlement at Dover, where his ministry was very prosperous, he published his first volume, entitled, "Doctrine of the Trinity," which gained him extensive reputation, exciting interest abroad, and provoking a letter from Dr. Chalmers of Edinburgh, who pronounced it the ablest treatise in his judgment on that topic. In 1832 Mr. Winslow succeeded Lyman Beecher as pastor of the Bowdoin Street Church, Boston, where he remained twelve years. During this period he visited Europe and spent some time perfecting himself in the languages, and cultivating the acquaintance of leading men in England and on the continent. He delivered numerous addresses on scientific, literary, and religious topics, in various parts of the country. Among his published efforts were an oration before the city authorities of Boston, July 4, 1838; before the "Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company," 1853; address before the Boston Society of Natural History, 1839. He interested himself largely for the welfare of young men, delivering lectures on practical topics, and publishing the "Young Man's Aid," which was republished in several languages, and received a sale of over one hundred thousand copies in England alone. A very successful pastorate was a result of his labors. Over one thousand additions were made to his communion, and the records of the Massachusetts Association show that no Congregational church in that State has ever exceeded the prosperity of Bowdoin Street Church under Mr. Winslow. As a controversialist in theology and philosophy he ranked high. His defence of Dr. Taylor against Bennett Tyler, his "Philosophical Tracts," "Controversial Theology," etc., placed him among the foremost of the New England thinkers. His published addresses on the various duties of citizens, pertaining to Church and State, appeared during his pastorate, attracting

attention abroad. During this period he published, among other works, the following: "Christian Doctrines;" "Design and Mode of Baptism;""Natural Science and Revelation;" "Appropriate Sphere of Woman;" "Aids to Self-Examination;" "Christianity Applied to our Social and Civil Duties;" "Educational Addresses," etc.

In 1844 Dr. Winslow's health failing, he resigned pulpit labors, and for nine years conducted the Mount Vernon Institute for young ladies, Boston, succeeding Jacob Abbott and E. A. Andrews, LL.D. During this period he delivered numerous addresses on educational topics, contributed to the Educational Journal under Horace Mann, edited the Religious Magazine, and furnished articles to various reviews. For many years he was a prominent member of the Boston School Committee, was associated with the Board of Examiners of Harvard University, and acted as trustee in various colleges and seminaries. The "Intellectual Philosophy" appeared in 1851, and received the encomiums of thinkers, and favor from the public. In 1853 he again visited Europe, spending ten months in examining the various institutions of learning. Returning, he delivered various lectures on Europe and the matters of State and religion. The "Moral Philosophy" (published by Appleton) appeared in 1856, and soon became a standard text-book in our colleges and high schools. Fourteen editions of his philosophies have already appeared. In 1857 he assumed the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church, Geneva, N. Y. During two years, nearly two hundred additions were made to his parish. He wrote the "History of the Geneva Presbyterian Church." His health failing, he removed, in 1859, to New York, where he resided at the time of his death. He became a constant contributor to the leading journals, and wrote a number of the prominent articles in our reviews on philosophical subjects. "The Hidden Life," appeared in 1862, and was at once classed among devotional volumes of a high order.

The mind of Dr. Winslow was vigorous and comprehensive, discriminating and evenly balanced, very active and penetrative. His attainments were quite universal in their character, but he excelled in the domain of philosophy and theology. His pulpit gifts were of the persuasive and didactic as well as the argumentative order; and a deep, earnest spirituality, pervaded all his utterances. He led a life of singular purity and simplicity of character; and be possessed pleasing gifts of a social nature.

WINSLOW MIRON, D.D., LL.D. An American Missionary and Oriental scholar. Was born at Villiston, Vt., Dec. 11, 1789, and died at Cape of Good Hope, October 22, 1864, while returning home from India. He graduated with the valedictory at Middlebury College (Vt.) in 1815, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1818. In 1819 he sailed as a missionary of the A. B. C. F. M., to Ceylon, where he established a mission at Oodooville, founded a Seminary,

and after seventeen years of toil removed to Madras, where he established the chief mission of the Madras Presidency, containing a population of 30,000,000. Dr. Winslow acted as General Secretary of that and other missions, and financial agent of the American Board. He also supervised and superintended the printing and editing of various educational and religious works in the Tarnil tongue. Among his chief labors was the translation of the Bible into Tarnil. He also wrote the " History of Missions," "Memoir of Mrs. Harriet L. Winslow," "Hints on Missions," and carried on a large correspondence with European and American journals. The "Missionary Herald" and other religious periodicals contain a continuous correspondence from him of over forty years. Dr. Winslow interested himself largely in educating the natives of his mission. To this end he founded the Madras College and was President of it. It has a course of study similar to the first-class English and American colleges, and numbers between three hundred and four hundred students. But the chief work of Dr. Winslow was his great Tarnil-English Lexicon, which he recently completed, and is published in the finest style of typography at Madras. This work has received the encomiums of native, English, and American scholars, and ranks second to no other philological achievement of the age. Not merely for the profound scholarship and extensive learning displayed in its pages, but for the vast influence it exerts in civilizing and christianizing India, has it called forth the thanks of the religious world. In the preparation and completion of this work, Dr. Winslow spent upwards of twenty years of continuous toil. It is a quarto of one thousand pages, three columns to a page, and contains sixty-eight thousand words and definitions. Of these, nearly half owe their lexicographic birth and position to the author. Not merely are definitions given, but shades of meaning and expressions unknown to our language. The dictionary contains the mythological, scientific, and poetic terms of the Tarnil; names of heroes, gods, authors, poets, &c.; geographical and historical information. The work is a complete and comprehensive dictionary, admitting the learner into a careful and discriminating knowledge of the Tarnil Dr. Winslow adopted an entirely original method and arrangement in regard to the verb, the most difficult part of speech in all lexicography. He gives the root of the verb, as of other parts of speech, for the leading word. He says that this is the imperative singular, and that all the parts of the verb flow naturally from that. He informs us that "this arrangement, though the most simple as well as most philosophical, has not been adopted in any dictionary." This work is most truly a thesaurus of oriental learning. Dr. Winslow devoted more study to the Eastern languages than any other American. The Reformed Dutch Church Mission, in their resolutions of thanks, said: "We regard this work as a noble contribution to oriental litera

ture, a boon to all students and laborers in the Tarnil field, and a crown of honor to its author." Dr. Winslow received the degree of D.D. from Harvard College in 1858, and that of LL.D. from Middlebury College in 1864. He was brother of Rev. Dr. Hubbard Winslow, the author, and of Rev. Dr. Gordon Winslow of the Episcopal Church.

WISCONSIN. This agricultural State engaged in the war with ardor, and has vigorously responded to all the calls for troops which have been made since its commencement. Wisconsin has sent to the field twenty-four regiments of infantry, four regiments and one company of cavalry, one regiment of heavy artillery, thirteen batteries of light artillery, and one company of sharpshooters, making an aggregate of seventy-five thousand one hundred and thirty-three men. Of this number thirtytwo thousand nine hundred and seventy have been lost to the service by deaths, discharges, and desertions, leaving in the service, at the close of 1864, forty-two thousand one hundred and sixty-three men. To this number should be added three regiments of one hundred days' men, furnished during the year. Two drafts for men were made in the State. In 1863 the enrolment was 121,202 and the number drafted was 14,935. Of this number 880 were held to service in person or by substitute; 2,689 failed to report; 6,285 were exempts, and 5,081 paid commutation, amounting to $1,524,300. In November, 1864, under the corrected enrolment, the number subject to draft was 96,068. Of these there were drafted 17,534, of whom 3,439 were held to service in person or by substitute; 6,724 were discharged after draft, and 7,367 failed to report. Great contributions were made by the women in almost every town and village of the State to the welfare of the soldiers, and generally through aid societies.

The amount of the State debt is two million five hundred thousand dollars. With the exception of one hundred thousand dollars, this debt was created for war purposes, and is a legitimate charge against the Federal Government. The balance in the Treasury at the close of 1864 was $107,620. The disbursements during the year from the War Fund for the families of volunteers, were $615,693. The taxable property in the State was estimated in 1863 at $153,000,000, exclusive of $30,000,000 railroad property. The State tax is about five and one-half mills on each dollar of the taxable property. Of the total revenue-$802,196 paid into the Treasury during the year, the tax on banks produced $52,016, and the tax on railroads, $128,003. During the year there was paid $42,500.00 for the Hospital for the Insane; $41,371.55 for the State Prison; $16,175.00 for the Deaf and Dumb Institute; $19,250.00 for the Institute for the Blind; $12,004.50 for the State Reform School. The whole amount of the productive school fund is $2,052,353; and of the income, $151,010 were appropriated to public schools. The amount of the productive

fund of the State University is $157,170. The National Bank Law produced serious results upon the banks of the State. Their circulation at the end of the year was about $2,500,000. This was secured by deposits with the Comptroller of stock amounting to $2,700,000. About one-half of these securities consisted of Wisconsin war bonds. The circulation of eighteen or twenty banks was secured entirely by these bonds. It was necessary to throw these on the market to substitute the national bonds for them.

At the election for President the total vote of the State was 149,342: of which Mr. Lincoln received 83,458; Gen. McClellan 65,884. Majority for Mr. Lincoln 17,574. The Legislature was divided as follows:

The record of his baptism in the Catholic Church Joseph Crele was born in Detroit, of French parents. of that city shows that he is now one hundred and thirty-nine years of age. He has been a resident of Wisconsin for about a century. He was first married Some years after he settled at Prairie du Chien, while in New Orleans one hundred and nine years ago. Wisconsin was yet a province of France. Before the revolutionary war, he was employed to carry letters between Prairie du Chien and Green Bay. It is but a few years ago that he was called as a witness in the Circuit Court, in a case involving the title to certain real estate at Prairie du Chien, to give testimony in relation to events that transpired eighty years before. He now resides with a daughter, by his third wife, who is over seventy years of age.

The residence of the family is only four or five place we learn that the old man is still active, is able miles out of Portage City. From citizens of that to chop wood, and to walk several miles. He speaks English quite imperfectly, but converses fluently in the French language. He goes to elections, and, like Stoops a little under the burden of years, but not more a sensible old gentleman, votes the Union ticket. than many men of seventy. In person he is rather above the medium height, spare in flesh, but showing evidences of having been in his prime a man of sinewy strength. Concerning his habits, a subject of much interest in connection with an instance of learn but a little, except that he is an inveterate such extraordinary longevity, we have been able to

smoker.

A very good daguerreotype picture of him, taken in 1856, may be seen at the rooms of the State Historical Society.

Three score years and ten ordinarily constitute the full span of a vigorous human life. This man's existence has been prolonged for almost twice that period. Those who began the journey of life with him are dead and their very bones are dust. Babes that he might have dandled on his knee at an age when most men are bowed with decrepitude, have grown into manhood, passed through the ordinary vicissi