£5,076; Hon. Philip C. Crampton, Rt. Hon. Louis Perrin, Rt. Hon. Richard Moore, Judges, £3,692 each.

Court of Common Pleas. Rt. Hon. James Henry Menahan, Lord Chief Justice, £4,615; Hon Robert Torrens, Rt. Hon. Nicholas Ball, and Hon. J. D. Jackson, Judges, £3,692 each. Attorney-General, John Hatchell, Esq.; Solicitor-General, Henry George Hughes, Esq.

Court of Exchequer. - Rt. Hon. David R. Pigott, Lord Chief Baron; Hon. Richard Pennefather, Rt. Hon. John Richards, Rt. Hon. Thomas Lefroy, Barons.

DENMARK. Ministry, July, 1851.

Pre't. of Council, Count de Moltke Bregent ved Justice,

M. de Tillisch.

Marine,

M. de Scheel.
Captain Van Dockum.
Professor Madvig.
Colonel Fibiger.

Interior,
Foreign Affairs, M. de Roedtz de Paalsgard. Public Instruction,
Finances,

Count de Sponneck.

War,

FRANCE. The French Ministry resigned in October. At

the time of going to press

with this sheet, Nov. 5, no information has reached the United States of the formation of a new Ministry.

Interior,

Just., & Eccl. Aff., M. R. Fonseca, ad inter. Foreign Affairs,

Foreign Affairs, and

M. M. M. Franzini.
M. M. F. Fontes Pereira
de Mello.

PRUSSIA. Ministry, August, 1851.

President of Council, Baron Manteuffel. Trade & Public Works, M. Von der Heydt.

Justice,

M. A. A. J. Atouguia.

M. Simons.

Interior,
Finance,

M. Westphalen.
M. Bodelsonwingh.

AMERICAN OBITUARY.

1850.

Oct. 28. In Kemper County, Miss., Hon. George B. Augustus, aged 48. He was born near St. Stephens, Ala., Nov. 12, 1802; was bred a lawyer, was elected to the Legislature of Mississippi in 1831, a Judge of Probate in Noxuba County in 1833, subsequently reelected to the House, and afterwards to the State Senate, of which latter body he was President. After the expiration of his term he retired to private life and refused to accept office. His general deportment was characterized by uniform gentleness and amiability. As a friend and neighbor he was kind and obliging, and never closed his hand to the calls of charity.

Dec. 23.-In Chester, N. H., Hon. Samuel Bell, aged 81; a graduate of Dartmouth; a judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire from 1816 to 1819; Governor of the State from 1819 to 1823, and senator in Congress from 1823 to 1835.

Nov. 27. — In San Francisco, Cal., Hardin Bigelow, Esq., Mayor of Sacramento City. He had distinguished himself greatly by his vigor and bravery in quelling the squatter riots in Sacramento, and in enforcing the laws. He died of cholera, his strength having been much reduced by the wounds he received during the riot, and by the amputation of the arm caused by the wounds. The greatest respect was paid to his memory by the citizens of Sacramento City.

Oct. 5.-In Philadelphia, Hon. Chester Butler, member of Congress from the 11th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, aged 52. He was born in Wilkesbarre, Luzerne County, Pa., in March, 1798, and was the grandson of the Col. Butler who commanded the American troops at the massacre of Wyoming. He graduated at Princeton College in 1817, read law in the Litchfield School, and subsequently under Judge Mallory, and was admitted to practice in 1820. In 1848 Mr. Butler was elected to Congress, and while there his course was marked by great prudence and ability.

July 28. Near Burlington, Iowa, Hon. James Clarke, aged £3. He was a native of Westmoreland County, Pa., and came to the West in 1836. After spending some months in St. Louis, he went, in the fall of that year, to Beloit, in Wisconsin, where he was elected Territorial Printer. In the year 1837 he went to Burlington and started the "Territorial," now "S State Gazette," which he continued to conduct until the winter of 1839-40, when he was appointed Secretary of the Territory, which office he held until the coming in of Gen. Harrison's administration. In 1843 he again took charge of the Gazette, and continued to conduct it until the fall of 1845, when he was appointed Governor of the Territory by President Polk, which office he held until the commencement of the State Government, December, 1846. In the fall of 1848 he again returned to the Gazette, and was its editor at the time of his death.

Nov. 24. In Charlestown, Va., Hon. Isaac R. Douglass, Judge of the 13th. Judicial Circuit of Virginia, aged 61. He was attacked with apoplexy on the 19th of that month, on his return home from holding the fall term of his Court for Frederic County. He was a learned judge and was highly esteemed as a citizen.

Nov. 30. In Philadelphia, Pa., Dr. Sereno E. Dwight. He was a powerful and efficient minister of the Gospel, and always popular as a preacher. He was also well known as a writer, particularly as the author of the life of his relative, Jonathan Edwards. To procure materials for this biography he visited Europe, having received from his father, then President of Yale College, a dying injunction to spare no pains in making a complete memoir of President Edwards.

Oct. 18.-In Greenville, S. C., Judge Robert Gantt, aged 85. He was appointed to the Bench of the General Sessions and Common Pleas of South Carolina in 1815. He discharged the duties of this office with assiduity and success until 1842, when he resigned. His entire amiability and perfect integrity gained him the love and respect of his associates and acquaintances.

Aug. 7. In Sacramento, Cal., Col. William S. Hamilton. He was the youngest son of Alexander Hamilton. At the time of his father's untimely death by the fatal weapon of Burr, he was four years of age. He was educated at West Point, where he graduated at the age of twenty-one. Immediately after this he

removed to Illinois, where he acted for some time as surveyor of the public lands. He filled a number of public offices in that State, until at length he removed to Wisconsin to engage in mining, which business he successfully prosecuted, until, like thousands of others, he was attracted to the golden regions of California, and for about a year he had been successfully engaged in mining and trading. With a highly cultivated mind, he possessed a good understanding, a brave spirit, and great buoyancy of feelings. His nature was frank, generous, and manly. His ready wit, well-stored memory, and uniform good humor, made him a choice and agreeable companion.

Oct. 25.-In New Orleans, La., Hon. John H Harmanson, aged 47. Mr. Harmanson was born in Norfolk, Va., in January, 1803, and was eleven years of age when his father removed to Louisiana. He was educated, in part, at Jefferson College, Washington, Miss. Before he had completed his studies, his father died, and he was left to depend upon himself for support. He once thought of devoting himself to one of the mechanic arts, and pursued it for some time, but gave it up. He afterwards studied law in the office of the Hon. Solomon U. Downs, now Senator from Louisiana, but before he was admitted to the bar, he abandoned the study and engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Mr. Harmanson commenced public life as a member of the State Senate in 1844. In November, 1815, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the United States, and was reelected in 1847 and 1849. Though a new member he took a conspicuous part during the 29th Congress in the debates on the great questions of that day, the Treasury System and the Tariff of 1846. In 1847 he originated and brought forward, in the House of Representatives, a project to secure a grant from the United States to the State of Louisiana, of all the overflowed lands in that State, with a view to their redemption from that condition, and to placing the property and health of the people beyond the reach of those destructive inundations with which they had been so frequently visited. Nov. 13. In Frankfort, Ky., Col. Richard M. Johnson, aged about 70. In 1807 he was chosen a member of the House of Representatives from Kentucky, which post he held for twelve consecutive years. In 1813 he was authorized to raise a volunteer regiment of cavalry of one thousand men, to fight the British and Indians in the Northwest. In the campaign which followed he served gallantly under Gen. Harrison as Colonel of that regiment. At the battle of the Thames he distinguished himself by breaking the line of the British infantry, Gen. Proctor having formed it with considerable intervals between the different divisions. The fame of killing Tecumseh in this battle has also been attributed to Col. Johnson, but there are other claimants for this honor. In 1819 he was transferred from the House of Representatives to the Senate, to serve out an unexpired term. When that expired he was rechosen, and remained in the Senate till 1829. He then was reelected to the House, where he remained till 1837, when he became Vice-President under the Van Buren administration, and from 1837 to 1841 presided over the Senate. While a member of the Senate, as Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices, &c., he made a report against the suspension of the Sunday mails, with which his name has since been connected. Since then he had not held any office, though his name was not unfrequently mentioned among the many candidates for the Presidency. At the time of his last sickness he was in the discharge of his duties as a member of the State Legislature. His illness was brief, having been seized with a second attack of paralysis, under which he suffered but a few days, when, at a ripe age, he was relieved by death.

Dec. 23. In Panama, N. G., Lieut.-Commanding, William P. McArthur, U. S. N., assistant in the Coast Survey, and commander of the Surveying Schooner, Ewing,

Oct 26. In New Orleans, La., John Mc Donogh, aged 72. He was a native of Baltimore, Md., but removed to New Orleans in 1800, where, by hard labor, by untiring industry, and the narrowest economy, he had amassed immense wealth, the bulk of which, by his will, was given in equal portions to the cities of New Orleans and Baltimore for the purpose of establishing free schools for all classes and an asylum for the poor A large sum was given to the American Colonization Society, to which, in life, he was a warm friend. He established a colony in Africa, to which he sent many of his negroes, after giving them an

education and a trade.

Sept. 10.- In York, Pa., Hon. Henry Nes, representative in Congress from the 15th Congressional District in Pennsylvania, aged 51. Mr. Nes was a

native of York, and was bred to the medical profession, which he began to practise at an early age. His urbanity of manner, kindness of disposition, and knowledge of his profession soon introduced him into a large and lucrative practice, which was occasionally and partially interrupted by the calls which were made on him to fill places of trust and responsibility in his native town. His first entrance into public life was in 1843, when he was elected to Congress. He was not in the next Congress, but was elected again in 1846, and reelected in 1848. As an evidence of his popularity, though a whig, he was chosen from a district which usually gives six hundred democratic majority. His voice was seldom heard in the hall of the House, but he was assiduous in his application to the duties that were devolved upon him by the several committees of which he was a member. Owing to his retiring character, his acquaintances were perhaps not many. But he had warm and ardent friends among those who most intimately knew him.

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Dec. 31.-In Tuscaloosa, Ala., Major Hardin Perkins, aged about 59. He was a native of Tennessee, but in early manhood removed to Alabama. He was a member of the Convention which formed the State Constitution, often a member of the Legislature, for some time State Treasurer, and for several years President of the State Bank At the time of his death he was one of the Representatives from Tuscaloosa County. He was one of the oldest and most respectable citizens of that place, and largely identified with the history of Alabama. Dec. 23. -In Epping, N. H., Hon William Plumer, aged 92, for four years Governor of New Hampshire, and senator in Congress from 1802 to 1807. Oct. 18. In Medfield, Mass, Rev. Daniel Clark Sanders, aged 82. He was born at Sturbridge in 1768; graduated at Cambridge in 1788; was ordained as a minister at Vergennes, Vt., in 1794; was elected President of the University of Vermont in 1801; resigned that office in 1813, the College being occupied by the army of General Wade Hampton; was installed in the ministry at Medfield in 1818, and dismissed in 1829. In 1812 he published a work, entitled "History of the Indians." For fifty years he kept a meteorological journal, which was continued to the day of his death. In 1820 he was a member of the convention which revised the Constitution of Massachusetts, and he filled various municipal offices in his native town.

Oct 3.- In Chesterville, Me., Rev. Jotham Sewall, aged 90. He was born at York, Me., Jan. 1, 1760, and after pursuing the business of a mechanic during the early part of his life, engaged in the study of divinity, and was licensed to preach by the association within whose limits he resided. He was employed by the Massachusetts Missionary Society previous to the separation of Maine, and subsequently continued in the employ of the Maine Missionary Society, for the most part, until the close of his long and useful life.

Sept. 7. In West Point, N. Y., Brevet-Major William H. Shover, Captain in the third Regiment of Artillery, and Instructor of Artillery and Cavalry at the Military Academy. Major Shover was a victim to disease contracted while on arduous service in the Mexican War, in which he served with distinction as a subaltern of Ringgold's (afterwards Bragg's) battery throughout the campaign, under General Taylor, and, after his promotion, in the Valley of Mexico.

Nov. 8. In Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Va., Hon. Daniel Smith, aged 72, one of the senior Judges of the General Court of Virginia, and, as such, a member of the Special Court of Appeals of that Commonwealth.

For thirty years Judge Smith presided in the Circuit Courts of the district composed in part of the counties of Rockingham, Shenandoah, Warren, and Page, so well known to politicians for their devotion to the men and measures of the Democratic party; and, although the Judge was known to be a decided and unwavering Whig, he commanded the respect, and confidence, and affection of every inan, of every shade of political opinion in his circuit. He was a man of rare intellectual endowments, and seemed fitted by nature for the office which he held. He was patient and laborious in investigation, calm and dispassionate in his temper, and kind and charitable in all his feelings. His perceptions were clear and rapid, and his reasoning was distinguished for its condensation and power.

Nov. Near Newbern, N. C., Hon. Richard Dobbs Spaight. He was for many years a representative in the State Legislature; was a member of Congress from the Newbern District in the year 1823, and of the Convention which was called to amend the Constitution in 1835, and was the last Governor of the State elected by the General Assembly under the old constitution.

Nov. 11. In Natchez, Miss., John R. Stockman, Esq., Mayor of the City. Mr. Stockman was a native of Pennsylvania, but had resided in Natchez for the jast sixteen years. He was elected Mayor in 1843, and retained the office by the popular vote to the time of his death.

Sept. 1. In Kentucky, at the Estill Springs, after a lingering illness, William Taylor, Esq.. late of Point Coupee, Louisiana. He was born in Virginia, but soon removed to Kentucky, with his father, Edmund Taylor, one of the early pioneers of the West. Left an orphan at a tender age, he was mainly thrown upon his own resources for advancement and success. He took up his residence in Louisiana soon after the cession, where he received the appointment of Marshal. He was afterwards Consul at St. Domingo, and subsequently at Vera Cruz and Alvarado, which last appointment he resigned some twenty years since, and settled again in Louisiana, where he resided until a short time before his death. He carried into the public trusts with which successive Presidents honored him, the same high qualities which distinguished him in private life; stern integrity, a high sense of honor, and a true devotion to the best interests of his country. He was a relation of the late Zachary Taylor, whose confidence and esteem he enjoyed.

Nov. 22. - In Burlington, N. J., Hon. Garret D Wall, aged 67. He was born in Monmouth County, whence, about the year 1800, he removed to the city of Trenton, and commenced the study of the law with Colonel Jonathan Rhea, then Clerk of the Supreme Court, which office he was himself appointed to in 1812, and held for five years. He commanded a volunteer company from Trenton, at the defence of Sandy Hook, in the last war, and was Quartermaster-General of the State from 1815 to 1837. In 1827 he was elected to the Assembly. In 1829 he was appointed United States District Attorney for New Jersey, and during the same year, was elected Governor of the State by the Legislature, but declined the appointment, and in 1835 was chosen to represent the State in the United States Senate, to succeed Mr Frelinghuysen, and held the office till 1841, when he was succeeded by the Hon. J. W. Miller. Gen. Wall died from dropsy on the chest, though his constitution was greatly impaired by a stroke of paralysis in the year 1843. At the time of his death he was a Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals, to which he was appointed by Governor Haines in 1848.

Nov. 19. In Fort Wayne, Ind., Hon. Amos E. Wood, member of Congress from the 6th Congressional District of Ohio, aged about 50. He was born in Jefferson County, New York. In 1825, when he was near fifteen years of age, he removed with his father to Portage County, in Ohio. He was afterwards, for nearly two years, a member of the family of his near relative, Hon. Reuben Wood, the present Governor of that State. In 1833 he settled permanently in Woodville, in Sandusky County, and was a citizen of that place at the time of his death. He twice represented the district of which his county was a part, in the House of Representatives of the State, and once for a term of two years in the State Senate. In 1849 he was elected to Congress.

Dec. 28. In Geneva, N. Y., Hon. Bowen Whiting, aged 63. He had been a resident of the State for more than thirty years and had filled many stations of responsibility and honor. He had been District Attorney, and for many years was first Judge of the county. In 1844 he was appointed Circuit Judge and ViceChancellor for the 7th Circuit, and held the office until the adoption of the new Constitution. He was highly esteemed for his many virtues as a citizen, and much beloved for his unaffected goodness of heart.

Oct. 29. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., Hon. Marmaduke Williams, aged 78. Judge Williams was born on the 6th of April, 1772, in Caswell County, North Carolina. He was elected to Congress from the Caswell District in 1803, to succeed his brother, Robert Williams, who was appointed by Mr. Jefferson Governor of the Mississippi Territory; and continued in Congress until the 3d of March, 1809. In 1810 he removed with his family to Madison County in Alabama, which then formed a part of the Mississippi Territory, and from thence to Tuscaloosa in 1818, where he continued to reside until his death. Judge Williams was a delegate from Tuscaloosa County to the Convention that formed the State Constitution, and at the first election thereafter was a candidate for Governor in opposition to the Territorial Governor, the late William W. Bibb, and proved himself, though unsuccessful, a most formidable opponent. He was repeatedly elected to represent Tuscaloosa in the Legislature. He was a lawyer by profession, and in 1826 was appointed by Gov. Murphy a commissioner to adjust the unsettled