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ters was recently married in Paris. Several years ago, after his arrival at Paris, Mr. Mason had a paralytic stroke, which now appears to have been the premonition of the final attack. His remains were brought to Richmond for interment.

AT Boston, Oct. 25, BENJAMIN A. GOULD, of that city. Mr. Gould was the son of a soldier of the Revolutionary army, who removed from Newburyport to Lancaster about the beginning of this century. He graduated at Harvard College in 1814, in the class with President Walker, Rev. Dr. Lamson, Samuel D. Bradford, Judge Merrick, and others among the living, and Rev. Dr. F. W. P. Greenwood, Judge Paine, and William II. Prescott, among the dead. The grave has just closed over the remains of Jonathan Porter, of Medford, and Thomas W. Phillips, of Boston, two classmates of Mr. Gould. For many years the deceased was the Principal of the Public Latin School of this city, and his numerous pupils, scattered over the world, have ever cherished the warmest affection for their former teacher. During the last quarter of a century, Mr. Gould has been a successful merchant in the India trade, and has ever sustained the highest reputation for intelligence and integrity. In his character were combined those sterling qualities which make the liberal friend, the good citizen, and the truly Christian man. He was an active member of the religious society of which the Rev. Dr. Dewey is the present pastor, and was ever ready with his influence and means to sustain the useful and benevolent institutions of our city. The deceased was father of Dr. Gould, formerly of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, and brother of Miss Hannah F. Gould, of Newburyport, one of the most gifted female poets of our country. He took deep interest in educational matters, having taught a school in Newburyport before he entered college. He was a trustee of Dummer Academy, and one of the most active and efficient friends of that ancient institution. Mr. Gould was born in 1786, and has been a citizen of Boston about forty years. Few men have enjoyed a larger share of public respect and confidence during that period.-Boston Transcript, Oct. 26.

AT Memphis, Tenn., October 29th, the HoN. JAMES C. JONES. He was a native of Wilson County. He became a Whig politician, carrying his State twice for Governor, in 1841 and 1843. In 1851 he was elected to the United States Senate.

JUDGE DANIEL CADY died yesterday Monday, October 31), at his residence in Johnstown, Ful

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ton County, N.Y. He was verging upon the eighty-eighth year of his age, and was one of the oldest, if not the oldest lawyer in the State. He was admitted to the bar when Washington was President, George Clinton Governor, and Robert Yates Chief Justice of our Supreme Court, and Robert R. Livingston Chancellor. He is, we believe, the last lingering relic of the old school of New York lawyers, of which Livingston, Jay, Hamilton and Kent were the founders, and of which Ambrose Spencer, Smith Thompson, Van Vechten, Williams, Henry, Van Ness, Talcott, Ogden, Duer, Oakley, and Cady were eminent among the earlier disciples, and Welles, John C. Spencer, Cowen, Joshua A. Spencer, Butler, Hoffman, Stevens and Hill (we are speaking only of the dead) were distinguished among the latter. Mr. Cady was admitted to the bar in 1795. For the following fifty-two years, previous to his going upon the bench, he was among the most laborious of lawyers in the country. The principal fields of his toil were the counties now embraced in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh judicial districts. For the thirty years previous to his taking his seat in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, he stood in the front rank of the bar of the State.

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At the age of three score and fifteen years he was elected to the Supreme Bench, where for eight years he did his full proportional share of the labor of the court. As a proof of his proverbial promptness and assiduity in business, we may cite the answer of one of his judicial associates when asked how much Mr. Cady had been absent from duty during the eight years he sat as judge. "I should think about eight minutes in all," was the ready reply. Advancing age induced him to resign his office in 1855. Since then, until he became blind, he has been engaged more or less in the practice of his profession, giving written opinions in cases submitted to him, sitting as referee, etc., but declining to act as counsel in court. His last appearance in a public capacity was in December, 1856, when presiding in the Capitol in this city over the College of Presidential Electors. While in the full enjoyment of his mental faculties, and of a degree of health remarkable in one so old, Mr. Cady, in the month of April last, was, without a He remoment's warning, struck totally blind. ceived this shock as a signal that the machine about to stop forever. To gratify his friends, which had run so long and so vigorously was he consented to visit New York city, and consult eminent oculists. Ere they had pronounced their final opinions, he expressed his own in the remark, characteristically terse and pointed, 66 Gentlemen, I don't believe you have got any

the monument. Those gentlemen, however, did not deem it expedient to manifest even as much sympathy on the occasion as did "some friendly hands, such as W. D.'s," etc. The president of the Cincinnati, in reply to the invitation, wrote to the Committee of Republican Artillerists as follows:

"PHILADELPHIA, September 15, 1817. “GENTLEMEN: I do myself the honor to send you the annexed resolutions, in compliance with the directions of the Standing Committee of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, in reply to the communication which you were pleased to address to me under date of the 1st instant, and am, with great respect,

Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

D. L., President of the Pennsylvania Society of Cincinnati.

"W. D. and J. N., Esqs., Committee of the Republican

Artillerists of Chester County. "At a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Pennsylvania Society of Cincinnati, September 12, 1817, a letter addressed by Messrs. W. D. and J. N. (a committee appointed by the Republican Artillerists of Chester for the purpose) to the President of the Society, requesting the attendance of the members on the 20th instant, at the erection of a monument to the memory of the Americans who were 'massacred' in the surprise of the troops under General Wayne, at the Paoli, on the 20th September, 1777, being read, "Resolved unanimously, That as the members of the Society have heretofore expressed their esteem and respect for the military talent and services of the late Major General Wayne, by erecting a monument to his memory, it would be inconsistent with that respect and esteem to assist at a ceremony which recognizes a military disaster, unavoidable, perhaps, either in its cause or its consequences; and much as they regret the fate of their comrades who fell on that occasion, and anxiously disposed as they are to do honor to their memory, the members of the Society are constrained, by the reasons here adduced, and because it is universally admitted that surprise in war is not only justifiable but applauded by all belligerents, respectfully decline the invitation of their fellow-citizens on the present occasion.

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and its predecessors have been sufficiently handled for all useful purposes, the writer trusts he will not feel called upon to trouble the editor with more last words. W. D.

WEST CHESTER, PENN., Dec. 20, 1859.

LYNCH LAW (vol. iii. p. 372).-The query of H. N., in the last number of the Historical Magazine, may in part be answered by the following extract from page 212 of the "Historical lished at Charleston, S. C., 1856: Collections of Virginia," by Henry Howe, pubS.

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"Lynch Law.-Col. Charles Lynch, a brother of the founder of Lynchburg, Va., was an officer of the American Revolution. His residence was on the Staunton, in the southwest part of this (Campbell) county, now the seat of his grandson, Charles Henry Lynch, Esq. At that time this country was very thinly settled, and infested by a lawless band of Tories and desperadoes. The necessity of the case involved desperate measures, and Col. Lynch, then a leading Whig, apprehended and had them punished without any superfluous legal ceremony. Hence the origin of the term Lynch Law.' This practice of Lynching continued years after the war, and was applied to many cases of mere suspicion of guilt, which could not be regularly proven. 'In 1792,' says 'Wirt's Life of Henry,' were many suits on the south side of James River for inflicting Lynch's law.' At the battle of Guilford Court House, a regiment of riflemen, raised in this part of the State, under the command of Col. Lynch, behaved with much gallantry. The colonel died soon after the close of the war. Charles Lynch, a governor of Louisiana, was his son."

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Ar Paris, Oct. 3d, of apoplexy, JOHN Y. MASON, American minister to France. He was born in Virginia about 1795, graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1816, from which institution he received the degree of LL.D.; adopted the profession of law, and was a Judge of the District Court of Virginia; he was a representative in Congress from Virginia from 1831 to 1837; a member of President Tyler's Cabinet, as Secretary of the Navy; a member of President Polk's Cabinet, first as Attorney General, and secondly as Secretary of the Navy; and was appointed by President Pierce Minister to France, in which position he was continued by President Buchanan till his death. He leaves a wife and several children, and one of his daugh

ters was recently married in Paris. Several years ago, after his arrival at Paris, Mr. Mason had a paralytic stroke, which now appears to have been the premonition of the final attack. His remains were brought to Richmond for interment.

AT Boston, Oct. 25, BENJAMIN A. GOULD, of that city. Mr. Gould was the son of a soldier of the Revolutionary army, who removed from Newburyport to Lancaster about the beginning of this century. He graduated at Harvard College in 1814, in the class with President Walker, Rev. Dr. Lamson, Samuel D. Bradford, Judge Merrick, and others among the living, and Rev. Dr. F. W. P. Greenwood, Judge Paine, and William H. Prescott, among the dead. The grave has just closed over the remains of Jonathan Porter, of Medford, and Thomas W. Phillips, of Boston, two classmates of Mr. Gould. For many years the deceased was the Principal of the Public Latin School of this city, and his numerous pupils, scattered over the world, have ever cherished the warmest affection for their former teacher. During the last quarter of a century, Mr. Gould has been a successful merchant in the India trade, and has ever sustained the highest reputation for intelligence and integrity. In his character were combined those sterling qualities which make the liberal friend, the good citizen, and the truly Christian man. He was an active member of the religious society of which the Rev. Dr. Dewey is the present pastor, and was ever ready with his influence and means to sustain the useful and benevolent institutions of our city. The deceased was father of Dr. Gould, formerly of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, and brother of Miss Hannah F. Gould, of Newburyport, one of the most gifted female poets of our country. He took deep interest in educational matters, having taught a school in Newburyport before he entered college. He was a trustee of Dummer Academy, and one of the most active and efficient friends of that ancient institution. Mr. Gould was born in 1786, and has been a citizen of Boston about forty years. Few men have enjoyed a larger share of public respect and confidence during that period.-Boston Transcript, Oct. 26.

AT Memphis, Tenn., October 29th, the HoN JAMES C. JONES. He was a native of Wilson County. He became a Whig politician, carrying his State twice for Governor, in 1841 and 1843. In 1851 he was elected to the United States

Senate.

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ton County, N.Y. He was verging upon the eighty-eighth year of his age, and was one of the oldest, if not the oldest lawyer in the State. He was admitted to the bar when Washington was President, George Clinton Governor, and Robert Yates Chief Justice of our Supreme Court, and Robert R. Livingston Chancellor. He is, we believe, the last lingering relic of the old school of New York lawyers, of which Livingston, Jay, Hamilton and Kent were the founders, and of which Ambrose Spencer, Smith Thompson, Van Vechten, Williams, Henry, Van Ness, Talcott, Ogden, Duer, Oakley, and Cady were eminent among the earlier disciples, and Welles, John C. Spencer, Cowen, Joshua A. Spencer, Butler, Hoffman, Stevens and Hill (we are speaking only of the dead) were distinguished among the latter. Mr. Cady was admitted to the bar in 1795. For the following fifty-two years, previous to his going upon the bench, he was among the most laborious of lawyers in the country. The principal fields of his toil were the counties now embraced in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh judicial districts. For the thirty years previous to his taking his seat in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, he stood in the front rank of the bar of the State.

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At the age of three score and fifteen years he was elected to the Supreme Bench, where for eight years he did his full proportional share of the labor of the court. As a proof of his proverbial promptness and assiduity in business, we may cite the answer of one of his judicial associates when asked how much Mr. Cady had been absent from duty during the eight years he sat as judge. "I should think about eight minutes in all," was the ready reply. Advancing age induced him to resign his office in 1855. Since then, until he became blind, he has been engaged more or less in the practice of his profession, giving written opinions in cases submitted to him, sitting as referee, etc., but declining to act as counsel in court. His last appearance in a public capacity was in December, 1856, when presiding in the Capitol in this city over the College of Presidential Electors. While in the full enjoyment of his mental faculties, and of a degree of health remarkable in one so old, Mr. Cady, in the month of April last, was, without a moment's warning, struck totally blind. He received this shock as a signal that the machine which had run so long and so vigorously was about to stop forever. To gratify his friends, he consented to visit New York city, and con

sult eminent oculists.

Ere they had pronounced their final opinions, he expressed his own in the remark, characteristically terse and pointed, "Gentlemen, I don't believe you have got any

the monument. Those gentlemen, however, did not deem it expedient to manifest even as much sympathy on the occasion as did "some friendly hands, such as W. D.'s," etc. The president of the Cincinnati, in reply to the invitation, wrote to the Committee of Republican Artillerists as follows:

and its predecessors have been sufficiently handled for all useful purposes, the writer trusts he will not feel called upon to trouble the editor with more last words. W. D.

WEST CHESTER, PENN., Dec. 20, 1859.

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LYNCH LAW (vol. iii. p. 372).-The "PHILADELPHIA, September 15, 1817. "GENTLEMEN: I do myself the honor to send H. N., in the last number of the Historical you the annexed resolutions, in compliance with Magazine, may in part be answered by the folthe directions of the Standing Committee of the Collections of Virginia," by Henry Howe, publowing extract from page 212 of the "Historical Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, in reply lished at Charleston, S. C., 1856: to the communication which you were pleased to address to me under date of the 1st instant, and am, with great respect,

Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
D. L.,

President of the Pennsylvania Society
of Cincinnati.

"W. D. and J. N., Esqs., Committee of the Republican

Artillerists of Chester County. "At a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Pennsylvania Society of Cincinnati, September 12, 1817, a letter addressed by Messrs. W. D. and J. N. (a committee appointed by the Republican Artillerists of Chester for the purpose) to the President of the Society, requesting the attendance of the members on the 20th instant, at the erection of a monument to the memory of the Americans who were 'massacred' in the surprise of the troops under General Wayne, at the Paoli, on the 20th September, 1777, being read, "Resolved unanimously, That as the members of the Society have heretofore expressed their esteem and respect for the military talent and services of the late Major General Wayne, by erecting a monument to his memory, it would be inconsistent with that respect and esteem to assist at a ceremony which recognizes a military disaster, unavoidable, perhaps, either in its cause or its consequences; and much as they regret the fate of their comrades who fell on that occasion, and anxiously disposed as they are to do honor to their memory, the members of the Society are constrained, by the reasons here adduced, and because it is universally admitted that surprise in war is not only justifiable but applauded by all belligerents, respectfully decline the invitation of their fellow-citizens on the present occasion.

"Resolved, That the President be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing resolutions to Messrs. D. and Ñ, with the thanks of the Society for their polite invitation."

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Lynch Law.-Col. Charles Lynch, a brother of the founder of Lynchburg, Va., was an officer of the American Revolution. His residence was on the Staunton, in the southwest part of this (Campbell) county, now the seat of his grandson, Charles Henry Lynch, Esq. At that time this country was very thinly settled, and infested by a lawless band of Tories and desperadoes. The necessity of the case involved desperate measures, and Col. Lynch, then a leading Whig, apprehended and had them punished without any superfluous legal ceremony. Hence the origin of the term Lynch Law.' This practice of Lynching continued years after the war, and was applied to many cases of mere suspicion of guilt, which could not be regularly proven. 'In 1792,' says 'Wirt's Life of Henry, there were many suits on the south side of James River for inflicting Lynch's law.' At the battle of Guilford Court House, a regiment of riflemen, raised in this part of the State, under the command of Col. Lynch, behaved with much gallantry. The colonel died soon after the close of the war. Charles Lynch, a governor of Louisiana, was his son."

Obituary.

AT Paris, Oct. 3d, of apoplexy, JOHN Y. MASON, American minister to France. He was born in Virginia about 1795, graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1816, from which institution he received the degree of LL.D.; adopted the profession of law, and was a Judge of the District Court of Virginia; he was a representative in Congress from Virginia from 1831 to 1837; a member of President Tyler's Cabinet, as Secretary of the Navy; a member of President Polk's Cabinet, first as Attorney General, and secondly as Secretary of the Navy; and was appointed by President Pierce Minister to France, in which position he was continued by President Buchanan till his death. He leaves a wife and several children, and one of his daugh

ters was recently married in Paris. Several years ago, after his arrival at Paris, Mr. Mason had a paralytic stroke, which now appears to have been the premonition of the final attack. His remains were brought to Richmond for interment.

AT Boston, Oct. 25, BENJAMIN A. GOULD, of that city. Mr. Gould was the son of a soldier of the Revolutionary army, who removed from Newburyport to Lancaster about the beginning of this century. He graduated at Harvard College in 1814, in the class with President Walker, Rev. Dr. Lamson, Samuel D. Bradford, Judge Merrick, and others among the living, and Rev. Dr. F. W. P. Greenwood, Judge Paine, and William H. Prescott, among the dead. The grave has just closed over the remains of Jonathan Porter, of Medford, and Thomas W. Phillips, of Boston, two classmates of Mr. Gould. For many years the deceased was the Principal of the Public Latin School of this city, and his numerous pupils, scattered over the world, have ever cherished the warmest affection for their former teacher. During the last quarter of a century, Mr. Gould has been a successful merchant in the India trade, and has ever sustained the highest reputation for intelligence and integrity. In his character were combined those sterling qualities which make the liberal friend, the good citizen, and the truly Christian man. He was an active member of the religious society of which the Rev. Dr. Dewey is the present pastor, and was ever ready with his influence and means to sustain the useful and benevolent institutions of our city. The deceased was father of Dr. Gould, formerly of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, and brother of Miss Hannah F. Gould, of Newburyport, one of the most gifted female poets of our country. He took deep interest in educational matters, having taught a school in Newburyport before he entered college. He was a trustee of Dummer Academy, and one of the most active and efficient friends of that ancient institution. Mr. Gould was born in 1786, and has been a citizen of Boston about forty years. Few men have enjoyed a larger share of public respect and confidence during that period.-Boston Transcript, Oct. 26.

AT Memphis, Tenn., October 29th, the HoN JAMES C. JONES. He was a native of Wilson County. He became a Whig politician, carrying his State twice for Governor, in 1841 and 1843. In 1851 he was elected to the United States Senate.

JUDGE DANIEL CADY died yesterday Monday, October 31), at his residence in Johnstown, Ful

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ton County, N.Y. He was verging upon the eighty-eighth year of his age, and was one of the oldest, if not the oldest lawyer in the State. He was admitted to the bar when Washington was President, George Clinton Governor, and Robert Yates Chief Justice of our Supreme Court, and Robert R. Livingston Chancellor. He is, we believe, the last lingering relic of the old school of New York lawyers, of which Livingston, Jay, Hamilton and Kent were the founders, and of which Ambrose Spencer, Smith Thompson, Van Vechten, Williams, Henry, Van Ness, Talcott, Ogden, Duer, Oakley, and Cady were eminent among the earlier disciples, and Welles, John C. Spencer, Cowen, Joshua A. Spencer, Butler, Hoffman, Stevens and Hill (we are speaking only of the dead) were distinguished among the latter. Mr. Cady was admitted to the bar in 1795. For the following fifty-two years, previous to his going upon the bench, he was among the most laborious of lawyers in the country. The principal fields of his toil were the counties now embraced in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh judicial districts. For the thirty years previous to his taking his seat in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, he stood in the front rank of the bar of the State.

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At the age of three score and fifteen years he was elected to the Supreme Bench, where for eight years he did his full proportional share of the labor of the court. As a proof of his proverbial promptness and assiduity in business, we may cite the answer of one of his judicial associates when asked how much Mr. Cady had been absent from duty during the eight years he sat as judge. "I should think about eight minutes in all, was the ready reply. Advancing age induced him to resign his office in 1855. Since then, until he became blind, he has been engaged more or less in the practice of his profession, giving written opinions in cases submitted to him, sitting as referee, etc., but declining to act as counsel in court. His last appearance in a public capacity was in December, 1856, when presiding in the Capitol in this city over the College of Presidential Electors. While in the full enjoyment of his mental faculties, and of a de

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of health remarkable in one so old, Mr. Cady, in the month of April last, was, without a moment's warning, struck totally blind. He received this shock as a signal that the machine which had run so long and so vigorously was about to stop forever. To gratify his friends, he consented to visit New York city, and consult eminent oculists. Ere they had pronounced their final opinions, he expressed his own in the remark, characteristically terse and pointed, "Gentlemen, I don't believe you have got any

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