Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-08-30
From The Rochester American.

Col Edmund Kiiby, Paymasier in the army
died at Avon Springs on Monday, the Goth
inst, at IL A. NJ.
/ Col. Kirby joned the army as an ensign OF
the lth infantry in July, 1912, nd served with
! distinction during tllat war a. aid to MAJOR
| General Brown. lie Joined the army un !eT
General (now President) Tayor, scon after
the battles ofPalo Alto and Reseca dc Ia
/ Pa ma, and acted as a volunteer aid to General
| Taylcr at the battle of Monterey. When the
regular troops Of Gen. Tay 'or's army were
oIdered to Join the army under Gen. Scott
| Col. Kirby was attached to General Scots
command and served under that dslng guished
officer, as chief Of the pay department, while
the army remained in Mexico. Just two
/ years prior to the day of his death he was IN
/ the sanguinary conflict at Churubusco and
/ throughout the whole war he was eminently
distinguished for the energy, activity and zeal
he displayed in his department., and for The
galantry with which he discharged on several
|,
vol lnteer aid TO the general-n-chlef. For
these services he was frequently and highly
commended in the official dispatches.
/ While in Mexico he contracted disease OF
the liver which some weeks since assumed a
most dangerous form, and ultimately termina-
ted in death. lie reached Avon Springs on
L., 1oo -, ne I.,h
the use Of the waters having been recommend
cd by his physician as the only remedy which
offered ray Of hope. But his disease had
advanced too far, and before the waters had
time to produce any favorable effect upon lis
system he breahed his last.
\ Col. Kirby married daughter Of Major
I General Jacob Brown, and has left family Of
nine children. His domestic and social vir-
tues mus, render lis death most affecting to
his amiable v dow and her numerous family,
and to a large circle of attached personal
friends
/ His remains, attended by his widow and
several friends, reached this city on Monday
evening at IL o'clock, AMI left soon after for
his late residence at Brownsville Jefferson CO +,
IN. Y.
Did not give you fogglng the other
DAY I" said schoolnaster TO trembling ur-
chin.
" Yes, sir" answered the boy.
Well, what does the Scripture say upon
the subject -
81 don't know, sir" said the boy, except
it is that passage which says, 1t is more
blessed to give than TO receive
WEnsrERs Dictionary PREsENTrD TO THE
IQuEEN.-Mr. Bancroft presented to the
Queen copy of Wobster's Dictionary, to
which her private secretary replied as fol-
lows:
II Il have been comm anded TO express to your
Excellcncy, and TO beg Of you to transmit to
Messrs. Merriam, Her Mljesty's gracious
thanks for this beautiful present, which her
majesty ighly values, not only on account Of
the great merits of the work itself, but still
more so as a sign Of those feelings towards
Her Royal Parsonage. on the part ofa large
portion of the Anglo-Amcrican nation, which
your Exccllency informed me it was intended
to represent and which, after the political dis
union which has taken place between the
United Kingdom and the United States, ,lcould
not indeed have found more appropriate way
OF expressing themselves than the presentation
to Her Majesty of work on the English Ian
guagc, whic! rec,y refers TO tha, powerful
and indisso' uble bond by which the two cog
nate nations on the Eastern and Western sidc
| or,he Atlantic, will forever remain united
! Your Excc'lcncy, rs well as Mcssrs Mer-
riam, will, no doubt, feel great pleasure in
!, earning that Her Majesty has placed the
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amongst the few selected volumes which com
pose her own private library
'' ->s--ys.Tz-@sSs
|, IRE n. Y Eve. Mirror thinks the fall Of
the Ro 0an Republic was mainly occasloned
by the only .wo governments in the world
from whom support and sympathy might have
been confidently expected. The Representa-.
tive of the United States at Rome, Lewis
Cass, r., refused to -ecogniao i..s ne" Kefnh
lie, and tho President Of France leagC'd viii
Austria and Russia 10 destroy l.. !! tho
American Charge lad promptly recognised
tho new Government on It's first organization,
/, thinks the act would have given strength to
the Romans themselves and have inspitd
confidence in It's G.anIs.
I. This is doubtless all very true, Bot the
| Mirror forget. the principle on which the Cass
family act in all such cases The young nqr
had doubtless read his Fathers Nicholson
/ letter which goes 10 fog tho diffusion of s'agery
rs The true way to mitigate is evils. If on,
+ ~roagcan be cured by diffusion, why no
J another And Therefore if u would be q blos
sing TO spread slavery through the valley o
Ney.co, Why would i not b. equally bcac1
r..' to permit dcspot,m 10 oycran the pain
Hot I;aly According to tie doctrines Of til,
Eicholson letter, Tho young man VAS hight.