The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-23


Died, at his residence in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
on Wednesday, 10th instant chabod Bartlett eminent
lawyer and statesman aged sixyseven years The fam1
OF Bartlett is OF Norman origin, distinguished in Engh
hstory and in the annals both of New Hampshire ana
massachusetts, the being found among the early
settlers Of those colonies in the seventeenth century
Josiah BARTLETT of the delegates in the Continentas
Congress from New Hampshire who signed The
of Independence native of Essex county, assachu
set and after receiving private classical education and
studied for the practice of medicine to Kingsoo
New Hampshire, where he became an eminent physicau
as wen as distinguished patriot of the revolution He
was the first called in the Continental Congress- n
july l776 the question of independence, when hs an
swered boldly in the affirmative and afterwards signed hs
name next to John Hancock the President Of that Con
gress He was afterwards Judge of the Supreme Court
and Governor of New Hampshire. He died in I7oxI
One of his sons, Josiah Bartlett q member Of Cca.
gress from New Hampshire in l8l1-1S Two other so~s
were Councillors or Senator's Bailey Bartlett another a
the family, member of Congress- from Essex ooun-
ty, Massachusetts,, during John Adams' administrator
79 1S0l He was highly respected for the acutenss
of his judgment and suavity of his manners LIE was q
statesman, an agricuturst, inventor and phioso-
pher He was sheriff Of the county of Essex for neax
forty years.
lchabod Bartlett the subject of this notice was na-
tive of Salisbury, New Hampshire the town where
College, in 1stS and after practice of
the law in Salisbury and Portsmouth On entering poRi-
cal Life he attached himself to the democratic repubca
party about the time it came into power in New Hamn-
shire He elected member Of the State Legislature
and occasion chosen Speaker of the House Il
Representatives. His talents politician and public
speaker placed him at the head of his party and he
was considered of its leaders for veral years.
His influence, combined with a few eminent democrats
electoral vote of New Hampshire to be given to Jshn
Quincy Adams for President in 1924 without oppostss
much against the wishes of Isaac H the editor of the
Patriot the democratic organ at Concord who preferred
Mr. Crawford and afterwards went for Gen. jackson n
1925
In 1922 Mr.. Bartlett placed by his political frisnls
the ticket for Congress- the members from New Hap.
shire then being chosen by general ticket He was elected
by large majority, and took his seat in the House In
December 1928. His brilliant talents gave him
prominent position in that Congress, which was distn.
guished for the large number of eminent among il
MEMBERS of whom have since been conspicuous In
the annals of the country statesmen was the ouss
in that Congress, (the Eghteenth,) Henry Clay BE-
ing Speaker, which decided the election of President a
the United States in favor of John Quincy Adams Bart
lett and his republican colleagues from New Hampshs
the vote of the State unanimously for Adams Al
though agreeing with Mr.. Clay in Political sentiment
BARTLETT on occasion in debate showed spirit In re-
ssng what appeared to him thel arbitrary and dcta
toria tone ard course of the Speaker towards him. which
gained him much credit and caused Mr. Clay afterwards
to treat the young New Hampshire member with con-
sderation and respect His reply to Mr. Clay was one e
the finest specimens of bold effective hand eloquense
in the annals of Congress-
Mr. Bartlett of the most strenuous supportess
of the administration Of Mr. Adams, and was twice rs
elected to Congress-. He continued member of the
House until the accession of Jackson to the Presidency IN
1922 when he retired to private @ after years ssr-
vice in Congress The State voted Adams in the fAR
of 1925 but in March, 1922 the jackson Congressional
ticket was elected The democratic republican part
of New Hampshire became divided on the Prssiden.
tal question, after the election of Adams in Is2S
BARTLETT and Governors Samuel Bell John Bell with
Jacob B. Moore, Arthur Iivermore, William Plumsr.
and Others sustaining Adams and Clay; while Levi Wood
bury, Benjamin. Pierce Franklin Pierce Charles G. Ather
ton and great majority of the party went with Isaac
Hill, for the election of General Jackson This crcum-
stance accounts for the long period of during whc
Mr. Bartlett and other opponents of jackson and Va.
Buren,, in New Hampshire, have been consigned to the
shades of private life The political prospects of Mr.
BARTLETT when he entered Congress- in 1929 were far
more brilliant than those of Franklin Pierce when
he also became member of the House, ten years after.
wards If the views of Bartlett had concided with thooa
of Isaac Hill and the majority of the democratic party a
New Hampshire, there be but little doubt he wouh
have risen to the highest honors in the gift of the peope
and Legislature of his native State But although his star
has set in obscurty the reputation he had ACQUIRED bv
his legislative career, by his literary attainments and BY
his professional course entities his name to be placed
among the eminent men of New England.
Died, in Detroit Mich on the 18th inst Mr.. Dawn
STUART aged 50 years. The deceased native of Cal
lender in Perthshire Scotland but emgrated to this
continent and resided Montreal before the
For n me- he N
OF the Hudson Bay Company, the Atlantic coast in
Nova Scotia and elsewhere but in the year 1910 he be-
came one OF the principal agents of the late John Jacob
Astor in his great expedition to the mouth Of the Coum
ba river accompanied by the late Robert Stuart Of d.
that district whs died mt Chicago in the fall OF IS4o:
Ramsey Crooks Of New York. late President Of the
Deceased who gs agsss .on. ass Of 81
since at Montreal Mr. Wallace late of Chicago deceassd
Franchere, formerly of Detroit now a resident of New
York city who some years since published in French
whom new living remained in the service Of the xms
rcan Fur Company until about twenty years ago when
Mr. Crook. in connection with Mr. VIM brewster, q D.
and Mr.. Pierre Choteau, Of st. Louis and Others tie
western interest," since which time Mr. Stuart has resided
in Detroit
Mr. JOHN W. CRocKR late OF the Varieties theatrs Ns
Orleans ond brother Of Mrs. d. p Bowers died recenti
in Galveston Texas Of yellow fever His wife and infant
Mr. Myers, member Of Mr.. Crocker's company died st
COL John Munden the delegate elect to the IAxisa
ture for the county Of Princess Anne Virginia. died on The
18th inst
THE LATE GENERAL cHILDs.
10 THE EDITOR OF TIE YORK HERALD
In the obituary notice of Gen. Childs published in your
paper there single mistake which you may think i'm
portant enough to correct.
He was native Of Pittsaed, Massachusetts, In which
town both his father and maternal grand father resided
and both of whom rendered efficient and valuable Scr
vices in the Revolutionary war His father was Sur
geon Childs and COL Easton, his grand father
hat unda thanA
In the sormng Of Fort Tcondeoga Col Easton sacrificed
his whole fortuns with the most uncalculatng patriot
ism, in the service of his country and deservedy
red with that band of New England worthless who bore
all things suffered all things and did all things for the
sacree cause Of national liberty.
Gen. Chids called into active service In the last
with Great Britain, at the early age Of sixteen or
seventeen while cadet a West Point and was In several
actions the Northern frontier in Of which he was
Mounded. He served with such distnguished bravery