EDWARD L. CAREY.

EDWARD L. CAREY, son of Mathew Carey, born in the City of Philadelphia, April 6th, 1806, was eminent as a publisher, and as a patron of the fine arts. He was primarily connected in business with his father and brother, H. C. Carey, under the firm of M. Carey & Sons, and subsequently became the principal in the firm of Carey & Hart, which acquired celebrity for the issue of works possessing a high character for literary excellence, among which may be specified "The Modern Essayists," and Professor Longfellow's "Poets and Poetry of Europe." Mr. Carey was also a munificent patron of the fine arts, the walls of his mansion being covered with the gems of foreign and American painters. For several years previous to his demise he was afflicted with acute bodily infirmities, which he bore with a truly Christian meekness and resignation. Although confined to his residence, and often unable to move without assistance, he found a solace for all his ills in his ardent attachment to literature; and the opportunity thus afforded him by his sickness for the diligent perusal of the works of the most eminent authors, tended to increase his abilities as a publisher, the public being indebted to his confinement for the publication of some of the most popular works which ever emanated from the American press. Mr. Carey departed this life June 16th, 1845, in the fortieth year of his age, sincerely lamented by a large circle of friends, and by many who had, during his lifetime, been recipients of his bounty.

SAMUEL CARPENTER.

SAMUEL CARPENTER was one of the greatest improvers and builders in Philadelphia, dwelling among us at the same time as a merchant. He was probably at one time, if we except the Founder, the wealthiest man in the province. There is extant a letter of his of the year 1705, to Jonathan Dickinson, offering for sale part of his

estate, wherein he says, "I would sell my house and granary on the wharf (above Walnut Street), where I lived last, and the wharves and warehouses, also the globe and long vault adjacent. I have three-sixteenths of five thousand acres of land, and a mine, called 'Pickering's mine.' I have sold my house over against Daniel Lloyd's (the site of the present Bank of Pennsylvania) to William Trent, and the scales to Henry Babcock, and the coffee-house (at or near Walnut Street and Front Street) to Captain Finney; also my half of Darby mills to John Bethell, and a half of Chester mills to Caleb Pussey." Besides the foregoing, he was known to own the estate called "Bristol mills," worth five thousand pounds; the island against Burlington, of three hundred and fifty acres. At Poguessing Creek, fifteen miles from the City, he had five thousand acres. He owned about three hundred and eighty acres at Sepviser plantation, a part of Fairhill, where he died in 1714. Male descendants of his name, or of his brother Joshua, are not now known in our city; but members of his race and name are said to be settled near Salem, in New Jersey. The Whartons, Merediths, Clymers, and Fishbournes, are his descendants in the female line.

James Logan, in writing to the proprietaries respecting him, says, "He lost by the war of 1703, because the profitable trade he before carried on almost entirely failed, and his debts coming upon him, while his mills and other estate sunk in value, he could by no means clear himself, and from the wealthiest man in the province in 1701, he became much embarrassed.”

Isaac Norris, in his letter of the 10th of June, 1705, to Jonathan Dickinson, says of him, to wit: "That honest and valuable man, whose industry and improvements have been the stock whereon much of the labors and successes of this country have been grafted, is now weary of it all, and is resolved, I think prudently, to wind up and clear his incumbrances."

He was one of the society of Friends; was one of Penn's Commissioners of Property; was the chief cause of inducing Penn to abandon the original beautiful design of keeping Front Street an open view to the river.

BENJAMIN CARR.

BENJAMIN CARR arrived in this country, and settled in Philadelphia, in the year 1797. He was a well-educated man as well as a composer of music. His education was begun under the celebrated Dr. Samuel Arnold, and completed under that great musician, John Wesley (one of the Wesley's, a nephew of the celebrated divine, all whose family were musical). He was one of the most simplenatured and kind-hearted beings that ever lived, and possessed a great fund of musical knowledge, and a power of musical taste and genius.

He was the principal conductor of the great sacred oratorio, "The Creation of the World," by Joseph Haydn, performed by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, April 27th, 1824. Musician is a term often applied, but very little understood. What labor and what exertion it might take to bring that gift of heaven, a fine genius, to the perfection we witness in a Handel, a Bach, a Haydn, or a Mozart, perhaps themselves alone could describe. For, even a preparation for the musical profession in its ordinary purposes, is laborious, severe, and of years' continuance. It consists of a long course of rather toilsome studies, scarcely known and seldom appreciated by the world in general. Many hours are daily to be devoted to a rigid practice of the instrument selected for the musician's pursuits; and however he may subsequently decline this discipline, and thus cease to aim at being a brilliant performer, yet the whole of this preparation is equally indispensable, that he may know the character of his instrument and be fully acquainted with its powers and effects.

Mr. Carr was not only a teacher, but a fine composer of music, and his many works in musical collections, at the beginning of this century, exhibit him in this country in the same light that Haydn distinguished himself in Austria, England, France, and Italy, in his days of glory and renown. During all his life, Haydn was religiously inclined; so was Carr. It may with truth be said,

that the talent of both was increased by their sincere faith in the