than all of regard and reverence which the world could confer. He was eminently a pious man. Deeply impressed with the solemn truths of religion, he, many years before his death, as stated previously, made an open profession of his holy faith, and entered into full communion with the Episcopal Church. This was the result of no sudden and transient impulse. When in full health, and surrounded by all of earth's advantages which could contribute to render his life one of happiness and pleasure, he reviewed for himself the evidences of Christianity, pondered upon its truths, felt its sacred influences, and deliberately made his decision. Such examples deserve commemoration. By their freedom from the suspicion of insincerity or impurity, they silence the prejudices of mere worldlings, and by their peculiar force and beauty they attract to the contemplation of the things which belong to our eternal peace.

His latter days were marked with tranquil cheerfulness. In the bosom of a family that was most dear to him, he was blessed with

"All that should accompany old age,

As honor, love, obedience;"

and on the 24th day of February, 1826, having reached his seventieth year, in the humble hope of a joyful resurrection through the atoning merits of his Redeemer, he resigned his purified spirit into the hands of that God, who, through so many perils and temptations, had mercifully protected and preserved him.

ALEXANDER JAMES DALLAS.

ALEXANDER JAMES DALLAS, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1814), was of Scotch descent, and born in the island of Jamaica, in 1759. His father, Robert Dallas, was an eminent physician. After receiving an early education at Edinburgh and Westminster, he came to this country, after the death of his father, in 1783, and studied law at Philadelphia. He also engaged in

various literary enterprises, writing much for periodicals, and being at one time the editor of the Columbian Magazine. In 1801, he was appointed, by President Jefferson, Attorney of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. About this time he recovered against Fenno, an editor, $2500 for a libel. In October, 1814, he was appointed by Mr. Madison, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, as successor of G. W. Campbell; and in March, 1815, he undertook the additional trust of Secretary at War, and performed the task, on the return of peace, of reducing the army. He resigned his honorable office, and returned to the practice of the law at Philadelphia, in November, 1816; but in a few weeks his earthly career was closed. While at Trenton, New Jersey, he was attacked with the gout in the stomach, of which he died, soon after he reached home, January 16th, 1817, aged fiftyseven years. His wife, whom he married in 1780, was of Devonshire, England. Mr. Dallas had great decision and energy, and was very eminent as a lawyer. He excelled in conversation, and his manners were highly polished. While in office he promoted the establishment of a tariff, and of the last national bank. He published Features of Jay's Treaty, 1795; Speeches on the Trial of Blount and the Impeachment of the Judges; the Laws of Pennsylvania, with Notes; Address to the Society of Constitutional Republicans, 1805; Reports of Cases in the Courts of the United States and Pennsylvania, 4 vols., 1806-7; Treasury Reports; Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War of 1812, 1815. He left, unfinished, Sketches of a History of Pennsylvania. His son, the Honorable George M. Dallas, proposed, in 1817, to publish his works in three volumes; but they have not been forthcoming to this date,-1859.

JAMES ALEXANDER DALLAS.

JAMES ALEXANDER DALLAS, son of Alexander James Dallas, was born in the year 1791. He entered the American navy in 1805, when only fourteen years of age; but his liberal education and talents, and, above all, his laudable ambition to attain eminence in his profession, enabled him to become a distinguished commander. He served with Commodore Rogers, on board the President, in 1812; and afterwards, with Commodore Chauncey, on Lake Ontario. He also accompanied Commodore Porter in his cruise for the extermination of the West India pirates. He was a brother of the Hon. George M. Dallas. He died in 1844, at the age of fiftythree years.

JACOB A. DALLAS.

JACOB A. DALLAS, the well-known popular artist, died in New York City, September 9th, A.D. 1857.

Mr. Dallas was born in Philadelphia, in the year 1825. He was the son of an eminent merchant, and the cousin of Hon. George M. Dallas, Minister to England. At the age of eight years he moved with his parents to Missouri, where he studied at Ames College, and, after a due course of instruction, graduated at the age of eighteen. He then returned to Philadelphia, and attended the Life and Antique School, under Professor Otis, the celebrated portrait painter. About eleven years ago he went to New York, where he has since resided,

His talents, which were of the highest order, were employed upon all the principal illustrated works that have been produced in New York for many years. He was one of the chief illustrators of Harper's," "Putnam's," "Mrs. Stephens'," "Frank Leslie's," and other popular periodicals; while many of the larger volumes, issued by the best publishers of New York, were wholly indebted to his

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pencil for the valuable engravings which they contained. Mr. Dallas married Miss Mary Kyle, the daughter of Mr. Joseph Kyle, the celebrated artist. The union was a happy one. Miss Kyle was also well known as an artist, and was possessed of considerable literary ability. Everything promised well for the success of the young couple in life, when Mr. Dallas was seized with dysentery, which, passing into consumption of the bowels, terminated in his death.

As a man, Mr. Dallas was beloved by all who had the advantage of his friendship. A truer friend, a more genial companion, never existed. His early death is deplored by all who knew him, and is a loss to the profession which he adorned that will not in a long time be repaired.

WILLIAM DARKE.

WILLIAM DARKE was a brave officer during the Revolutionary war, and was born in Philadelphia County in 1736, and, when a boy, accompanied his parents to Virginia. In the nineteenth year of his age he joined the army under General Braddock, and shared in the dangers of his defeat in 1755. In the beginning of the war with Great Britain he accepted a captain's commission, and served with great reputation till the close of the war, at which time he held the rank of Major. In 1791, he received from Congress the command of a regiment in the army under General St. Clair, and bore a distinguished part in the unfortunate battle with the Indians on the 4th of November in the same year. In this battle he lost a favorite son, and narrowly escaped with his life. In his retirement, during his remaining years, he enjoyed the confidence of the State which had adopted him, and was honored with the rank of MajorGeneral in the militia. He died, at his scat, in Jefferson County, Virginia, November 26th, 1801, in the sixty-sixth year of his age.

LYDIA DARRACH.

"LYDIA DARRACH, the subject of this brief sketch, was a Quakeress of Philadelphia, and for a noble deed, she deserves to hold a place in every book of a similar character to this.

"During the war of the Revolution, General Howe's headquar ters were in Second Street, the fourth door below Spruce, Philadelphia, in a house formerly occupied by General Cadwalader. Directly opposite resided William and Lydia Darrach, members of the Society of Friends. A superior officer of the British army, believed to be the Adjutant-General, fixed upon one of their chambers, a back room, for private conference, and two officers frequently met there, with fire and candles, in close consultation. About the 2d of December, the Adjutant-General told Lydia that they would be in the room at 7 o'clock, and remain late, and that they wished the family to retire early to bed; adding, that when they were going away, they would call her to let them out, and extinguish the fire and candles. She accordingly sent all her family to bed, but, as the officer had been so particular, her curiosity was excited. She took off her shoes, put her ear to the key-hole of the conclave, and overheard an order read for all the British troops to march out late in the evening of the 4th, and attack General Washington's army, then encamped at White Marsh. On hearing this, she returned to her chamber, and laid down. Soon after, the officer knocked at the door, but she rose only at the third summons, having feigned herself asleep. Her mind was so much agitated that she could neither eat or sleep; supposing it in her power to save the lives of thousands of her fellow-countrymen, but not knowing how she was to convey the information to General Washington, not daring to confide it to her husband. The time left, however, was short. She quickly determined to make her way as soon as possible to the American outposts, where she had a son who was an officer of the American army. She informed her family that as she was in want of flour, she would go to Frankford for some. Her husband insisted she should take her servant-maid