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26. Air, h. 28, 1. 26....................... Sarah, wife of Terrence Reily, died, aged 43. 27. Air, h. 28, 1. 19.........The Cohoes Cataract of the 27th, speaking of Albany, says: "There are said to be 40,000 persons in the city who are reached by neither the church nor the sabbath school. Measures are about to be taken to Christianize this heathen element. If the above be true the city really needs a reenforcement of clergymen, Sunday school teachers and good and benevolent people generally, or else Cohoes needs a more truthful editor.-Argus......... Dr. C. B. O'Leary, who went off in 1861 with the lamented Col. Bryan, and who has been all through the war acting as surgeon and physician for government, and since the capture of Savannah has been there acting as assistant post physician, now returns to his old friends and reopens his office in Herkimer street for the practice of his profession.-Argus.......... Mrs. Catherine Davidson died, aged 86. Andrew Tracy died, aged 52.

28. Air, h. 22, 1. 4.... ...The Reverend Father Duffy, of St. Mary's Church, preached his farewell sermon yesterday. It was brief and stirring, and there was hardly a dry eye in the church. He leaves for Salina this week, and is about to take charge of the next oldest church to St. Mary's in the diocese of Albany. May his field of labor be pleasant.Argus.........Sophia, wife of B. Reitzenberg, died, aged 42.

29. Air, h. 17, 1. 12......... Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D.D., LL.D., president of Union College, and for several years pastor of the First Presbyterian church in this city, died at Schenectady, aged 93. He was born of highly respectable parentage, in Ashford, Conn., on the 25th of June, 1773. His father was a country merchant on a moderate scale, but was able to earn a respectable support for his family. His earliest intellectual developments were quite extraordinary. When he was but four years old, he had read through the Bible, and had committed considerable portions of it to memory. His father, being now a farmer, designed to train the son to the same occupation; and several of his early years were actually spent on his father's farm; but his insatiable desire for knowledge led him to devour every book that came within his reach. He lost his mother at the age of about twelve, and shortly after returned to Franklin to live with his brother, who meanwhile had become possessed of a small farm. Here he worked during the summer, and studied in the winter under his brother's instruction. At sixteen and seventeen he taught a school for two successive winters in the neighboring parish of Portapang, and at eighteen took charge of the Plainfield Academy, and at the same time prosecuted his classical studies under the Rev. Dr. Benedict, to whose daughter he was subsequently married. Here he remained, it is believed, for a year or two, until he entered Brown University. His connection with the college continued but about one year; but, during that time, he was at the head of his class both in mathematics and the languages. He graduated out of due course in 1795. He returned now to his brother's at Franklin, and, after studying theology under his direction for about six months, was assigned to preach by the Congregational association of New London county. He was immediately sent on a mission by the association which had licensed him, into the then destitute part of New York, bordering upon Otsego lake After laboring a c uple of months in different places in that thinly inhabited region, he accepted an invitation to settle at Cherry Valley, in the double capacity of preacher and teacher. The flourishing academy which still exists in that town he was instru

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