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fill a vacancy, and resigned, in 1816, to become a judge of the Kentucky supreme court. lie was afterward lieutenant-governor, state secretary, and chief justice of the state. On 9 March, 1829, he was appoint- ed postmaster - gen- eral. The incumbent of this office was not then a cabinet minis- ter. President Jack- son elevated him to that rank in order to gratify his friend Maj. Barry. Much dissatis- faction was expressed with his management of the department, and he was severely denounced on the floor of the house by William Cost John- son, of Maryland, and

others. A son of Maj.

Barry, then a lieutenant in the army, challenged Johnson, but the challenge was withdrawn after its acceptance. On 10 April, 1835, he resigned, to accept the office of min- ister to Spain, and died on his way to that country. His remains were brought home by order of the Kentucky legislature, and buried at Frankfort, 8 Nov., 1854.

BARRY, William Taylor Sullivan, lawyer, b. in Columbus, Miss., lO' Dec, 1831 ; d. there, 29 Jan., 18G8. He was graduated at Yale in 1841, then studied law, and practised in Columbus for a few years. From 1849 to 1851 he was a member of the legislature. He owned plantations in Ok- tibbeha and Sunflower counties, and in 1853 re- moved to the latter place. Pie was elected to con- gress as a democrat, serving from 5 Dec, 1853, to 3 March, 1855. On 18 Dec, 1854, he made an ef- fective speech against the " Know-Nothing " party. After the expiration of his term he devoted him- self to his law practice in Columbus, and was again sent to the legislature, being speaker of the house in 1855. He was a member of the Charleston demo- cratic national convention in April, I860, and was one of those that withdrew because the conven- tion did not expressly deny in its platform the power of the federal government to legislate against slavery. In 1861 he presided over the Mississippi secession convention, and was a mem- ber of the provisional confederate congress until 1862, when he resigned to enter the army. In the spring of that year he raised the 35th Mississippi regiment, which he led until captui'ed at Mobile, 9 April, 1865. Col. Barry's regiment took an ac- tive part in the defence of Vicksburg, where it was surrendered, and afterward in the Georgia campaign. After the war he practised law in Co- lumbus until his death. See Lvnch's " Bench and Bar of Mississippi " (New York,' 1881).

BARRYMORE, William, actor, d. in Boston, Mass., in 1847. His first appearance was at Drury Lane theatre, London, 19 Nov., 1827. He came to the United States in 1836, and was stage manager of the Bowery theatre. His first appearance here as an actor was 28 Jan., 1832, at the Walnut street theatre, Philadelphia, in the pantomime of " Mother Groose." — His wife, whose maiden name was Adams, made her dehut in America, 29 Aug., 1831, as the Dumb Savoyard and Miss Jane Tran- sit, at the Park theatre, New York. She died in England, 30 Dec, 1862.

BARSTOW, William Augustus, b. in Plain- field, Conn., 13 Sept., 1813; d. in New York city, 13 Dec, 1865. He was governor of Wisconsin from January, 1854, to January, 1856. When the civil war began he called upon Gen. Fremont, then com- mander of the western department, and offered to raise a cavalry regiment in Wisconsin. After raising it he was made colonel, and the regiment served with credit in the southwest ; but, owing to the failing health of Col. Barstow, during most of his military term he was sitting on courts-martial at St. Louis, where he rendered valuable service. On 13 March, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier- general of volunteers.

BARSTOW, Wilson, soldier, b. in 1830 ; d. in New York city, 16 March, 1869. During the early part of the civil war he was successively on the stafi's of Gens. Dix and Hooker, and subsequently chief commissary of musters of the department of the east. He served from the first year of the war until its close with zeal and ability, entering the service as a lieutenant, and, passing through the successive grades, attained the brevet rank of brigadier-general on 13 March, 1865. When mus- tered out he was appointed assistant appraiser of the port of New York under Mr. McElrath.

BARSTOW, Zedekiah Smith, educator, b. in Canterbury, Conn., 4 Oct., 1790 ; d. in Keene, N. H., 1 March, 1873. His father was in Gates's army and a witness of Burgoyne's surrender. He was graduated at Yale in 1813, studied theology under President Dwight, and was principal of Hopkins grammar school in New Haven from 1813 to 1816. He was then chosen tutor and college chaplain of Hamilton college, Clinton, N. Y., where he re- mained two years, and was offered a professor- ship, but declined it. In July, 1818, he became pastor of a Congregational church in Keene, N. H. He continued to teach the classics after his set- tlement at Keene. and the late Chief-Justice Chase was one of his pupils. He was from 1834 to 1871 a trustee of Dartmouth college, secretary for many years of the general association of New Hampshire, a corporate member of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, and prominent in many of the educational and religious movements of the day. In 1868 and 1869 he was a member of the New Hampshire legislature, and chaplain of that body. He published many ser- mons, dissertations, and essays, and was a frequent contributor to religious periodicals. Dartmouth college gave him the degree of D. D. in 1849.

BARTHOLDI, Frederic Auguste, French sculptor, b. in Colmar, Alsace, 2 April, 1834. He studied painting with Ary Scheffer in Paris, but afterward turned his attention to sculpture, which has since exclusively occupied him. Among his works are “Francesca da Rimini” (1852); “Monument to Martin Schongauer” (1863); “LeVigneron” (1870); and “Vercingetorix” (1872). His statue of “Lafayette arriving in America” was executed in 1872, and in 1876 was placed in Union square, New York. He was one of the French commissioners in 1876 to the Philadelphia centennial exhibition, and there exhibited bronze statues of “The Young Vine-Grower”; “Génie Funèbre”; “Peace”; and “Genius in the Grasp of Misery,” for which he received a bronze medal. “Liberty enlightening the World,” the colossal statue on Bedlow's island, in New York harbor, is his work. Soon after the establishment of the present form of government in France, the project of building some suitable memorial to show the fraternal feeling existing between the two great republics was suggested, and in 1874 the “French-American Union”