This reform was approved by King Philip III., and in consequence, in 1609. the Jesuits Mazetta and I'ataldini were sent to found the missions of Para- guay. The second reform was the division of ilie Rio de la Plata into two different government, Buenos Ayres and Paraguay, which was decreed in 1617, and took effect in 1620.
SAAVE1HIA, Juan de, Spanish soldier, b. in
Seville, Spain, about the end of the loth century:
d. in Chuquiriga, Peru, 21 May, 1554. He went to
Peru in 1534 as chief judge of the expedition of
Pedro de Alvarado, but alter his arrival entered
the service of Diego de Almagro, whom he accora-
panied in the discovery and conquest of Chili in
1535-'6. In the latter year he founded the city of
Valparaiso, and, on his return to Peru, he took
part in the battle of Abancay, 12 July, 1537. He
acted on behalf of Almagro as commissioner in the
negotiations of Mala about the boundaries of New
Toledo, but was not present at the battle of Salinas,
6 April, 1538, on account of illness. Although he
always refused the offers of the brothers Pizarro
during Ahuagro's life, after the latter's death Saave-
dra, on account of rivalry with Juan de Rada (g. v.),
retired to Lima, and took no part in the battle of
Chupas. In 1544, when Gonzalo Pizarro rose in
rebellion, he appointed Saavedra his substitute at
Huanuco. President Gasca in 1547 induced Saave-
dra to re-enter the Loyalist party, appointing him
captain of cavalry, which corps he commanded in
the battle of Xaquixaguana. In 1549 Gasca ap-
pointed him governor of Cuzco, but in 1551 he was
superseded by the audiencia of Lima. In 1554 the
city of Cuzco sent him with the rank of captain to
join the army of Alonso de Alvarado, operating
against the rebellious Francisco Giron (g. v.), and
he met his death at the battle of Chuquinga.
SAAVEDRA GUZMAN, Antonio, Mexican
poet, b. in Mexico about 1550: d. in Spain about
1620. He was a son of one of the conquerors of
Mexico, and married a granddaughter of Jorge de
Alvarado, brother of the founder of the Spanish
dominion in Central America. His favorite stud-
ies were poetry and history, especially that of his
native country, in which he was aided by his thor-
ough knowledge of the Aztec language. The his-
torical data that he accumulated during seven
years' labor were molded by him during a seventy
days' passage to Spain in 1598 into his historical
poem " El Peregrino Indiano " (Madrid, 1599).
This work, which is now extremely rare, describing
in twenty cantos the glories of the Aztec court and
the conquest of Mexico, is rather a chronicle than
a poem, and on more than one occasion has solved
difficulties regarding the early history of New
Spain. The Spanish poets, Vicente Espinel and
Lope de Vega, praise Saavedra's work highly, and
William H. Prescott calls him the poet-chronicler.
SABIN, Dwight May, senator, b. in Marseilles,
La Salle co., 111., 25 April. 1844. His early years
were spent on a farm, and in 1857 the family re-
moved to Connecticut. He was educated at Phil-
lips Andover academy, which he left in 1863 to
enter the National army: but he resigned after
three months, owing to impaired health, and pro-
cured a clerkship in Washington, D. C. In 1864
he entered on farming and the lumber business in
Connecticut, and in isiis he removed to Stillwater,
Minn., where he engaged in lumbering and manu-
facturing. Mr. Sabin now (1898) owns a large num-
ber of mills, and is the largest stockholder in the
Northwestern car company, having acquired a for-
tune. He served in the state senate in 1870-'!, was
a member of the National Republican conventions
of 1872, 1876, 1880, and 1884, serving as chairman
of the last, and was elected to the U. S. senate, as
a Republican, to succeed William Wiiulom, for the
period that terminated on 4 March, 1889.
SABIN, Elijah Robinson, clergyman, b. in
Tolland. Conn., 10 Sept., 1776: d. in Augusta, Ga.,
-I May. 1M1S. His ancestor, William, whose name
is written Sabin, Sabine, and Saben, came to this
country in 1645, and held local offices in Rehoboth,
Mass., and his father, Nehemiah, served in the Revo-
lutionary war, and was fatally wounded at Trenton.
In 1784 his family removed to Vermont, and the
son was employed in clearing land, educating him-
self in leisure hours. In 1798 he began to preach,
and in 1799 he entered the Methodist Episcopal
ministry. He was appointed presiding elder of the
Vermont district in 1805, and subsequently of the
New London district, embracing Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and a part of New
Hampshire. He was appointed chaplain <>f the
Massachusetts house of representatives, being the
first of his denomination to hold this office, and
afterward became pastor of a Methodist church in
Hampden, Me. He assisted in the military hospi-
tal there, and, after the enemy took possession of
the town, was taken prisoner and confined in a
transport. His wife mounted a horse, rode nine
miles to the British commander, and obtained his
release on the plea that he was a non-combatant.
In 1815 he resumed his charge in Hampden. He
died while travelling in the southern states to
regain his health. Mr. Sabin was the author of
the "Road to Happiness," and "Charles Observa-
tor." His son, Lorenzo (Sabine), historian, b. in
New Lisbon, N. H., 28 Feb., 1803 ; d. in Boston,
Mass., 14 April, 1877, adopted Sabine as the spell-
ing of his surname. He was self-educated, and was
employed in various capacities. He was elected to
the legislature from Eastport for three successive
terms, and held the office of deputy collector of the
customs, but returned to Massachusetts in 1849.
and was appointed in 1852 a secret and confidential
agent of the U. S. treasury department, with refer-
ence to the operation of the Ashburton treaty as
connected with our commerce with British colonies.
He was elected to congress as a Whig in place of
Benjamin Thompson, serving from 28 Dec., 1852,
till 3 March, 1853, and was afterward appointed
secretary of the Boston board of trade. The degree
of A. M. was conferred on him by Bowdoin in 184(J,
and by Harvard in 1848. He contributed to the
" North American Review " and " Christian Exam-
iner." and was the author of the life of Com. Ed-
ward Preble (1847) in Sparks's "American Biogra-
phy " ; " The American Loyalists, or Biographical
Sketches of Adherents to the British Crown in the
War of the Revolution " (Boston, 1847 ; 2d ed., 2
vols., 1864) : " Report on the Principal Fisheries of
the American Seas," prepared for the U. S. treasury
department (Washington. 1853); "Notes on Duels
and Duelling, with a Preliminary Historical Essay "
( I'.nstnn, 1855; 2d ed., 1856); and an address before
the New England historic-genealogical society. 13
Sept.. 185!). mi the " Hundredth Anniversary of the
Death of Major-General James Wolfe."
SABIN, Joseph, bibliophile, b. in Bran 1 1^1 on. Northamptonshire, England, 9 Dec., 1821 : d. in Brooklyn. N. Y., 5 June, 1881. His father, a - ehanic. gave him a common-school education, and apprenticed him to Charles Richards, a book.-eller
and publisher of Oxford. Subsequently young Sabin opened a similar store in Oxford and published " The XXXIX Articles of the Church of
England, with Scriptural Proofs and References" (1844). In 1848 he came to this country, and bought farms in Texas and near Philadelphia, In
