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COLONEL BRANTZ MAYER.
The death is reported, at Baltimore, on Sunday evening, of Colonel Brantz Mayer, a well-known traveller and author. He was born in Baltimore, September 27, 1809. His father, a German, was engaged in trade with foreign ports, and was for many years Consul-General of Würtenberg in the United States. Brantz Mayer was graduated at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, and soon after (in 1827-'28) sailed for the East visiting Sumatra, China and Java. During this voyage he studied law. On his return, he finished his studies at the University of Maryland, under Professor David Hoffman. He was admitted to the bar in 1832. In 1841 he was made Secretary of Legation to Mexico, where he resided for a year. He was one of the trustees of the will of John McDonough, who left the bulk of his fortune in the cities of New Orleans and Baltimore. He was for a time an editor of The Baltimore American newspaper. In 1861, upon the breaking out of the civil war, Colonel Mayer was made a paymaster in the army having previously been appointed a brigadier-general in the Maryland Union forces. He held a paymaster's position in the Regular Army when it was reorganized in 1867, and was in active service in different parts of the country until 1875, when he retired and returned to Baltimore. At the close of the war he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for meritorious service. 
Mr. Mayer was the author of several works of recognized merit. When he returned from Mexico, in 1844, he published "Mexico as It was and as It is." This had reached a third edition in 1847. It was followed by a "History of the War between Mexico and the United States" (1848), "Mexico--Aztec, Spanish and Republican" (1852), "Calvert and Penn: or, The Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in the United States" (1852) "Captain Canet: or, Twenty Years in an African Slaver" (1854), "Observations on Mexican History and Archaeology" (in the "Smithsonian Contributions," 1857), "Mexican Antiquities" (1858), and "Baltimore as It Was and Is" (1871). Colonel Mayer was one of the founders of the Maryland Historical Society, and was a frequent contributor to its papers, furnishing, among others, the "Journal of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, during his Mission to Canada," and "Tah-gub-jute" or, Logan and Captain Michael Cresap." He wrote also a memoir of the historian Jared Sparks. Mr. Mayer's services to historical literature were fully recognized, and he was an honorary member of many learned societies. At the Centennial Exhibition he was one of the judges in the department of art. 
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in La Farges room dropped his pot of paint on the stove causing a great smoke which in a few minutes brought there a four fire engines, as many hook and ladder companies and horse carriages and a great crowd of people in the street in front of the building. No great damage however was done. Mr. Lane, Mrs Cogswells brother sent his Turner water color to me. There are some things about it which look like Turners work and I should not be surprised if he did paint it. Mr. Clark the Presbyterian Minister from Rondout called in the midst of the excitement of the fire and while he was here Booth and his wife came. I painted on the Macbeth and I think improved it. Two Jersey ladies and a young man from Brooklyn called. One of the young ladies was very bright and talked very well about a snow storm picture of mine. It was cold this morning and has snowed his evening with predictions of cold wave to arrive tonight Came back to my room directly after dinner, first having called on Loop and got the little portrait of Gertrude which he has finished. It is very pretty and satisfactory to me. This evening wrote to E. Sherer, Walter North, Janette and Alice.

Thursday Feb. 27. 1879. A letter from Sara in which she gives me a most tender picture of Gertrude over at our little house. Nannie was going out for a short time and she left Gertrude playing at the piano. She said she loved to play in that room. When Nannie returned Gertrude had been in tears overcome by the tender memories and associations of the place

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Abraham B. Hasbrouck
Rondout, N.Y., Feb 24.-The Hon Abraham
Bruyn Hasbrouck, a distinguished lawyer and scholar, an ex-member of Congress and ex-president of Rutgers' College, died at his residence in Kingston, at 10 o'clock last night, in his eighty-eighth year.

Mr. Hasbrouck was born in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y., on the 29th of November 1791. He was graduated in 1806 from the Kingston Academy, and shortly afterward entered Yale College, from which he was graduated with high honors in 1810. He then studied law at Litchfield, Conn., under Judge Reeves, and with Elisha Williams, of Hudson N.Y. In 1814 he commenced the practice of law in Kingston, and formed a copartnership with Charles H. Ruggles in 1817. The copartnership existed till the appointment of Mr. Ruggles as Circuit Judge in 1831. In 1825 he was elected to represent Ulster and Sullivan Counties in Congress. In the Fall of 1833 he formed a copartnership with the Hon. Marius Schoonmaker, of Kingston. In 1840 he was elected to the presidency of Rutgers' College, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. Milliedoler, which position he accepted and held till 1850. He then resided in this city for a few years with his family, but becoming dissatisfied with the noise and turmoil of the city, again returned to Kingston, where he retired to private life. For over half a century he had held the highest positions of trust and honor, and was prominent in nearly every noted society or institution in the place of his residence. He was highly esteemed by his many friends, regardless of party differences. In 1831 he became the president of the Ulster Count Bank, the olddest bank in the county, and retained that position until he went to Rutgers. In politics he was originally a Whig. He joined the Republican ranks in the early days of the organization. During his last years he was still a strong advocate of the principles of that party, though unable by age to take an active part in the campaigns. Mr. Hasbrouck was a member of the Reformed Church. He has lived to see grow up around him a large family of children. His son, Jonathan H. Hasbrouck, is now in the United States District-Attorney's office in this city; one daughter, Mary, is the wife of Judge Joseph S. Barnard of Poughkeepsie, and another daughter, Caroline, is the wife of General George H. Sharpe, now in the Assembly. Mr. Hasbrouck left an estate valued at from $100,000 to $125,000. His wife, who was also the sister of Judge G. W. Ludlum, died about six years ago.
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