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The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
Death of Bishop Cobbs.
--The Right Rev. Nicholas H. Cobbs, D. D. Bishop of Alabama, expired at his residence, in Montgomery, on Friday last.
The deceased, who was born in Bedford county, Va., in 1795, enjoyed a high reputation as a Christian divine and scholar, and was universally esteemed and beloved — He first entered upon the duties of the priesthood at Richmond, Virginia, in 1825, became Chaplain of the University of Virginia in 1834, and in 1839 was called to the charge of St. Paul'ia in 1834, and in 1839 was called to the charge of St. Paul's Church, Petersburg, Va. In 1843 he accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's Church, Cincinnati, having in the meanwhile (1842.) been created under circumstances highly honorable to himself, a Doctor of Divinity, by Geneva, Now Hobart College, New York.
He was elected to the Episcopate of Alabama in May, 1844, and consecrated to that holy office in October of the same year, at Philadelphia, entering upon its duties immediately after.
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pardons in New York. (search)
Georgia State Convention. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 17.
--The only interesting points in the Convention, to-day, were able and brilliant speeches by the South Carolina and Alabama Commissioners.
[second Dispatch.] Milledgeville, Jan. 17.
--It is reported that a test vote about the Ordinance of Secession, is to be taken to-morrow.