which Frank Soulé, Esq., and Dr. J. H. Gihon were associated, though Mr. Nisbet did a large part of the work. The writing for this was very hasty, and he never attached any value to it, although time is giving it considerable interest. While engaged on the Annals his industry, discriminating judgment, and power thoroughly to perform great intellectual labor, at once surprised and delighted his employers and associates in the book, one of whom, Mr. Soulé, about the same time became part proprietor of a prominent daily newspaper, The California Chronicle, to which circumstance is due the fact that Mr. Nisbet, while still engaged on the Annals, was transferred to a desk in the editorial rooms of that paper. He continued in that position until March, 1856, when, at the solicitation of James King of Wm., he accepted a higher position on the Bulletin, and ultimately became one of its proprietors. For nine years afterward, until the date of his fatal voyage, he filled the position of supervising editor of the Bulletin, evincing great industry, taste, judgment and devotion. He was a purist in the matter of selections and language, a singularly independent critic in literature, music and the drama, and master of a terse, vigorous English style. His theory of journalism was above passion and personality, and conformed to the honorable rules which regulate the intercourse of gentlemen. Although he did not write the leading editorials, and never wrote on political topics at all, confining his labors almost exclusively to the news desk and the supervision of other departments, he used his influence to modify the asperities of contests that the paper could not avoid. Puffery in any degree found in him a stern foe, and he was almost morbidly sensitive lest the paper should be prostituted to unworthy uses, its reading columns made a medium for personal or business matters, or its advertising columns opened to any kind of impurity. He elevated the paper into an ideal institution, with a strict code of morals to which all were made to conform. In his own character he possessed the best elements to maintain the peculiar authority he exercised in the office. He led a pure and chaste life, free from every vice, and was possessed of a

singularly robust constitution. "His innate love of justice was so great that no personal friendship could tempt him to desert the right or excuse a wrong; and yet he loved his friends with a devotion that was not counterbalanced by hatred for enemies. No journalist of this country was ever so continuously reviled for the faults or pretended faults of others, and yet he would not deviate in the slightest degree from the straight line to seek redress for an injury. Those who made themselves his enemies he wished to forget and dismiss from recollection. If he had a weakness, it was extreme sensitiveness as to his personal honor. He freely confessed that he could never clothe himself in iron mail so as not to feel the effects of unjust criticism-indulgence in which he characterized as peculiarly American-and this sensitiveness becoming known to newspaper men generally, served to incite attacks from that class of them who, having no independent reasoning powers or ideas of justice, are ever seeking opportunities for notoriety by stinging whatever innocent and unresisting objects can be made to feel their spite." Although, as stated above, he was not one of the leading writers of the paper, and was not responsible for its political course, he was yet held accountable, during several years, for whatever in its columns provoked animosity, and was made the victim of some of the cruelest slander. When he died, his surviving partners said of him: "It is due to justice that we now admit and chronicle the fact, that any excellencies which the Bulletin has heretofore possessed resulted from Mr. Nisbet's labors more than from those of any other person, while he is perhaps responsible for fewer of its faults than any of the other writers that were immediately associated with him. It was his labor that made the Bulletin instructive and attractive in its news and literary departments; his finishing strokes were seen in almost every column, all of which he made consistent one with the other. The editorials upon local and national politics and upon the passing topics of the day, many of which have doubtless provoked a multitude of resentments, were none of them the production of Mr. Nisbet. He engaged in no strife, assailed no one, was offensive to no

one, but was useful and serviceable to his partners, of value to the State and country, and an honor to his kind. Such men as Mr. Nisbet, and particularly in the profession which he adorned on this coast, seldom gain appreciation or reward from the busy world, that knows so little how much it is their debtor. They devote their lives to constant labors which are the most exacting upon body and brain, and require a large amount of self-abnegation, and their quiet, modest usefulness is disregarded amid the selfish excitements and passions that whirl about them. Happy, indeed, are they if slander and abuse do not disturb their still lives, and follow them to the grave. But

we believe that in spite of his own sensitive and retiring nature, our departed friend and co-worker was better appreciated in this community than he himself knew, and will be sincerely regretted by all whose natures sympathize with what is most pure and lofty in our common humanity."

FRANKLIN TUTHILL, one of Mr. Nisbet's partners and editorial associates in the Bulletin, died in New York on the 27th of August, 1865-the same day that the latter's remains were conveyed to their final resting-place in San Francisco. He left this city in October, 1864, for a trip through Europe, hoping to recover from an organic disease which had long preyed upon his health. He returned to New York in July, 1865, after a rapid and pleasant journey through England, France, Spain, Italy, and some of the German States, apparently almost restored to health, and confident of his ability to return at an early day to his editorial post. But while engaged in correcting the proofs of his History of California, which was then being printed in New York, he was seized with a relapse and soon passed away. The Bulletin published the following sketch of his life:

Dr. Tuthill was born April 3d, 1822, in Suffolk county, on the east end of Long Island, of a highly respectable family, which was among the earliest settlers on the Island.

He entered college when only fourteen years old, and graduated when eighteen. He subsequently studied medicine under such distinguished Professors as the late Valentine Mott, Sr., Doctors Draper, Revere, and their associates, and graduated at the New York University in 1844. He immediately began to practice his profession near his native place, and followed it with success for seven years, taking to it that conscientious devotion to duty, patience, kindness, and nicety of perception, which are essential to the character of a good physician, and which in his character were always leading traits. Without the least obtrusiveness or desire for publicity, Dr. Tuthill became, through his genial nature, his intelligence, and his zealous attention to the best interests. of the community, a very popular man. Although a Whig in politics, he was for five successive years appointed Town Superintendent of Schools by a Democratic Board of Supervisors. In 1860, he was elected by a handsome majority to represent his district in the Assembly of New York, and was the first Whig, with a single exception, ever sent to the Legislature from that ancient stronghold of Democracy. While in the Legislature, he distinguished himself by his ability and tact in debate, by his industry, by his integrity amidst much corruption, and by his earnest labors in favor of the revised School Act, a measure of great benefit to the cause of popular education in the Empire State, the passage of which was largely the fruit of his exertions. He was also an earnest and eloquent advocate of the canal enlargement policy, the success of which, despite the strong opposition of the Democracy at a special legislative session, greatly increased the commerce and wealth of the State. He strove to get through a bill legalizing dissection of the human body, as a means to facilitate anatomical studies, in conformity with the practice in some foreign countries; but the measure was killed by amendments after it passed the preliminary stage in both Houses, though it became a law a year or two later. He made a lengthy report upon an absurd petition to make bleeding in medical practice a penal offence, provoking thereby a spirited discussion in

the profession at home and abroad, and a slashing review which extended through three numbers of the English Quarterly an organ of the Chrono-Thermalists.

While a member of the Legislature, Dr. Tuthill removed to New York, intending to resume the practice of medicine in that city; but at the end of a year he followed his stronger bent to literary pursuits, and became one of the editors of the Daily Times, in which position he labored until 1859 with peculiar ability and success. Indeed, he developed the most admirable capacity for journalism, and gave to it the best energies of his life. He continued in his new sphere his interest in popular education, and was an active friend of medical science and of the various benevolent institutions of the city, showing the most liberal feeling in regard to the admission of women to all the advantages of a thorough medical education afforded by the clinics and colleges. He was credited with exercising a decided influence upon municipal affairs, and urged with great ability some of most important measures of public policy, including the new City Hall, the Central Park, and other public improvements. He probably did more by his articles in the Times than any other person to convince the people and the authorities of that city of the value and need of a great park, and to induce the action which resulted in creating what is destined to be one of the finest city parks in the world. His facts and arguments were so pertinent and well arranged, his style so pointed, yet graceful and attractive, that whatever he wrote on local topics was sure to be read attentively by all, and to secure through cotemporary journals a wider circulation than even the vast edition of the Times could secure.

His public spirit and usefulness led to his being elected to the Legislature from New York city in 1858, when he again became conspicuous for his devotion to measures of vital importance to the State, and for the rare grace, tact and ability with which he advocated them in debate. At this time, also, he was among the most earnest of the early Republicans. His instincts were always opposed to slavery, as to every other form of injustice, and he had