watched with concern the retrogressive policy on this question of the Southern Democracy. His opposition to slavery extension was earnest and radical, without a trace of fanaticism. On this subject he agreed in opinion with that far-sighted and cool-headed statesman, Gov. Seward, whose personal friendship he enjoyed, and of whose poliсу the Times has always been an able defender. He lived long enough to be gladdened, as over a private joy, at the final and complete removal of the nation's shame, without wrong-doing or rashness on the part of the Government which he loved.

Dr. Tuthill came to San Francisco, and his connection with the Bulletin commenced, about November, 1859. In January, 1862, he purchased a proprietary interest in the establishment. While he remained in the State he was constantly engaged as a writer of editorials or general-information articles for the second and third pages of this journal, or as legislative correspondent from Sacramento. In whichever capacity he labored, his work was brilliantly executed. His mind sparkled with genius, and his frail physical system obeyed its demands by almost ceaseless labor, until, alas! the body wore out at the early age of forty-three. It seemed as though he could not sleep, for fear some valuable thought might be lost for the want of a ready hand to record it. Coming to California in response to an invitation from this office, he resolved to make his permanent home here, and at once absorbed the spirit of the country. He speedily made himself familiar with every institution and capability of the State, and within a year after his arrival possessed an amount of historical knowledge and local information concerning men and things that would have shamed most pioneers who might have ventured to compare knowledge with him. This intellectual achievement was accomplished by a vast amount of dry and uninviting "head work." After each day's newspaper labor had been finished, and after his evening entertainments were over, he devoted a large share of the night to poring over the bound files of old California newspapers, carefully noting each fact and circumstance that had historical value, or that could be made.

useful to him as a journalist. He followed up this practice until all the files in the Bulletin office, in the Mercantile Library, as well as the mass of bound volumes of newspapers in the State Library at Sacramento, were essentially read through, and their contents treasured in his mind. It was a work of years, mostly performed while others slept.

The fruits of this labor were largely enjoyed by the Bulletin; but since Dr. Tuthill left California, the fact has been ascertained that he had a higher ambition to gratify than could be gained as a newspaper writer, and which accounts for his persevering investigation. It seems that while he was performing an extraordinary amount of intellectual labor in connection with this journal and while as an active church member, teacher in the Sunday schools, occasional lecturer before benevolent institutions and temperance societies, his leisure hours were apparently fully employed-he was engaged in still another labor, which absorbed the highest capacities of his mind. He was devoting a certain number of hours each day to collecting materials for and writing a history of California. What the scope and design of his history may have been we have no means of knowing, further than the title imports, for he seems to have admitted no one into his. confidence on the subject, outside of his family and the publisher whom he consulted. We learn to-day, for the first time, that when Dr. Tuthill left California he took with him the manuscript copy of his history, embracing matter enough for a large volume, which was placed in the hands of the printer in New York before he left that city for Europe. While traveling in foreign countries, it appears that he visited the principal libraries where manuscripts concerning the early history of California are preserved, and it is presumable that his history is to be enriched and made authentic by much valuable data not hitherto published. After his return to New York from Europe, he was employing his time in superintending the printing of his book, when death terminated his earthly duties. We can assume with certainty, however, that his history is written with

the same purity, clearness, compactness and grace which characterized his style as a writer for the press, and which lent a charm to everything that came from his pen.

In our invigorating climate, and surrounded by the fascinating circumstances of life in a new country, he seemed to develop in the course of his newspaper writing a different and higher capacity. The critical reader of the Bulletin's columns while he was employed upon them, will remember the keen wit, the playful fancy, the original and apposite illustrations, the abundant flow of humor, the fund of information, the felicitous use of words, which gave beauty and influence to his daily productions. These traits were observable in all he did, either as editor, correspondent or reporter. His reports of public meetings, speeches and debates were peculiarly graphic, picturesque and entertaining, giving the very life and spirit of the scenes or utterances reproduced. His happy reports of the earliest lectures and sermons of Thomas Starr King first introduced and popularized on this coast that distinguished man, who acknowledged to Dr. Tuthill how much he esteemed this brilliant labor in his behalf, and who also expressed his admiration for the Doctor's own rare merit as an extemporaneous speaker, in which capacity he was often called upon to serve some charitable, religious or literary institutions in this city. His gifts were fatal to him: for while he was entirely averse to display, and never courted notice in any manner, he loved to do with all his might what his heart and intellect prompted, and thus sacrificed the physical vigor that could alone sustain him even at the single task of journalism.

It is impossible for those who recently labored with Dr. Tuthill in connection with this journal, to adequately express their high appreciation of his character, or the depth of their sorrow at his loss. None but those who knew his pure and guileless nature, his genial ways, his unvarying cheerfulness, his truthfulness, his benevolence, his utter lack of malicious or sinister traits, can understand how he was beloved and how keenly his loss is felt. But it is some consolation to reflect that a very large num

ber of people in this State knew him personally, many of them intimately-for he was accessible to all-and that they, as well as ourselves, recognized him as a friend, while they appreciated his great value to society. No man in his position could have enjoyed more of public esteem than he had earned. In the church where he regularly attended, and in the private circles drawn around him, he was sincerely beloved. Whatever antagonisms were provoked by the course of the Bulletin on public questions, never extended to him personally; and yet he made no concessions of principle or action to win the esteem that everywhere flowed to him, and which we are sure must have been peculiarly grateful to his feelings. His writings and his daily walks were guided by convictions of duty, and his life has been offered on its shrine.