In Thomaston, Me. on the 25th of October, Hon. DANIEL ROSE, aged 62. Dr. Rose graduated at Yale College, in 1791, and subsequently devoted himself for many years to the practice of medicine, in which profession he maintained a high rank. During the late war, he was called into the public service and was distinguished for his skill and the accuracy of his judgement in the Engineer Department. For several years he was a member of the Legislature of Massachusetts. After the separation he was a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of Maine. Was appointed to the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands under the Articles of Separation, was three years successively elected to the Senate of Maine, and was one year President of that body. In 1824, he was appointed Warden of the State Prison, which office he held till 1828, when he was transferred to the Land Agency of the state, and continued in that situation, with the exception of a year, till his decease. To the discharge of the various public duties to which he was called, as well as to the duties of his profession, he brought the aid of a strong and discriminating mind and a sound judgement. It may be justly and emphatically said of him, that in whatever public situation he was placed, he was invariably found capable, faithful, and honest. In his private relations he was esteemed most by those who knew him best. The poor, especially, within the circle of his practice as a physician, will remember him with gratitude.

In Hartford, Con. Nov. 17, ELI TODD, M. D. Physician of the Retreat for the Insane in that city. In the death of this truly great and most excellent man, society has lost one of its brightest ornaments, the profession one of its most eminent and useful members, and the institution over which he presided a Superintendent and Physician of the highest order of intellect, combined with a benevolence of character and kindness of feeling rarely equaled. Long will that institution mourn the loss of this ardent friend and patron, and most fortunate will it be, if it finds a successor endowed with the same pre-eminent qualifications of mind and heart.

Dr. Todd was born in New-Haven, Con. about the year 1769. He graduated at Yale College in 1787-afterwards studied his profession with Dr. Ebenezer Beardsley, of that city, who had deservedly a high reputation in his profession. Dr. Todd settled in Farmington, Con. in very early life. He was early distinguished for his ingenuity and professional tact, -for his ardor in the pursuit of science, and his correct judgement in the practice of his profession. He soon became extensively known as a physician, and while yet a junior in his profession, was well appreciated by his older brethren, and at this early age he was able to recognize amongst his friends some of the most distinguished physicians of his native state. these, Dr. Lemuel Hopkins, Dr. Munson, and Dr. Daniel Sheldon stood pre-eminent.

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Dr. Todd continued his residence in Farmington upwards of twenty years, when he left for New-York. Such was his popularity in Farmington, such the ardor of their friendship for him, and especially such was their confi

dence in his medical character and skill, that they took immediate measures to induce him to return. They made him liberal offers, and manifested so much confidence and affection, that his generous feelings yielded to their entreaty, and his return among them was hailed with great joy.

He continued to reside in Farmington till the autumn of 1819, when he established himself in the city of Hartford, to which his fame and his practice had long before extended. He immediately went into full practice in that city, and very soon became the favorite counsellor of almost all the physicians of the city and neighboring towns. This removal improved his field of practice, and he immediately rose to the head of his profession, and was consulted more extensively than any other physician in the

state.

In the spring of 1821 an unusual number of cases of insanity took place in Hartford and its vicinity. Dr. Todd was of course consulted in most of them. He saw, more clearly than ever before, the difficulty of managing such cases in the houses of their friends. His attention was led by this to the establishment of an Asylum for their comfort and restoration. It was a subject of delightful contemplation to his ardent and benevolent mind. He suggested the idea to some of his brethren, and it became the subject of conversation at their friendly visits. In the spring of 1822, Dr. Todd brought the subject before the Hartford County Medical Society, and gave it such an interest, that the Society instructed their Fellows to carry it before the Medical Convention of the state, which met in Hartford soon after.

Dr. Todd was one of the Fellows. The subject was presented to the Convention in so interesting a manner, as to produce a unanimity unequaled in that body, and they appointed a committee to report the next day on the expediency of immediately commencing this enterprise. Dr. Todd was chairman of this committee. Their report, which was ably drawn up, portrayed, in a brief and forcible manner, the wretched condition of this unfortunate class of fellow beings.

A committee was appointed to devise ways and means to establish an institution for the relief and cure of insanity. Dr. Todd was again the chairman of this committee, and in all their transactions was a most conspicuous actor,his ardor kindled the energies of others, and it is not too much to say, that to him, more than to any other, is the state and country indebted, for the establishment of that excellent "Retreat."

When the Retreat for the Insane was nearly completed and ready to go into operation, the eyes of all its friends were turned towards Dr. Todd, as the Superintendent of the Medical Department. Long and perseveringly did he resist all their entreaties-he wholly declined taking charge of an institution, which he had so much agency in establishing. Here the delicacy of his feelings was strongly manifestedhe would not bear, for a moment, the thought, that his zeal in this benevolent cause should, by any, be attributed to a selfish motive.

He was, however, unanimously appointed by the committee, whose duty it was to make the selection. His friends unitedly urged him to

take the responsible station-and be at last yielded to their solicitations. He commenced the duties of his new station on the first day of April, 1824. A new field was now opened for his ardent and ingenuous mind, as well as for the exercise of the best feelings of his heart.

For all the duties of this new station, his qualifications were of the highest order, as subsequent experience has fully exemplified. In the management of the insane, he was most fruitful in expedients, and exhaustless in resources. He rarely failed to calm the irritable, and to inspire hope and confidence in the timid and melancholic. He looked at the cause of disease as by intuition, and saw, more readily than any man I ever knew, the secret springs and movings of the minds of the insane.

He was no less capable of securing their confidence and affections. All the inmates of the house loved him as a parent; they would flock around him and bless him, solicit his attention and favor, and urge his return. In his intercourse with them, he was gentle, conciliatory, and full of kindness-at the same time, so dignified as to secure respect, and acquiescence in all his plans for their restoration.

Few institutions in the world, of this character, have been more successfully managed than the Retreat, while under the care of Dr. Todd. He took it in its infancy, without patients, and almost without resources, adopted a plan of management peculiarly his own, carried it into successful operation, raised it to the highest character, by the proportion of its cures and the comfort of its inmates, of any public institution in the world. In this, too, he has raised himself a name for genius and philanthropy, as imperishable as the cause of humanity itself; a name which few can aspire to, and fewer still can obtain.

Dr. Todd's devotion to the Retreat, did not prevent his doing much business abroad. As a counsellor, his reputation was deservedly high. His honorable feeling towards his brethren, no less than his interest and sympathy for the sick, endeared him to all his friends and all his patients. He was always popular with his medical brethren, and received the highest honor from their hands, which it was in their power to bestow. He was Vice-President and President of the Connecticut Medical Society, VicePresident and President of the Hopkins Medical Association, which last honor he held at his death.

Political honors were tendered him and urged upon him, but he uniformly refused them. Some years ago, he was urged to take charge of the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, near New-York, and more recently, of the State Lunatic Asylum, in Worcester, Mass., all of which his attachment to his favorite Retreat induced him to decline. Till the moment of his death, the welfare and prosperity of that noble institution, was the subject of his constant solicitude. During the last three years, Dr. Todd has had distressing paroxysms of disease in which the heart participated largely. For the last year, the symptoms of fatal lesion of the vital organs of the chest, have been successively developed. Till late in the season, he devoted the summer to his health. As cold weather approached, he returned to his home. With the same unfaverable appreciation of his own symptoms, as he would have had in the case of another, he was fully confident that they must soon terminate

his existence. He waited that event, with Christian fortitude, and Christian resignation, and at last yielded his spirit into the hands of him who gave it, in humble confidence, through the mercy of the Saviour, of a full fruition of endless bliss hereafter.

Of the character of Doctor Todd, it is difficult to speak in other language than that of high panegyric; so much so, that a true delineation of it would be liable to be mistaken for the ebullition of a friendship, blinded to his faults by partial prejudice.

His mind was endowed with those peculiar traits, which, by way of eminence, have received the appellation of genius. In matters of science and literature, he was an enthusiast. In the investigation of any subject, he was thorough and patient-his impressions were strong, his perceptions clear. He was rmarkable for lucid views, and rational deductions, and particularly for the ingenuity of his reasoning in the explanation of cause and effect. This has led some to suppose that he was visionary and hypothetical. But, if his mind delighted to range in the field of speculation, in the investigation of a subject, he had a happy talent of divesting himself of all his theories, and, when he acted on any occasion, he was a practical man in all respects. He never suffered his judgment to be warped by the visions of his fancy. He was truly a matter-of-fact man, and, in the practice of his profession, depended more on experience than on science; so much so, that it was a frequent observation of his, that medicine was rather an art, than a science.

Doctor Todd was not exclusively a physician ; he was a philosopher and a scholar: fond of reading and of study, he was at home on most subjects of science; his mind was stored with facts and observations, so numerous, that it was like a rich mine, full of treasures, polished by the correction of a refined taste, ready, on the first opening, to excite admiration and in

terest.

In his manners, and his feelings, the contemplation of his character is no less interesting. His manners were highly refined, easy, graceful and prepossessing. Possessed of an unusual share of colloquial eloquence, flowing from the rich stores of his cultivated mind, and benevolent heart, he would be listened to with delight and instruction at all times, and on all occasions.

Dr. Todd was a genuine philanthropist : his feelings were ardent, his benevolence knew no bounds. In the practice of his profession no pecuniary considerations ever influenced him in the discharge of its duties. The prevailing motive of his whole life seemed to be, to diminish the wants and sufferings of mankind, to extend their happiness and improve their characters. His charity and hospitality were proverbial, his integrity firm and unbending, his moral character was without a stain, and wholly above suspicion. He had a high sense of honor, was firm in his friendships, and, although most careful in all his conduct, ever ready to palliate and forgive the faults of others.

During his last illness, his Christian character shone pre-eminent in his patience under sufferings, his meekness and fortitude under severe trials, his kind feelings and sympathy to the distressed, and a humble reliance on the Christian's hope, for forgiveness and acceptance by his Father in heaven. [Worcester Spy.]