their professional opinion that an underground railway in Broadway was practicable, and he was at various times President of the New York Underground Railroad, the United States Rolling Stock Company, and the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. In March, 1877, he was nominated by Gov. Robinson as Superintendent of Public Works in New York State, but the nomination was not confirmed. On Sept. 19, 1877, he was nominated by the Democratic party of New Jersey as its candidate for Governor, and he was elected by a vote of 97,837 to 85,094 cast for the Republican candidate. His administration was one of the best in the history of the State. Up to the day of his death he was prominent in the business and social life of the metropolis. His last formal public appearance was at the Decoration-day ceremony on the battle-field of Antietam in 1885, when he delivered the oration. He died of neuralgia of the heart, after an illness of four hours, and was buried at Trenton, N. J.

Gen. McClellan was about five feet eight inches in height, neatly and compactly built, with strong shoulders supporting a large neck and a handsome head. His eyes were gray and clear, and his complexion ruddy. He wore a mustache and imperial, sandy colored in the days of the war, but silver-gray at the time of his death. His forehead was prominent, his rose good, and his whole face indicative of a strong and fine nature. He had in a rare degree the peculiar charm that wins the love and confidence of men. It was felt by all who came into personal contact with him in the closing years of his life, not less than by the mass of his soldiers, whose rolling cheers were wont to announce his coming along the lines. Though few men of his generation were more bitterly assailed, his achievements were great, his character beautiful, and his life blameless. He was the author of no book beyond those already mentioned, and the "Report on the Organization of the Army of the Potomac, and of its Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland," published in 1864; but he contributed several papers to the magazines, and was one of the best writers among the soldiers of the civil war.

MCCLOSKEY, JOHN, an American prelate, born of Irish parentage in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 20, 1810; died in New York city, Oct. 10, 1885. At the time of his birth Brooklyn was a village of fewer than 5,000 inhabitants, and New York was a city of fewer than 100,000; and there was neither Catholic priest nor Catholic church in the former, and only two priests and one church (St. Peter's) in the latter, though a second church (St. Patrick's Cathedral) was building. He was baptized by the Rev. Anthony Kohlman, who was acting as administrator of New York, which had been made a separate diocese two years before, but was then a vacant see. As a boy, the first American cardinal used to go down to the East river with his mother on Sundays, and

cross in a row-boat from Brooklyn to hear mass in New York. He was a lad of delicate constitution, and an accident, in which a log rolled over him, weakened his lungs, so that even in early manhood he did not expect to live beyond forty years of age, and made the very frailness of his life the excuse for spending it lavishly in the labors of the priesthood.

His parents were well-to-do, and in 1822 he was sent to school at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmettsburg, then in charge of its founder, the Rev. John Dubois, a school-fellow of Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, who be came third Bishop of New York in 1826. Young McCloskey was of gentle disposition and studious habits, and after a seven years' preparatory and collegiate course he entered the theological department at Mount St. Mary's to prepare for the priesthood. Completing a seminary course of five years, he was ordained a priest by Bishop Dubois in the old cathedral, Jan. 12, 1834, being the eighteenth priest ordained in the Diocese of New York. The previous year the bishop had laid the corner-stone of a college and seminary at Nyack on the Hudson, and though the building was destroyed by fire and the project long delayed, it was not abandoned, and the young priest, with a view to fitting him for the presidency of such an institution, was allowed to go to Rome to continue his studies. Early in 1835 he entered the Gregorian College, where he spent two years. and he so contrived his slow return as to see something of the various countries of Europe, reaching home admirably endowed by nature and thoroughly equipped by education for the career he was to run. He was appointed, Nov. 1, 1837, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, corner of Washington place and Sixth avenue, the fifth in order of erection of the Catholic churches of the city. The parish was extensive, stretching from Bleecker street to Harlem, and the congregation was fresh from a serious quarrel with the former pastor arising out of the old trustee system; but Father McCloskey entered upon his duties with cheerful enthusiasm. He is described as at that period bright-eyed and frail-looking, but indefatigable.

Bishop Hughes, who had been made coadjutor of Bishop Dubois in 1838, and administrator of the diocese in the following year, opened St. John's College, Fordham, June 24, 1841, and appointed Father McCloskey presi dent. He held the office about a year, and then returned to his parish-work. In 1843 Bishop Hughes asked for a coadjutor, and the Provincial Council, Nov. 23, nominated Father McCloskey for the place, and he was consecrated, March 10, 1844, Bishop of Axieren, in partibus, and made coadjutor of the Diocese of New York with the right of succession, being then thirty-four years old. In 1847 the new sees of Albany and Buffalo were erected, and Bishop McCloskey was transferred to the former city, May 21, 1847. There he remained as bishop for seventeen years, laboring for the develop