f considerable reputation, died in
Charleston, S. C, on the 28th of January. The Charleston _Evening News_
says:--"He was a native of Yorkshire, England, but for the last twenty
years has resided in this country, and during the last eleven, in
Georgia and South Carolina. In all the relations of life, as husband,
father, son, and brother, he was irreproachable, while his gentle and
winning manners conciliated general esteem and regard. At his death Mr.
Wilson had attained a distinguished reputation as a portrait painter, in
which department he first attracted attention in 1836, by the exhibition
of a portrait of an intimate friend at the first exhibition of the
"American Art-Union," at the Apollo Gallery. In 1837 he exhibited
several heads of the Academy of Design, which attracted much attention.
In 1844 he exhibited a head of a brother artist, which was more
generally admired than any similar production for years. In 1846 Mr. W.
received a commission from the State of Georgia to execute two
portraits--one of William H. Crawford, former Secretary of the Treasury,
and the other of Gen. Jackson. After a tedious and troublesome journey
to the North, in search of Jarvis's portrait of Crawford, which could
not be traced, he returned to Charleston, and while copying from
Vanderlyn's portrait of Gen. Jackson in the City Hall, he was presented
by Charles Fraser, Esq., with a proof engraving of Jarvis's Crawford,
from which, on his return to Augusta, he produced a most striking
portrait of Georgia's greatest statesman. These pictures of Jackson and
Crawford, which adorn the State House at Milledgeville, will be lasting
memorials of his excellence as an artist."

JAMES WALLACE, D.D., the distinguished Mathematician, several years
Professor of Mathematics in Columbia College, New-York, died in
Lexington District, South Carolina, on the 15th of January. After
completing his course of Theology, he was ordained a clergyman of the
Roman Catholic Church, and was then appointed to the chair of
Mathematics in Georgetown College, D.C. A few years later he removed to
Columbia, S. C., and was appointed Professor of Mathematics in South
Carolina College. While in New-York he published his justly celebrated
"Treatise on Globes and Practical Astronomy," and had prepared materials
for an entire course of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, but was
compelled to relinquish his design on account of ill-health and advanced
age. He was also the autho