, Mr.
Poinsett accepted the office of Secretary of War. On the election of Gen.
Harrison he retired to his home in South Carolina, where he devoted
himself to those literary pursuits which formed the pleasure of his life;
and thence he issued, only two years ago, those stirring appeals against
secession, which were among the most powerful influences for the
preservation of the endangered peace of the Union at that period. Mr.
Poinsett received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Columbia College in
this city, and he was a member of many learned societies in this country,
and in Europe. Besides his _Notes on Mexico_, written soon after his last
return from that country, he published several addresses, was a large
contributor to the _Southern Quarterly Review_ and other periodicals, and
furnished some important papers to the Paris Geographical Society, and
other learned associations abroad and at home.

MOSES STUART, D.D., of the Theological Seminary at Andover, died at his
residence in that town on the 4th of January, in the seventy-second year
of his age. He was born in Wilton, Conn., March 16, 1780; was graduated at
Yale College in 1799; and was a tutor in that institution from 1802 to
1804. After having studied the profession of the law, he turned his
attention to theology, and in 1806 was ordained pastor of the Central
Congregational church in New Haven. He was called to the Professorship of
Sacred Literature in Andover Theological Seminary in 1810, and continued
for nearly forty years to discharge its important duties. Professor Stuart
was a man of great natural abilities, honorable principles, and a strong
will; for a long period he occupied the first place among cultivators of
sacred learning in this country; and though younger men, with larger
opportunities, have recently attained to greater eminence, no one in the
same field has ever exercised a more important and advantageous influence.
His first considerable work was a _Hebrew Grammar_, published in 1823. It
scarcely deserves comparison with the more celebrated performance of
Gesenius, of which Professor Stuart himself gave to the public a
translation, more than twenty years after the publication of his own work;
but for some time after its original appearance it was the best Hebrew
Grammar in the English language. In 1825 he was associated with Professor
Robinson in the production of a _Greek Grammar of the New Testament_; in
1827 he published his _Comme