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Rh was chosen president. He served in congress in 1878-'82, and in 1886 was appointed a member of the board of public affairs of Cincinnati, which office he held at his death.

YOUNG, William, journalist, b. in Deptford, England, in 1809 ; d. in Paris, France, 15 April, 1888. His father was an admiral in the royal navy. He married an American lady in 1839, and came to this country, where, from 1848 till 1867, he edited in New York city " The Albion," a paper devoted to British news and interests. In 1868 he established " Every Afternoon," which was discon- tinued in four weeks with heavy loss. He then re- moved to Paris, where he afterward resided. Mr. Young published "Two Hundred Lyrical Poems of Beranger, done into English Verse " (New York, 1850); "Oarmina Collegensia" (1868); " Mathieu Ropars, etc., by an Ex-Editor" (1868); and "The Man who Laughs," from the French of Victor Hugo (1869). He also wrote the letter-press for a collection of photographs entitled " Lights and Shades of New York Picture Galleries" (1863), and adapted several plays from the French.

'''YOUNG. William Henry Harrison Hutchinson''', journalist, b. in Amherst, Erie co., N. Y., 4 May, 1819. He was educated at Fredonia academy, N. Y., admitted to the bar, and practised in Buffalo, but removed to the south, took part in the Texan revolution and the Mexican war, and also edited the Savannah " Georgian " and " Young's Spirit of the South " at Nashville, Tenn., and Louisville, Ky. He has also been connected editorially with several papers at the north, including the " Spirit of the Times," the " Democratic Review," and the Cincinnati " Sunday Despatch." He married a wealthy southern lady, and together they aided in establishing the " Kinney Colony" in Nicaragua, publishing there the " Central American." At the opening of the civil war they raised and equipped at their own expense Young's Kentucky light cavalry (afterward the 3d Pennsylvania cavalry), which was the first cavalry regiment to take the field, and of which Mr. Young became colonel. Since the war Col. Young has practised law in Washington, and has been in- terested in establishing a colony of veteran soldiers in Florida. He and his wife also founded the New York volunteer institute, a school in which they educated 900 soldiers' orphans at their own ex- pense. Col. Young has invented and patented an artificial stone.

YSABEAU, Alphonse Paul (ee-zah-bo), French naval officer, b. in Dunkirk in 1811; d. in Foil de France, Martinique, in Decmber, 1848. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1826, was promoted ensign in 1832 and lieutenant in 1837, sailed in the fleet that under Admiral De Mackau blockaded Buenos Ayres in 1840-'3, and was employed in hydrographic service in the river Plate. He made also a survey of the lower basin of the Parana. After a short sojourn in France he was attached to the station of Martinique, and died in Fort de France of yellow fever. He wrote " Rapport sur le bassin inferieur du Parana " (Paris, 1845) ; " Journal d'un temoin du siege de Buenos Ayres " (2 vols., 1846); and " Etudes sur les revolutions et les guerres civiles dans l'Amerique du Sud " (3 vols., Fort de France, 1848).

YSAMBERT, Gustave (ee-zahm-bair), French naval officer, b. in Brittany in 1667 ; d. in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, 18 March, 1711. After command- ing a privateer in the West Indies and the Pacific ocean, he entered the royal navy about 1700, with the rank of commander. In i710 he sailed as chief-of-staff of Jean Baptiste Duclerc in the lat- ter's expedition to Brazil. On 6 Aug. they sighted Rio Janeiro, which they could have then carried by a speedy attack, but, Duclerc's intention being opposed by Ysambert and the council of war, they anchored on 17 Aug. at a point near Tejuco and landed 900 marines. The Portuguese meanwhile had prepared for resistance, and when the French arrived at Novo Engenho dos Padres da Cornpan hia, six miles from Rio Janeiro, they met a Portuguese division which they defeated. Failing to receive co-operation from the fleet, which had been dispersed by a tempest, they were attacked, on 18 Sept., by the viceroy, Francisco de Castro Moraes, with superior forces, but routed him and followed the fugitives into the city. Being received there by a cross-fire from fortified buildings, Ysam- bert with a small party barricaded himself in the city-hall, while Duclerc took shelter in the custom- house. After a heavy loss, Duclerc agreed to ca- pitulate on condition that his forces should be re- turned to France ; but Ysambert, whose position was stronger, was reluctant to trust the Portu- guese, and continued resistance till he received peremptory orders from Duclerc to comply with the terms of the capitulation. The leaders were well treated, but a few days later the French fleet, unaware of the surrender, made an attack on the city. The viceroy proclaimed the capitulation vio- lated, and the officers were thereafter kept in close confinement. Duclerc and Ysambert were killed by the guard in an attempt to escape, or mur- dered, according to other historians, on 18 March, 1711. Their death was avenged a few months later by Dugay-Trouin, who released the surviv- ing French prisoners.

YSAMBERT, Jules Henri d', French ad- ministrator, b. in Nancy, Lorraine, in 1739; d. there in 1795. He entered the quartermaster's de- partment of the French, army and came to this country in 1780 with Count de Rochambeau, serv- ing afterward in Santo Domingo till 1792, when he was recalled to France, and afterward impris- oned during the reign of terror. He published " Memoire sur les operations des intendants pen- dant^ la campagne de M. le Comte de Rochambeau aux Etats-Unis de l'Amerique en 1780-'82," written in answer to charges of dishonesty and fraud against the quartermaster's department of Rocham- beau's army (Brest, 1785); "Journal d'un temoin de la guerre* d'Amerique " (1786) ; and " Le dernier boucanier," a historical novel, containing interest- ing information about the West Indies and the life of a privateer (Nancy, 1788).

YSOART, Sigismond (ee-zo-ar), Flemish author, b. in Ypres in 1604; d. in Amsterdam in 1652. He was a mariner, made voyages to South America and Cape Horn, and, entering the service of the West Indian company in 1641, was employed for several years in Guiana, and commanded the fleet that devastated the southern coast of Brazil in 1647. In 1649 he made a chart of the Caribbean sea and the coast of Guiana, and, being promoted in the following year a director of the West Indian company, settled in Amsterdam, where he died. He wrote a narrative of his expedition entitled " Diarum nauticum itineris Bavatorum in Indias Occidentales" (Amsterdam, 1650), and contributed to the second edition of the " Histoire du commencement et des progres de la compagnie des Indes Occidentales des Provinces Unies des Pays Bas, con tenant les principaux voyages" (3 vols., Amsterdam, 1655-'6).

YULEE, Bavid Levy, senator, b. in the West Indies in 1811 ; d. in New York city, 10 Oct., 1886. His father, whose name was Levy, was of Hebrew