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60 at Onondaga, where he received three French ambassadors that had been sent to make a treaty with the Iroquois on 10 Aug., 1700. He afterward received both French and English agents and declared his intention of remaining neutral. Hearing in 1703 that some of the Iroquois were concerting with Vaudreuil (who had then succeeded Callières in the government of the colony) an attack on the English settlements, Teganissorens went to Montreal and protested angrily against this breach of neutrality and declared that his tribe would take part for neither side. As the neutrality of the Iroquois was what the French governor wanted, he assured the chief that he would not send any parties against the English in New York. Teganissorens, on his part, pledged himself to retain the missionaries that were in his country. In 1711 he informed Vaudreuil that preparations were made at New York, Albany, and Boston for an invasion of Canada.

TEJEDA, Juan de (teh-hay'-dah), Spanish sol- dier, lived in the second half of the 16th century. In 1589 he held the rank of major-general, and was sent to govern the island of Cuba, being the first ruler that had the title of captain-general. Under his government the three fortresses that protect Havana were built under the direction of the engineer Juan Antonelli, the aqueduct, convey- ing water from Chorrera to Havana, was finished, and in 1592 Havana received the title of city and a coat of arms. In 1595 he returned to Spain, be- ing superseded by Maldonado Barnuevo.

TELFAIR, Edward, statesman, b. in Scotland ha 1735 ; d. in Savannah, Ga., 17 Sept., 1807. He was educated at Kirkcudbright grammar-school, came to this country in 1758 as agent of a com- mercial house, and resided for some time in Vir- ginia, but removed to Halifax, N. C, and in 1766 to Savannah, where he engaged in business. He actively espoused the patriot cause at the opening of the Revolution, served on many committees, and was one of the party that broke open the magazine at Savannah and removed the powder. He was a delegate to the Continental congress in 1778 and 1780-'3, and in the latter year was a commissioner to treat with the Cherokee's. In 1786, and again in 1790-3, he was governor of Georgia. — His son, Thomas, was graduated at Princeton in 1805, served in the National house of representatives in 1813-'17, and died in 1818.

TELLER, Henry Moore, senator, b. in Granger, Allegany co., N. Y., 23 May, 1830. He was educated at Alfred university, N. Y., studied law, was admit- ted to the bar in Binghamton, N. Y., in 1858, and removed to Illinois in the same year, and to Colo- rado in 1861. He was major-general of Colorado militia in 1862-'4, but held no political office till, on the admission of Colorado as a state in 1876, he was chosen U. S. senator as a Republican, and took his seat, 4 Dec, 1876. He was re-elected for the term that ended in 1883. and in 1877-'8 served as chairman of a special committee on election frauds, that was known as the Teller committee. On 17 April, 1882, he resigned, on his appointment by President Arthur to the portfolio or the interior, which he held till the close of the latter's adminis- tration. He was then re-elected to the senate for the term that will end in 1891. Alfred university gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1886.

TELLIER, Remigins Joseph, Canadian clergyman, b. in Soissons, France, in 1796 ; d. in Montreal, Canada, 7 Jan., 1866. He entered the Society of Jesus on 11 Oct., 1818, and became rector of the College of Chambery, and in 1842 was sent with five colleagues to Canada, where the Roman Catho- lic bishop of Montreal had requested the pope to send members of the order. From the death of the last of the native Canadian Jesuits, Father Cazot, in 1800, there had been no establishment of the order in that country until the arrival of these six priests. For eight years after their arrival they had charge of the parish of La Prairie, where Father Tellier officiated for two years. Afterward he was employed among the Irish emigrants at St. Charles Point during the prevalence of ship-fever. He founded the Church of St. Patrick in Montreal, for three years was stationed in Upper Canada, and subsequently was sent to the United States, where he was at first prefect of studies and president of St. Francis Xavier college, and afterward at St. John's college, Fordham, N. Y. He was made superior of his order in 1859, and returned to Mon- treal, where he passed the remainder of his life.

TELLKAMPF, Johann Ludwig, German scholar, b. in Germany, 28 Jan., 1808; d. there, 10 Feb., 1876. He came to the United States in 1838, engaged in teaching, and in 1843-'7 was professor of the German language and literature in Columbia. He then returned to Germany as professor in Breslau. In 1848 he was elected to the Frankfort parliament, in 1849 to the Prussian chamber of deputies, in 1855 to the herrenhaus, and in 1871 to the first German reichstag. He wrote &ldquo;Political Economy&rdquo; with Alonzo Potter (New York, 1840); &ldquo;Ueber die Besserungsgefängnisse in Nord-Amerika und England&rdquo; (1844); with his brother, Theodore, &ldquo;Essays on Law Reform and Commercial Policy&rdquo; (London, 1859); &ldquo;Ueber Arbeiterverhältnisse und Erwerbsgenossenschaften in England und Nord-Amerika&rdquo; (1870); and &ldquo;Selbstverwaltung und Reforme der Gemeinde und Kreisordnungen in Preussen, und Self-Government in England und Nord-Amerika&rdquo; (1872).

TELLO DE PORTUGAL, Jose de Espinosa, Spanish geographer, b. in Seville in March, 1763 ; d.. in Madrid, 6 Sept., 1815. He was a younger son of Count del Aguila, entered the navy as a cadet in 1778, served in the West Indies, and assisted in the capture of Yorktown in October, 1781, and in the expedition to Tobago under Bouille. After the conclusion of peace in 1783 he was employed in the naval observatory at Cadiz, and made charts of the Spanish coast from Fuenterrabia to Ferrol. In 1790 he joined the expedition of Alejandro Malaspina, determined the geographical position of Acapulco and other points, and with Malaspina explored the Straits of Nootka on the northwest coast of California. He afterward made astronomical observations in the Chilian Andes, and travelled through Peru and the La Plata provinces in 1792-4. On his return to Spain he was promoted adjutant of Gen. Mazarredo, and in 1796 was made secretary of the board of hydrography, in which capacity he was charged in 1797 with the correction of the plates of the great naval atlas of Spain that had been prepared under the direction of Vicente Tofiilo. He was promoted commodore and president of the board of hydrography in 1800, and secretary to the admiralty, with the rank of minister, in 1807. At the accession of Joseph Bonaparte he retired to London, where he lived till the restoration of Ferdinand VII. in 1814, when he returned to Spain. His works include "Carta esf erica que comprende las Costas del Seno Mejicano" (Madrid, 1799; revised ed., 1805); "Memorias sobre las observaciones astronomicas, hechas por los navegantes Espafioles en distintos lugares del Globo" (2 vols., 1809); "Carta de las Antillas y de Tierra Firme" (London, 1811); and "Carta del Oceano Athlntico" (1812).