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Rh attend to its delivery, for which purpose he was to make four trips a week. The project recommended itself to business men, and was particularly ac- ceptable to the press, to which Mr. Harnden made bimself useful in the voluntary transmission of news in advance of the mail. In 1840 Dexter Brigham, Jr., his New York agent, became his part- ner, and soon afterward went to England, where he laid the foundation of Harnden and Company's foreign business. During the same year their line was extended to Philadelphia, and later to Albany. The business grew with great rapidity, but Mr. Harnden's health failed, and he soon died. For several years the company was continued by the remaining members of the firm, but in 1854 it was consolidated with others to form the Adams express company. In 1866 a monument was erected to Mr. Harnden's memory in Mount Auburn ceme- tery, near Cambridge, Mass., by the " express com- panies of the United States."

HARNETT, Cornelius, statesman, b. probably in North Carolina, 20 April, 1723 ; d. in Wilming- ton, N. C, 20 April, 1781. He acquired property at Wilmington, N. C., and first became known in public affairs through his opposition to the stamp- act and kindred measures. He represented the borough of Wilmington in the provincial assembly in 1770-'l, and was chairman of the more impor- tant committees of that body. In 1772 Mr. Har- nett, Robert Howe, and Judge Maurice Moore were named by the assembly a committee to prepare a remonstrance against the appointment, by Gov. Martin, of commissioners to run the southern boundary-line of the province. In 1773 Josiah Quincy, while travelling in the south for his health, spent a night at the residence of Mr. Harnett, whom he styled "the Samuel Adams of North Carolina." As the Revolution approached, Har- nett became its master-spirit throughout the Cape Pear region. In December, 1773, he was placed on the committee of continental correspondence for the Wilmington district. In the Provincial con- gress of 1775 he represented his old constituents ; and when a provincial council was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the abdication of Mar- tin, he was made its president and became the act- ual governor of North Carolina. He was a mem- ber of the Provincial congress at Halifax, N. C, in the spring of 1776, and, as chairman of a committee to consider the usurpations of the home govern- ment, submitted a report that empowered the North Carolina delegates in the Continental congress to use their influence in favor of a declaration of in- dependence. Soon afterward Sir Henry Clinton, with a British fleet, appeared in Cape Pear river, and honored Harnett and Robert Howe by except- ing them from his offer of a general pardon to those who should return to their allegiance. When, on 22 July, the Declaration of Independence ar- rived at Halifax, Harnett read it to a great con- course of citizens and soldiers, who took him on their shoulders and bore him in triumph through the town. In the autumn of the same year he assisted in drafting a state constitution and bill of rights, and to his liberal spirit the citizens are indebted for the clause securing religious liberty. Under the new constitution Harnett became one of the council, and was, in 1778, elected to fill Gov. Cas- well's seat in congress. His name is to be found signed to the " articles of confederation and per- petual union." When the British subsequently took possession of the Cape Fear region, Harnett was taken prisoner and died in captivity.

HARNEY, John Hopkins, journalist, b. in Bourbon county, Ky., 20 Feb., 1806 ; d. in Jefferson county, Ky., 27 Jan., 1867. Being left by the death of his parents in straitened circumstances, he was compelled to educate himself, and developed a talent for mathematics. At the age of seventeen he successfully solved a problem in surveying that had been referred to him by two rivals, which attracted so much attention that he was soon made principal of the Paris, Ky., academy. The money thus earned he devoted to the purchase of a scholarship in the University of Oxford, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1827 in belles-lettres and theology. He was appointed professor of mathematics in the University of Indiana in 1828, and in 1833 accepted the corresponding chair at Hanover college, Ind., and began the preparation of his " Algebra." In 1839 he was made president of Louisville college. This office he retained until 1843, when the college was closed. The year fol- lowing, Mr. Harney began the publication of the Louisville " Democrat," which he continued to edit until his death. He was elected trustee of the Louisville school-board in 1850, and afterward president, and established many reforms. In 1861-2 he was elected to the legislature, and as chairman of the committee on Federal relations, when Ken- tucky was invaded by the Confederate army, he drafted the famous resolution, " Resolved, That Kentucky expects the Confederate, or Tennessee, troops to be withdrawn from the soil uncondition- ally." Mr. Harney declined a re-election and de- voted himself to protesting in the "Democrat" against the arbitrary arrest and deportation of citizens, opposing the grant of " another man or another dollar " until the liberties of the citizen were assured. This led to his arrest, but Gen. Burnside, after looking into the matter, disapproved the action of his subordinates, and the journalist was released. At the close of the war Mr. Harney urged the repeal of the severe laws against self- expatriated Confederates, and succeeded in carry- ing a measure of full restoration ; but in 1868 he opposed the nomination of such rehabilitated citi- zens for high office, on the ground that it would provoke further arbitrary arrests. His "Algebra " (Louisville, 1840) ranks high as a text-book for advanced pupils. — His son, William Wallace, journalist, b. in Bloomington, Ind., 20 June, 1831, was educated at Louisville college and at home, and graduated at the law department of Louisville university in 1855. He was principal of a ward school in the latter city in 1852-'6, and afterward became the first principal of the Louisville high- school. During the two years succeeding he occu- pied the chair of English and ancient languages in the State university at Lexington, Ky. He then became associate editor of the Louisville " Demo- crat," and in 1869 its editor-in-chief. In the lat- ter year he removed to Florida, where he planted an orange-grove. From September, 1883, till March, 1885, he edited " The Bitter Sweet " at Kis- simmee, Fla. Besides his labors as a journalist, Mr. Harney has been a frequent contributor to pe- riodicals, and has written several essays oh orange- culture. His fugitive poems and his sketches of southern life are popular.

HARNEY, John Milton, poet, b. in Sussex county, Del., 9 March, 1789; d. in Bardstown, Ky., 15 Jan., 1825. He was a son of Thomas Harney, an officer in the war of the Revolution. In 1791 the family emigrated to Tennessee, and subsequently removed to Louisiana. Young Harney studied medicine and settled at Bardstown, Nelson co., Ky. While on a visit to Europe he received a naval appointment, and spent several years in ; Buenos Ayres. On his return to the United States