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8 , but was shortly afterward acquitted after a trial. In 1849 he became assessor of the court of appeal in Paderborn, and was afterward professor in the universities of Munich and Göttingen. Among his works are &ldquo;Geschichte der Deutschen in Amerika&rdquo; (1848) and &ldquo;Land und Leute in der alten und neuen Welt&rdquo; (3 vols., 1857-'8).

LOMAX, John Tayloe, jurist, b. in Port To- bago, Caroline co., Va., in January, 1781 ; d. in Fredericksburg. Va., 10 Oct., 1862. He was gradu- ated at St. John's college, Annapolis, in 1797, studied law, and began practice at Port Royal, Va. He removed to Fredericksburg in 1805, and in 1809 to Menokin, Richmond co., Va., where he remained nine years. In 1818 he returned to Fredericksburg, and in 1826 was appointed pro- fessor of the school of law in the University of Virginia. He resigned that office in 1830 to accept a seat on the bench of the general court of the state as associate justice, to which he was unani- mously elected by the legislature. Under the con- stitution of 1851 he was again chosen for a term of eight years by vote of the people of the cir- cuit. The convention that framed this constitu- tion had adopted a clause disqualifying any person over seventy years of age from holding the oiRce of judge ; but at the request of members of the bar this provision was cancelled so as not to ex- clude Judge Loniax. He continued on the bench until 1857, when he retired to private life. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1847. He is the author of a " Digest of the Laws respecting Real Property generally Adopted and in Use in the United States" (3 vols., Philadelphia, 1839 ; 2d ed., revised and enlarged, Richmond, 1856), and a " Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators generally in Use in the United States " (2 vols.. 1841 ; 2d ed., Richmond. 1856).

LOMBARD, French missionary, d. after 1744. He was a Jesuit, and the most successful of all the missionaries in converting the Indians of French Guiana. He came to that country in 1705, and was still engaged in missionary work in 1744. In 1730 he founded a Christian village that con- tained over 600 Indians, at the mouth of Kuru river, and in 1744 he established another at Sina- mary. Condamine mentions in his " Relation abregee " that on setting out for Surinam he was furnished by the missionary with several Indian canoers. H is works are two " Relations," which are dated at Kuru, 23 Feb.. 1730. and 11 April, 1733, and published in the"Lettres edifiantes " (Paris, 1843). They contain an interesting account of the Kuru, Ouyapoc, and Galibi tribes. There is also another narrative addressed to his brother from Kuru, and dated 1723, which is inserted in the "Voyage du chevalier de Marchais" of Labat, where it fills sixty-four pages (Paris, 1730). He also wrote a grammar and dictionary of the lan- guage of the Galibis, on which he was engaged for more than thirty years.

LOMBARDINI, Manuel Maria (lom-bar-de - ne). Mexican soldier, b. in the city of Mexico in 1802 ; d. there, 22 Dec, 1853. He received his early education in his native city, and in 1814 entered the bureau of artillery as an apprentice. When the plan de Iguala was proclaimed in 1821, he joined the revolutionary forces as a cadet, but during the reign of Iturbide he retired into private life. The party strife between the Yorkist and Scotch fac- tions in 1826 brought him again to the front, and he joined the former party. In 1830 he was a lieu- tenant, and in April, 1832, pronounced in Lerma for the plan of Vera Cruz. At the end of that year he was promoted to captain, and was taken under the protection of liis relative. Gen. Valencia, on whose recommendation m 1841 Santa-Anna made him a brigadier. He took part in the war against the United States in 1846-7. and was wounded in the battle of Angostura. After Santa- Anna's banish- ment he continued to sympathize with that gen- eral, and took part in several pronunciamentos against the government. He favored the plan de Jalisco, and was banished. 2 Jan.. 1853, by Presi- dent Arista, but soon returned at the head of a revolutionary force, and was appointed by the president of the supreme court, Ceballos, com- mander-in-chief of the forces in the capital. When Ceballos resigned the executive, Lombardini was chosen by the commanders of the three divisions of the revolutionary troops provisional president, 8 Feb., 1853. Though a clear-headed and well-mean- ing man, he had no ability as a statesman, and when Santa-Anna, who had been recalled by con- gress, arrived in Mexico, Lombardini gladly de- livered the executive to him on 20 April. Santa- Anna appointed him commander-in-chief of the forces in the capital, but he died in a few months.

'''LONG. Armistead Lindsay''', soldier, b. in Camp- bell CO., Va., 3 Sept., 1827 ; d. in Charlottesville, Va., 29 April, 1891. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy, 1 July, 1850, and assigned to the 2d artillery. He resigned, 10 June, 1861, and the following month was appointed major in the Confederate army. He was promoted colonel and military secretary to Gen. Robert E. Lee in April, 1862, and brigadier-general of artillery in Septem- ber. 1863, taking part in all of Gen. Lee's cam- paigns. Gen. Long was the author of " Memoirs of Gen. Robert E. Lee " (New York, 1886).

LONG, Charles Chaillé, soldier, b. in Princess Anne, Somerset co., Md., 2 July, 1842. He was educated at Washington academy, Md., and in 1862 he enlisted in the 1st Maryland infantry in the National service, and at the close of the civil war had attained the rank of captain. He was appointed a lieutenant-colonel in the Egyptian army in the autumn of 1869, was first assigned to duty as professor of French in the military acade- my at Abbassick, and later as chief of staif to the general-in-chief of the army. Early in 1872 he was transferred to Gen. Loring's corps at Alexandria. On 20 Feb., 1874, he was assigned to duty as chief of staff to Gen. Charles George Gordon, then lieutenant -colonel in the British army, who had been appointed by the khedive governor-general of the equatorial provinces of Egypt. On 24 April he set out toward the equator on a secret diplomatic and geographical mission inspired by Ismail Pacha. the khedive. He was accompanied only by two soldiers and his servants, and arrived at the capital of Nyanda on 20 June, 1874. being the only white man save Capt. Speke that had ever visited, that place, and secured a treaty by which King M'Tse acknowledged himself a vassal of Egypt. He then turned north to trace the unknown part of the Nile that still left the question of its source in doubt. In descending the river at M'roole he was attacked by the king of Unyoro Kaba-Rega^ with a party of warriors in boats and a numerous force on shore. Chaille-Long, with his two soldiers, armed with breech-loading rifles and explosive shells, sustained the attack for several hours, and finally beat off the savages. He was promoted to the full rank of colonel and bey, and decorated with the cross of the commander of the Medjidieh. In January, 1875, he fitted out and led an expedition southwestward of the Nile into the Niam-Niam country, subjected it to the authority of the Egyptian government, and dispersed the slave-