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Rh force Mayor Wood contended that the act that established it was unconstitutional, and refused to obey the law. Matsell supported the mayor, and the force divided itself into two factions. Matsell, with his municipal police, intrenched himself in the city hall, and on 16 June, 1857, he and his men repelled an attack of the metropolitans. A riot was prevented only by calling out the militia. An armistice followed, both sides agreeing to await the verdict of the court of appeals, which decided that the act was constitutional. On the reorgani- zation of the board of police in 1873 he was ap- pointed superintendent, also police commissioner, and was elected president of the board of police.

MATTA, Manuel Antonio (mat-tah), Chilian statesman, b. in Copiapo in 1826, received his pre- paratory education in the college of his native city, and finished his studies in the German universities, after which he travelled extensively through Eu- rope and America. After his return to his native country he began his public career in 1858 as deputy for Copiapo to the National congress, and in 1863 founded the daily paper " La Voz de Chili," of which he still (1888) continues chief editor. In 1865 he was appointed envoy to Columbia. Till 1874 he was steadily returned to congress from Copiapo, where he was the acknowledged leader of the Radical party, and considered one of the most powerful orators of Chili. In 1874 he was elected by congress councillor of state, and in 1876 he was returned as senator from Copiapo for the term of six years and elected president of that body. He has also been twice a candidate for the presidency of the nation. He has published several pamphlets on Latin-American politics and some translations of German poetry. — His brother, Guillermo, Chilian poet, b. in Copiapo in 1829, received an ex- cellent education, and in early life began a jour- nalist's career. In 1859 he took an active part in the political struggle that agitated the republic, and was banished to Europe, where he remained for two years. He was an editor of the '• Voz de Chile " in 1863, and also became professor of phi- lology in the University of Chili, and a member of many literary and political societies. He was deputy to congress for Copiapo in 1870 and 1873, and in 1874 president of the chamber of deputies. In 1882 he was appointed minister to Germany and the pope. On his return to Chili he was elected in 1886 senator for the province of Copiapo, and in August, 1887. he was appointed minister to the Argentine Republic. His works include " Cuento endemoniado " and •' La Mujer misteri- osa " (Santiago, 1853) ; legends, and a collection of his other poems (2 vols., Madrid, 1858). Since that time numerous compositions of his have ap- peared in literary magazines, and a collection is in preparation for publication (1888).

MATTACKS, John, governor of Vermont, b. in Hartford, Conn.. 4 March, 1777: d. in Peacham, Vt., 14 Aug.. 1847. His father was treasurer of Vermont in 1776-1801. The son began the prac- tice of law in Danville in 1797, but removed to Peacham in 1798. He became eminent at the bar, and served several years in the state legislature and in the militia, of which he was brigadier-general in the war of 1812-'15. He was elected to congress as a Whig in 1820, served in 1821-'3, was defeated at the next election, and returned in 1824, serving in 1825-'7. He was judge of the superior court of Vermont in 1833-'4. a member of the Constitu- tional convention of 1835, and in 1841-'3 was for the third time in congress, declining a re-election to accept the office of governor, which he held in 1843-'4.

MATTESON, Joel Aldrich, governor of Illi- nois, b. in Watertown, Jefferson co., N. Y., 2 Aug., 1808 ; d. in Chicago, 111., 31 Jan., 1883. He received a common-school education, engaged in business in Canada, taught in Brownsville, N. Y., and in 1831 went to South Carolina, where he was foreman in the construction of the first railroad in that state. He settled in Illinois in 1834, served three terms in the state senate, and became governor in 1852. During his administration he did much to restore the credit of the state and to liquidate its debt. While in office he was an unsuccessful Democratic candi- date for the U. S. senate. He took heavy contracts for the construction of the Illinois and Michigan canal, and. on the failure of the state to pay the amount that was due him, he bought all the iron that Illinois had on hand for public improvements, and sold it again with such a profit that it enabled him to pay all his debts. He was active in railroad construction, was for several years president of the Chicago and Alton railroad, and owned a control- ling interest in banks in Joliet, Peoria, Quincy, and Shawneetown, Ill.

MATTESON, Tompkins Harrison, artist, b. in Peterborough, N. Y., 9 May, 1813 : d. in Sherbourne, N. Y., 2 Feb., 1884. He was an enthusiastic stu- dent of art from his boyhood, followed his profes- sion under many difficulties, and learned its rudi- ments from an Indian, who was famous for his carvings and drawings. He began to paint por- traits with some success in 1839, and was brought into favorable notice by his " Spirit of '76," which the American art union purchased. He then re- moved to New York city and studied in the Na- tional academy, of which he became an associate in 1847. From 1851 until his death he resided in Sherbourne. He was president of the Chenango agricultural society in 1855, and a member of the legislature. His works include " The First Sabbath of the Pilgrims," " Examination of a Witch," " Perils of the Early Colonists," " Eliot preaching to the Indians," " First Prayer in Congress," and " Rip Van Winkle's Return from the Mountains." He .exhibited " At the Stile " and " Foddering Cattle" at the National academy of design in 1869.

MATTHEWS, Brander, author, b. in New Orleans, La., 21 Feb., 1852. He was graduated at Columbia in 1871, at the law-school in 1873, and was admitted to the bar in the same year, but engaged in literature, at first turning his attention to the drama. He has contributed freely to periodicals, and has at times used the pseudonym " Arthur Penn." He was one of the founders of the New York authors club, and also took a conspicuous part in organizing the American copyright league and the Dunlap society. He has published "The Theatres of Paris " (New" York, 1880) ; " French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century " (1881) ; " The Home Library," by Arthur Penn (1883) ; " In Partnership," with H. C.'Bunner (1884) ; " The Last Meeting " (1885) : " A Secret of the Sea " (1886) ; and " Pen and Ink : Essays on Subjects of More or Less Importance" (1888). His plays include "Margery's Lovers," a comedy, played at the London court theatre in 1884, and in New York, 1887; "A Gold Mine," a comedy, with George H. Jessop (Memphis, 1887) ; and '• This Picture and That," a comedy (New York, 1887). He has edited "Comedies for Amateur Acting " (New York, 1879) ; " The Rhymester," by Arthur Penn, and " Poems of American Patriotism " (1882) ; " Sheridan's Comedies," with a life of their author (1884) ; " Ballads of Books " (1886) : and " Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States," with Laurence Ilutton (5 vols., 1886) ; and John Bernard's