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Rh NAAR, David, journalist, b. in St. Thomas, W. I., 6 Nov.. 1800 ; d. in Trenton, N. J., 25 Feb., 1880. He belonged to an old family of Portuguese Jews that maintained its family records from the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. He was educated as a merchant in the West Indies, and with his brothers established a commission business in New York, which was destroyed by the fire of 1835. He then engaged in farming near Elizabethtown, N. J., and by his general reading and strong oratorical powers soon became a public speaker of note. In the canvass of 1844 he accom- panied James Buchanan on an electioneering tour through the state, and when the Polk administra- tion began he was appointed by Mr. Buchanan, then secretary of state, U. S. consul to St. Thomas, at that time an important commercial centre. On his return in 1848 he maintained his reputation as a popular and effective speaker, and was elected mayor of Elizabeth in 1849, clerk of the house of assembly in 1851-'2, and state treasurer in 1865. He was an ardent Mason, and during the agitation in relation to colored members did much to secure the recognition by the New Jersey grand lodge of the universality of the order. In 1853 he assumed control of the Trenton "True American," and made its influence felt in the state.

NABUCO DE ARAUJO, Jose Tito (nah-boo-co-day-ar-ah-oo'-zho), Brazilian author, b. in Rio Janeiro, 4 Jan., 1836. He entered the magistracy, and was provincial deputy and afterward district attorney of the city of Rio Janeiro, retiring to private life in 1879. He has composed " Filho do Acaso," a drama, represented with success in several cities of South America, and published " Maximas e pensamentos " (Rio Janeiro, 1876) ; " Biographia de Lamartine " (1877) ; " Historia e vida do general Gurjao " (1878) ; and " Poesias " (1879).

NACK, James, poet, b. in New York city, 4 Jan., 1809 ; d. there, 23 Sept., 1879. He was the son of a merchant, and showed great precocity in early youth. An accident deprived him at first of the power of articulation, and afterward of hearing, and he was educated in the Institution for the deaf and dumb in New York city. He married in 1838, and became an assistant in the office of the clerk of the city and county of New York. Here he continued more than thirty years. Toward the close of his life he lived in retirement, but kept up an exten- sive correspondence. His incessant regret was that he had accomplished so little to advance the cause of letters. Nack frequently contributed poems to the New York "Mirror," varied with renderings from the French and German poets. Among his verses that have been popular are " Spring is Coming " and " Here She goes and there She goes." His publications include " The Legend of the Rocks " (New York, 1827) ; " Earl Rupert, and other Poems" (1839); "The Immortal, and other Poems " (1850) ; " Poems " (1852) ; and " The Romance of the Ring, and other Poems " (1859).

NADAL, Bernard Harrison, clergyman, b. in Talbot county, Md., 27 March, 1812 ; d. in Madi- son, N. J., 20 June, 1870. In 1835 he was admitted to the old Baltimore conference of the Methodist church, and he labored in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, N. Y., and New Haven, Conn. While stationed in Carlisle, Pa., he was graduated at Dickinson in 1848, and in 1854 ac- cepted a professorship in Indiana Asbury uni- versity, which he held until 1857. While in Washington he served for one session as chaplain to the house of representatives. On the organization of Drew theological seminary he was made pro- fessor of church history, and on the death of Dr. John McClintock in 1870 he became acting presi- dent, which olfice he held at the time of his death. He received the degree of D. D. from Dickinson in 1857. Between 1854 and 1857 he published " Essays upon Church History " in the " Methodist Quarterly Review," and he was also an editor of the "Method- ist." He was a strong opponent of slavery, and spoke frequently upon this subject. In his sermons and addresses he exerted much infiuence in favor of the National government during the civil war. A volume of his sermons, entitled " New Life Dawning," was published under the editorship of Prof. Henry A. Buttz, with a memoir (New York, 1873). — His son, Ehrman Syme, author, b. in Lewisburg, W. Va., 13 Feb., 1843, studied at Co- lumbia, and was graduated at Yale in 1864. He was second secretary of the American legation in London in 1870-'1, and again from 1877 till 1884, and was engaged for several years on the New York "Evening Post." He is the author of "Impres- sions of London Social Life " (London, 1875) and " Essays at Home and Elsewhere " (1882). In 1887 Mr. Nadal issued a series of papers entitled " Zweibak, or Notes of a Professional Exile."

NADAL, Emmanuel Victurnien, Comte de, French soldier, b. in Mobile, Ala., in 1759 ; d. in Nantes, France, in October, 1793. He served as a volunteer under Lafayette in the American Revo- lution in 1778-'83, and after the conclusion of peace resided on his estate near Mobile. He re- moved to France at the beginning of the revolution there, served in the army of the Marquis de Cus- tine, was one of the defenders of Mayence, and after the fall of that place set out for Louisiana, but was arrested in Nantes for leaving the terri- tory of the republic without authority. He was tried and sentenced to death by the revolutionary tribunal in October, 1793.

NAGILE, James, soldier, b. in Reading, Pa., 5 April, 1822; d. in Pottsville, Pa., 22 Aug., 1866. In 1842 he organized the Washington artillery company, and, when war was declared against Mexico, he en- listed with it as the 1st Penn- sylvania volun- teers. His regi- ment was sta- tioned at Perote castle to keep open the com- munication with Vera Cruz dur- ing its siege. He assisted in routing a force of guerillas at La Hoya, fought at Huamantla, Puebla, Atlixco, entered the city of Mexico, and was finally stationed at San Angel until the close of the war. He was mustered out of service with his company at Philadelphia on 27 July, 1848, and the inhabitants of Schuylkill county. Pa., presented