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Rh This reform was approved by King Philip III., and in consequence, in 1609. the Jesuits Mazetta and I'ataldini were sent to found the missions of Para- guay. The second reform was the division of ilie Rio de la Plata into two different government, Buenos Ayres and Paraguay, which was decreed in 1617, and took effect in 1620.

SAAVE1HIA, Juan de, Spanish soldier, b. in Seville, Spain, about the end of the loth century: d. in Chuquiriga, Peru, 21 May, 1554. He went to Peru in 1534 as chief judge of the expedition of Pedro de Alvarado, but alter his arrival entered the service of Diego de Almagro, whom he accora- panied in the discovery and conquest of Chili in 1535-'6. In the latter year he founded the city of Valparaiso, and, on his return to Peru, he took part in the battle of Abancay, 12 July, 1537. He acted on behalf of Almagro as commissioner in the negotiations of Mala about the boundaries of New Toledo, but was not present at the battle of Salinas, 6 April, 1538, on account of illness. Although he always refused the offers of the brothers Pizarro during Ahuagro's life, after the latter's death Saave- dra, on account of rivalry with Juan de Rada (g. v.), retired to Lima, and took no part in the battle of Chupas. In 1544, when Gonzalo Pizarro rose in rebellion, he appointed Saavedra his substitute at Huanuco. President Gasca in 1547 induced Saave- dra to re-enter the Loyalist party, appointing him captain of cavalry, which corps he commanded in the battle of Xaquixaguana. In 1549 Gasca ap- pointed him governor of Cuzco, but in 1551 he was superseded by the audiencia of Lima. In 1554 the city of Cuzco sent him with the rank of captain to join the army of Alonso de Alvarado, operating against the rebellious Francisco Giron (g. v.), and he met his death at the battle of Chuquinga.

SAAVEDRA GUZMAN, Antonio, Mexican poet, b. in Mexico about 1550: d. in Spain about 1620. He was a son of one of the conquerors of Mexico, and married a granddaughter of Jorge de Alvarado, brother of the founder of the Spanish dominion in Central America. His favorite stud- ies were poetry and history, especially that of his native country, in which he was aided by his thor- ough knowledge of the Aztec language. The his- torical data that he accumulated during seven years' labor were molded by him during a seventy days' passage to Spain in 1598 into his historical poem " El Peregrino Indiano " (Madrid, 1599). This work, which is now extremely rare, describing in twenty cantos the glories of the Aztec court and the conquest of Mexico, is rather a chronicle than a poem, and on more than one occasion has solved difficulties regarding the early history of New Spain. The Spanish poets, Vicente Espinel and Lope de Vega, praise Saavedra's work highly, and William H. Prescott calls him the poet-chronicler.

SABIN, Dwight May, senator, b. in Marseilles, La Salle co., 111., 25 April. 1844. His early years were spent on a farm, and in 1857 the family re- moved to Connecticut. He was educated at Phil- lips Andover academy, which he left in 1863 to enter the National army: but he resigned after three months, owing to impaired health, and pro- cured a clerkship in Washington, D. C. In 1864 he entered on farming and the lumber business in Connecticut, and in isiis he removed to Stillwater, Minn., where he engaged in lumbering and manu- facturing. Mr. Sabin now (1898) owns a large num- ber of mills, and is the largest stockholder in the Northwestern car company, having acquired a for- tune. He served in the state senate in 1870-'!, was a member of the National Republican conventions of 1872, 1876, 1880, and 1884, serving as chairman of the last, and was elected to the U. S. senate, as a Republican, to succeed William Wiiulom, for the period that terminated on 4 March, 1889.

SABIN, Elijah Robinson, clergyman, b. in Tolland. Conn., 10 Sept., 1776: d. in Augusta, Ga., -I May. 1M1S. His ancestor, William, whose name is written Sabin, Sabine, and Saben, came to this country in 1645, and held local offices in Rehoboth, Mass., and his father, Nehemiah, served in the Revo- lutionary war, and was fatally wounded at Trenton. In 1784 his family removed to Vermont, and the son was employed in clearing land, educating him- self in leisure hours. In 1798 he began to preach, and in 1799 he entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry. He was appointed presiding elder of the Vermont district in 1805, and subsequently of the New London district, embracing Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and a part of New Hampshire. He was appointed chaplain <>f the Massachusetts house of representatives, being the first of his denomination to hold this office, and afterward became pastor of a Methodist church in Hampden, Me. He assisted in the military hospi- tal there, and, after the enemy took possession of the town, was taken prisoner and confined in a transport. His wife mounted a horse, rode nine miles to the British commander, and obtained his release on the plea that he was a non-combatant. In 1815 he resumed his charge in Hampden. He died while travelling in the southern states to regain his health. Mr. Sabin was the author of the "Road to Happiness," and "Charles Observa- tor." His son, Lorenzo (Sabine), historian, b. in New Lisbon, N. H., 28 Feb., 1803 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 14 April, 1877, adopted Sabine as the spell- ing of his surname. He was self-educated, and was employed in various capacities. He was elected to the legislature from Eastport for three successive terms, and held the office of deputy collector of the customs, but returned to Massachusetts in 1849. and was appointed in 1852 a secret and confidential agent of the U. S. treasury department, with refer- ence to the operation of the Ashburton treaty as connected with our commerce with British colonies. He was elected to congress as a Whig in place of Benjamin Thompson, serving from 28 Dec., 1852, till 3 March, 1853, and was afterward appointed secretary of the Boston board of trade. The degree of A. M. was conferred on him by Bowdoin in 184(J, and by Harvard in 1848. He contributed to the " North American Review " and " Christian Exam- iner." and was the author of the life of Com. Ed- ward Preble (1847) in Sparks's "American Biogra- phy " ; " The American Loyalists, or Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the British Crown in the War of the Revolution " (Boston, 1847 ; 2d ed., 2 vols., 1864) : " Report on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas," prepared for the U. S. treasury department (Washington. 1853); "Notes on Duels and Duelling, with a Preliminary Historical Essay " ( I'.nstnn, 1855; 2d ed., 1856); and an address before the New England historic-genealogical society. 13 Sept.. 185!). mi the " Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Major-General James Wolfe."

SABIN, Joseph, bibliophile, b. in Bran 1 1^1 on. Northamptonshire, England, 9 Dec., 1821 : d. in Brooklyn. N. Y., 5 June, 1881. His father, a - ehanic. gave him a common-school education, and apprenticed him to Charles Richards, a book.-eller and publisher of Oxford. Subsequently young Sabin opened a similar store in Oxford and published " The XXXIX Articles of the Church of England, with Scriptural Proofs and References" (1844). In 1848 he came to this country, and bought farms in Texas and near Philadelphia, In