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 420 WAHKIAKUM WAITZEN tices in which many of the Mohammedans in- dulged were forbidden under severe penalties. An income tax was levied, under the name of alms, on all the members of the sect, for the support of the government and the propaga- tion of their creed. The theocratic system of Wahab contemplated a divided power, the principal authority residing in the temporal chief, but the direction of all religious mat- ters pertaining to the spiritual chief, and in all important matters the two advising together. Saoud, the first temporal chief of the Waha- bees, had married the daughter of Wahab, and both the spiritual and temporal headship, after the death of the reformer, centred in the fam- ily of Saoud. During the period between 1765 and 1810 the chiefs acquired immense estates from the plunder of rebellious towns and the confiscation of their lands. Most of them afterward fell into the hands of Mehemet AH. The present ruler of Nedjed and sultan of the Wahabees is a descendant of Saoud. For an account of the Wahabite empire, see Palgrave's " Central and Eastern Arabia" (5th ed., Lon- don, 1869). See also Histoire de Wahdbites depuis leur origine jusqu'd Van 1809 (Paris, 1810), and Burckhardt's "Notes on the Be- douins and the Wahabys" (London, 1830). t UIRI tkMI, a S. W. county of Washington territory, bounded S. by Columbia river ; area, 225 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 270. The surface is rough and mountainous, and generally covered with forests. Lumber is the chief wealth. Capital, Cathlamet. WAHLSTATT. See LIEGXITZ. WAHOO. See ELM. WABSATCH, a N. E. county of Utah, border- ing on Wyoming and Colorado, and intersected by Green river and its tributaries ; area, 9,500 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 1,244. On the west are the Wahsatch mountains and on the north the Uintab. The resources are mostly undevel- oped. The chief productions in 1870 were 23,670 bushels of wheat, 2,037 of oats, 10,109 of potatoes, and 1,829 tons of hay. The value of live stock was $51,571. Capital, Heber. WAHSATCH MOUNTAINS. See ROOKY MOUN- TAINS, vol. xiv., pp. 877-'8, and UTAH. WAINWRIGHT, Jonathan Mayhew, an American clergynfan, born in Liverpool, England, Feb. 24, 1792, died in New York, Sept. 21, 1854. His mother was a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Mayhew of Boston. In 1803 his parents returned to the United States, and he graduated at Harvard college in 1812. He was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1816, and became rector of Christ's church in Hartford, Conn., in 1819 assistant minister of Trinity church, New York, and in 1821 rector of Grace church. He was rector of Trinity church, Boston, from 1834 to 1837, when he returned to Trinity parish, New York, having St. John's chapel more especially in his charge. In 1848-'9 he visited Europe and the East, and again in 1852, when the university of Oxford conferred upon him the degree of D. C. L. He was elected provisional bishop of the diocese of New York in October, 1852, and was consecrated Nov. 10. He published a vol- ume of charts (1819) ; " Music of the Church " (1828) ; "There cannot be a Church without a Bishop" (1844), a controversy with the Kw. Dr. Potts; "The Choir and Family Psal- ter," with the Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg (1851) ; " The Pathways and Abiding Places of Our Lord " (1851) ;" The Land of Bondage " (1852) ; and some volumes of sermons. He also edited Bishop Ravenscroft's memoirs and sermons, and the life of Bishop Heber by his widow. WATTE, Morrison Remleh, seventh chief justice of the United States, born in Lyme, Conn., Nov. 29, 1816. He graduated at Yale college in 1837, studied law, and began to practise in Maumee City, Ohio. In 1849 he was a mem- ber of the legislature, and in 1850 he removed to Toledo. He declined repeated nominations to congress, and also a seat on the supreme bench of the state. In 1871-'2 he was one of the counsel of the United States before the tri- bunal of arbitration at Geneva. In 1873 he presided over the constitutional convention of Ohio. On Jan. 21, 1874, he became chief justice of the United States, and has since re- sided in Washington. WAITZ, Georg, a German historian, born in Flensburg, Oct. 9, 1818. He was professor at Kiel from 1842 to 1848, a member of the Frankfort parliament in 1848-'9, and subse- quently professor of history at Gottingen till 1875, when ho was transferred to Berlin as editor of the Monumenta Germanics Hwtori- ca, in conjunction with Mommsen and other scholars, to which he had previously made important contributions. His works include Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte (4 vols., Kiel, 1843-'61; 2d ed., 1865 et seg.}', Die ScUes- wig-holsteiniAche Gesehichte (2 vols., Gottingen, 1851-'4); Orundzuge der Politik (Kiel, 1862); and Die Formeln der deutechen Konigs- und der rdmixchen KaiterTcronung tsom 10. lis zum 12. Jahrhundert (Gottingen, 1873). WAITZ, Theodor, a German author, born in Gotha, March 17, 1821, died in Marburg, May 21, 1864. He graduated at Marburg, where he was professor of philosophy from 1848 till his death. His works include a new and criti- cal edition of Aristotle's Organon (2 vols., Leip- sic, 1844-'6); Orundlegung der Psychologic (Hamburg and Gotha, 1846); Die Anthropolo- gie der Naturtolkvr (6 vols., Leipsic, 1860-'70; the last two edited by Gerland) ; and Die In- dianer Nordamerikas (1864). WAITZEN, or Waizen (Hun. Vdai a town of Hungary, in the county and 20 m. N. of the city of Pesth, on the left bank of the Danube ; pop. in 1870, 12,894. It has a Roman Catho- lic bishop, a fine cathedral after the model of St. Peter's at Rome, and other churches, an episcopal palace with Roman and mediaeval monuments, a theological seminary, a Piarist college with a gymnasium, and other schools and charitable institutions. There is a consid-