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BAILEY.BAILEY. no alternative but to remove the stores and destroy the fleet. When this course was about to be carried out, Colonel Bailey, who was an officer in a cavalry regiment, suggested to General Banks, that the river might be dammed; and though the plan seemed impracticable, still it was decided to make the attempt. "It was commenced." wrote Admiral Porter, in an official despatch to Washington, " by running out from the left bank of the river a tree-dam, made of the bodies of very large trees, brush, brick and stone, cross-tied with other heavy timber, and strengthened in every way that ingenuity could devise. This was run about three hundred feet into the river. Four large coal-barges were then filled with brick, and sunk at the end of it. From the right bank of the river, cribs built with stone were built out to meet the barges." Beginning the apparently fruitless and endless task on May 1st, in twelve days the water was sufficiently deep to allow the fleet to move down the river. He was brevetted brigadier-general and received a purse of $3000 for this service. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in November, 1864, removed to Newton county, Mo., in 1865, where he was made sheriff. He was murdered March. 21, 1867. BAILEY, Joseph W., representative, was born in Copiath county. Miss., Oct. 6, 1863. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1883 and in 1881 served as district elector from Mississippi. In 1885 he removed to Texas and settled at Gainesville in the practice of law. In 1888 he was an elector from Texas on the Cleveland and Thurman ticket. He was a representative from the 5th Texas district in the 52d, 53d, 54th, 55th and 56th congresses, 1891-1900; took a seat in the U. S. senate Feb. 7, 1900, and was elected for the full term, 1901-'07. BAILEY, Liberty Hyde, educator, was born at South Haven, Van Buren county, Mich., March 15, 1858, son of Liberty Hyde Bailey. He was graduated in 1882 from Michigan agricultural college, and for two years was assistant to Prof. Asa Gray of Harvard university. In 1885 he took the chair of horticulture and landscape gardening at Michigan agricultural college, and became horticulturist of the Michigan experiment station upon its organization a year or two later. In 1886 he assisted in preparing a report on botanical work in Minnesota. In 1889 he was appointed professor of general and experimental horticulture in Cornell university, and horticulturist of Cornell university experiment station. He was also employed by the U. S. government department of agriculture. Among his published writings are a series of papers on the "Relationship between American and Eastern Asian Fruits." published in the annual reports of the U. S. department of agriculture; also, "Talks Afleld about Plants and the Science of Plants" (18S5); "Field Notes on Apple Culture" (1886); "The Horticulturist's Rule-Book" (1889); "The Nursery Book" (1891); "Cross-breeding and Hybridizing" (1891); "American Grape Training" (1893); "Plant Breeding" (1895), and edited "Cyclopædia of American Horticulture" (1902). BAILEY, Rufus William, educator, was born at North Yarmouth, Me., April 13, 1793. He pursued his collegiate course at Dartmouth, where he was graduated in 1813. He then took a divinity course at Andover, and was licensed as a preacher, serving at Norwich Plain, and also teaching moral philosophy in the military academy. He held the pastorate of a church in Pittsfield. Mass., from 1824 to 1828, when he went south and was occupied as a teacher in the Carolinas and Virginia until 1854, in which year he was given the chair of languages in Austin college, Texas, holding it from 1854 to 1856, and was president of that institution from 1858 to 1863. He received the degree of D. D. from Hampden-Sidney college in 1859. While living in Texas he published a series of newspaper articles in opposition to slavery, and he was also the author of a number of volumes on religious and educational subjects, consisting of a book of newspaper letters called "The Issue"; "The Mother's Request"; "The Family Preacher"; "A Primary Grammar"; a collection of sermons; a "Manual of English Grammar"; and "The Scholar's Companion" (1841), which last passed through more than eighty editions. He died in Huntsville, Texas, April 25, 1863. BAILEY, Silas, clergyman, was born at Stirling, Mass., June 12, 1809. After his graduation from Brown university in 1834, he became principal of Worcester, Mass., academy, remaining there for five years, and then taking pastoral charge of a Baptist church at East Thompson, Conn. In 1842 he resigned his pastorate to become agent of the missionary union, N. Y., holding that office until 1845, when he removed to Westboro, Mass. There he held a pastorate for one year, resigning to accept the presidency of Granville college, Ohio. In 1852 he was elected president of Franklin college, Ind., but was compelled to resign on account of illness, and in 1863 went to Lafayette, Ind., to assume charge of a church. Here he remained for three years, and then occupied the chair of metaphysics and theology at Kalamazoo college, Michigan, until 1869. In 1849 Madison university conferred upon him the degree of D. D. and in 1871 he received that of LL. D. from Franklin college. In 1873 he started on a tour through Europe, and died in Paris, France. He left his library and a part of his estate to Franklin college. He published numerous sermons, addresses and pamphlets. The date of his death is June 30, 1874.