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��first voyage in October last, bound to Rio Janeiro, under command of Capt. Win. Ross, with a cargo of ice and ap- ples, and is now making a voyage from Montevideo to San Francisco.

Capt. Marcy has been twice married — first in 1839, to Miss Henrietta Priest of Portsmouth, who died in 1850, leaving him three children, two sons and a daugh- ter, all living at the present time. Both of the sons are ship captains, and have been in service on ship board since leav- ing school in youth. The younger, J. Truro Marcy, we have heretofore alluded to ; the elder, Henry L. Marcy, is in com- mand of the ship "Coldstream"' now on a voyage to China. The daughter is now the wife of S. B. Cunningham of Portsmouth. Subsequently he married Miss Catherine Lord, his present wife, and the daughter of Eben Lord, Esq., of Portsmouth, by whom he has one son, George L., a lad of eleven years.

The house in which Capt. Marcy was born, on Water St., is yet standing. His residence, which has been his home for the last thirty-five years, is a substantial mansion on Pleasant street — the abode of comfort and of a generous hospitality. His religious associations, for the great-

��er portion of his life, have been with the Universalist denomination, in which doc- trine he is a firm believer, but he has for the past few years attended public wor- ship at the Episcopal Church.

While his business interests have been mainly in connection with ship building and the carrying trade, Capt. Marcy has long been connected with the banking institutions of Portsmouth, being a Di- rector in the N. H. National Bank from its organization, and also of the Ports- mouth Guarranty and Trust Company, which he was active in organizing. He is also a Director of the Portsmouth and Dover Railroad Company.

Although well advanced in years, Capt. Marcy is in vigorous health, bodily and mental, and still manifests a lively inter- est in all matters affecting the welfare of the community and the business prosper- ity and progress of the country. Inti- mately associated, as he has been, with our commercial and shipping interests, he fully realizes their importance, and urges the necessity for the adoption of such measures by the government as shall tend to their encouragement and re- vival, as a most practical means for the advancement of general prosperity.

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��BY MARY HELEN BOODEY.

Grief does not make one old, though Death hath crossed

Life's shining web, so that one side is bright

With the effulgence of dear Heaven's own light, The other dark with woe for what is lost ; Nay, though the anguish of the soul thus tossed

Upon the waves of life may seem to be

The centred sorrow of a century, Youth is not added to the general cost. The soul may cease to wonted hopes to cling,

And turn indifferent from what once was dear, But time will prove there bubbles yet a spring

That will entice it with its waters clear; The bird flies from the South that yet shall sing

A soothing song, and Summer-time is near.

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