served as county judge of Grant county and during this time began to write his poems. He published first a collection in paper covers called "Specimens," and next a volume with the title "Joaquin et al., from which he derived his pseudonym. In 1870 his wife, whom he had married in 1863, obtained a divorce, and he went to London, where he published, in the following year, his "Songs of the Sierras," and "Pacific Poems." In 1873 appeared "Songs of the Sun Lands" and a prose volume entitled "Life among the Madocs: Unwritten History." His later works are "The Ship in the Desert," 1875; "First Fam'lies in the Sierras," 1875 (republished in 1881, under the title of "The Danites in the Sierras"); "The One Pair Woman," 1876; "Songs of Far Away Lands," 1878; "Songs of Italy," 1878; and "Shadows of Shasta," 1881. His wife, Minnie Theresa (Dyer) Miller, has also published verses under the pseudonym of "Minnie Myrtle."
MILNE, Admiral Sir Alexander, Bart., G.C.B., is the second and youngest son of the late Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B. (who died in May, 1845), by his marriage with Grace, daughter of the late Sir Alexander Purves, of Marchmont, Berwickshire. He was born in 1806, and educated at the Royal Naval College. The early part of his naval career was a distinguished one, and as Lieutenant and as Captain he saw active service on the North and South American, Brazilian, West Indian, and Home Stations, and was Flag-Captain to his father at Devonport, and to Sir Charles Ogle at Portsmouth. In 1847 he was appointed one of the Junior Lords of the Admiralty, and he held a seat on that Board from that date down to 1859, and again from 1866 to 1868 and from 1872 to 1876, when he was created a baronet. He attained flag-rank in 1858, and became a full Admiral in 1870. He was nominated a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1858, and promoted to the dignity of Grand Cross in 1871. He held the command in chief of the North American and West Indian station in 1860-64, and on the Mediterranean station in 1869-70, and in the latter year he was elected an Elder Brother of the Trinity House. He was appointed Admiral of the Fleet in 1881. Sir Alexander Milne is a magistrate for Berwickshire. He married, in 1850, Euphemia, daughter of the late Mr. Archibald Cochrane.
MINGHETTI, Marco, an Italian statesman and diplomatist, born at Bologna, Sept. 8, 1818, of a family which had accumulated wealth by commercial pursuits. When very young he had the misfortune to lose his father, but his mother gave him a good education, which was supplemented by a tour through Italy, France, Germany, and England. He became an earnest advocate of economic reforms, and at the commencement of the pontificate of Pius IX., when liberty was announced to Italy, he founded at Bologna, in conjunction with some friends, a journal called El Felsinco; and being summoned to Rome at the close of the year 1847 as a member of the Council of Finance, he entered the lay ministry of March 10, 1848, as Minister of Public Works. When the hopes of the Liberals were crushed by the Encyclical of the 29th of April, Signor Minghetti entered the military service of Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, made the campaign of 1848, and for his services at Goito and Custozza received the rank of major, and was decorated with the order of San Maurizio; but after the peace of Milan he quitted the army, and, retiring to his native city, applied himself to study, the result being the publication in 1859 of his treatise "Della Economia Pubblica e delle sue attenenze con Diritto." About this time Count Cavour, whose intimate friend he
