Natchez was taken in May

and Farragut’s fleet ascended as far as Me cing which place he bombarded till the fall of water compelled him to return to New Orleans. In July, 1862 he was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral in the United States navy; and in March, 1863, he pa ed the batteries of Port Hudson, and was in a few days again. before Vicksburg, cod per at ing with General Grant in the reduction of that important stronghold. Having been ordered to attempt the capture of Mobile, he silenced the forts command in the mouth of that harbor August pd 1864, and pa ing into the harbor there destroyed a Confederate ironclad ram and four gunboats, with the lo , however, of one of his ironclads, the ‘“ Tecumseh,” and its crew, by the explosion of a torpedo. The naval succe es gained by the Nationals were in aA great measure due to the energy and daring of this gallant officer, and in 1864 he was promoted to be vice-admiral, and in 1866 admiral, Admiral Farragut served in the United States navy for 60 years, during about 12 years of which oa was he unemployed on sea. In 1865 Farragut was appointed to the command of an American squadron dispatched on a cruise in European waters, from which he returned in 1868, after receiving the highest courtesies in the various states which his fleet visited, He died in Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 14, 1870.