Cush

(küsh.) (Heb., black.] (Script.) The name of a region inhabited by tribes of the Hamite family, so called. But there seems to have been an antediluvian Cush, (Gen. ii. 13.) If so, it was inAsia; and Cush the Hamite may have had his name from a settlement or allotment there. Leaving this as a matter upon which wecan do little more than conjecture, it maybe observed that the chief habitations of the Cushites were to the south of Egypt, in the extensive tracts called Ethiopia, (Ezek. xxix. 10.) They also appear to have spread in the Arabian peninsula, where were tribes descended from them, (Gen. x. 7.) Cushing, CALEB, an American jurist and statesman, B. in E ex co., Ma ., 1800. In 1835, he was elected from his native State to Congre , of which body he at once became a prominent member. In 1843 he was sent out to China as commi ioner, and negotiated the first American treaty with that country. On the outbreak of tlie Mexican war he raised, at his own expense, a regiment of volunteers, went to Mexico as colonel of that regiment, 1847, and was appointed brigadier-general. From 1853 to 1857 he filled the office of U. S. Att.-Gen., and was appointed minister to Spain in Dec., 1875. D. 1879. [s. 255]