WEBB, Charles Henry, author, born in Rouse's Point, Clinton County, New York, 24 January, 1834. He received his preliminary education in his native place, in early youth he ran away to sea, was absent three years, and on his return went to Illinois, to which state his parents had removed in the mean time. He was editorially connected with the New York "Times" in 1860-'3 and with the San Francisco "Bulletin" in 1863-'4, and then edited "The Californian," a weekly, which he left in 1866. He had been engaged in business on the banks of Mississippi river from 1856 till 1860, dealt subsequently in wheat in Chicago, and at a later period was a banker and broker in Wall street, New York. In 1868 he invented and patented "Webb's adder," an adding-machine which was placed upon the market in that year; and in 1874 he invented, patented, and manufactured a cartridge-loading machine, the utility of which was recognized by the manufacturers of fire-arms and others. Mr. Webb is now engaged in constructing an improved adder. He has published "Liffith Lank, or Lunacy," a travesty of Charles Reade's "Griffith Gaunt" (New York, 1867); " St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga," a travesty of Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson's "St. Elmo" (1868) ; "John Paul's Book" (Hartford, 1874) ; " The Wickedest Woman in New York" (New York, 1875); "Parodies, Prose, and Verse" (1876); and "Sea-Weed and what we seed: my Vacation at Long Branch and Saratoga" (1876). In San Francisco he brought out two plays, " Our Friend from Victoria" (1865), and " Arrahna-Poke," a burlesque of Dion Boucicault's "Arrahna-Pogue" (1865). He edited, under the name of "John Paul," "The Celebrated Jumping Frog."