O'DONNELL, Daniel Kane, journalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1818; died there, 8 September, 1871. He was educated at Girard college, and after a brief experience in a printing-office became the editor of a Philadelphia literary journal, to which he contributed many poems and criticisms. In 1862 he joined the editorial staff of the "Press" in the same city, acting successively as news-editor, leader-writer, and night-editor. His criticism on William H. Fry's opera of "Notre Dame," written about this time, attracted general attention. In 1864 he accompanied General William T. Sherman's army as chief correspondent of the "Press." During the campaign he was made assistant superintendent of education in Charleston, South Carolina hi 1866 he came to New York City and became connected with the " Tribune." The following year he was made musical critic and leader-writer. In the spring of 1867, as he was already suffering from consumption, he was sent to Mexico to recruit his health and describe the reconstruction of that country. From Mexico he went, in 1868, to Cuba, to report the progress of the revolutionary movement there. Returning in 1869, he resumed his duties in the "Trilmne " office, but devoted himself ehietly to the foreign department. During the course of that year he resigned and returned to Philadelphia, wt{ere, after serving a year as literary editor of the "Standard," he employed his remaining strength in preparing a volume on Mexico, which was never published, and in writing for the magazines. He published a volume of poems entitled "The Song of Iron and the Song of Slaves, with Other Poems" (Philadelphia, 1863), and subsequently printed in the New York "Independent," "The Fish-Market," "The Cobbler's Hour," "St. Cecilia," and "Birds in the Square." These and his other poetie writings display great facility in versification and a rare tMent for rendering homely subjects attractive.