WRITING, Daniel Powers, soldier, born in Troy, New York, 31 July, 1808. He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1832, and assigned to the 7th infantry, with which he served in various garrisons, becoming 1st lieutenant, 8 June, 1836, and captain, 18 April, 1845. During the Mexican war ha was engaged at Fort Brown, Monterey, Vera Cruz, and Cerro Gordo, where he was brevetted major. After serving against, the Seminoles, on the frontier, and in the Utah expedition in 1859, he attained full rank on 20 December, 1860. He was in command of Fort Garland, Colonel, in 1861-'2, became lieutenant-colonel, 15 February, 1862, served on a board of examination at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1862-'3, and on 4 November, 1863, was retired " for disability, resulting from long and faithful service, and from sickness and exposure in the line. of duty." He has published " The Army Portfolio," a series of litho-graphed views illustrating the Mexican war (Washington, 1849). It was intended to continue the series, but Colonel Whiting's sketches were lost on a steamboat that sank in the Mississippi river.