VICTOR, Orville James, author, born in Sandusky, Ohio, 23 October, 1827. He was graduated at the seminary and theological institute in Norwalk, Ohio, in 1847. After contributing to " Graham's Magazine" and other publications for several years, he adopted journalism as a profession in 1851, becoming associate editor of the Sandusky " Daily Register," which he left in 1856 to edit the " Cosmopolitan Art Journal." Removing to New York in 1858, he assumed charge also of the " United States Journal," conducting both periodicals till 1860. He next edited the " Dime Biographical Library," to which he contributed lives of John Paul Jones, Anthony Wayne, Ethan Allen, Israel Putnam, Winfield Scott, Abraham Lincoln, and Giuseppe Garibaldi, and wrote for newspapers and periodicals in New York city. In 1863-'4 he visited England, and there published a pamphlet entitled " The American Rebellion ; its Causes and Objects: Facts for the English People." He edited in 1866-'7 "Beadle's Magazine of To-Day," in 1870-'1 the weekly "Western World," and in 1872-'80 the " New York Saturday Journal." He published during the civil war, in annual volumes, a " History of the Southern Rebellion" (4 vols., New York, 1862-'5), which for several years he has been engaged in revising for republication in two volumes. His other works are "Incidents and Anecdotes of the War" (1863), and a "History of American Conspiracies" (1864). --His wife, Metta Victoria, author, born near Erie, Pennsylvania, 2 March, 1831 ; died in Hohokus, New Jersey, 26 June, 1886, was educated in the female seminary at Wooster, Ohio. When thirteen years old she published a story called "The Silver Lute," and from that time till her eighteenth year was a contributor to the "Home Journal" under the pen-name of " Singing Sibyl" or in connection with her elder sister, Frances A. Fuller, the two being known as " The Sisters of the West." In 1856 she married Mr. Victor, and in 1859-'61 she edited the "Home Monthly Magazine." A volume of poetry by the two sisters was published under the title of "Poems of Sentiment and Imagination, with Dramatic and Descriptive Pieces" (New York, 1851). She published individually " Fresh Leaves from Western Woods" (Buffalo, 1853); "The Senator's Son : a Plea for the Maine Law" (Cleveland, 1853), which had a large circulation in England as well as in the United States; and "Two Mormon Wives : a Life-Story" (New York, 1856 ; London, 1858). She was the author of "The Gold-Hunters," "Maum Guinea," and others of Beadle and Co.'s "Dime Novels." Among her numerous contributions to the periodical press were series of humorous sketches under the signature of "Mrs. Mark Peabody," entitled, "Miss Slimmens' Window" and "Miss Slimmens' Boarding-House," which were issued in book-form (New York, 1859). The story of "Too True" was reprinted from "Putnam's Magazine"(186S). Her novels "Dead-Letter" and "Figure Eight " were issued under the pen-name of "Seeley Register " (1868). Her last novel was " Passing the Portal" (1877). She subsequently wrote humorous books entitled "The Bad Boy's Diary "(1880), " The Rasher Family" (1884), "The Naughty Girl's Diary" (1884), and " Blunders of a Bashful Man" (1885), which were issued anonymously, --Her sister, Frances Anretta, author, born in Rome, New York, 23 May, 1826, was educated at the seminary in Wooster, Ohio, and spent some time in the eastern states in preparation for a literary life, but after her return to the west and her marriage in 1853 to Jackson Barrett, of Michigan, she rarely wrote for publication. In 1862 she married for her second husband Henry C. Victor, a 1st assistant engineer in the United States navy and a brother of Orville J. Victor, and in the following year emigrated to the Pacific coast, where novel scenes impelled her to resume literary work. She contributed to the newspapers of San Francisco and Sacramento, and to the "Overland Monthly" from its first publication. After removing to Oregon in 1865, she published "The River of the West: Life and Adventures in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon" (Hartford, 1870), which was followed by "All Over Oregon and Washington" (San Francisco, 1870). She has also published "The New Penelope, and other Stories" (1877), and furnished to Hubert H. Bancroft's "Pacific Coast Histories" chapters on Oregon and other states and territories of the northwest, besides parts of the "History of California."