Covell. Yesterday morning at 1 o'clock after a lingering illness which she bore with Christian fortitude, Mrs. Catherine Covell in the 33d year of her age, wife of General M.L. Covell of Bloomington, Ill. Her funeral will take place at her late residence, Mrs. M. Hill's, 4-1/2 street south of Pennsylvania avenue, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The friends of the family are requested to attend without further notice.

Covell. On the 17th instant, after a protracted illness, General Merritt L. Covell, aged forty-three years. His funeral will take place this afternoon, at 4 o'clock, from the residence of Mrs. Williams, on Pennsylvania avenue, between 4-1/2 and 6th streets. His friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend without further notice.

Gen. Covell was formerly a resident of Illinois, where he frequently was called upon to discharge various public trusts, in all of which he acquitted himself with credit and to the satisfaction of the people of that State. For four years past he has been a clerk in the General Land Office in this city, during which period he had endeared himself to a wide circle of friends by the amiability and kindness of his disposition and his general courteous deportment towards all with whom he held intercourse.