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Feb. 6. WINDER, Joirar H., a brigadier-gen- 

 eral in the Confederate service, died at Flor- 

 ence, S. 0., of apoplexy. He was a native of 

 Maryland, the son of Gen. William H. Winder, 

 of Baltimore, an officer in the war of 1812, and 

 graduated at West Point about 1825. He 

 served in the army with considerable distinc- 

 tion, took part in the Mexican war, and at the 

 commencement of the rebellion was major and 

 brevet lieutenant-colonel of the 3d artillery. 

 He resigned, and entered the Confederate ser- 

 vice, where he was soon made a brigadier-gen- 

 eral, but was not employed in active service to 

 any great extent. He commanded the post of 

 Richmond, and had charge of the Union prison- 

 ers in Libby Prison and Belle Isle for some 

 time, and was finally sent to Andersonville, 

 Ga., in a similar capacity. When Sherman's 

 expedition passed through Georgia, he left An- 

 dersonville and repaired first to Charleston, and 

 afterwards to Florence, where he died. 



Feb. 8. TEEMAINE, Col. LYMAN, of the 10th 

 New York cavalry, died near Petersburg of 

 wounds received at the battle of Hatcher's 

 Run, February 6th. He was the son of the 

 Hon. Lyman Tremaine of Albany, and was born 

 in Greene County, N. Y., in June, 1843 ; en- 

 tered Hobart College in the fall of 1860, and 

 remained till the summer of 1862, when, unable 

 longer to resist the calls of patriotism, he 

 entered the army as adjutant of the 7th New 

 York heavy artillery. He served with distinction 

 in the defences of Washington, and subsequently 

 as assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of 

 captain, on the staff of Gen. Davies of the cav- 

 alry in Kilpatrick's division of the Potomac 

 army. In this position he distinguished him- 

 self by his bravery and the prompt and intelli- 

 gent discharge of his duties. In December, 

 1864, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel 

 of the 10th New York cavalry, in the command 

 of which regiment he was wounded at Hatch- 

 er's Run in the battle of February 6th, and died 

 on the following Wednesday. Col. Tremaine 

 was distinguished for an unusual degree of 

 generosity, firmness, and courage, great ability 

 and entire devotion to the cause of his country. 



Feb. 9. HOLMES, Dr. EZEKIEL, editor of the 

 " Maine Farmer," died at Winthrop, Me., aged 

 64 years. He graduated at Brown University 

 in the class of 1821. 



Feb. 11. STEVENS, BENJAMIN, a prominent 

 citizen of Boston, died at his residence aged 75 

 years. He was sergeant-at-arms from 1835 to 

 1859, consecutively, and a member of the lower 

 house of the Legislature, both before and after 

 his incumbency of that office. He was also an 

 active and zealous freemason, and a constant 

 attendant upon the meetings and festivals of 

 that order. 



Feb. 12. DEAN, Col. of the 58th Colored 

 troops, was killed in Arkansas. He was on an 

 expedition from Helena across the country to 

 St. Francis River. 



Feb. 12. RODE, CHARLES R., author, editor, 

 and publisher, died in New York city, aged 



about 40 years. His father was a Prussian and 

 his mother a native of Holland. For some 

 years he was publisher of the City Directory, 

 lie was also conductor of " The Criterion," a 

 short-lived literary journal, and subsequently 

 took charge of " The Publishers' Circular." Ho 

 was actively engaged on Appleton's "American 

 Cyclopaedia," and contributed to Harper's and 

 other magazines. A few years since a number 

 of his friends among the publishers presented 

 him with the means of travelling in Europe for 

 the benefit of his health. 



Feb. 12. SCHUTLER, PHILIP, grandson of 

 Maj.-Gen. P. Schuyler, died at Pelham, West- 

 chester County, N. Y., aged 77 years. 



Feb. 13. DANFORTII, Rev. A. H., a Baptist 

 clergyman and missionary, died at Milestown, 

 Pa., aged 47 years. Immediately upon com- 

 pleting his educational course at Hamilton, in 

 1847, he went as missionary to Assam, India. 

 There he labored for eleven years, when ill 

 health compelled his return. For a time he 

 indulged the hope of returning to the chosen 

 field of his toil, but finding that the Providence 

 of God indicated otherwise, he settled with the 

 Baptist church at Milestown. During his pas- 

 torate of three years the church was greatly 

 prospered, and the pastor' enjoyed the highest 

 respect and warmest regards of the entire com- 

 munity. Early last spring he went to the 

 Army of the Potomac, under the auspices of the 

 Christian Commission. His labors among the 

 soldiers resulted in the conversion of several, 

 but he labored to the point of exhaustion. He 

 was prostrated by an attack of typhoid fever, 

 from which he never fully recovered. Mr. 

 Danforth was an able preacher, and showed in 

 his intellectual efforts an acuteness of discrim- 

 ination, a felicity of analysis, and a comprehen- 

 siveness of thought, which proved him to be 

 endowed with ability of a high order. 



Feb. 13. HICKS, THOMAS H., U. S. Senator, 

 and former Governor of Maryland, died at 

 Washington, in his 76th year. He was born 

 in Dorchester County, Maryland; frequently 

 served in the Legislature of that State; was 

 Governor from 1858 to 1862 ; and was elected 

 a Senator in Congress upon the death of James 

 A. Pearce, taking his seat during the third ses- 

 sion of the Thirty-seventh Congress, and' was 

 reflected for the term ending in 1867, serving 

 on the Committee upon Naval Affairs, and that 

 on Claims. His firmness and adroit manage- 

 ment were among the most efficient means of 

 saving Maryland to the Union, when the seces- 

 sion mania began to sweep over the South. 

 He refused to call a special meeting of the 

 Legislature to consider an ordinance of seces- 

 sion, and by this most judicious act saved his 

 State from the headlong measures that in the 

 heat of the moment would probably have been 

 taken. This gave time for second thought, and 

 the Union element rallied. When the attack 

 on the Massachusetts Sixth regiment was rnado 

 in Baltimore, Governor Hicks issued a proc- 

 lamation declaring that all his authority would 



