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quired so thorough a knowledge of the native 

 language as to be able to preach in it with 

 fluency and accuracy. As soon as circum- 

 stances would permit he reopened the Fur- 

 ruckabah high school, which had been closed 

 by the war, and soon brought it into a pros- 

 perous condition. His health failing from his 

 excessive labors, he removed in 1864 to Deyrah, 

 to be nearer the hills, but was attacked there by 

 a malignant disease which soon carried him off. 

 Oct. 5. MOORE, EDWIN WARD, a Commo- 

 dore in the Texan Navy, died in New York 

 city, aged 54 years. He was a native of Alex- 

 andria, Virginia, and at fourteen years of age 

 was transferred from the Alexandria Academy 

 to the United States Navy, with a midshipman's 

 commission, and, beginning with an extensive 

 cruise in the sloop-of-war Hornet, he was much 

 in active service down to the Texan war of inde- 

 pendence of 1836. At this time, by regular 

 promotion, he had become a first lieutenant, and, 

 as an intelligent, active, and enterprising young 

 officer, he was singled out by. the Government 

 of Texas to the chief command, as commodore 

 of its naval establishment, which had yet to be 

 created. Young Moore, resigning his commis- 

 sion in the United States service, gladly ac- 

 cepted his new appointment, and hastened to 

 his new field of labor and adventure. This was 

 in 1837. He was a commodore in the cause of 

 of a new republic which was without ships and 

 without money. He contrived, however, partly 

 from the credit of the republic and partly from 

 his own resources, to purchase in New Orleans 

 two small ships, which he fitted up and equipped 

 as vessels-of-war. With these and a tender 

 he set sail from New Orleans in the spring of 

 1843 for a trial of strength with the Mexican 

 fleet awaiting him in the Gulf. This fleet con- 

 sisted of eight or ten vessels, including two 

 steamers, the Guadaloupe and Montezuma, built 

 in England at an expense of a million of dollars. 

 So great was the disparity between these op- 

 posing forces that, to save his ships from what 

 he believed would be their certain destruction 

 if they were overhauled by the enemy, President 

 Houston repeatedly ordered Commodore Moore 

 to seek shelter in the Bay of Galveston ; but, 

 disregarding these orders, or failing to receive 

 them at New Orleans, Moore boldly put out to 

 sea in search of the enemy. The Mexican fleet 

 was at length sighted off the coast of Yucatan. 

 A succession of hot engagements followed in 

 the Bay of Campeachy, in which the Mexican 

 squadron, invariably beaten, was finally routed 

 and dispersed, with heavy losses in ships and men. 

 In consideration of his services, the Congress 

 of Texas notwithstanding the removal of 

 Moore by President Houston, and the veto of 

 the bill for his reinstatement by President An- 

 son Jones passed the bill into a law, which 

 included the liquidation of balances of money 

 on account of the navy to the sum of over 

 seventy thousand dollars, and the grant of a 

 tract of land to the commodore of thousands 

 of acres. 



After the annexation of Texas, the commo- 

 dore and his associate Texan naval officers ap- 

 plied to Congress to be reinstated in the United 

 States Navy, with the rank they held from 

 Texas. This proposition was defeated. A com- 

 promise was finally passed, in the shape of an 

 appropriation to these officers, as officers of the 

 Union on leave pay from the day of annexation 

 to the passage of the bill. Of this appropriation 

 (1855) the share accruing to Commodore Moore 

 was some seventeen thousand dollars. 



His time subsequently was largely occupied 

 in experiments on new mechanical inventions. 



Oct. 7. CHAPIN, Hon. MOSES, an eminent 

 lawyer of Rochester, New York, died in that 

 city, aged 74 years. He was a native of Spring- 

 field, Mass., studied law, and removed to New 

 York in 1813. He was the first Judge of Mon- 

 roe County, which position he filled from 1825 

 to 1831. Since that time he has devoted him- 

 self to the practice of his profession. 



Oct. 7. SANDERS, Brevet Brig.-Gen. HORACE 

 T. (Col. 19th Wis. vols.), an officer in the U. 

 S. volunteer service, died in Washington, D. 

 C., of haemorrhage of the lungs. He entered 

 the army early in the war, and on the 2d of 

 June, 1862, was appointed commander of the 

 19th Wisconsin regiment of infantry. He ac- 

 quitted himself with great gallantry in his com- 

 mand, and on the 12th of January, 1865, re- 

 ceived the brevet rank of brigadier-general. His 

 death was the result of exposure in the service. 



Oct. 10. EATON, JAMES S., author, and prin- 

 cipal of the English department of Phillips 

 Academy, at Andover, Mass., died at that place. 

 He had been long and favorably known as a 

 teacher, and was the author of some school- 

 books. 



Oct. 10. RICORD, Mrs. ELIZABETH, a well- 

 known authoress and teacher, died at Newark, 

 N. J., aged 78 years. Her active life was spent 

 mostly in Western New York. In 1828 she 

 opened a young ladies' seminary in Genesee, 

 which she continued for nearly twenty years. 

 As a teacher she was highly gifted, and her 

 personal and mental accomplishments, together 

 with her winning methods, gave her great 

 power over the young minds under her care. 

 Her Christian influence also was so marked, 

 that a large number of her pupils became sub- 

 jects of Divine grace while connected with the 

 seminary. The great revival of 1832 in West- 

 ern New York commenced in Mrs. Ricord's 

 seminary. Subsequently she tanght some years 

 in New York city. She was the author of a 

 valuable book on mental philosophy and other 

 important works. 



Oct. 11. CASTLEMAN, Rev. ROBERT, an Epis- 

 copal clergyman of Petersburg, Va., was mur- 

 dered near Gaston, N. C., for his efforts in be- 

 half of the freedmen. 



Oct. 11. Dix, JAMES A., principal editor of 

 the " Boston Daily Journal " for a number of 

 years, died in that city of consumption. 



Oct. 11. GIOER, Rev. GEORGE MCSGRAVE, 

 D. D., a Presbyterian clergyman, Professor 



