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villo, California, and then of Portland, Oregon, 

 where ho acted as agent of the old Adams K.\- 

 press Company, and afterward of the Pacific 

 Mail Steamship Company. When the war 

 broko out in 18C1, ho at onco proceeded to 

 Washington, and offered his services. Under 

 the auspices of General George Wright, ho 

 raised a regiment of Washington Territory 

 Volunteers, of which ho was made colonel, 

 iiiul which ho commanded in a manner which 

 won high compliments from his superiors hr 

 rank. In 1866 he was made major and pay- 

 master in the regular army, and served for 

 some time in New York, Washington, and in 

 Tt'xa*, previous to his assignment to Montana. 

 His death was the result of injuries received 

 by being thrown from his horse. 



Oct. 9. WENDELL, CORNELIUS, a Democratic 

 editor and politician ; died at Northampton, 

 Mass., aged 57 years. Ho was born in Cam- 

 bridge, Washington County, educated as a 

 printer, and became well versed in all the de- 

 partments of his art. Ho was connected with 

 the Troy Free Press, and the Albany Atlas, 

 from 1840 to 1850, when he removed to Wash- 

 ington, D. C., and was for several years Con- 

 gressional Printer. 



Oct. 10. JotTRDAN, JOHN, Superintendent 

 of the Municipal Police ; died in New York, 

 aged 43 years. He was of Irish parentage, 

 and born in New York, January 6, 1831. 

 After receiving an ordinary common-school 

 education, he was thrown upon his own re- 

 sources at the age of seventeen. He served 

 in the mailing and other departments of 

 several newspapers, finally being perma- 

 nently employed in the Tribune office, in 

 which, at twenty-one years of age, he was 

 made foreman of the mailing department. 

 He resigned this place through ill health 

 May 11, 1853, and was on the same day 

 appointed in the police force, as patrol- 

 man, and assigned to the Sixth Ward. He 

 performed post duty under Captain (late Com- 

 missioner) Brennan, and detailed duty in the 

 Tombs Police Court, and subsequently was on 

 the reserve corps. On the organization of the 

 Metropolitan Police Department he resigned, 

 but returned to the force October 11, 1858. 

 On April 24, 1860, he was made a sergeant by 

 the Board of Commissioners, and served in 

 the Sixth Precinct, to which he was assigned, 

 from that time until his appointment as Super- 

 intendent. On the 31st of January, 1863, he 

 was appointed captain of his precinct, to fill 

 the vacancy made by the appointment of Cap- 

 tain Dowling to a chair in the Board of Police 

 Magistrates. He served in that position until 

 April 11, 1870, when, by a unanimous vote of 

 the Board of Commissioners, he was appointed 

 Superintendent, in place of John A. Kennedy. 

 As a detective officer, ho was distinguished for 

 his acumen, zeal, and energy. 



Oct. 11. CHASE, Eev. BENJAMIN, D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman and educator ; died at 

 Natchez. Miss., aged 82 years. He was born 



in New Hampshire, in the year 1789, graduated 

 at Middlobury College, and spent the whole 

 of his ministerial lite in the Southwest. Ho 

 did a noble work many years ago in circulat- 

 ing the Scriptures in the Southwest, and con- 

 tributed a valuable geological cabinet to Oak- 

 land College. 



Oct. 12. DEAN, GILBERT, a New -York poli- 

 tician and jurist ; died at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 

 aged 51 years. Born at Pleasant Valley, 

 Dutchess County, N. Y., August 14, 1819, and 

 fitted for college, in part, at Amenia Seminary 

 in that county, he entered the class of 1841 at 

 Yale College in tho beginning of the freshman 

 year. In college he was especially prominent 

 as a writer and debater, his scholarship, how- 

 ever, placing him very high in rank in his 

 class. After his graduation he studied law, 

 and was first admitted to the bar in Litch- 

 field County, Conn., but afterward (May, 

 1844) in New York. He was a practising 

 lawyer in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1844'55. He 

 then removed his office to New-York City, 

 where he was for a number of years a member 

 of the well-known firm of Beebe, Dean & 

 Donohue, and had a large and lucrative 

 practice. He was chosen Kepresentative in 

 Congress from the districts composed of 

 Dutchess and Putnam Counties, in November, 

 1850, and again in 1855. He served three 

 years in Congress, and resigned his seat to 

 accept the office of Justice of the Supreme 

 Court of New York, for the same judicial 

 district, to which he was appointed by the 

 Governor, June, 1854, to fill the unexpired 

 term of Justice Barculo, deceased. He served 

 on the bench almost eighteen months, and was 

 during the last year (1855) one of the judges 

 of the Court of Appeals. In November, 1862, 

 he was chosen member of Assembly from New- 

 York City, where he resided until his death, 

 spending his summers in Poughkeepsie. 



Oct. 13. BULFINCH, Rev, STEPHEN G.,D.D., 

 a Unitarian clergyman and author ; died at 

 Cambridge, Mass., aged 61 years. He was the 

 son of Thomas Bulfinch, the eminent architect 

 and designer of the national Capitol at Wash- 

 ington, D. C., received his early education in 

 that city, graduated from the Cambridge Di- 

 vinity School in 1830, and immediately entered 

 upon his ministerial labors, serving, during the 

 forty years of his work, in five or six different 

 pulpits, North and South. He was the author 

 of several well-known works of a religious 

 character, and a frequent contributor to the 

 press. 



Oct. 16. OLMSTEAD, Rev. JAMES MIJNSON, 

 D. D., a Presbyterian clergyman, author, and 

 scientist ; died in Philadelphia, aged 76 years. 

 He was born in Stillwater, Saratoga County, 

 N. Y., February 17, 1794, graduated at Union 

 College in 1819, and at Princeton Theological 

 Seminary in 1822, and the same year, having 

 been licensed to preach, became an itinerant 

 in the missionary work. In June, 1825, he was 

 ordained and installed pastor of the churches 



