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Chameleon." He also played with great suc- 

 cess at Niblo's Garden and at the Olympic. 



Oct. 5. HALSTED, SOHITREMAN, a prominent 

 citizen and philanthropist of New York, died 

 at Mamaroneck, N. Y., aged 63 years. He 

 commenced his business career at the age of 

 fifteen years, in a prominent dry-goods house, 

 and by the time he had reached the prime of 

 life had acquired an ample competence. From 

 this period he devoted himself to the promo- 

 tion of various religious and benevolent enter- 

 prises. It was by his personal efforts that the 

 Legislature passed the act creating the Board 

 of J 'Ten Governors," and having been appoint- 

 ed one of the original Governors, he devoted a 

 large portion of his time to securing the success- 

 ful working of that system. He was one of the 

 principal patrons and supporters of the Old 

 Ladies' Home in Forty-second Street, Vice- 

 President of the American Bible Society, Presi- 

 dent of the Westchester County Bible Society, 

 Manager of the Parent Missionary Society of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, founder and Pres- 

 ident of a savings bank, founder and for many 

 years President of the Broadway Insurance 

 Company, and held many other responsible 

 positions both secular and religious. 



Oct. 5. WADE, Mrs. DEBORAH B. L., wife of 

 Jonathan Wade, D. D., a missionary in Bur- 

 mah, died at Tavoy. Her maiden name was 

 Lapham, and she was born in Nelson, N. Y., 

 January 10, 1801. At the age of 22 years she 

 was married and sailed from Boston with her 

 husband, June 20, 1823, arriving at Eangoon 

 in the following December. Her missionary 

 life extended over a period of forty-five years, 

 during which she rendered a large amount of 

 valuable service, and was eminently her hus- 

 band's helper, in his evangelizing labors. In 

 1831, arid again in 1848, she visited the United 

 States with her husband. She was a woman 

 of strong powers of mind, of sound judgment, 

 and of remarkable piety. 



Oct. 10. LINDSLEY, NATHAN LAWRENCE, 

 LL. D., an eminent philologist and belles-let- 

 tres scholar, died at Greenwood, Tenn., aged 

 52 years. He was the son of Philip Lindsley, 

 for many years President of the Nashville Uni- 

 versity. His early educational advantages 

 were superior, and in whatever department of 

 literature he pursued his studies, he endeavored 

 to explore the ground thoroughly. He became 

 master of several of the dead languages, as well 

 as the modern languages, and in matters of 

 philology had justly earned a national reputa- 

 tion. As an educator he was eminently suc- 

 cessful. Dr. Lindsley was of material assist- 

 ance to his friend Dr. Worcester during his 

 preparation of the valuable lexicon which bears 

 his name, and had himself projected a great 

 work in the department of lexicography, enti- 

 tled "An Encyclo-lexicon of the English Lan- 

 guage." 



Oct. 15. HINMAN, EOYAL RALPH, a poli- 

 tician and genealogist, died in New York 

 City, aged 84 years. He was born in Fairfield 



County, Conn., was a graduate of Yale Col- 

 lege, class of 1804, studied law, and practised 

 for nearly thirty years in his native county, 

 was elected Secretary of State of Connecticut 

 on the Conservative ticket in 1836, and after 

 two years of service retired from public life. 

 Subsequently he devoted his attention for 

 many years to the history and antiquities of 

 the State, and especially to tracing the gene- 

 alogy of the original and early settlers, in the 

 Hartford, Quinnipiac (or New Haven), Pequod 

 (or New London), and Saybrook colonies. He 

 published several volumes of these investiga- 

 tions. For the last fourteen or fifteen years 

 he had resided in New York City. 



Oct. 21. SOUDER, CASPER, Jr., editor of the 

 Evening Bulletin, Phila., died in Philadelphia, 

 aged 48 years. He had been a prominent 

 member of the profession twenty years, during 

 seventeen of which he was connected with 

 The Bulletin. He was a man of fine culture 

 and high literary attainments, and the author 

 of several valuable works, including the " His- 

 tory of Chestnut Street," in which much re- 

 search and impartial description earned him 

 the high esteem of the Philadelphia public as 

 a historian. 



Oct. 22. HINDS, JAMES, M. C. from Arkan- 

 sas, was assassinated at Monroe, Ark. He 

 was born in the town of Hebron, Washing- 

 ton County, N. Y., December 5, 1833 ; gradu- 

 ated at the Cincinnati Law College in 1856, 

 and removed to Minnesota, where he entered 

 upon the practice of his profession. Here he 

 was appointed District- Attorney, and was ad- 

 vanced from this position to that of presiding 

 Judge. During the late war, he enlisted in an 

 expedition which was sent by the Government 

 against the hostile tribes of Indians on the 

 Western frontier, and, at the close of the war 

 in 1865, settled at Little Rock, Ark. Subse- 

 quently he was chosen a member of the con- 

 vention which framed the constitution under 

 which Arkansas was admitted to the Union ; 

 and at the election of State officers was chosen 

 one of the three representatives in the national 

 Congress. At the time of his death he^was 

 canvassing his State with relation to the con- 

 gressional nomination of his district, and, al- 

 though having no direct personal interest in 

 the election, fell a victim to his political views. 



Oct. 24. FAIRCHILD, Brevet Brigadier-Gen- 

 eral CASSIUS, U. S. Marshal for Wisconsin, died 

 at Milwaukee from the reopening of a wound 

 received at the battle of Shiloh, aged 40 years. 

 He was a representative in the State Legisla- 

 ture in 1860. Duidng the war he was con- 

 nected with the loth Wisconsin regiment, of 

 which he became colonel, and soon after its 

 close was appointed U. S. Marshal, the duties 

 of which position he continued to discharge 

 with faithfulness until his death. Colonel F. 

 had been married but two weeks when his 

 death occurred. 



Oct. 28. TRACY, ANDREW, M. 0. from Ver- 

 mont, died at Woodstock, Yt. He was a 



