About 1860 Mr. Murphy retired from minstrelsy and assumed various executive positions, notably as business manager at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, where he remained for fifteen years. Mr. Murphy was a half brother of Jno. F. Donnelly. Jos. D. Murphy was born in Philadelphia, January 11, 1823; he died there January 1, 1884. C. L. HUNTLEY, a member of Thayer’s Boston Sable Harmonists about 1850, was a fine guitar player, and very proficient in the manipulation of the bones. He died in Boston, Mass., April 13, 1883; aged about 60 years. TOM VAUGHN was one of the earliest banjoists of minstrelsy. When sixteen years of age he made his professional debut with Holt and Nichols Circus; later he joined Turner and Rockwell’s, and Welch and Mann’s Circuses. After this he went to Buffalo, and met E. P. Christy, and when the latter formed the minstrel company that bore his name, Mr. Vaughn was one of the four original members. He continued with Mr. Christy until the dissolution of the company in July, 1854, and a few months later went with Christy’s Minstrels to California. Mr. Vaughn returned to New York in 1855, and opened Vaughn’s Minstrels there that same year. Subsequently he was with Wood and Christy’s and George Christy’s Minstrels for several years, mostly in the Metropolis. Tom Vaughn was born in New York, September 5, 1823; he died in Zanesville, Ohio, September 3, 1875. J. T. HUNTLEY was one of the early wench dancers of minstrelsy. In December, 1857, he, with Lon and Billy Morris and Johnny Pell, seceded from Ordway’s Aeolians in Boston, and organized in that city a minstrel company bearing their names, which they conducted successfully for about two years, after which Mr. Huntley organized his own minstrel company and played an engagement at the Eleventh Street Opera House in Philadelphia in the Spring of 1859. August 23, 1859, he married the widow of Matt. Peel, and at once assumed the management of Mrs. Matt. Peel’s Campbell’s Minstrels, and continued in that capacity for about four or five years, after which he retired to private life. J. T. Huntley was born in New York, June 24, 1824; he died in Mamaroneck, N. Y., August 4, 1895. EARL HORTON PIERCE was one of the greatest minstrel comedians of his day. April 8, 1850, he opened his own minstrel company in New York; it was subsequently Pierce and Fellowe’s Minstrels. Later, Mr. Pierce was with E. P. Christy’s Company in New York, and Ordway’s Aeolians in Boston. August 3, 1857, with J. W. Raynor, they opened in London, England, as “Christy’s Minstrels;” this was the first company to play under that title in England. Subsequently all minstrel companies were called “Christy’s.” Mr. Pierce made a tremendous hit singing a topical song called “Hoop de-Dooden-Do.” After his death his chair on the end remained vacant for three days, during which time it was draped. Earl H. Pierce was born in New York in 1823; he died in London, England, June 5, 1859.