Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-05-12
Eleazer Williams---F. J. Woutman

The Green Bay Adrocate says the body
of F. j. WoUTMAN was found on the beach
of Fox River little below Fort Howard
on the Odd ultima and that the Coroner's
Jury gave verdict that he "came to his
death by drowning on the 3lst of Octo-
Der, or lst of November last" When
the Red Warehouse burned at Green BAY.
the Adrocute says he was supposed to
have been burned whit. The I4drocdte
adds:
"We know little of the history of Mr..
WoUTMAN, but aside from his excessive
and fatal use of intoxicating drinks, that
little is in his favor. lie was an excellent
scholar, an accomplished linguist, and a
beautiful penman. For many years he
was the private secretary of Rev. Flea
Ter WILLIAMS; and here it is well known
that to him the pretended Dauphin-who
can neither speak fluently nor write cor
rectly the mother tongue of the gay and
brilliant nation over which he claims to
have been born soyereign--iS indebted
for whatever literary reputation he has
managed to obtain abroad-at home he
has none. Letters referring to transla-
tions he was engaged in making for Mr.
! WILLIAMS at the time they were written
were i'll the memorandum-book of the de-
ceased, carefully folded up and preserved
with other papers of trifling importance
or interest. 1t is certainly very suspi-
clous circumstance, nevertheless it actu-
ally exists i'll the form of stubborn fact.
that the man who would so well like to
be considered the deeply wronged but
lineal inheritor of the SPLENDID throne of
st. Louis-on which his imperial ances-
tors sat for a thousand successive years
the descendant of a hundred kings and
as many C9Sars-shOuld owe most if not
all his character for talent and learning
to the genius and requirements of the un-
fortunate and unknown foreigner whose
remains stranger hands committed to a
nameless grave last Sabbath afternoon in
the neglected cemetry dedicated to the
wandering soldiers last repose, and whose
melancholy end we have thus recorded"
We well remember meeting Mr.. Won't
man, (if we are not mistaken in the nancy
at the house of Mr.. Williams, two years
ago, and of enjoying most highly an
hours visit with him. He was an old
man, native of one of the northern states
Of Sweden, Denmark, or Poland, but who
had seen most of the countries of Europe
and America. He could speak English
as well as we can, and told us he could
speak French, German, Scandinavian, and
one or two other languages equally well;
and could also rrite them ALL He was
in the army of Bonapart, and was present
at the burning of Moscow. When he
came to America he settled in Philadel-
phia. where he told us he had a daughter
residing.
We we'll remember the emotions we
experienced, while listening to him-there
in the Indian wilds, on the bank of Fox
River, some miles from any neighbors,
Mrs. Williams, half French and half Ne
nominee, Indian, full blooded Menom-
inee Indian woman sitting by her side,
ourselves, and this old gentleman, who
had lived in almost all the countries of
the world, spoke many of its languages.
and had seen and enjoyed the refnements
and Injuries of many of the metropolitan
cities of the first nations of the earth, con-
shutting the family-and thinking of his
career, and the strange family which he
helped to make up. We cannot describe
it, and will not try. But we remember
distinctly of approaching how feeble and
impotent were all our experience and at
tainmentS, which our vanity had magni-
fled into something of Importance, beside
this old man, whom we found constitu-
ting part of an Indian family, some of
which was as rude and ignorant as any
savage of America.
How forcibly were we reminded of the
ridiculous vanity of the exquisities and
fresh collegians who come among us think
ing the Western Pioneer is rude, ignorant.
and entirely unsophisticated in the WAYS
of the world. How true the fact that ev-
cry man of the West came from some
lrhere.
To the Dauphin question we can only
! say that with the 4fdro-ate, those who