The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-10-29

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inst. we find very beautiful tribute
from the editor Of that paper, to thu
memory Of or late fellow citizen, Col
STEPHEN HENDERSON.
A the history Of Mr.. George Beck
the editor. is well known to o,,r citi
zens, we make an extract from his clio.
qucnt and pathetic notice. It is per.
haps well for lis to say that years
ago, when Col, Henderson owned the
Gazette, q, he was travelling BY land
one day, from this place to Bayou
Sara, he met the writer on the way
side, poor and friendle,s German
boy. witt, no located home In the wide
world. Heck could not speak, any
other language than the mother toun-
guc but the generous heart of Col.
Henderson. was touched with pity for
him, which the poor boy discovered,
without language, and at the motion
Of his friend, he took sent in hi. car
riage, and went with him to Bayou
Sara-when the Col. had finished his
business in that place, he returned to
Baton Ronge, and brought the home
less boy with him. The Gazette office,
was the school, in which George Beck
found a home and protection. Under
the good counsel Of Col. Henderson;
Beck learned to read, write and speak
the English language. BY industry
and application, united to native tai
ent, Beck in q few years, was enabled
to play assistant editor Cor that paper;
and could go to the type case, and
SET up very creditablc leader for the
Same.
We are no biographcr; but It does
us spleasure to cxpatiatc upon life iu-
cident of this character that has come
under our own eye. Let US make
place for an extract from the pen of
the (now) elegant writer.
In this present instance we deplore
a public loss; we share a public
grief. He performed, for nearly forty
ycars,-to use the words Of contem-
pcrary-"the full part Of a useful citi-
zen" For ten years editor Of the
Batou Rouge Gaeettc, Mayor Of the
town, and otherwise honorcd by its
he ever bore the reputation
most to be coveted, d,-that Of an honest
man and a good citizen. And, Ia
mented as he is, and long viii be, rs a
useful member Of the community 10
which Providence had cas-. his lot
his opitaph may include yet nobler
record of grief "He was friend"
says the Baton Rouge Comet. in an
eloquent obituary, ito all distress
and many. who are fr;eudless in his
loss. can miugle their tears with his
bereaved aud mourning family "a
tribute which few of the Heroes of the
worlds worship might honestly claim
At the hands Of their postcrity. How
10 the bloody deeds of those men
whom History unbIushingly holds up
tor our veneration, compare with the
steady, noiseless, self-sacrifcing hero
sm Of a true man, in the private and
social life. How much prouder tri-
,ute is the warm tear of grateful afec-
ion upon the new laid sod, than the
pageant which monarchs create to sat
sly the idle curiosity Of a crowded
'ity. Millions were spent upon the
'bsequies Of the hero Of Waterloo
'ut who would not rather have, upon
lis tombstone, the epitaph Of a Dix or
Howard or the words standing as
N eternal memorial upon the pages of
he Evangelist, spoken by the blessed
avior Of one Of the Worlds poor:
'tlSAs hath done ,cAat she coald.",
But the knell that has thus rung,
las struck mournfully upon our own
ar, and given a throb Of genuine sor-
'ow to our heart. To us the deceased
vas, indeed, friend; a friend, years
'go, when we needed friendly offices;