The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1859-06-01

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byron.
The telegraph briefly announces the
death Of Baron Frederick Henry Alexan-
der Humboldt, the great German natural
ist. the cosmopolitan traveller, and the
scientific man of worldwide reputation.
This event was not unanticipated; for i'll
health has been upon him for some time,
and it was known that the infirmities of
age were fast weakening the ties of life.
lie predicted, we believe his demise this
year, and the prediction is now verified
Baron IIumbolt was born in Berlin, Sep
tcmber 18th, l7G9. lie was educated
with view to employment in the direo-
ton of the government mines, successive
~ at Gottingcn, Frankfort-on-the-Ode at
Hamburg, and at the mining school of
Frieburg. IN lI92, he was appointed as
SCISSOR to the mining board, a post which
he shortly exchanged for thatof . direc-
tor of the works at Baireuth. In 1895, he
relinquished these duties, in order to con-
meet himself to those pursuits of investi-
CATION and discovery in which he has won
an undying name. From the earliest per-
iod, he mad evinccd faculty of physical
enquiry, which he had assiduously culti-
waited by the study of chemistry, botany,
geology, and galyanism; the latter then
new and incipient science. He now pro-
ceeded to condense and arrange his scien-
tifc ideas. and test them by the known,
before applying them in countries yet un-
explored. His next care was to look
around for a country whose Unknown ma
tional riches might open to the industrious
inquirer prospect of numerous and val
liable discoveries.
Some Of his investigations with Halter,
Bach, and Banpland, were interrupted
about l797 by the existance of war.
On the 4th of June, 1899, Humbolt and
BOnpland sailed from Corunna, and on
the 10Th landed at Santa Cruz, Teneritfe.
Here they made some observations in re-
gard to the peak of Teneritfe, and then
sailed for America, arriving at Cumana
on the 10Th Of July. The travellers re-
manned in South America, exploring and
examining various portions of it. until
January. 1903, when they visited Mexico.
In January. 1904. Humbolt arrived in
Philadelphia, where he remained some
two months in August. of the same year,
landed in Havre-having collected
number of objects in botany, zoology, geol-
ogy. geography, statistics and ethnogra-
phv. His researches in these various de-
partments have already been given TO the
world, we believe.
In 1918 he visited Italy with Gay-Lus-
sac. and in 1896 travelled in England.
He then returned to Berlin, where he
enjoyed the personal favor and intimacy
of his Sovereign, was made a Councillor of
State. and was trusted with more than
one diplomatic mission. In 1929 at the
particular desire Of the Gar, he visited
Siberia and the Caspian Sea in company
with Gustav Rose and Ehrenberg.
The Men Of the Time" from which
we collate these interesting facts in the
life of the great naturalist. concluds thus:
''In addition to the general and ultimate
gain TO ohumanity, of such an advance in
society as Humbolt has effected, is to be
reckoned the immediate partial benefit of
his observations, according to which
charts have been constructed, agriculture
extended, and territories peopled. Hum
bolt is most popularity known by his Cos
mos a work written in the evening of his
life, in which he contemplates all created
things as linked together, and forming
one whole, animated by internal forces"
We may add that he was great admir-
er of the United States, and took consid-
cradle interest in observing the move
ments of our armies in Mexico. In con-
clusion, we may apply to the departed
! the poetic language of the gifted Miss
| Landon:
Can that man be dead
Whose spiritual influence is upon his kind2
He lives in glory aud his speaking dust
Has more of life than half it, breathing moulds."
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