Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-07-27
.Eonn a5iaaris.

Everybody in Pennsylvania knows the
name of John Rinn. The Philadelphia Press
in noticing the receipt of his advertisement
as Commissioner of Deeds, Commissioner of
the United States. &C., &C., written IN a
clear aud beautiful hand, gives the following
sketch of this old veteran of the law:
.'He will be 81 years old on the 22d of
December next, having been born in Dublin
on the 22d of December. 1772. This was
before the Declaration of Independence, and
yet this remarkable man at his present great
age preserves all his faculties, and attends to
his business with an assiduity, regularity and
pupctuaiity that might well be initiated by
men more than half century his Junior
He reads without spectacles, and though
slightly afflicted with the gout, we have seen
him on our streets within few months in his
tights and stockings, walking almost rap
idly as man of 40. During his active life
he has seen nations rise and fall monarch
after monarch has been deposed revolutions
have ripened and rioted the Old World has
been convulsed by popular insurrection, only
to relapse, enfeebled by the struggle, into
| the arms of despotism while in the New he
has been spectator of the successful begin
ming, and, up to this time. triumphant trial,
of the republican experiment. Mr.. Burke,
in his splendid speech in the House of Com
mons, on moving bis resolutions fer ''Concil-
| iation with the American Colonies" On the
22d of March. 1855, drew picture of my
| Lord Bathurst, who was of an age to compre-
| hend alike the extreme of what was old and
what was new in that era. Bathurst was one
whose memory touched extremities, as well
of the closing of the old the beginning
of the new and Burke said of him, That
| if the condition Of the United States of Amer
lea Ca dependency of Great Britain at that
time) had been foretold to him, would it not
require all the sangiune credulity of youth,
and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm. to make
| him believe it 2" Fortunate man." says
Burke, ''he has lived to see it Fortunate,
indeed. if he lives to see nothing that shall
vary the prospect or cloud the setting of his
day" At a moment when our venerated
townsman, Mr.. Richard Rush, (whose name
is associated by his connexions with the past,
in his family and in his own experience, with
revolutionary memories. is stretched on what
we ale compelled to believe his bed of death }
the presence of vigorous intellect like Mr..
Binn's, who is greatly the senior of Mr..
Rush, Is calculated to awaken peculiar emo
tons. The life of each may be said in some
sort, to be history of the native country of
the one and the adopted country of the other
Both have been highly favored hy Provi-
dence. They have lived far beyond the
average of human life; and while all men
will mourn>ever the grave of the one who is
earliest called, SO all men will bless the sun
set of him whose life is spared. We forbear
referring TO the part acted by Mr.. Binns in
the politics of Ireland and of the United
States. He has himself written his own
book. HIS American experience has been
varied. In his day and time he welded i'm
Il. L
san, al accomplished editor, an upright gen
: tlemcn, and a thorough patriot. He controlled
men By the integrity Of his conduct, and he
quarreiled with Administrations when they
did not suit him. He began life a Democra
in this country, and he is Democrat to-day