The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-06-17
VOLUME YII.---NO 7.
BARON HUNBOLDT.


death u Baron .lunhollt ;-"Cnc ,f tho
G'e"'es. mcn of,hi' age, or Of any other
age, has paid the debt to nature which all
must yield al last. The telegraphc ntelli-
gence from Euroe announces the death of
the il!ustrious Alexander Won Humboldt.
known also as Bnron Humboldt TO the
last he retained Tho brightness aud viror Of
his intellect, and the cheerful Luoyancy of
his spi'i!s. He has seen two ages-,he
last part Of the eighteenth and more than
the first hall Of lhe nineteenth century:
and lie has Witnessed the greatest discoveries
and changes thai have taken place in tho
| history tue world for many hundred years.
Born IN the same year Will, Napoleon, ho
knew the Great Frederick ; lis youth was
coeval with TIE North American contest fer
liberty; he adniredike great Washington;
! the drama Of the French revelation, that
c"nvu!sed the world, he saw pass before
| him, with its martial teas anal It's giants ::
and the German en- ire Of thousand years
tumble Into rui:!s beneath tie strokes OF the
mighty Cor>ican, While the philosopher
wandered over Ia. tahle.lar.ls Of the An.
''"s His full n".ue WAS Frederick Ucury
Alexander B"run Won Humboldt, and he
| was born at Ecr.in, September IA, 1859.
IT,: Gied, therefore, in lis ,.ire.ie,h year.
Perhaps there is not IN the annals Of Man.
Kind the natnc of another man who has liv-
e'i TO the same are and produced such m
; amount Of intellectual work, aud that, too.
Of the highest order. IIe had sound
body as well as sound mind, and the tor
nd zone appeared 10 have as lille injurious
! effect upon him as the frozen regions Of the
! north. lie had n gigantic intellect, from
which nothing in nature or in science ap-
rearcd to be hid. He could grasp all sub
i"e's, and he appeared 10 know everything.
What a man. exclaimed the great poet
Goethe, The Shakespeare Of Germany, after
| 'ece'vclng visit from tie philosopher; 1
know OF no ,aan 10 compare him to; he re-
ScmIles spring Of evcr.gushing sweet Wa
'ers; he Knows everything, and knows
! thoroughly what he does know But it
WAS III natural history that Lo most distin-
guishcd himself and his 'Cusrnus' is his
| mprris!lable monument. which will endure
| As long as The tart! which it describes.
CoSr.os Is Greek word, and means the
verdi; yet, perhaps, his grand wu,k on.
America, over which he travelled for five
| wears, is illat which viii keep his memory
forever green in the minds Of the n!iahit-
ants Of the New World. The following let
Ter. which is The last published production
Of u"nho'It, and o"y two months old,
('lated Berlin, March Is. ls5a) presents
curious example OF the troubles Of celcbri.
~. 1t was sent to the Gazette of Voss;-
'Lahoring under extreme depression of.spir-
'ts, The result Of IA correspondence which
daily increases, ard which makes yearly
average OF from sixteen hundred to two
thousand letters and pamphlets on things
entirely foreign TO ne--manuscrpls Oh
which my advice is demanded, schemes of
emigration and colonization, invoices of
models, machinery and objects Of natural
history, inquiries on balloons, demands of
autographs, offer to nurse or apuse mel
"nce.more publicly inv,e all those who de.
sire my welfare TO try and persuade the
people OF the two continents not to be so
busy about me, and not to take my house
Tor The of'ire Of a directory, in order that,
with the decay OF my physical and iutellec.
tual strength, | may enjoy some leisure and
have time to work. Let not this appeal, to
which only resort with reluctance, be inter-
preted with malcvolence.
ALEXANDER Won HUMBOLDT.
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