The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-12-20
Great Young Men.


1t having been objected to General
Nc Clellan and other young officers of the
army, that they are too young to have
vision that comes of experience, con-
temporary presents list of great young
men," which OF Itself, overturns tie the
ory that age is an indispensable requisite
to success in great undertakings. The
catalogue it will pay to run through -
Don John, of Austria, won at % tho
greatest battle of modern times had it
not been for the jealousy of Philip the
next year he would have been Emperor
of Mauritania. CASTOR de Folk was only
22 when be stood victor on the plains
of Ravenna. Every one remembers
Corde and Rocroy at the same age
Gustavus Adolphus died at e. Look at
bis captains that wonderful Duke OF
Wiemar, only Sc when he died. Ranef
himself after all his marches died at IS.
Cortez was little more than 80 when
he gazed upon the golden cupola of Mex
co. When Maurice of Saxony died at
50, all Europe acknowledged the loss Of
the greatest Captain and profouudest
statesman of the age. Then there are
Nero and Give and Napoleon Blu,
these are warriors, and perhaps you may
think there are greater things than war
| do: l worship the Lord Of hosts. Bu
take the most illustrious achirvments o
civil prudence. Innocent Ill, the great
est of Popes was the despot of Christ.
endom, at 36. John D. Medeci was
cardinal at Is, and Gaiciardina bafled
with his craft, Frederick of Arragon
himself. He was Pope as Leo X at 27
Luther robbed even him Of his riches
province at 35. Take Ignatious, Loyols
and John Wesley they worked with
young brains--Ignatious only 80 wher
he made his piigrimags and wrote the
spiritual Exercises Pascal wrote c
great work a; the age of Is, the great.
1
est Of Freedmen, and died at 81; which
reminds me of Byron, greater even as
man than writer. Raphael painted the
palace OF Rome and died tao at 81
Richelieu was Secretary of State at the
age of 81. Well, then, there were Bo.
lingbrook and Pitt, both ministers before
other men leave off the cricket. Grotius
was in great practice at IT; an Attorney
General at "a. And Aquiyiva-Aquiviv
was general of the Jesuites-ruled every
cabinet in Europe, and colonized Ameri
ca before he was 81. But it is needless
TO multiply instances
The history of heroes is the history of youth -
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%A correspondent Of the Frederick
Nd, Onion, writing from Denver City,
Colorado Territory, says:
| Denver is fine place to wear out old
decency, as every one dresses as he plea
ses and no one criticises his appearance
| know men in Frederick who could make
money bv coming cut here to wear out
their old clothes. Fashion, the tyrant,
has but few victims here, and they are
all among the gentle sex. l have seen
women living in mud huts miles out on
| the rrairies, and awful short of carrCty
hair on their heads, no shoes on their
horny feet. and hoops big enough to
shame Broad way belle.
The weather is fine and May. like !; the
store doors are all open, and men are mo-
wing about in their shirtsleeves. 1t showed
one day last week to the depth Of three
or four inches, bat by 8 O'Clock it had ]!
disappeared except on the mountains, and
the air was not the least chilled by it.
l have visited number of ranches,
and found them in high state Of culti>
walton but they were all on river bot.
toms. and had been watered by irrigation
A good rancho is as profitable as gold
mine The ranchman finds ready mar>
ket and high prices for all be car raise
bis milch brings him so cents a gallon
bis eggs rs cents dozen, his butter 62ll
cents pound, and his corn. turnips. po
tatoes, beets. onions and cabbage prices
proportonably high There is no better
vegetable market in the world than Den
yer. | have seen ueets two feet long, anc
tender from one end to the other onions
that would cover good sized Dime
plate immense pumpkins. and potatoe
and cabbage weighing pounds.
EEA German recently escaped from
Charleston, furnishes the following list e
prices OF articles in that city .-...
Tea, S225 per pound coffee. 81 pc
pound butter, IS cts per pound alco
hol. s5 50 per gallon fluid $3.50 Pc
gallon coal, $50 per ten, and no har
; coal to be had at that price rice had ia