Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-06-17
Ages Of Modern s,.,ssns..

| iua Emile Girafdinreeently approached the
blindness Of death which has removed
! Richard Cobden. aged sixiy, one, and left
| lord PafmerstoD, aged eighty one. Cob
tbeTs death was moorDed as untinIely and
truly, samongnthe present race Of British
Istatesmen, be coouted but as ID young man.
Palmerslon is Prime Minister, aud slightly.
Que President j Johnson is but Il fl -se ven, and
Mr.. LiDcoln was but, City six. Earl. RnSsel
lis Secretary, for Foreign Affairs. aud is
seventy-three. Mr.. Seward--our Foreiga
| Secretary--is the oldest mao In the Ad-
ministration, and but sixtyfour. Mr. Ga.
meron, the former Secretary Of War, Is
two years bis senior Tue Lord High
CbancelIor OF Eugland is sixty-five, but
Chief j lstce Chose is but 6f'y seven =
Mr.. Gladstone is ffty.six. and Is reproached
as very young man.; He is the ful ure
Pfemiers Of England hut Earl Russell
stspds between him and the succession IN
case. OF Lord Palmerston's, death, Lprd
Derby, the chief Of the English opposition,
|is sixty SIX, aud bis SECOND, Mr, DisraelI,
Is sixty, aud must some time ago have laid
aside the flowing locks with which Punch
still decora'es bis head. Among the lesser
lights, men who are slowly working their
way apwards, aud of whom the British
publico expeo,s something ipcourse OF tiae,
are Mr. Mlner Gibson, who is City eight,
Lord Clarence Psget. the laborious Secre
terry of the, Admiralty. ffty-four, Mr..
Wbiieside, the eminent Irish barrister fifty
nine, Sir. Fitzroy Kelly, sixty-seven, aud
other not less mature "risipg young men,
i's Let us look for a moment at the ages Of
our own promiuet public men Mr. Bu-
chanau became President ut the age of
sixty FIVE; M. Pierce at forty eight M.
Lincoln at sifty-two5y = Mr.. johnson at
ifty-seyen. Breckinridge was but thirty,
four, when be was chosen, Yice,P President; |;
Mr., Douglas was but forty eight when
be died; Mr., Seward became sixty Eve
but a few days ago, and, after Q long life
ia opposi,ioD, reached the second place 10
the Administra alton at the early age Of sixty,
oue.ol Senator Sumner is but fifty.four
Ben Wade esixty-dve; Senator w ilson qbut
fifty three; Gen Banks became Speaker ol
EIhe, House when thirty. nine is now forty
nine; Mr.. Fessepden 10 fifty nine Spea
ker Coifay is but forty-two; Winter Davis
isioforty eight; aud Senator Spragqe, OF
Rhode Islupd, a favorte Of fortune has
been Governor, General and Senate and
is yet but thirty FIVE. Thaddeus. Stevens is
seyenty-two, and Reyerdy johnson is sixty
nine. Mr.. Harlan, inst made Secretary Of
the Interior, is but furty.fsej Mr.. Adams.
our Minister to England, is ffty:eigbt;
and among the opposition. YallaDdigham.
is forty four, aud Fernando WoodJ fifty
three. Senator Morgan, Of New York, is
ffty-four, and Mr.. Foster, the. presiding
officer of the Senate lis ffty-ninei
JEFF Davis was born ,in ithe same year
with President j obnsQas and lhe year be-
fore Mr. LINCOLN is as old as Thaddeu;
Stevens-seven,y-two; Mason, his com
pauiou in the San Jacin,o affair, is sixty
seven; Henry A. Wise is prematurely oil
at ffly'niue; Toombs is fifty Gse; Orr bu
forty three; Alexander Stephens fifty three
aud Lcteher ifty-four; Herschel v. John
son was forty eight When he was placed al
Vice Pre,ident GU the Douglas ticket
| Yancy died At ffy; and Pofchsr Miles
ofoSonlh Carolina. sdis forty-ihree. John
A. Gilmer. of North Carolina. who is re-
ported 10 he on his way 10 Washington tt
confer with the President on he affairs 0
that State, is Just sixty; and Wm. A Gra
ham. who accompanies him, is sixty Eve
The Emperor Napoleou is Of the sam'
age as President Johnson and JED. Davis
The late Duke de Alorny, the Emperor
aIfbrother, died at 6fty.tbree' The En
peror Of Russis is forty seven, and ficto
| Emanuel is furtyl lise ia mnhee7i a1o