New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-29
Death of John Van Buren.
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The steamship Scotia, which arrived this morn
ing, brings with her the intelligence of the death
of John Van Bnren, who was on his passage home
after having made the tour of Scotland and part
of England. His wide acquaintance, his social
qualities and his relationship both to former
President and to leading public men of the state,
combine to render this event most painful sur
prise,
John Van Buren, was born at Hudson, in March,
1910, at the period when his distinguished father
was just entering upon that career which for forty
years identified him so closely with the history of
the country OF Johns boyhood we have few in
cIdents He attended school, and at an early age
,entered Yale college, where he graduated in his
twentieth year. He then chose the law for his
profession, and after being admitted to the bar
9 uttered into practice with Mr.. McKown at Albany.
in 1856 he became partner of Mr.. Hamilton W..
RO blnson. He was regarded at that time as one
of the most promising members of the legal pro-
fession in the State; and his subsequent career
justified the prediction.
During the Presidential term of his father he
Svslted England where he was received at court
" 18th distinguished notice. He had the self-pos-
Sc ssion requisite for proper appreciation of such
att entions; and the fact Of his reception by the
roy al family Of England was trumpeted through
this country by the whig press as showing the
amb, tiOn OF the Van Buren family for regal dis
tiucti The very ridculousness of these assaults
made them more noticed, and the nickname of
Z" Prin &c John then bestowed upon him adhered
through life.
A short time after his return, Mr. Van Buren
was married to Miss Vanderpoe, by whom he be-
came the father of a daughter. Mrs. Van Buren
died sh oytly afterwards, and he never married
again.
Wright, he was chosen by tile Legislature to the
Office of attorney general. His official career
served TO justify all the confident antcipations of
his par tiai friends. He conducted several most
importa. Mt prosecutions with remarkable ability
The trial of the famous anti,rent chieftain, Big
Thunder DR.. BoughtOn, was managed by him on
The part of the State, Nr, Ambrose L. Jourdan
being the principal counsel for the defense; and
was CARRIED OIL with extraordinary energy on both
sides, restllting in one instance to personal COLI
sion on tbe part of the two gentlemen.
JUDGE Ia 'uonds, who was holding the court
directed them both to be imprisoned over night
far contamnt, qnd Mr.. Van Buren,, sensible of the
imprNnrietg Of h is conduct rendered the resiena-
ton Of his Office t,1 Gov. Wright. Acting under
the advice Of the 'rosdiPg m jso odgs the governor
his term of 6ifce. In lS46 the atrocous murder
of a family in Cayuga county, by VIM. freeman,
negro Just liberated fir, va State prison gave the
self, Which was employed t = the utmost. VIM. H.
Seward, setting at naught thu popular sentiment
against the wretched culprit, bad volunteered to
conduct his defense and Mr.. van Buren, managed
the prosecution. The authorities on medical