The weekly loyal Georgian., 1868-02-15

George was greatly respected in Dutch Fiat,
and it lis estimated that there was lU,UOu
people present at his funeral.
The last time the subject OF this sketch
died. was IN June, 1864; and until we learn.
the contrary, it is just to presume that he
died permanently this time. The Michigan
papers thus refer to the sorrowful event:
4 ANOTHER CHERISHED REMEANT OF THE
REVOLUTION GoNE--George, colored man
and once the favorite body servant of Gene
raj Washington, died in Detroit last week
at the patrarchal age of 95 years. To the
moment Of his death his intellect was uu-
clouded, and he could distinctly remember
the first and second installations and death
of Washington, the surrender of CORVALLIS,
the battles of Trenton and Monmouth. and
Bunker Hill, the proclamation of the De-
claration Of independence, BraddOck's De-
feat, the throwing over of the tea in Boston
harbor. and the landing of the Pilgrims.
He died greatly respected, and was followed
to the grave By vast concOurse of people.
The faithful old servant is gone! We
shall never see him more until he turns up
again. He has closed his long and splendid
career Of dissolution, for the present, and
sleeps peacefully, as only they sleep who
have earned their rest. He was in all res
poets a remarkable man. He held his age
better than any celebrity that has figured in
history and the longer he lived the stronger
and longer his memory grew. Ii he lives
to die again, he will distinctly recOllect the
discovery Of America.
The above resume of his biography 1 be-
lieve to be substantially correct, although
it is possible that he may have died once or
twice in obscure places where the event
failed Of newspaper notoriety. One fault
find in all notices Of his death which | have
quoted, and this ought to be corrected. In
them he uniformly and lmpartially died at
the age Of 95. This could not have been.
He might have done that once, or may be
twice, but he could not have continued it
indefinitely Allowing that when he first
died, he died at the age'of 95, he was Isl
years old when he died last, in 1864. But
his age did not keep pace with his recOllec-
tions. When he died the last time he dis
tinctly remembered the landing of the Pill
grims, which took place i'll 1920. He must
have been about twenty years old when he
witnessed that even: wherefore it ls safe to
assert that the body servant of General
Washington was in the neighborhoOd of two
hundred and sixty or seventy years old when
he departed this life finally.
Having waited proper length of time, to
sec if the subject of this sketch had gone
from US reliably and irrevocably, | now
publish his biography with confidence, and
respectfully offer it to q mourning nation.
MARK TWAIN.
p. ST see by the papers that this in
famous old fraud has just died again, in
Arkansas. This makes six times that he
is known to have died, and always in a new
place. The death of WashingtOn's body
servant has ceased to be a novelty lts
charm Is gone the people are tired of it;
let it cease. This well-meaning, but mis-
guided negro, has now put.six different COM
munlties to the expense of burylng him in
state, and has swindled tens of thousands
of people into following him to the grave
under the deusOn thar select and peculiar
distinction was being conferred upon them.
Let him stay buried for good now and let
that newspaper suffer the severest censurc
that shall ever, in all future time, publish to
the world that General Washington's ia
vorita colored hody y-servant has died again.