New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-15
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT.

y, ,oraav AZ ~ O'Clock precisely, surrounded oy ms
,nilv and friends, at the residence oil Comihouoie
A NJ Pennock at the Navy-Yard His remains WI Oo
deposited temporarily in Vaui uh'li "iS ii''' '' Il
place shall be decided upon
'rhoc are fov sadder sights than wreckeds a, -, .bo
.,ore Of some peaceful bay unbuoted by br 49, euine
with the sands cast up by the tides an rottinc slowly
nUav Better It would seem, had 81 q ~ore down in
derce struggle with the winds and waves Tn the same
way peaceful ending appears an unfit at least on I'M
desirable conclusion 70 ~ nun Of activity and marked
ny deeds Of great darr.e Better, it would SEEM .na'
ruch spirit s6UuNd sake its flight though it be suuuen
from the midst Of scenes such 1t delighted H. eNo"
though they be 4Fenes of carnage and terror -
for an end Of peace was the prayer OF P'"Vo 80,
The universal desire TO die at ones poi - - err
,lceoer root.d than mare vanity or heroic Impulse %
.ta1 1,rati,u of the man who dies bravely doing
his duty is not that of hero-worshlpperS on!' VIZ
seem hard al least to those who feel mus that on
man rs this Farr9gut who once eAclaliheu' An ""
NJ man Is 70 fight" should have died lingering ue"i
suffering for weeks in great bodily pain ana at ngtn
arav inconsciously. II is not the fate OF the
,ro,ked shin il is not that of his old man-ofwar the
Hartford disnantled and laid up IN ordinary at Tue
Rroeklyn NavyYard unmssed from the fleet she lea at
New Orleans and Mobile Bay He has died at the head
of the navy and in his loss the navy seems lett without
i,s head The grief Of the nation at his loss viii NOT DO
less rofound and general will only be less expressive
than if he had fallen in battle. Nevertheless TINS S
ing fate not the which men would have "lsneu oi
Parragut for well they knew that such was NOT the '
which he envied. But he is gone taken IN CTou o"n
time aud way; and TO remains but grlei anu 'ue
mechanically Measure OF recalling the virtues ana the ac
ions Of the man. -
Admiral Farragu ives taken TO he the Headof the Navy
fro among Che people clearly as was Grant 10 oe INC
head Of the Army, Lincoln TO be the head OF ne III"
tion He was descended from class as marked ana as
buUb,e-froIp parents as poor and as infuenual-as
those Of IAncoln and Grant and his advantages were
not greater than theirs. Patient, almost poddng indus
try indonitable perseverance, and above ALL unanpi
ttou devotion 10 duty and country have marked and In
eueneed and made the career Of EACH Equally modest
and drustfuI OF their abilities promotion has come
o. each unsough and with surprise, and not single in
tgue for place stains the great OF either Each
enc, plain and unsssuming in manner, but
Rich IN saving common sense"
have served 10 Illustrate time blessed in this prodi
gaty Of glorious examples, the sublime simplicity OF
David Gascoe Fa1ragut comes from the class of people
who are Familiarity known and not napty characterized,
as the "poor whites Of the SOUTH and from that sec
non of the country where this people have. as class III
all times been most positive and resoute OF character
and loyal to the nation. His father George Farragut,
was born the island Of MinOrca but at an early age
taking to the sea for livelihood became cosmopolitan
In habits, and almost in nature. When he had served
seven years in the United States revolutionary army
rising TO rank Of major there remained to be traced
In him little OF his italian origin nature At the con-
rlnon Of the Revolution he married Scotch girl IN
North Carolinaa Miss Elizabeth shne-and soon after
eigraed as Thousands Of his eghOOrs doing, to
The new and attractive territory Of FARMLAND, which,
after being solenor recovered, the polite call it
from the Indians and first Spanish claimants was desig
mated as East Tennessee. FaIragut and his
wife selected their lands, Government war
rants issued in part payment Of his ser
vices. near Knoxville, at place still called
Campbels Station. II here that on July g. 1901,
David Gascoe FaTagut was born His first name was
gwen him in honor Of Capt David Porter friend OF the
val
name has been supposed to be family name dear to his
Scotch mother but at times it has been written
"Gasgow it likely that the child was so called IN
remembrance Of a famous locality Many years after
ward Faragut reported his name, on escaping nom
captivity on the Essex r and landing at NeWHork as
-Glascow Farragut" The and its origin are now
nj 1tc inheritance IL is az David Gascoe FaTragut
that the Admiral goes down to immortal renown
That a great Admiral should come ont OF East
Teppessee or he developed amid such scenes as those
surrounding home of young Farragu would appear
n suggested, an absurd impOssbility The locality
is entirely inland There is not stream in the state
which would the smallest North River steamer, and
mot lake among its mountains which could suggest an
idea of the ocean Life there when he was boy was
one constant struggle with poverty, varied only by
frecuent conflicts with the Indians But If there was
uotbug to ne seen Of life, there was much TO be
heard IN praise OF it, and the boy was fascinated with the
sea he had beheld by listening tothe tales OF his
father The familiar scenes Of frontier 1ar1n grew
distasteful ia proportion the unknown life became
more attractive and before he was nine and half years
Old his desire sailor had been made clearly
npparent TO his father Indeed, his father appears 10
have yielded again the attractions Of the sea, and re-
turned T. the navy when the second war with England
broke out sailing ma ter. lie had known in earlier
days of service David Porter who during the nine years
s George Farragut's discomfort farmer, had risen
10 pe Commodore and to whose influence David Farra-
gut was indebted at years Of age for an appointment
A. midshipman. The Naval School had not then been
established and the young middynot old enough TO be
a powder monkey was ordered 10 sea to get his
sclooliuc aboard ship The war with England had just
broken out and that schooling to be Of nature
70 influence the boys life. His first commander was the
,,ouncdore whose name had been given him; his first
shin was the famous Essex; and his first experience
oat was during the celebrated two years Pacific cruise
which ended in the capture Of the Essex
OF the personal history Of the young Mdsmpman dur
ing This eyentul cruise only meagre outlines known
He was present Il the capture Of the Motion. British
racket Of 10 guns December H. 1922 the Alert, March
IA and the Peruvian COsar Nereyda March 25 1873
Alter the capture May 20, Of the Atlantic, an English
whaIer Of guns FaTragu served board Of her as an
Acting Lieutenant under command OF Lieut. Stephen d.
Mcknight and cruised in company with the Essex and
The feet OF eight captured vessels turned into cruisers
Shortly after the feet reduced TO three, the Atlantic
was renamed the Essex Junior, and Lieut. Mcknight
Yiving uu the command to Lieut. -Commander Downes
AetngIdeut Farat appears TO have returned to duty
~ MGsLipnan the Essex. He continued in the Essex
during the remainder of the remarkable cruise in which
,earlv every English whale ship known 10 be IN the
sonth Pacific was captured. He appears also 10 have
taken part in the memorable war in the Marquesas
where the Essex and Essex Junior rehted in October
and November, 1913, and for which privilege Commo
done Porter was compelled TO assist the tribe who held
possession Of the bay in which he had east anchor
n was during the memorable conflict in Valparaiso
Raw March g. 1917. between the Essex and the English
vessels PBebo and Chcrub, that FarTagut gave an