The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-12-14
Death of Horace Greeley.

dangerous sickness to break the shock. The mail. which on Tuesday morning, brought San Francisco papers stating that Mr. Greeley was sick with brain fever, also brought San Diego and Los Angeles papers with telegraph lc news of his death.
 Few men have lived in the United States who have yielded a greater influence in journalism than Horace Greeley has for thirty years past After the New York Tribune had been published five years, MT. Greeley was recognized power, politically, and his course was successful in the main, until the present year. Now, that the great journalist has passed away, those who opposed him most bitterly, during his long and busy life, will join with his friends in placing on record the history of his untiring endeavors for the ad- vancement of the best interests of the great masses of the American people.
 From the Los Angeles Ne,rs we take the following, concerning his life:
 "Mr. Greeley was born at Amherst, New Hampshire, on the third of February, 1S1l, and was the son of poor farmer, who, Tn l 1891, removed to West Haven, Vermont. ! In 1896, he made his entry into that busi- ness i'll which he has attained such promi- nent position, as an apprentice to the print ing business in the office of the Northern Spectator at East Poulteney, Vermont. | His settlement in New York dates from August, 1881, and he arrived in that city with only ten dollars in his pocket. After working for fourteen months as a journey man printer in January, 1883, he became partner of Frances Storey, and published the Morning Post, the first penny newspaper ever published The Morning Post was dis continued after few weeks. and, in 1854, the firm of Greeley & Co. founded the Nep Yorker, a weekly journal, neutral Tn politics, ! for which Mir. Greeley wrote the editorial articles. From March, 1888 to March 1889, he edited the Jefersonian, published under the direction of the Whg Central Commit tee of the State of New York. The Log Cabin was commenced in lS40, and attained circulation of S0,0O0. In 1911, he again venturcd on another one cent paper, the New York Tribune, which increased in size and price, and is now recognized as one of the leading journals in the country, and with which NIT. Greeley has been associated. He supported the Presidential campaign of 1852, General Scott; in lS56 General Ere mont and in 1860, Abraham Lincoln. Du- ring the war, he gave proof of his Union principles, by his advocacy for them in the Tribune; and in May, 1867, he performed the act which made him DO pular in the South signing the bail bond of Jefferson Davis. MT. Greeley served in Congress for short term l-lS4S to lS49-as representative from New York, where he principally figured in the discussion on the mileage system. Mir. Greeley visited California in 1859, travelling | by way of Kansas, Pike's Peak and U utah. He received warm and hearty reception in San Francisco, and at the other cities in the State. As an author, Mir. Greeley attained great popularity.
 ~-~During the late struggle for President he was selected by two conventions to contest ] for it against General Grant "A more remark able combination of political clements as hap pened when he was nominated, does not occur in the history of the American nation. The history of the campaign is familiar to every newspaper reader So disastrous and over whelming a defeat as was suffered by Mir. Greeley, never before fell to the lot of any candidate seeking the Chief Magistracy of the nation. His death Is believed to be has tened, if not actually caused, by the non realization of the hopes he had so fundly cherished" The following are some of the despatches that were received by California papers, dur ing Mir Grecley's illness: SAN FRANcIsco, Nov 2S-Evening-
 The following painfully interesting particu- lars regarding Horace Grecley's condition have this moment been received; NEW YORK, Nov 2S.-It is now known tbat Mr. Greeley is in Tarrytown. A repor- | -lo ,I,a him were number of intimate friends, inclu- ding Samuel Sinclair and John F. Cleveland, Mir. Greeley's brother-in-law also his daugh- ters. Three physicians were there in consul tation. They defined his disease as an organ ic affection of the brain, the result of physi- cal prostration consequent upon his unremitt- ing attendance at the bedside of his dying wife.
 This account adds that on the day before yesterday he lost his conc iousness. His last coherent words were: The country is gone, the Tribune is gone, and am gone." The form of mental alienation manifested by him is said to be self reproach and agony of mind at what he deemed the great mistake of his Presidential candidature
 Mir. Greeley's friends say that his great physical system was prostratcd by the super
 
 and the labors of the campaign.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-Horace Greeley died last evening at ten minutes before seven o'clock. He passed away very quietly, and his last moments were free from pain. He was conscious and rational up to within an hour of his death
 Mir. Greeley was at the residence of Mr. Choate, three miles from Chappaqua. At about half past three o'clock, in the afternoon he said distinctly, !" It is done." Beyond the briefest answers to questions, it was bis last utterance. The members of the Chappa- qua household were present, with Mr. and Mrs. John R. Stuart and few other friends. nothing that science or affection could sug gest, was wanting to ease his last moments.
 The wintry night had fairly set in when the inevitable hour came. The daughter and few others stood near the dying man, who remained conscious and seemingly rational, and free from pain, though now too week to speak. In an adjoining room, sat one or two friends and the physicians.
 At ten minutes before seven All drew hack