The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-06-13
Horace Greeley and Gen Breckenridge.
From the Baltimore Baltimore

lrrOm the o9tiinoIe baltlnO-oAn
An incident of Breckinridge's later life, |
never before published, was related to us a |
day or two since by the Hon. Holster Clymer, |
at his charming home in Readi0g Penn. Mr.. |
Clymer bad just received his newspaper mail
announcing the death of Gen. Breckenridge as |
we entered his dwelling, and remarked upon |
the sad intelligence, the relations of these gen.
tlemen in Congress, and elsewhere, having
been ever cordial and intimate. Said he: The
last time l Gen. Breckenridge was few
years since We we're scjourning at the Clar-
endoa HOTEL New York, fAvorIte resort for
prominent members of the Democratic party.
had been reading the morning papers, and as
Gen. Is. entered the breakfast-r Dom remarked,
Well, General, / see you were down yesterday
to see MIR. Horace Greeley, at the Tribune Office
His response was instant and full of emotion.
Yes, SIR said be, l went down to See Mr..
Greeley, aud never have l made visit that
afforded me more genuine pleasure, for never
was visitor more cordially received. After the
late unfortunate war between the Northern
| and Southern sections of the United States, you
| know l was compelled to fee for my safety.
| While in Paris, cheerless friepdless homeless,
| and without q country, l received a letter from
| Horace Greeley. 1t vas filled with the most
tender expressions of regard and sympathy,
and urged me to return to my home Come
| back, he wrote; go to your own beloved Ken
tucky; aid in restoring the shattered fortunes
of the South and your country, and will be
| responsible for your safety from molestation
or arrest. Now, submit to you, Mr.. Ciymer
could have done otherwise than call upon
Horace Greeley, or shall ever cease to respect
and cherish hint"
i The FASITY OF HUMAN WIsHEs-There is
no more striking evidence of the vanity of
human ambition than in the proposal to sell
the house of Mr.. Jay Cooke in Pennsylvania
and the transfer to "A railroad company of the
palace of the late Mr.. LeGrand Lockwood, of
Connecticut Ten years ago Mr.. Cooke and
MIR. Lockwood were among the richest, most
, enterprising and most celebrated merchants of
, the country. Wealth rolled upon them in the
fullness of q spring tide. With wealth came
, the ambition to found family and q home
an ambition which, whatever we may think
of our democratic and liberal Institutions
t seems to be on instinct of human nature Mr..
J Cooke built his house at Ogontz, which, from
, reports, cost him moro than q million dollars,
The auctoneer the other day could only obtain
q bid of three hundred and fifty Thousand dol
, lars. Although the sale was under decree OF
bankruptcy, it was postponed. Mr.. Look woods
palace at Norwalk cost one million two hun
= dred and fifty thousand dollars, aud was re
, Gently offered for sale at one hundred and ter
thousand dollars. This the reporter informs
us. " is probably the finest private yelling il
Americs, constructed of solid blocks of granite
finished inside with rosewood aud mahogany
, and cedar of Lebanon" Mr.. Lock- wood is dead
! and q railroad corporation possesses his do
main. Mr.. Cooke is q bankrupt, and the auc
1 tioneers vsinly asking the world to bu,
for q song what cost him q fortune. How tru
it is, as the wisest Of men once said, I" All |
vanity and vexation of spirit."