The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-09-27
LONG.LIYED GREAT MEN.
Old Men Who Are Prominent as Rulers,
Statesmen and Warriors, and Foremost
in Literature, Science, Law and Religion.

Old Men Who Are Prominent as Rulers
| Statesmen and Warriors, and Foremos
in Literature, Science, Law and Religion
The death of the ex-President of tht
French Republic at the advanced age O.
eighty years suggests the thought tha
the civilized nations of the earth are fol
the most part governed or guided. by ole
men. On the twenty-second of March
last the emperor of Germany completed
his eightieth year. This mightiest o.
the rulers of the world has known ad
yersity as great as his present prosperity
is exalted. A boy of ten he fed will
his mother to escape the victorious
armies of Napoleon the Great. Forty
years later he had to fly a second time
from Berlin, and sought refuge in Lon
don from the resentment of his country
men. Marshal MacMahoD, Duke o.
Magenta, and president of the French
republic, is nearly sixty-nine. His Life
has been one of steady progress, but he
stands to-day for the first time in his
career in an uncertain position. Alex
ander H., emperor and autocrat of al
the Russias, has not yet lived three score
of years, but his life has been q mos
eventful one. In 1861 he performed
one of if not the greatest act in history.
namely, the emancipation of $4,000, ,OO(
human beings from the bondage of serf
dom. The Russian prime minister
Prince Gortschakoff, is now in biz
seventy-nihth year. Prince Bismarck
who was born on All Fools Day, is ovel
sixty-two. The Earl of Beacons6eld
(DisraelD is in his seventy-second year
the ex-British premier, mir. Gladstone,
is sixty-eight, while Count Andrassy, the
Hungarian statesman and leader of pub.
lie opinion in Austria, is no older than
| fifty-four years. Admiral Constantine
Canaris at eighty-seven is president o.
the Cabinet and the hope of Greece. II
is ffty-fve years ago since he avenged
the devastation of Scio by fastening q
fire-ship to the Turkish flagship and
blowing her up with many hundreds Of
men who were celebrating the Ramadan.
Victor Hugo is just midway between. the
three-score and ten and the four. score
years of the Psalmist. Earl Russell, the
great Wing leader, is eighty-fve; NJ.
Grevy, who has been chosen as Gam
betta's lieutenant, is sixty-feur; Jules
Simon is sixty-three, and Lord Stratford
de Redclife, better known as Sir STRAIT
ford Canning, is no less than eighty-nine.
Of venerable politicians and statesmen
in our own country it would be easy to
multiply names. Simon Cameron, the
Republican leader in Pennsylvania, is
seventy-eight; Caleb Gushing, of Massa-
ehusetts, is seventy-seven; AlexanderH
Stephens, a representative Southern
Democrat, is sixty-fve; Gen. John A.
Dix, of this city, has now turned seventy
nine. E. B. Washburne, OF Illinois, is
sixty-one, and Horatio Seymour is sixty
seven. Secretary of State Evarts, who
is both lawyer and statesman, is In his
sixty-firs year.
Turning from those who govern to
those who educate, we find numerous
old men who exercise wide influence
throughout the world. Thomas Carlyle,
the English essayist and historian, is
eighty-two; Alfred Tennyson, the poet,
is sixty-seven Prof. Charles Robert
Darwin is sixty-eight; and these are the
great lights in English literature and
science. Of Americans, Henry Wads.
worth Longfellow has just turned
seventy-one; John G. Whittier is seven.
ty; Ralph Waldo Emerson is seventy
four; George Bancroft is seventy-seven
William Cullen Bryant, the poet and
journalist, is nearly eighty-three Will
liam Lloyd Garrison is seventy-three;
Theodore Dwight Woolsey is seventy
six, and Peter Cooper is eighty-six:
Legal Jurisprudence at home and abroad
is represented by Charles O'Connor, OF
this State, who is seventy-three; by
Isaac Adolph CremieHx, French lawyer
and legislator, who is seventy-nine; by
William Ballantine, an English sergeant
at law, who is sixty-three, and by Flrmln-
Agosta Caballero, Spanish lawyer,
journalist and statesman, who is seventy
seven. Chief-Justice Waite is sixty-one;
the Lord Chief-Justice of England is
seventy-fve, and the Lord Chief Baron
is over eighty. OF ecclesiastics high in
authority or position, Plus TX. is
eighty-fve; the Primate of all England is
sixty-seven; Bishop Ames is seventy-one,
and DR.. Dollinger, the German theolo-
gian and historian, is seventy-eight.
Among leaders in religious thought are
Bishop Dupanloup. of France, who is
seventy-six; Dean Stanley, of Westmin-
ster Abbey, who is sixty-one; DR.. New
man, who is sixty-seven; Cardinal Nc
Closkey, who is seventy-seyen DIR.
Thomas Worcester, who is over seventy
FIVE; Henry Ward Beecher, who is over
sixty-four; DR.. Chaplin, who is sixty:
three; DR.. McCosh, who is fifty-six, and
Rev. Stephen H. Tying ST., who is sew
enty-seven. In the science of war the
chiefs are Count Won Moltke, who was
born in 1900; Gen. W. T. Sherman, who
was bogn in 1920, and Gen. Garibaldi,
the most popular man in italy, who is
now approaching his seventy-tirst year.
Thus the peoples of the world seem to
be governed and educated by old men,
though the average length of human life
has been SO considerably extended that
nowadays we scarcely call men old at
sixty. And as old is relative term, it
might he more correct to say that power
is to be found in the hands of older men
than of yore. e.-Ne,v York Times.
A Wasp's Sting.