The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
A DEAD DICTATOR.

His excellency Gen. Juan Manuel de
Rosas, ex-governor and dictator of the
Argentine confederation, died lately at
his farmhouse at Swathling, about three
miles from Southampton, England. He
was born on the 30th of March, 1893,
and was consequently within fortnight
of eighty-four years of age. The de-
ceased, who has resided at and near
Southampton for the last twenty-five
years, was seized with inflammation of
the lungs on the eighth of March, after
having imprudently exposed himself to
the inclemency of the weather, and,
despite the careful and unremitting at
tention of DIR. John Wiblin, f. r. G. s.,
who has been his medical adviser and
confidential friend throughout the whole
period of his residence in England, sue
cumbed to the attack at the hour named.
La Dona Manuels de Rosas de Terrero,
the devoted daughter and companion of
the ex-dictator, arrived from London the
day previous to his death, and was in
attendance upon her father during his
last hours. Her husband, Don Maximo
Terrero, left Southampton SO lately as
the oath of February, in the Royal Mail
company's steamship, Mimic, for Buenos
Ayres, with all the necessary authentic
documents to recover his wlfe's and the
generals property, which they inherited,
apart from that acquired from the state.
Manuela was the deceased general s only
child, but she has two sons, aged respec-
| lively twenty-one and nineteen years, the
eldest of whom completed his examina-
tion recently at the School of Mines i'll
London. Gen. Rosas arrived in Eng
land, after his overthrow in Buenos
Ayres, in 1852, being brought over in an
English man-of-war, under the command
of Capt. Day, a member of Southamp-
ton family, and at once adopted
Southampton as his place of residence.
He occupied large house in Rockstone-
place, Carlton-crescent, for several years,
and then removed to the farm, where he
remained till his death. This place,
called Burgess-street farm, of the extent
of about four hundred acres, he rented
under the late Mr.. john Fleming, of
Stoneham Park, and on it he has eX-
pended immense sums of money, finding
his amusement and pleasure in its daily
personal superintendent.
The general has been quite infirm from
gout for some years, but he might be
seen constantly riding about the grounds,
and his greatest happiness seemed to be to
sit on his horse and give orders to those
employed. His love of what may be
termed despotic command was so great
that no one was allowed to speak WORD
except by way of acknowledgment OF
commands or in answer to questions
General Rosas always paid his farm at
tendants and laborers about one-thirt
more than the current wages in the dis
trict, but he had the popularity Of only
engaging them day by day. Each mar
was paid daily, and told whether he
would be required on the morrow ol
not. This singular feature of his char
} acter sprang from determination neve1
: to be bound by any permanent engage
: ment, but in the result the men founC
themselves generally in regular employ
ment, and very few changes were made
So strictly disciplinarian were his habit
that each mau's time was calculated hou
by hour he worked, and fully to carr,
this out, particularly in the summe
: months, he had always night watch
man specially employed, both winter an,
summer, to ring large bell under hi
bed chamber window every half hou
throughout the night 1t was always
, characteristic of the deceased that h
paid well for labor, but he was rigid i
! seeing that the labor was performed
General Rosas fed from his countr
without anything in the shape of prol
! erty, but short time after his figh
General Urquiza himself successful
besieged the city of Buenos Ayres, an
then disembargoed Rosas' property
) which enabled the refugee to realize b
the sale of his cattle about G100, 00C