The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

years. Admiral Constantine Canaris at
87is President of the Cabinet and the hope
of Greece 1t is fifty-five years ago since
he avenged the devastation of Scio by
fastening ire-ship to the Turkish flag
ship and blowing her up with many hun
dreds 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 50; NJ.
Grevy, who has been chosen as Gam
betta's lieutenant, is "a; Jules Simon is
So, and Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, better
known as Sir Stratford Canning, is no
less than SO. Of venerable politicians
and statesmen in our own country it
would be easy to multiply names. Simon
Cameron, the great Republican leader in
Pennsylvania, is rs; Caleb Gushing, of
Massachusetts, is n; Alexander H.
Stephens, a representative Southern
Democrat, is So; Gen. John A. Dix, of
this city, has now turned 70; E. B.
Washburne, of Illinois, is 81, and Hora
ito Seymour is 81. Secretary of State
Evarts, who is both lawyer and states
men, is in his sixty-frst year
Turning from those who govern to
those who educate, we find numerous old
men who exercise a wide influence
throughout the world. Thomas Carlyle,
the English cssayist and historian, is 80;
Alfred Tennyson, the poet, is 81; Prof.
Charles Robert Darwin is 6S, and these
are the great lights in English literature
and science. OF Americans, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow has just turned
II; John G. Whittier is 70; Ralph Waldo
Emerson is "a; George Bancroft is II;
William Cullen Bryant, the poet and
journalist, is nearly SO; William
Lloyd Garrison is 70; Theodore Dwight
Woolsey is rs, and Peter Cooper is Sc.
Legal jurisprudence at home and abroad
is represented by Charles O'Conor, of
this State, who is 70; by Isaac Adolph
Cremieux, French lawyer and legisla-
tor, who is 70; by William Ballantine, an
English sergeant at-law, who is GO, and
by Fermin Agosto Caballero, Spanish
lawyer, journalist, and statesmen, who is
n, Chief Justice Waite is 81; the Lord
Chief-Justice of England is 70, and the
| Lord Chief-Baron is over so. OF eccle-
siastics high in authority or position,
Plus TX. is IS; the Primate of all En-
gland is 67; Bishop Ames is II, and DR..
Dollinger, the German theologian and
historian, is rs. Among leaders in re-
ligious thought are Bishop Dupanloup,
of France, who is rs; Dean Stanley, of
Westminster Abbey, who is 81; DR.. New
man, who is 67 Cardinal MCCloskey,
who is n; DR.. Thomas Worcester, who
is over rs; Henry Ward Beecher, who is
"a; DR.. Chaplin, who is 60; DR.. McCosh
who is So, and Rev, Stephen H. Tying,
ST., who is II. In the science of war
the chief are Count Won Moltke, who
was born in 1900; Gen. w. T. Sherman,
who was born in 1920, and Gen. Carl
baldi, the most popular man in Italy,
who is now approaching his seventy first
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 60. And, as old is relative term, it
might be more correct to say that power
is to be found in the hands of older men
than of yore.-N. Y. Times