The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-12
THE WORKINGMEN'S PARTY.
THE PARTY ORGANIZING, SPREADING
AND INCREASING In ST. LOUIS.
A Rich Legacy for the International
tsts-Death Of an international
Leader-A Radical Trick-A

Especial correspondence N. Q. Democrat.l
ST. LOUIS, August 9. 1877.
The calm succeeding the strike Is as quiet
and uneventful as the latter was turbulent
and exciting. The many agitators who sprang
Ip from every quarter during the strike have
settled down so quietly that even the police
cannot find them, and the rank and file Of the
strikers are as peaceful as lambs. The Inter-
nationalists, or wolkingmen as they call
themselves turned out to bury
DEAD LEADER,
the other day, but the procession was as
orderly as the authorities could wish.
This deceased leader of the Internationale,
whose name was Johann Karl Ferdinand Won
I.ingenau, took no part in the recent strike,
because perhaps of his illness which SO soon
terminated i'm DEATH He was a native of
Lithauen, Prussia, and born of noble paren-
tage. He was born in 1912, and was, there
fore, sixty-seven years old at his death. He
was q man of much more than ordinary abil-
ity, but seemed to lack sufficient energy to
make his intellectual powers felt. He was
something of student and thinker, and was
dogmatic in his opinions He was very re-
served in his intercourse with others,
bltu WIS StHeIHHy pIoIOuHCbu ubStele
and morose. His business inter-
course was marked with sort of sullen
Indifference but not enough to render him
ungentlemanly His true history would fur
nish material Tor first class romance IL it
could be obtained. He espoused the cause OF
the Internationale or working classes, when
quite young man, much to the disgust OF
HIS FAMILY, WHO WE'RE ARIsToCRATs
of the most pronounced type. Moral suasion
failed to move him from his political course
and sterner measures were resorted to, which
created rupture between himself and family
that was never healed. He had several inti-
mate friends among the leading Germans OF
this city, and it is said he thawed to some
extent when in their society, and evinced o
passing interest in mundane matters. But
he as in reality cold, hard, reserved man.
The milk of human kindness was frozen in
him, and his nature grew so cold that it never
thawed. A very intelligent German, ma
tive of the place where Lingenau's family
reside informed the DEMOCRAT correspond
emit that d very beautiful young girl was the
cause of Ferdinands departure from the
belief of his fathers and subsequent political
course. When he was about Is or 20
years of age he became enamored, while
ut college, of very handsome girl, the
daughter Of mechanic. She was the only
child and as her father was thrifty and frtl-
gal he was enabled to bestow upon her adj
vantages superior to her position. Up to the
time of meeting her, young Lingenau was as
stiff an arstocrat as his family desired, but
HIS LOVE FOR THE PLEBEIAN GIRL
and association with her family opened his
eyes to the fact that the prefix of "von" was
not necessary to ennoble human nature. The
wrath Of his family at the discovery Of his
attachment was such as has been too often
described to require repetition, and the young
lovers were finally separated, after having
maintained their relations through all oppo-
sition for five years.
Lingenau. it is said, always reproached
himself for not having married his affianced
in spite of his family, and emigrated to Amer
lea. But
HE SOUGHT TO TEAIPORIZE.
hoping in time to win his familys consent, or
at least to tone down their opposition. But
while he was trusting to time to bring about
satisfactory solution of the affair influences
were brought to bear upon the girl which
convinced her that her lover had finally con-
scented to abandon her, and, smarting under
this belief, she married another. She lived to
be a happy, or least contented, mother; but
Lingenau never forgave his family or himself.
He at first threw himself boldly into the
INTERNATIONALLY CAUSE
then known by another name, and finally had
to leave the kingdom to escape punishment
as a eonspirator. He came to America in
1849 and located in ST. Louis in 1856. He
never married; in fact never mingled with
female society. For some years he was con-
nected with the Illinois ,Stadts-Zeitung as
agent and correspondent and afterwards he
took the agency of the Germania Insurance
Company. For several years prior to his
death he had not been engaged in any business,
but took his ease, spending most of his time
In Europe. He occupied apartments to him.
SELF, keeping bachelor establishment, with
a man servant to do the work.
He was
NOT AN ACTIVE LEADER OF THE INTERNA-
TIoNALE
here, but the German section of that organi-
zation regarded him with especial reverence
because of his high birth and his particpa-
SiDb III soeNtldl SilttH European l1lSuTTcpUlOnS.
He was attacked just pror to the strike,
and died just as that movement suo-
cumbed to the powers Of law He was fol-
lowed to the grave by over 200 German men,
bers of the Internationale, carrying the red
flag and the stars and stripes, both draped in
mourning.
He bequeathed
HIS ENTIRE FORTUNE TO THE INTERNAT1oN-
& ALISTS,
or, as he termed them, Social Democrats
of the world His will was opened yesterday,
and it was found that he possessed $4,000 in
United States bonds and over $4,000 in notes.
currency, etc. He divided this among his
party as follows: To Switzerland, France,
Italy and Spain, one-sixth; to Germany,
three-sixths; to Austria, Hungary, Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, Poland. Russia and Eng
land one-sixth, and to the United States of
Amerioa ono-siytb The will was dated