The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-09-20
LONG.LIyED GREAT MEN.
Old Men Who Are Prominent MS Rulers,
Statesmen and Warriors, und Foremost
in Literature, Science, LAW and Religion.

Old Men Who Are Prominent MS Rulers,
Statesmen and Warriors, nnd Foremost
in Literature, Science, LAW and Religion.
The death of the ex-President of the
French Republic at the advanced age of
eighty years suggests the thought that
the civilized nations of the earth are for
the most part governed or guided by old
men. On the twenty-second of March
last the emperor of Germany completed
his eightieth year. This mightiest of
the rulers of the world has known ad-
versity as great as his present prosperity
is exalted. A boy of ten he fed with
| his mother to escape the victorious
armies of Napoleon the Great. Forty
years later he had to fly second time
from Berlin, and sought refuge in Lon
| don from the resentment of his country
men. Marshal MacMahon, Duke of
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 i'll his
career in an uncertain position. Alex
ander H., emperor and autocrat of all
the Russias, has not yet lived three score
of years, but his life has been a most
eventful one. In 1861 he performed
one of if not the greatest act in history,
namely, the emancipation .of $4,000, 600
human beings from the bondage of serf-
dom. The Russian prime minister,
Prince Gortschakoff, is now in his
seventy-ninth year. Prince Bismarck,
who was born on All Fools Day, is over
sixty-two. The Earl of Beaconsfield
(DisraelD is in his seventy-second year;
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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 of
the Cabinet and the hope of Greece. 1t
is fifty-fve years ago since he avenged
the devastation of Scio by fastening a
fre-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.
years of the Psalmist. Earl Russell, the
great Wing leader, is eighty-ive; M.
Grevy, who has been chosen as Gam
betta's lieutenant, is siXty-four; Jules
Simon is sixty-three, and Lord Stratford
de Redcliffe, 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-
chusetts, is seventy-seven; Alexander H.
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 first 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 inst 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 anC
journalist, is nearly eighty-three Will
liam Lloyd Garrison is seventy-three
, Theodore Dwight Woolsey is seventy
J six, and Peter Cooper is eighty-six
, Legal jurisprudence at home and abroad
: is represented by Charles O'Connor, o.
this State, who is seventy-three by
sIsaac Adolph Crenieux, French lawyer
/ and legislator, who is seventy-nine; by
, William Ballantine, an English sergeant
. at law, who is sixty three, and by Firmin
, Agosta Caballero, Spanish lawyer
! journalist and statesman, who is seventy
seven. Chief-Justice Waite is sixty-one
, the Lord Chief-Justice of England i!
seventy-fve, and the Lord Chief-Baro
{ is over eighty. OF ecclesiastics high il
authority or position, Plus TX. il
eighty-five; the Primate of all England i
| sixty-seven; Bishop Ames is seventy-one
| and DR.. Dollinger, the German theolo
| gian and historian, is seventy light
r Among leaders in religious thought ar
Bishop Dupanloup, of France, who i
, seventy-six; Dean Stanley, of Westmin
2 ster Abbey, who is sixty-one; DR.. New
? man, who is sixty-seven; Cardinal Nc
/ Closkey, who is seventy-seven DIR
l Thomas Worcester, who is over seventy
! hve; Henry Ward Beecher, who is owe
f sixty-four; DIR. Chaplin, who is sixty
three; DIR. McCosh, who is fifty-six, ant
Rev. Stephen II. Tying, ST., who is sev
g enty-seven. In the science of war tn
l chiefs are Count Won Moltke, who wa
S born in 1900; Gen. w. Il. Sherman, VIII
{ was born in 1920, and Gen. Garibaldi
t the most popular man in Italy, who
e now approaching his seyenty-frst yeal
: Thus the peoples of the world seem t
t be governed and educated by old men
Y though the average length OF human lif
S has been so considerably extended tina
< nowadays we scarcely call men old &
a sixty. And as old is relative term, i
Y might be more correct to say that powe
/ is to be found in the hands of older me
e than of yore.-NeaO York Times.
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