National Republican., 1880-03-22
American Longevity aud Prccooity.

The New York World furnishes the follow.
ing interesting statistics relating TO American
statesmen:
American precocity is shown In nothing so
conspicuouslv as in the rolls of Congress. The
present House of Representatives contains u
very largo proportion of young men, but moro
than six per cent. of its members are sep
tuagcuarians or Octogonarians. Instead of the
eighteen or twenty Congressman Of seventy
and over that we should have if the same pro-
portion were maintained here, we have but
two-"Joe" Johnston who is scventy-three
and Mr.. Hendrick b. Wright, who Is seventy
two. Speaker Randall is ifty-two, or fourteen
years the Junior of the English Speaker. Fif-
teon Representatives are reported ranging
in age from sixty-fve TO sixty.ninc, General
Singleton, of Illinois, and Mr.. Wait, of Con-
nectcut. being siXty.nine; Mr., A. II. Ste
phens, Mr.. Fernando Wood and Mr.. y. b.
James, sxty.eght; Mr. Sawyer, Of Missouri,
sixty.seven; Mr. Price of Iowa. Mossrs. Chit
tonden and Lapham of New York. Judge Kel.
Icy of Pennsylvania, and General Barlow
of Vermont, sixty-siX, and Messrs. Miles of
Connecticut, McLane Of Maryland. w. A.
Wood of New York, and A. Herr Smith of
Pennsylvania, sxly-fve In the Senate but
two gentlemen have reached threescore years
and ten-Mr. IIamin, who is seventy.onc.
and Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, who is sew
onty. Next to these come Kirkwood of
Iowa, sixty.sevcn; Baldwin of Michigan,
sixty.siS; Anthony and Davis of Illinois,
sixty.ivc, and Eaton, sixty.iour Ex-
Secretary Fish at sevcnty-two, Mr.. JEFF
fersOn Davis at the same age, as well
MS Thurlow Weed and ex-senator Cameron,
are worth mentioning as men who have
lived busy lives and yet have not their natural
force abated. Mr.. Dix, 1t may be remembered,
died not so long ago, Mt eighty-one. The
President is iifty.eight and the Nicc-President
| sixty.one Only one member of the Cabinet has
| PASSED notwithstanding Thompson, aged
| seyenty.ono. Secretary Evarts is siNty-two,
Secretary sherman ifty.seven, Secretary Schurz
| 6rty.one, Postmaster General Key fity-six,
| Attorney General Deveus sixty and Secretary
! Ramsey sixty-fve After all, these ages do
not vary materially from those of tho menl-
| bcrs of the British Cabinet, Lord Beaconsiiolds s
oldest colleagues being the Duke of Northum.
berland, seventy and Niscount CranbrOok,
| sixty.six, and his youngest Colonel Stanley,
thirty.nine, and Sir Michael IIicks-Beach,
| fOrty.three.
A list of the ages of the candidates for tho
Presidential nominations will interest all our
readers and may surprise some of them, for
| there are several illusions cherished on tho
| subject. Charles Francis Adams is seventy
| three; his father, John Quincy Adams, died
at eighty-one, and his grandfather John
Adams, at ninety-one; Horatio Seymour is
seventy; Mr.. Tilden, siXty.siX; Senator Davis,
| sixty-dve on. Governor Parker, of New Jersey,
seventy.four; Senator Thurman sixty-one;
| Mr.. Hendricks, sixty-One; eX.President Grant,
| irty.eight; Secretary sherman, 1fty.seven;
General Hancock, fifty.siX; General Mcclellan
ffty.four; Senator Bayard, hlty.two; Senatot
Conking, tilty-onc, and Senator Blaine, fifty.