Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-05
HORATI0 SEYMOUR.
Anecdotes of His School Days and an
 Incident iR Later Life.

Incident 1R Later Life.
 David Gray in the Utica Observer,l
 It has been said in the papers that young Seymour went to school to Captain Part ridge in Connecticut, and that he there &C., quired that fine, graceful and easy step and upright carriage that made him in after life man of such splendid presence. I cannot be silent and allow Captain Partridge or any other partridge to rob our old Utica academy of it's laurels, which it won through the in strumentality of that noble man, Captain Stuart, in sending two such eminent men as Governor Seymour and Judge Hunt from his school. True, young Seymour was man of fine figure and he had face like sunbeam.
 Young Hunt was kind and gentlemanly to all. He had his peculiar style of manners,
 which from boyhood marked him as an ele-
 gant gentleman. He was quick tempered, but noble in spirit. I think young Seymour
 was about sixteen years old when he came to the academy, and Hunt about the same. When l first saw young Seymour he went to school on Hotel street. He must have been about fourteen years old. The teachers name was Austin and he a brother-in- law of Alrick Hubben. He then, I think, went to school to Hayes, stern old Irish man, where the Mann block now stands. Then we met at the academy.
 While at the academy the boys habit was to assemble early in the morning and have a game of "snap the whip" The string was | made up of some fifty boys. I was upon the end of the string. Just the string began to whirl around ':Pompey'' Seymour Gas he was called, coming from Pompey HilD came running up the common. I hailed him and | said:. FtPompey take hold" He said, q will if you will hold on to me and not let me go." He took hold and broke my word and let him go. Of course he got a tumble. When he recovered he came for me in big rage He said: 'Did you let me go on pur- poser" I then told him the truth and said that I did. He went for me with kick, and as I could not stand much kicking we | got into quite squabble and were arrested l and tried by court-martial of the school, | Captain Stuart being the umpire. He deci- l ded that should toe crack in the recita- 1 tion room and look each other right in the l eye for an hour. It was punishment used | in the British army for fighting. My recol | lections are that it was very severe punish ment.
 | In after life 1 was brought into familiar l contact with him. During the past ffteer | years I have spent many plea hours with him and his estimable wife at his Deerie.C 1 home. He was particularly fond of farming 1 and of all that pertained to nature. Yes | commerce and particularly the Erie canal 1 these subjects would always come up and bt discussed by us. As farmer ne was more
 theoretical than practical. I will here relate
 an aneodote, showing how much he appreci ated his own methods and skill as a farmer l A few of the members of the Farmers clut 1 requested me to call upon the Governor and see if he would not like to have the club
 hold it's annual picnic in his grove, and there
 have speech from him on farming. He sal
 silent for few moments and then said "Excuse me, Uncle David. Nothing would l give me more pleasure than to have the Far mers' club come upon my grounds, but how | can I stand the humiliation of having the
 Farmers club of Oneida county come upon
 my farm9 They will all then see just what | an old hunbug of farmer I am! Do ex- l cuse mea So we never went.