Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1885 — THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.

CoL Charles Denby, the Hew Minister to China. Col. Charles Denby, who goes as Minister to China to succeed Mr. John Rnssell Young, is fifty-fonr years of age. He was bom in Botetourt County, Virginia. He was educated at Georgetow n College, where he took three medals—more than had ever before been received by any one boy. His education was completed at the Virginia. Military Institute. In 1853 Col. Denby removed to Evansville, Ind., where, with the exception of three years during the war, he has since resided and practiced law. During the rebellion he was Lieutenant Colonel.

of the Forty-second Indiana Regiment .He was twice wonnded. He has been a member of the Indiana State Legislature. Col. Denby was requested to accept the nomination to Congress from the First Indiana Congressional District, but declined and has devoted his time almost exclusively to the legal profession. He was indorsed by the entire Indiana delegation and by prominent men outside of that State. Col. Denby has been for years a close student of Oriental affairs, and has besides a thorough knowledge of French and Spanish, which will be of inestimable advantage to him in his new capacity. Walker Feam, Minister to Greece. Walker- Fearn, the new Minister to Greece, Servia, and Roumnnia, is a native of Alabama, having been born at Huntsville, in that State in 1832. He graduated at Yale College in 1851. He showed a fondness for literary studies, and at an early age became an accomplished linguist. He studied law under the tuition of Judge John A. Campbell, and was admitted to practice in Mobile in 1853. The next year he went, abroad, and filled the post of Secretary of the American Legation at Brussels. From 1856 to 1858 he was Secretary of the United

States Legation in Mexico. Having had such experience in diplomacy, he was selected by the Confederate Government lo go on a special mission to Europe. He entered actively into the military service of the Confederacy, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on the staff of Gen. Preston. After peace was declared he resumed his long-interrupted practice of law, and made his home in New Orleans; but hewas subsequently elected Professor of Spanish and Italian in the University of Louisiana. Boyd Winchester, Minister to Switzerland. President Cleveland’s appointee as Minister to Switzerland was born in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, in 1832. His parents removed to Kentucky when he was quite young, and he was sent to school at Danville. He was graduated in the law course at the University of Louisville in 1857. The same year, after having been admitted to the bar, he was elected to the Kentucky

Senate. In 18G8 he was a district elector on the Seymour and Blair Presidential ticket. The following year (1869) he was elected a Representative in the Forty-first Congress from the Louisville district, and re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving from December. 1870, to March, 1874. When young Winchester removed from Louisiana to Kentucky, he spoke French better than his mother tongue. Of course, he is still proficient in the court language of Europe, and it will serve him to good advantage at Berne, where the Gallic element prevails. It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man—the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse—the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.— Mrs. Jameson.