Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — ROBERT TOOMBS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

ROBERT TOOMBS DEAD.

The Famous Georgian Passes Away at an Advanced Age, After a Long Illness. ft A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., announces the death, at the advanced age of 76 years, of Bobert Toombs, the noted Southern statesman and irreconcilable. He had been ill for some time, and his demise wrs not unexpected. The deceased was bom in Wilkes County, Georgia, July 2,1810. His father died before he was 5 years old. He was educated by an old Scotchman until he was 15, and then, well prepared for college, he w r ent to the University of G eorgia, then Franklin College. He was a handsome, wealthy, rollicksome youth, and got into some trouble with the faculty, and left Athens for Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., where he graduated at 18. He then went to the University of Virginia, studied laxV, and, returning to his home, was admitted to the bar when he was not 21 years old. Not long after he married and settled in the town of Washington. He was very successful in his profession, before he was 33 years of age having made $150,000 in fqes and profits, his income being $20,600 per annum at least for several years. In the Creek Indian war of 1836 he was a captain of volunteers under Gen. Scott. When he was twenty-seven years pf age—m 1837 he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature. Then commenced a political career unequaled in Georgia for brilliancy. He served two terms in the Legislature, eight years in the lower hoilse of Congress, and in 1853 was elected to the United States Senate. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1859, but resigned his seat in 1861, when Georgia seceded from the Union. Mr. Toombs was one of the most striking figures in national politics during the ex--citing period immediately preceding the civil war. Intellectually he was one of the strongest of the Southern leaders at that time—perhaps the strongest-j-and certainly none of them exerted more influence on the public sentiment of theft section or did more to bring about the secession movement than he. Ardent and impetuous in his temperament, Mr. Toombs was inevitably the extreme partisan of every cause with which he identified himself. From early youth he was a firm believer in the State sovereignty aud nullification doctrines expounded by John C. and he never shrank from following them to their logical conclusions. Slavery found in him one of its most courageous and. eloquent defenders, and he hailed with enthusiasm its recognition sis the corner-stone of the new confederacy. He took an active part in the resigning a position in Mr. Davis’ cabinet at an early date to enter the army. After the war he fled to Europe to avoid a prosecution for treason, soon after returning to his native State, where he lived in retirement until his death. He never became reconciled to the new order of things, and refused to petition for a removal of his disabilities, or to have anything further to do with political matters. .. .... - . Brooklyn is so have a new rapid transit in the recent incorporation of the Bridge Tunnel Bailroad Company. Miss Nellie Hobson, of Wallingford, Conn., has been offered $4,000 a year as an art teacher in a Christian college in Northern India, but declines the offer. \ . A young lady in the Woman’s College at Beaver Falls j Pa., is to be expelled for placing, a greased muslin mask over her face to give it a death-like paUor, and Lightening her room-mate into hyoterics.