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Ibe House then adjourned until 12 o'clock to-' day.k Hurtjr to Itimct.HIS WONW.HI i I. Lit E *ND THAO EC P 8 AT 11.From a Boston letter we bare the following Interesting story of the life and death of a remarkable yooog man ;I wonder, did yon ever bear of Robert Kenni-cott N ine one told me the brief alorv of bis life, tbs other day, and H is well worth repealing, thong fa 1 can give you but the merest skeleton of a »ketch- Be was w sun of the well-known editor of the Prairie Fanner, and a resident of Chicago, fn hie bother d he manifested eu engrossing JJVe of natural history. safe hl« winds m n«l to its e*udyT and a very powerful aDd brilliant mind it Was, I am not well posted in the dates of this subject, but 1 think be bad passed but little beyond his majority, sty in Hdo nr lvll. when fa-set forth on an exploring expedition tor .ugh the wiJua crf the Nunhttmptoa coQotry. fie ascended iFr« Missouri river to fn soared, traveled alone fbrotigij regions where a white foot had scarcely if ever i rod den, thoroughly explored the Robs tan and Hrilieb possessions in the Northwest, and car-ritd ou a campaign of investigation against beasts, birds, reptiles and injects He viaiied tftka, then a Ku-Man poet, and remtiMd thsre for • si rt time. He Iddocq nied the Kouino officers there *1 attuned, many of whom were men of high culture, with hu passion f .r naturxl history and Unght them to ptmue the studies in which alone he found bap pines*. Hit experiencea aln»*)*t rival those ol -Maorbausen iq dangers and difll.1 allies. No peril daunted him ; no obitHie din-e lUrased him.Once, far in the wilderness, he found himaelf deeiiinte lt;f the pin* with which bugs and -:.ch are Impaled, and without a moment h be a! tattoo be net uni and made a journey of five hun irvd mdes ihrough the snowy solitudes r.f snfca to replenish his Meek. During one ar his vi§itt to this p.see, 1 taluk in ls*i3, be beard of the war of ihe re be Ilia a. luiifinity he -tarted overland Tor the East, made hie way to the army in Virginia, associated him* at if with the Sanitary Conuuisvion, and labored tnitofnlly ro the cause of humanity till Lee’s surrender. ft ithoot a moment'b delay, after that evtnt. he turned hi, Bieps again to the Northwest and buried himself in the wil-lefneta, A little more than a year ago some travelers in that bleak region came upon the llgure of a mao sitting, compass in band, before a map of the scene tit hit recent exp oration*, which he had drawn with a afr k upon the snow, d^ad. It was young Keno-«n tt. who had died os be had lived, alone. Hot short life was not without fruits, however. H© h»d estabUshrd an intimate connection with the officer* of I he Smithsonian Institute. who were tilled with wondering admlm'Joo of hit energy and love of science. His contrfbatian* to the cabinet '4 that institution were of m ial mlitftle value; sod b good de-d# live after him in the acts of others Whom hr taught to love science. Nut l»ng ago— before the Alaaka purchase, however—Prof. Baird, of the Srolthetuan, received a string of 1 irdJ from a Kunsian officer stationed at Sitka -a gentleman whom KennlcU had inspired wirb his own Era! iu the study of natural history—which the pro'easer affirmed no European mnfteatn cou d do pi irate. Prof. Baird has been not lotted to write a biography of Keonleott, sod a review of his travel® in Alaska; hnt be declines th# tiik, pleading want of time, and suggests that Dr. atmpsot), ui L ales go, should undertake the work.In
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The New Orleans Crescent
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Tue, Sep 08, 1868
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