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which proposes to obtain a judicial interpreta- 

 tion of this law, proposes an aggravation of 

 the difficulty, as France and Italy absolutely 

 refuse to assent to such a course. If Greece 

 were willing to accept an arbitration, the ques- 

 tion might have been settled long since; but 

 Greece has refused to do so. Neither will the 

 Greek Government come to an understanding 

 with France and Italy, and therefore it must 

 eifect an arrangement with the parties inter- 

 ested. The " identical note " goes on to show 

 the absolute necessity for diplomatic interven- 

 tion an intervention which can only cease 

 when the affair is finally arranged. The Min- 

 isters of Foreign Affairs and Public Instruction 

 now urged that some arrangement should be 

 arrived at relative to this question ; but M. 

 Deligeorgis, maintaining a contrary opinion, 

 the two ministers resigned (November 10th), 

 and M. Deligeorgis personally assumed their 

 duties. France and Italy asked the good 

 offices of the great powers with the Greek 

 Government, in order that Greece should ac- 

 cept arbitration. In December, the ministers 

 of Austria, Germany, and Russia, notified to 

 the Greek Government that it should termi- 

 nate the Laurium Mines difficulty, in accordance 

 with the just demands of France and Italy, 

 adding that, in case Greece should decline this 

 course, she need not expect to be in any way 

 supported. 



GREELEY, HORACE, an American reformer 

 and journalist, the founder of the New York 

 Tribune, and the candidate of the Liberal Re- 

 publicans and Democrats for tbe presidency, in 

 1872, born in Amherst, N. H., February 3, 

 1811 ; died near Pleasantville, "Westch ester 

 County, N. Y., November 29, 1872. He was the 

 third of the seven children of Zaccheus Greeley. 

 His father and mother were both born a few 

 miles eastward of Amherst the latter in Lon- 

 donderry, of Scotch-Irish lineage (her maiden 

 name was "Woodburn), the former in that town 

 or Pelham, of English extraction ; but both 

 families had long been settled in that region 

 the Woodburns since 1723. All his ancestors, 

 so far as there exists any remembrance, were 

 farmers, the Greeleys being generally poor, 

 the Woodburns in comfortable circumstances. 

 Mr. Greeley spent much of his early childhood 

 with his maternal grandfather, and was first 

 sent to school from his grandfather's house. 

 Even in his infancy he showed a great fondness 

 for books, and great aptness in acquiring the 

 rudiments of education, so that, when he was 

 ten years old, like most precocious children, he 

 was the wonder of the neighborhood. When 

 not quite ten years of age, his father lost his 

 little property in New Hampshire, and re- 

 moved to Westhaven, Yt., near the head of 

 Lake Champlain, where he remained nearly 

 six years. The first two years were employed 

 in land-clearing upon contract, with the aid of 

 his^two sons; the next two in a saw-mill, 

 while the boys worked on a small, poor farm ; 

 the residue in clearing and farming upon 



shares. These occupations took much of 

 young Greeley's time, but he was still able to 

 devote himself to the acquisition of knowledge, 

 and he read with avidity every thing in the 

 shape of a book or newspaper which could be 

 found in the neighborhood. "When but eleven 

 years old, hearing that an apprentice was 

 wanted in the newspaper-office at Whitehall, 

 he accompanied his father to the printer's, in 

 hope of obtaining the position, but was reject- 

 ed on account of his extreme youth. He went 

 home greatly cast down, but in the spring of 

 1826 he entered the office of the Northern Spec- 

 tator, in East Poultney, Vt., as an apprentice. 

 His father, meantime, was about starting for 

 the West, in search of a new home, and finally 

 settled in the forest region in the northern part 

 of Erie County, Pa., on the border of the 

 State of New York. Horace diligently ap- 

 plied himself to learning his trade, of which he 

 soon became master in all its branches. He 

 remained in Poultney a little more than four 

 years, when, after spending a short time at his 

 father's house in the wilderness, he obtained 

 employment in a newspaper-office in Erie. 

 Here he made many friends, and was offered a 

 partnership in the business, although only a 

 young man of twenty. He thought best to 

 decline the proposal, and, as work afterward 

 fell off, he decided to take a fresh departure, 

 and seek his fortune in the great metropolis. 

 After paying a farewell visit at his father's, 

 and dividing with him his earnings at Erie, 

 with twenty-five dollars in his pocket, and 

 very little extra clothing in his bundle, he set 

 his face toward New York. He arrived in 

 this city on the 17th of August, 1831, when 

 the midsummer heat was at its height. He 

 had never before seen a city of even 20,000 in- 

 habitants, nor gazed upon a sea-going vessel. 

 The spectacle of so many square miles of state- 

 ly buildings, with the furlongs of masts and 

 yards, aroused a feeling of astonishment and 

 wonder akin to awe. He had completed his 

 twentieth year the February before; tall, 

 slender, and ungainly, with ten dollars in his 

 pocket, and a scanty store of summer raiment, 

 mostly on his back, the pale-faced youth did 

 not command a cheerful prospect of immediate 

 success. After searching in vain for a suitable 

 boarding-house, he at length found quarters in 

 an obscure hostelry near the North River. His 

 first business was to find work at his trade. 

 Early in the morning he began to ransack the 

 city in search of employment. In the course 

 of two days he had visited more than half the 

 printing-offices in New York, without the 

 slighest gleam of success. His youthful ap- 

 pearance and rustic ways were not in his 

 favor. When he called at the Journal of Com- 

 merce, its distinguished editor, Mr. David Hale, 

 frankly told him that he believed him to be a 

 runaway apprentice from some country print- 

 ing-office, a presumption which, though er- 

 roneous, might, under the circumstances, Jbe 

 deemed excusable. Thoroughly wearied with 



