Eliurot C(HIEF:
The good die yvoung
While they whose he.arts are dry as slummer
,Iust,
Ilurn to the socket."
On Monday last, all that was mortal
of Peter Goelet w'.as returinei , t,, the ilelit
front which lh sprang. Of the tifteei or
twlenlty millions that. ii coust him ov,
I thrle iqul'tsi of i a cnttry eo'f p.e;nirious
Ssaving to ancnnm lale, this ,'leal miilio -
aire takes nothing . ith hini lu.t a v,.r
plain Suit of clothes, :, rosewood casi., t,
aud a solid silrcr pllate. which soom, of or
clever resurrectionists will get pores.s ii,
of before six olltllths have pas..ei a way,
if they find the silver plate of more value
than his bones. Living in this city near
ly eighty years, aclninltlating in his long
and cheerless life, a fortune variously
estiimated lroim lifteen to twenty millions
of dollars--when he died, t.o charitable
bequest was left behind to make him re
memlered of the poor. It is ano,ther
ending of those wortlhless lives of which,
it1 no positive evil can be remembered,
nlo good remains to mllake his Mlueuory
honored or beloved of his kind. He was
simply a rich lman and nothing more
with the modi tied habits of a miser, and
the natural tastes of a beggar. He saw
this city rise from about two hundred
thousand to over a million of inh:labit
ants ; he lbought, libut lie never sold ; he
accllmlated, but he never distrilbted;
he piled uip wealtlh, and each succeeding
million only made him hungry for more,
till at last he died, in his old age, of ab
solute starvation, for money which he
was ntable to man.tag;e or to grasp. Those
who had dealings with himn, remember
him as a hard and pitiless man, who,
rolling in millions, wrung from them the
last penny they possessed, without com
plnction and without remorse. It is re
lated of himn that he tore off the ends of
lettcers, and care;lifully saved all little stray
scraps of paper, oni which lie wrote out
receipts or renllt, and little notes to his
acquaintances ; his clothes were old andads s
patchiled, and loihiillg was ever wasted
by hint which cold possibly be saved.
