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i The Beaufort Republican. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. _ * VOL. III. NO. 34. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1873. {!8$.^,?SSS: * . A Recall. Come from the eouth with hurrying feet, O breezes soft! 0 breezes sweet! ' And let your fragrant kisses bring New blushes to the face of spring. Blow hence the chill from empty nests ; Blow hither now our singing guests, And lift the covering of snow From violets that sleep below. The Btreams upon their errands run, And leap and sparkle in the sun; The mountain-sides with laughter shake, And from their feet the shackles break. The ear'.h in robes Joy appears, Becoming to her sta'e and years, When from the south the bugles blow That break the reign of frost and snow. Come, then, and bid the world renew Its beauteo'us garniture of dew, And let y our warm embraces start The prjbes of her burdened heart. C^me from the south with hurrying feet, O breozes soft! O breezes sweet! Let the clad earth reioico ere lone In wealth of fragrance and of song. mr THOMAS BR ASSET, CONTRACTOR. B Mr. Carlyle invented a happy phrase M to describe the great employers of labor, K who play so important a part in our B modern world. Ho called them "CapB tains of Indust-y." But this Thomas ] Brassey, the f..mous English railway contractor, might more properly be styled a Generalissimo of Industry; for ho and his partners had in their employment, at on ! time, eighty thousand men, whose wages amounted to sixty or seventy thousand dollars a day. He thought nothing of giving an order for three thousand wagons, or ten thousand wheelbarrows. In the course of an active life of nearly forty years hp constructed, in whole or in part, a hundred and fiCky railroads?in England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, South America, Australia, Canada?which cost, in all, about four hundred millions of dollars. He hud, at one time, as many as ten thousand men employed in Spain alone, besides thousands more in other countries. As a specimen of this grand way of doing business, take this anecdote. In arranging the details of a contract with a Spanish banker, the Marquis of Salamanca, the nobleman proposed to issue bonds before the shares were taken ; but to this Mr. Brassey, the nobleman by nature, objected, as not honorable. After much discussion Mr. Brassey said to the Marquis: "Look here, Mr. Salamanca; if you and your friends will put five hundred thousand pounds down on the table any day you like to name, I and my friends will do so too. Then the shares will be paid Tip, and there can be no possible objection to the bonds beii-g at once issued." The Marquis did not see the matter in that light, and the project was given ?p. This incident shows something besides the mere magnitude of Thomas Brassey's operations. It is one more illustration of a truth which the whole history of business exhibits, that no business of the first class which has endured thirty years, has had any othcr*fouudation than fair dealing. There never was a mure sinning case in point man me success of this man. On one occasion when lie was hurrying to completion an ^ important railway in France, an enorK raous brick viaduct, one-third of a mile long, a hundred feet high, and built at W a cost of a quarter of a million dollars, P suddenly fell in, and was utterly ruined. Within a few minutes after hearing of the disaster, he set on foot measures for the reeonstniction of the work ; and, although the downfall was not his fault, he refused to represent the facts to the company, in orderto induce them to bear their fair share of the loss. " No," said he, " I have contracted s to make and maintain the road, and nothing shall prevent Thomas Brassey from being as good as his word." That was the great secret of his lasting success. He was absolutely trustworthy. His word was as good as his bond. He put as good work in the bowels of the earth where no one would ever inspect it, as he did on the surface, where thousands would see it every day. If he had engaged to open a line of railroad on a certain day, his part of the work was invariably done in time. In the whole of his career he never missed once. Next to this, the most important secret was, liis admirable treatment of those who assisted him. The greatest captains 01 industry, iiKe tne greatest captains of war, all excel in this particular. Brassey, besides taking great pains to surround himself with theright men, made their interest and honor his special aud thoughtful care. He trusted them a great deal, liked to have them to do their work in their own way, and juged them by results only. Nor would lie ever hold one of his sub-contractors to a ruinous bargain. It frequently happens in constructing a railroad that a cutting turns out to be rock instead of earth, and the literal fulfillment of the contract would ruin a man. Brassey always took upon his own broad shoulders such losses as would cripple or crush a sub-contractor. One example of this will suffice to show his way of doing it. Inspecting a road one day, he came to a cutting of this kind, tho price which had been fixed on the supposition that only clay had to be removed. Upon coming up to tho work, and perceiving that the wagons were all loaded with rock, he said to the " sub " This is very hard." " Yes," replied the man, " it is a pretty deal harder than I bargained for." * " What is yourprice forthiscuttiug?" asked Mr. Brassey. " So much a rani, air." "It is very evident," said the master, f- " that you are not getting it out for that p rice. Have you asked for any advance to be made to you for this rock ?" " Yes, sir," answered tJie man ; " but I can make no sense of them." " If,"saidBrassey, "you say that your ]>rice is so much, it is quite clear that you do not do it for that. I am glad I that you have persevered with it, but ] shall not alter your price. It must re main as it is, but the rock nutst be measured for you twice. Will that dc for you ?" "les, Yfcry well indeed, and I an very lauch obliged to you, sir." "Verywell," rejoined Mr. Brassey " go on ; you have done well in perse vering, and I shall look to you again." One of these walks along a line o] railroad would sometimes cost the con tractor a thousand pounds in rectifying similar mistakes. He greatly liked the principle of giving men a pecuniary in terest in the work they were doing. He not only gave his chief agents a share in the profit of his contracts, but he liked very much the plan of letting on! small contracts of mere digging to s dozen laborers, the proceeds to be equal' ly divided among them, except a little extra allowance to the foreman. Several of his agents made considerable fortunes in his service. Like many other men who have made colossal fortunes, he seemed to care very little about money. He was interJ bin AM/iAtlt & on/1 r\ O. CHICU 1U 1119 VUIJIn>9 lUUtt jniuu nuu light in doing it well, and was perfectly aware of the necessity of money as a means to tliat end ; but when once the game had been won, he never seemed tc value the stakes much for their owr sake. And, in fact, to a man in his profession, millions are only whal chisels and planes are to a carpentertools that he must have. One conse quence of his being so free from th< taint of avarice was, that he could beai a large pecuniary loss, not withoul equanimity merely, but with cheerful uess and gayety. "Mr. Brassey," said one of hif agents, " never appeared so happy as when he had lost twenty thoustfnt pounds." One night, during a terrible financia crisis in-London, which threatened tt sweep away his whole fortune, he wenl home fully convinced that he must lost at least a million pounds sterling. "Never mind," said he. "We musi be content with a little less; that is all.' j On another occasion,"in Spain, he re ! ceived a telegram, saying that a certair bridge had been washed down. Thre< hours after came another, stating thai a large bank had been washed away Other messages followed, of similai purport, and begging him to come ai once to the scene. He turned to i friend, and said, laughing: "I think I had better wait until ] i hear that the rain has ceased, so thai | when I do go,-1 may see what is bft ol the works, and estimate all the disas ters at once ; and so save a second jour ney." On such occasions he often quotec the old proverb: " It is no use crying over spilt irniK. Thomas Brassey had none of those early struggles which mark the careei of most able men of business. Hii father was a rich farmer of ancien family, and he Berved a regular ap prenticeship to the business of land sur veyor and agent. Ho gave such sgina f>roofs of ability, that his employer tool lim into partnership when lie was bu twenty-one; and he was already i thriving man, married, and twenty-nini years of age before he ever thought o building a railroad. He was accident ally thrown into company, one day with George Stephenson, who urget him to engage in the new enterprise Being well established in business h< hesitated to change, and .especially fo: a business so new and untried. Hi.1 wife's advice turned the scale, and In became the greatest contractor of hii time. He died in 1870, aged sixty-five leaving three sops, one of whom is i member of the British Parliament His life has been lately written by Sii Arthur Helps, who edited the works o: Queen Victoria. It is not creditable t< our publishers that a work so peculiai and interesting has not been made ac cessible to the people of the Unitec States. It ought to be universally dis semiuateci; especially 111 soma iacton towns that I could mention, where the mill-owners are brutally indifferent t< the rights and feelings, the comfort ant dignity, of those who work for them.? James Parton. An Iudignant Chief. A chief of the tribe of Haracta, be tween Ain-Beida and Tebessa, went or some business to Constnntine. A fev days later he returned to his tribe, and calling his wife, desired her to fetel four posts and some cord. She obeyed when, to her horror, the chief threv her down on the ground, lashed her t< the four stakes, and, taking a stick commenced beating her with all hii might. Her cries brought all the]inhabitant! of the tents to their doors, and endeav ored, though in vain, to stop her hus band's arm. " But what has she done?' they exclaimed. " She -is the pearl o the tribe, the best of mothers, tin model of wives!" "What has sh< done?" retorted the monster. "Notli ing. I am only relieving my mind.' At last, being exhausted by his;"owi fury, he condescended to stop, and ex plain that, at Constnntine, he had seei an Arab woman, backed up by tin French authorities, drag her lnisbnnc before the court to complain of his ill usage, and the kadi had actually givei judgment iu her favor! So raoustrou an infraction of Arab usages had infuri ated the chief to such a .degree that Ik had forgotten tho object of his journey and ouly hurried home to wreak hi vengeance, for the insult offered to tin male sex, on the body of his unhapp; wife. Wear of Brain-Work.?A scientifi paper says that brain-work costs mor food than hand-work. According t careful estimates and analyses, thrc hours of hard study wear out the bod; more than a whole day of severe physi cal labor. Anothe revidence of the cos of brain-work is obtained from the fac that, though the brain is only one-for tieth the weight of the body, it receive about one-fifth of all the blood sent b; the heart into the system. Brain-work era, therefore, require a more libera supply of food, and richer food, tha i manual laborers. [ So Wags tlie World. . lleavy Failure of an Extravagant Phlla, ilelphla Banker. The details of tho recent failure of * Harrison Grambo, banker, of Philadelphia, throws in the shade anything \ that has happened in Wall street in this line in some time, not even excepting f the recent exploit of the tainted Taintor. " So writes a Philadelphia correspondent | of a Now York paper. Mr. Harrison Grambo was certainly ) ambitious; and, so far as shrewdness at ' the expense of principle entitles a man ? to respect, so far is Mr. Grambo eni titled to applause for the manner in which he played his little game. If, ! however, this man congratulates him^ self on the present situation, with his character blasted and his innocent wife ; and family made to suffer by his operai tinns. then he nossesses a nerve and effrontery unequalled in the annals of , villainy. Mr. Grambo began his career t at the foot of the ladder; indeed, it is > said that his father's funeral expenses ' were paid some years ago by a collection . taken up by the old gentleman's former t business associates, so reduced had the - family become. "After the*death of the elder Grambo 5 the hero of this story engaged in a merr cantile business, but, owing to the pet culiarity of his method, it was not long before he found himself a wreck. His next effort was in banking. He started i out on a large scale at once, and so far s as assumption and cheek could give him I tone he had it. But the brokers of the city never took to him very kindly. Philadelphia is not the place for a > splurge, and any businessman who ever t undertook this method in Philadelphia } has, sooner or later, found himself a dead cock in the pit. t Grambo gave sneer for sneer, and ' kept on in the uneven tenor of his way, unmindful of the steady old burghers, i who frequently prophesied his downfall. } In course of time he fitted up his offices t in a princely style, and wondering . countrymen were frequent recipients of r Grambo's circulars, with the interior of t the banking palace engraved thereon, i The counting' house and the private offices, with sofas and easy chairs and [ all the papers and royal ingrain carpets, t were therein displayed, and people who f knew nothing of the inside working of this wonderful institution said Grambo - was a wonderfully successful man. Confiding laborers and clerks and working I trnmnn nnrl fairnAra Hmnclit, lllTTI thfiip r money to Invest, and always received the interest promptly on time; but > what became of the principal? Echo r answers, what! i Mr. Grambo's sisters were provided t | with a comfortable home. Grambo i moved into Walnut street, that locality -j so dear to the heart of Philadelphia ro1 spectability; costly pictures adorned i his walls, the finest viands tempted his t palate, and Grambo went on prospering i with other people's mdney. Not content ? j with possessing the finest offices, he fitf ted up a sub-office in gorgeous style in - j the room of the board of brokers, which , was at once the envy of the younger i riiembers and an object of sarcasm to the . older heads. i The banking palace in Walnut street r ?Mr. Grambo's office was also in Wali nut street?although very fine, could 3 hardly be expected to suffice, and he s began to cast his eyes around for a more palatial building wherein he might or, ganize a banking house without a rival i on the American Continent. There is . on Chestnut street, between Eighth and r Ninth streets, a very elegant marble f building, formerly occupied by Bailey ) & Co., jewellers, and this building the r adventurous Grambo decided to possess. - He sought out Mr. Joseph Tobias, the 1 owner, and made a bargain with that - gentleman. Mr. Tobias agreed to ex7 pend 815,000 in repairs and alterations, } and Grambo decided to move in as soon i i na nnsm'hlo Tlip rpnnirs wore eomnleted I as agreed, and Mr. Tobias congratula ted himself on the possession of such a desirable tenant. A few days ago, before Grambo-was ready to move, an ugly rumor touching his solvency began to spread. An investigation proved the correctness of the rumor, and it required but two or j three days to ascertain definitely that Grambo had failed for $700,000. Aman to whom he was indebted for gardening j went into the stable one night, and j there found two furniture cars loaded ] with household furniture, awaiting the : flight of a few more hours for its re, moval to the house formerly occupied i by the Grambos. A few evenings ago a : crowd was attracted to the new banking 1 house to see an iron manufacturer remove some iron work that Grambo had I ordered. Two or three more days elapsed, and the financier of the period found himself arrested on three distinct charges of embezzlement. Bail was j furnished in each instance, but there : are more charges pending. I At a hearing in the case of Grambo it was announced that a warrant had been ; issued forcing him into bankruptcy, j His liabilities are $700,000 and his assets $100,000. His residence cost, with the furniture, $120,000; but it is heavily mortgaged. Oxygen Needed.?Oxygen is the H | great life principle of the animal body. . JjOI us org you, men, to Rive wir mtn e person n full and constant supply of fresli air. If you keep him well covs ereil, lie can never take cold by having q the windows open day and night. If Y the wind blows upon him, rub his face , and neck with your hands frequently, . and there can never be a mischievous c impression made there. Remember e that although a well man may live on in 0 a room with imperfect ventilation, a e sick one must have the help of a pure v tonic atmosphere. Remember that _ when typhoid fever attacks an army, t! and there is a deficiency of hospital t accommodations, those who lie in an open shed or exposed to the dews and s storms do much better than those who y eujoy the average hospital facilities. il Several miners were killed by a flren damp explosion in the Parish of Rhiwabon, North Wales. Dutch Social Customs. The tyranny of social custom is the basis, n3 it is the bane, of Dutch life. Every ono submits to it, and in his own turn exercises it; the rich man in his own manner; the poor one in his. We remember a very characteristic case in point. Custom does not permit riding on horseback in the streets of Amsterdam?a prohibition whioh doubtless sprung into existence from the ancient cleanliness of the town, and which has always remained a tacit assumption if not a recognized fact. A young progressist philosopher endeavored in our presence to disregard this prohibition. A saddle-horse was brought, and he mounted it at his father's door. Hooting and hisses followed him to the very outside of the city, and the children threw stones at the legs of the animal he bestrode. On the next and following days he re? newed his attempt with true Dutch phelgra, when the people again opposed him with he same perseverance. Crackers were exploded so often under the horse's feet, that the life of the rider was in danger, and no one, neither the police nor public opinion, dared to interfere in his behalf. His own father, quite indifferent to the want of success attending his son's rashness, said as much to the effect that the Dutch people had but exercised their right in resisting innovation. A married son or daughter never dines with the family without an exriress invitation. The same sort of for mality is also established between brother and sister, for they only visit each othor on the footing of guests. "We were one day praising to a Dutch lady the conservatory of.a brother of her's who lived in the same citv. " I have never seen it, she said, " as I only visit him in the evening:" As a rule, never do married children live under the same roof with their parents. Therefore some difficulty arises for them in the contraction of marriage, since they must first of all secure a home, and that is not always an easy matter in many of those semiaquatic towns, more particularly in Amsterdam. Buildingground is scarce, and the pile foundations cost more than the honse itself. Such extravagant exf>enditure as was common at the Repubic's zenith of prosperity is not to be renewed often; thus generation succeeds generation in the occupancy of the dwellings built centnrios ago. A family must therefore emigrate or die out before another can take Its place, and hence it is that the fathers of families look out for a vacancy before marrying their children. In the meantime the betrothal takes place, which, under the double guarantee of honor and Dutch sanr/ froid, forms a sufficient bond of security, even though years elapse before the marriage is celebrated. Chapped Hands. In a healthy condition the skin is j kept supple by an oily secretion, which 1 answers the same purpose as oiling j leather. During warm weather this j secretion, in common with all the other j secretions of the skin, is more abundant than in cold. When it is insufficient the skin becomes dry and harsh ; and , injthose parts of the body where the i skin is thick and subject to much motion, as on the hands, it readily cracks or fissures. The amount of this secretion is so much reduced in cold weather that the frequent washing of the li?nds j with soap causes them to chap readily, j and this the more certainly if the soap j is not thoroughly washed off. The alkali j in soap is usually in excess, and this combines with the oily secretion" and so deprives the skin of its natural lubrica- : tor. To prevent the hands from chapping, then, be careful to wash all soap from them thoroughly in clean water. This will ordinarily suffice ; but if not, it will be necessary to make good the removed oil by the use of glycerine, honey, mutton tallow, &c. What it will Do. Iron made into steel, a rod one-fourth of an inch in diameter will sustain O.OOq lbs. before breaking; tin steel, 7,UUU lbs. ; iron wire, 6,000 lbs. ; bar iron, 4,000 lbs. ; inferior bar iron, 2,000 lbs.; cast iron, 1,000 to 3,000 lbs. ; copper wire, 3,000 lbs. ; silver, 2,000 lbs.; gold, 2,500 lbs.; tin, 3,000 lbs.; cast zinc, 160 lbs.; sheet zinc, 1,000 lbs.; cast lend,55 lbs.; milled lend, 200 lbs. Of wood, box and locust, the same size, will hold 1,200 lbs.; toughest hickory and ash, 1,000 lbs.; elm, 800 lbs.; beach, 650 bs.; poplar, 450 lbs. Wood which will ; bear a very heavy weight for a minute i or two will break with two-thirds the force acting a long time. A rop of iron is about ten times as strong as a hempen cord. A rope an inch in diameter will bear about two and a half tons, but in practice it is not sufe to submit it to a strain of more than about one ton. Half j an inch in diameter, the strength will be one-quarter as much ; a quarter of an inch, one-sixteenth as much. Protecting Boilers.?In order to protect boilers from scaling and foamj iug, without the use of chemicals, the plan has been introduced in England of utilizing the waste heat escaping through | i the smoke box, by forcing compressed I air through a coiled tube in the box; , which air, thus heated to 600 degrees 1 Fahrenheit, is forced with the water along the bottom of the boiler, through i a pipe perforated with small holes, at a ' downward angle of 45 degrees, aiding i ebullition. It is stated that by thus mixing air and water, no incrustation is 1! formed, nor is there any foaming. Al ; though these advantages are conceded, , opinions differ as to the saving of fuel I by aero-steam ; but the diminished coni sumption?which in mines is very II marked?is attributed to diminished in1 j crustation. A Michigan Dutchman lately killed . himself by drinking three pints of . sweet milk and three pints of sour milk to cure the ague. Postal Cards. Hon. E. M. Barber, Third Assistant Postmaster General, has issused the ts following important regulations : ^ Prices.?Postal Cards will be sold for al one cent each,'neither tnore nor less, al whether in large quantities or in small. ai Uses.?The object of the Postal Card B is to facilitate letter correspondence and ^ provide for the transmission through 1* the mails, at a reduced rate of postage, ai of short communications, either printed or written in pencil or ink. They may P therefore be used for orders, invitations, " notices, receipts, acknowledgments, ei price lists, and other requirements of business and social life; and the matter ^ desired to be conveyed may be either 7 in writing or in print, or partially in li Vir>tVi W In their treatment as mail matter they n are to be regarded by Postmasters the same as sealed matter, except that in no n case will unclaimed cards be returned a: to the writers or sent to the Dead Let- 81 ter Office. If not delivered within sixty c: (60) days from the time of receipt, they b will be burned by postmasters. Q Irregular cards. ?An ordinary printed ? business card may be sent through the c' mails when prepaid by a one-cent post- F age stamp attached ; but such card C must contain absolutely no written mat- F ter except the address; otherwise it w will be treated as not fully prepaid, a: and refused admission into the maiU. d Counterfeits.?All cards different b from those herein described, with p jst- ^ age stamps printed or embossed there- F on, and purporting to be United States b Postal Cards, are counterfeits, and the a manufacture of such cards, or the at- C tempt to use the same, will subject B the offender to a fine of five hun- u dred dollars and imprisonment for five k years. ' Spoiled Cards.?Postmasters will not T under any circumstances, be permitted B to redesm or exchange Postal Cards that o: may be misdirected, spoiled in print- w ing, or otherwise rendered unfit for use, P in the hands ?f private holders. 11 Requisitions.?The Department will C not furnish less than five hundred (500) ^ Cards on the order of a Postmrster. 11 Individuals desiring Postal Cards will P purchase tliem of a Postmaster, as in no a: case can they obtain them upon direfct 0 application to the Department. b o Learnjto Keep House. ? Whatever position in society a young ii lady occupies, she needs a practical P knowledge of household duties. She ? may be placed in such circumstances that it will not be necessary for her to perform ^domestic labor; but on this account she needs no less knowledge a than if she were obliged to preside per- ci sonally over the cooking stove and pan- 1( try. Indeed, wo have often thought is that it is more difficult to direct others, w and requires more experience, than to a; do the same work with our own hands, ^ Girls should early bo taught the art of A cooking well, and indulgedin the dispo- ii sition which they often display, even as A children, to experiment in bread t; pastry baking. It is often but a trouble- fl some help that they afford, still it is a h great advantage to them. Some moth- a ers give their daughters the care of e housekeeping, each a week by turns. It j. seems to us a good arrangement, and a most useful part of their education. a Domestic labor is by no means incom- e patible with the highest degree of re- ? finement and mental culture. Many of I the most elegant and accomplished wo- n men we have known, have looked well i{ to their household duties, and have ? honored themselves and their house- 1 holds by so doing. Economy, taste ? skill in cooking, and neatness in the 11 kitchen, have a great deal to do in mak- 1' ing life happy and prosperous. The ^ charm of good housekeeping is in the ^ order, economy, and taste displayed in J" attention to little things, and these lit- " ile tilings have a wonderful influence. I A ilirtv kitchen and bad cooking have " driven many a man from home to seek v comfort and happiness somewhere else. V None of our excellent girls are fit to be j1 married until they are thoroughly edu- v cated in the deep and profound mys- F teries of the kitchen. P t Running Amuck. jr The St. Louis Republican says: "We r sometimes hear of Texas steers on the T rampage in the thronged streets of a J city. There is a terror in their wild- j. ness, and people give them a wide berth t when they are fortunate enough to be n able to get out of their way. They aro " no respecters of persons whom they n meet, and appear to regard all the world i V as arrayed against them in a deadly strife. When a Texas steer gets on such 0 a frolic, his career is near its close. He <never gives up the chase but with life. n A Texas man appears to be a still more c dangerous animal, and one of the kind jj closely related to the brute lately broke loose in Galveslon. Ho started out n much as the steer starts, except that, in j, addition to his horns, he carried a largo j, ! knife, which he took occasion to plunge in the backs and sides of people who i were in Ins way. ne stauueu six mcu in nil, killing' one outright, mortally n 1 wounding another, and making sore a places for four others. It was a police- 0 | man he killed, and another policeman . whom he mortally wounded?the other four were common riff-raff. He was ? finally taken alive, and nt the prelimin- b ary examination he tried to make it ap- c pear that he was suffering from delirium r tremens. He seemed to regret that he s killed only one of the six, and thinks c he could clo better than that if he had t another trial with a better knife. For v a time some of the people thought that 1 legal forms in his case would be of no i UBe, and almost made up their minds to f take charge of him, but they finally con- 1 eluded to let the law take its course His name is James B. Helm, and hi/) t father and mother live in Floyd Oonnty, ) Virginia. ) The Late James Brooks. James Brooks, whoso death has lately iken place, was born in Portland, Me., c ovember 10,1810. At eleven years of he became a clerk in a drug store, ^ id at sixteen exchanged the mortar id pestle for the schoolmaster's desk. <] l.e graduated at Waterville College, C [aine, at the age of twenty-one, studied iw, turned editor an d became celebrated 1 i a traveler. His letters to the Portind Advertiser, descriptive of scenes, j eoples and personal experiences dur- r lg a pedestrian tour of Europe, attractI attention and were extensively copied, c n 1835 he was elected to the Legis- I ire of Maine, and in the following * ear he went to New York and estab- ^ shed the New York Daily Express, j ith which his name has been so inti- ( lately and constantly associated. In 1817 Mr. Brooke was elected a 1 lember of the New York Legislature, 1 nd fr?m 1849 to 1853 he ^as a retire- ' entative in Congress from NeW York " ii? r\ nn D.,k. . liy, serving on rue ouuiiuiibcc uu jl uu- a c Lands. He was elected to the Thir- t\ p-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-eighth, ( 'hirty-ninth (the seat in which was sue- ( essfully contested by Mr.W. E. Dodge), 'ortieth, Forty-first and Forty-second . Congresses, and was re-elected to the 1 'orty-third session of Congress. He 1 as serving on the Committees of Ways ! nd Means and the Pacific Railroad uring the Thirty-ninth session, when is seat was successfully contested by i [r. Dodge. He was a delegate to the 1 hiladelphia National Union Conven- < on in 1866, and in the succeeding year ^ delegate to the State Constitutional 1 Convention. The political career of Mr. irooks was chameleon-like in its changes j ntil he gave his unswerving allegiance > ) the Democratic party. An old line i /big in past days, he became in later i ears an unqualified revenue reformer, i [is speeches on the tariff question and n the question of American commerce j ere remarkable for their vigor and , ower. The position occupied by him j i the last days of the last session of ; ongress in connection with the Credit ] [obilier investigation is still fresh in le recollections of our readers. In erson, Mr. Brooks was tall, graceful j ud good looking, and one of the lions ! f Washington society. His loss will . e severely felt on the Democratic side ! f the House, where his long experience nd keen judgment made him a a prom- ( lent leader. He wrote an account of is travels around the world, which was ' ublishcd in book form and attracted a 1 reat deal of interest. ] j A Mixed Case. There is a subtile and delicate flavor - ' * # * i- X. 1 . bont (Jaliiornia crime noi mi ue mmvu il by the felonies of any other known icality. They taste of the soil, There i a region in Sardina the bitterness of hose earth is perceptible in its honey; nd delicate tasters havo noticed in incs of Eastern France a flavor of int; in those of Burgundy a smell ke that of the sprouts of wild eglannd the soil seems to transmit itsqualiY to human actions, as well as its avor to honey and wine, or grapes or j lurel blossoms. Here comes record of little criminal drama in five acts, nncted there by the borders of th.*" 'acific, in which one Whitney, having sum of money in bank and owing an qual sum, consulted one Dixon as to lie best means of avoiding payment. )ixon promptly counseled that Wliitey should withdraw the money and xlge it secretly in his hands, so that it ould not be attached by legal process. < 'his was done ; but when Whitney j esired to withdraw the sum from his agenious and guileless friend, the , itter denied all knowledge of the ransaction. Thereupon the despoiled ' Whitney craves the interposition of the iw, and makes a clean preast of it. .'he legal myrmidons overhauled )ixon, and it is at last;discovered that J ie has made over the cash to an evil roman named Richardson, with the Lnderstanding that both are to fly, re oining each other in a distant city, diero they can diffuse the booty in teace. Searching and urgent investi;ation of this person disclosed the fact hat she had just perfected herarrangenents to throw overboard her felow felon and run away with another nan ; a man of the Hoodlum order, rith a taking eye and a correct taste in lair oil. Search for this young man irouglit to light the amusing fact that ic had spent quite a good portion of he money in purchasing a fugitive mtfit for another young woman, who, ,s soon as she had got the articles, did iterally and actually fly with still nother young man about whom nothng is known, except that he seems to >e the only one in this strunge succesion of criminals who has reaped any >f the fruits of the original crime. Jonsidering the extreme complication nd embarrassment of eveirbody conerned, and the small likelihood that le will ever get any of his money back, t is possible that Whitney may now lmost wish that instead of mobilizing lis capital in that secret fashion, he lad quietly paid his debts with it. Womex as Pael-Beabers.?A cerennnv nf sincnlnr interest was witnessed t a funeral in New York, at the Chnrch f the Immaculate Conception. The [eceaseil was a member of the Church lodality, and the funeral was conducted >y the ladies of the society. The proeBsion, composed entirely of ladies, aoved from the house of the deceased ister in East Fourteenth street to the hurch. Six young ladies as pall-bearers >ore the casket, preceded by two ladies rho carried the society's banner. A arge multitude followed the prooession nto the church, where moss was peroral ed by the Rev. Father McGuire. It the conclusion of the church service he pall-bearers carried the casket to he door, and deposited it in the hearse, rhence the remains were taken to Calrary Cemetery.?Sun. Industrial Progress. Scotland produced 15,500,000 tons of oal in 1871. The British Mining Record office diodes the United Kingdom into 14 coal [elds. It is reported that extensive borax leposits liave been found in Kern bounty, California. The condition of mining in the vicinty of Helena,'Montana, is reported to )e very satisfactory. A company has been incorporated in . Portland, Oregon, for the purpose of uanufactuiing railroad and bar iron. It is claimed that the colored marble >f Salano County, California, is superior in point of beauty to any European stone of a like nature. The quantity of ores exported from California has decreased, for the satisactorr reason that more is now smeltid at home than was done formerly. One inch of rainfall distributes 100 x?ns of water over an acre of land?a suggestive fact in a mechanical as well is angricultural point of view. * ? There are 851,000 sewing-machine nade annually in the United States. rhi-AA compemes make more than 150, WO each. A very large profit is reanz>d on them. Recently 3,986 tons rf rails were made n a fortnight at a Bri^'fih iron comjany's works?the largest quantity ever nade in England onder one too! within ;he same space of time. Much anxiety is felt in Russia regardng the destruction of forests, which proceeds very rapidly, and threatens to ieprive the country of one of the most valuable of its export prodncts, wood 'or building purposes. London has a " SalvAge Corps," sup>orted by fire insurance companies, vhichaids the fire brigade inextinguishng fires, guards property in burnt buildngs, and looks after the interests of the nsurers generally. "Indurated tar," a substance whioh, t is claimed, does not crack, shrink, lor blister, and on that account.would >e well adapted for coating iron vessels, s now being tested for that purpose in British government dockyards. Experiments are making on a British railroad to test the rival merits of the ;wo patent railway carriage lamps. Both lamps burn petroleum oil the flashng points of which is 200 degrees, and ;he cost of burning is less than half that jf the oil hitherto used. The finished iron-makers of England, representing 5,000 to 6,000 puddling furnaces, recently offered their workpeople to continue payingi.12 (12s. 6d.) per ton for puddling, and other wages in like proportion. Some of the workmen have the offer under advisement. Silicate Boda has been discovered to sxert a very decided chemical action in checking alcoholic fermentation, in this il.: Bimilar to borax. respect uexu^ouiucnuu.? although much more energetic. A small quantity of the silicate will entirely arrest the fermentation of wine, as alib of milk. During the year ended June 30, 1872, the United States imported 490,631 tons af coal, whereof 257,447 tons came from the New Canadian Dominion, and 233,184 tons from other countries. We exported during the same time 400,878 tons, of which 291,047 went to the Dominion, 36,000 tons to Cuba, 37,000 to the States of Colombia, and 18,700 to China. It appears from the official report of the British Challenger exploring expedition, that in the Atlantic the summer heat penetrates to a depth of about 300 feet below which the temperature is uniform all the year round. The experiments made also demonstrate that it a depth of from one to two miles the temperature of the water is everywhere 28 deg. to 4 deg. below the freezing point. If there are a good many arts and inventions lost, there is no lack of new ones, to judge from the advertisement of a patent broker .in the interior, who offers "the cheapest and best form fence ever built, "a new gas lamp that costs only half a cent an hour," "a horse rake that has no equal,,' "a new glass-cutter that beats the diamond," " a grate bar . that doesn't burn out," and finally, a "toy engine that every boy should have for instruction." Regarding Bessemer steel, which is now so largely manufactured in the United States, a Sheffield (Eng.) correspondent observes: "Bessemer steel continues in great request, its application to new purposes being almost weekly extended. It can be produced so much cheaper than cost steel made in the old way, and yet is so tough and endowed with many of the virtues of best cast steel that there is no wonder that its use is becoming pretty nearly universal." Revealing a Husband's Secrets, Lady Davies, in her " recollections *' tells the following amusing story: While we were both standing opposite Mr. W 's dressing-room, the door of which in the haste of his departure had been left open, I perceived a gentleman's wig hanging there, and inquired of Mrs. W to whom it could belong, for Mr. W was the last man I suspected of wearing one. She burst out i l.:.,,. of mv rmentinn and in reolv JOUgUlug UV J >1 , . to it exclaimed, " for goodness' sake, don't let him know?pray never say that I told yon; bat that whig belongs to my husband. Nor that alone, for he had fonr in all?one with very short hair, aa if it had just been cut; another with very long hair, as if it wanted cutting ; another with the hair moderately long; and one elaborately dressed for parties. Sometimes," she added, "I can scarcely prevent myself from laughing when I hoar an intimate friend ad- * vise him to go and get his hair cut, and perceive how, by change of wig, it is supposed that such aavice has been promptly taken." " Sir Understanding that you insert rhymes in your excellent paper, I send you some. "Sir:?We do not insert rhymes without reason."