The Texas Countryman. (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1866 Page: 1 of 4
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Austin County,.Texas.
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GUNEOPATHY.
BY J.O. 8.
I saw a lady yesterday,
A regular "M. D.,"
Who'd taken from the Faculty
Her medical degree;
And I thought if ever I was sick
My doctor she should be!
I pity the deluded man
Who foolishly consults
Another man, in hopes to find
Such magical results
As when a pretty woman lays
Her hand upon his pulse :
I had a strange disorder once,
A kind of chronic chill,
That all the doctors in the town
With all their vaunted skill,
Gould never cure I'm sure,
With powder nor with pill;
I don't know what they called it
In their pompous terms of Art
Nor if they thought it mortal
In such a vital part,—
I only know 'twas reckoned
"Something icy round the heart!"
A lady came—her presence brought
The blood into my ears;
She took my hand—and something
A fever now appears !
Great Galon!—1 was all aglow,
Though I'd been cold for years!
Perhaps it isn't «very case
That's fairly in her roach,
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But should I e'er be ill again;
I fervently beseech
That I may have, for life or death
A lady for my 'ieech !"
ktllanems.
From the Washington Star.
THE END OF A ROMANTIC!
ADVENTURER.
Death of Henry Burgevine, the Hero
of China ; Hoto a North Carolina
Boy became a Mandarin of the
Red Button.
left in very straitened circumstances,
had in view the prosecution of certain
claims against the Government, grow-
i ing ont of the purchase of Florida
from Spain. Being unsuccessful in
this, she, through the aid of the Hon.
Willie P. Mangnm, obtained a situa-
tion as page in the United States
Senate for Henry, and on this pit-
tance, increased by the products of
teaching a small school, the widow
and her two children lived for many
years, in quiet obscurity, on the west
side of 12th street, near G.
From his earliest years Henry dis-
played a great love for books, and
left no opportunity unimproved to
store his mind with useful knowledge.
At seventeen he understood the Latin,
Greek and French languages, was
proficient in the highest branches
of mathematics, an accomplished
draughtsman, and studying civil en-
gineering and naval architecture.—
During the interim between the ses-
sions of Congress he was among the
students at the Washington Semin-
ary, (Catholic,) but he accomplished
more by night study and a systematic
course of reading, having access to
the Congress library.
In these days of his early youth
the writer of this sketch has often
heard him speak of his plans for the
future, in such terms as would lead a
stranger to suspect his sanity. Now
it was to build upan empire in Egypt
to unite the nations of the Orient; to
regenerate China and found an en-
lightened nation of 400,000,000 of
people; to found a new Assyria, with
a Nineveh for its capitol, and so on
through a long train of schemes, all
of which were sublime, if not prac-
ticable.
In the spring of 1853, Burgevine.
whose settled purpose it had been to
seek bis fortune in foreign lands, bade
farewell to mother, sister and friends,
and ai rived in New York with a few
dollars in his pocket. No one knew
exactly where he was going, or for
what purpose, and it is likely his own
plans were somewhat disarranged by
the fact of his being withont a penny
in a few days, and compelled either
to return to Washington or take pass-
age in some ship and work his way.
He did the latter, and six months af-
ter wrote from San Francisco, then
from the Sandwich Islands, next from
China, then from Australia, where he
worked in the gold mines a few weeks
with success.
The next we hear from him he
had been "wrecked on the coast, for-
ty miles from Bombay." Afte; this
he was six months in Calcutta, learn
Late arrivals from China bring
confirmation of thq death of this
romantic and gifted young man. A v„,vulia,roni„.
prisoner in the hands of his cruel and ing the Hindoostanve language, aud
treacherous enemies, heavily ironed regretting he did not understand
and subjected to inconceivable hard- Arabic, that he might take "command
Bhips, death by drowning, murder, of a small vessel trading to Judea, on
any means must have been a wel- the Red Sea. Next he was on a
come relief. But what a sad termina- British man-of-war, as sailor. Then,
tion to the wild and favored dreams for a few months, weary enough tobe
of his boyhood, wherein he loved sure, with hi* head shaved in the
to picture himself as the arbiter of
nations, the architect of empires.
The career of Henry Burgevine is
more than romantic, "stranger than
fiction," and deserves a better record
than the meagre and often incorrect
paragraphs which have from time to
time appeared in the columns of Eu-
ropean and American papers. He
was born in Newbern, North Caro-
lina, in the year 1836. His father
was a Frenchman—an officer in the
grand army of Napoleon. Subsequ-
ently he went in the service of Spain,
and came to America in the capacity
of Surveyor General of Florida, mar-
ried an American lady, and died in
1843, leaving a family, consisting of
his widow, two sons and a daughter.
The eldest son was, if we mistake
not, Brigadier General in the Con-
federate service, and is at present a
citizen of Arkansas, where the daugh-
ter also resides, being the wife of Mr.
Thomas P, Weston, lata of Washing-
ton City.
Henry Andua Burgevine, the
youngest of the family, came to
Washington with his mother and sis-
ter
hospital at Naples. And next tém-
pora muían tur, leading the life of a
2uiet gentleman in London. And
nally, after more than fout years of
wandering, he appears, like an ap-
parition, to his friends at Washing-
ton,|bronzed and bearded like a bard.
Remaining a few months at the capi-
tol, he removes to Detroit, Michigan,
accept# a position as clerk in the post
office, and edits the Vindicator, a
Democratic paper of that city. And
here it may be as well to state, that
in matters of literature, Burgevine
possessed a most excellent taste.—
Had he adopted that as a pursuit, bis
success would have been certain.—
He wrote much, and published
enough in prose ánd vene to exhibit
his talent in that line. But he pre-
ferred a life of action, and was fre-
quently heard to say that he woold
rather "make history than write it."
Burgevine's manner of life at De-
troit was too tame for him. He groan-
ed undet the commonplaces of every
day life, and longed to be yet again
chasing the phantom of ambition,
which nad already led him so far out
he had accomplished nothing. He
must be np ana doing if a name were
to be achieved for himself.
In 1859 Henry Burgevine again
left the shores of America, alas! nev-
er return. Thin time his scheme*
were not tangible. History could
give him notable examples of men
who had risen above their kind, as if
by magic, in great political convul-
sions of the world. China should be
the field of his glory, for here a gigan-
tic war had been waged for years, and
here if anywhere, was the place to
win distinction, power, empire. To
Ch na, he went, and the result of the
story is the history of China for the
last five yean. Whether Burgevine
went with Ward from this country or
met him fint in China, the writer
cannot say. At all events they were
friends—-Ward being fint in com-
mand and Burgevine second. In a
great and successful battle Ward was
killed, and Henry Burgevine became
commander-in-chief of an army of
60,000 disciplined men, mostly Eu-
ropeans and Americans. In the eyes
of our hero it was the firet step to a
throne. After setting forth these
facts in a letter to Thomas Young,
Esq., of this city, he says, "After
years of patient labor, watching,
waiting and suffering, my day has at
last come. In two years I shall rule
China."
..The dream was never realized—
the life which was all action, all hope,
and all ambition, lias gone out in
wretchedness almost unparalelledL—
The mother to whom, in his palmiest
days, Burgevine transmitted a suf-
ficient sum to make her comfortable in
lierlast hours,,was spared the misery
of outlivig him, and of knowing bow
he died. She expired peacefully in
this city about one year since, and
lies in Greenwood Cemetery.—
It is almost impossible to estimate
the advantages to the world which
have been lost by Burgevine's fail-
ure in China. Had he achieved all
his ambition hoped for, civilization
and the highest enlightenment would
have followed him, and an empire,
Buch as Napoleon might have dream-
ed of, would have dazzled the world,
and the name of Burgevine, which in
a few days, will be lost to all, save a
few that knew and loved him, would
have appeared among "the few im-
mortal names that were not born to
die."
Burgevine was a scholar, a man of
refined tastes and literaay habits;
modest, simple and unaffected in his
manner, inclined to be silent and
gloomy at times, but generally af-
fable and pleasant, seldom speaking
of himself; indeed, it was with dif-
ficulty his most intimate friends could
get at his history. No foreigner,
who has up to this time been identi-
fied with the Chinese war, has had
a tithe of the ability of Burgevine.—
Nor has the world known the real
scopo and extent of the plana of "that
sleepless soul which perished in its
pride." Burgevine succeeded Ward,
assuming command of the imperial
army, which he filled with great
credit and distinction for over a year,
when, unfortunately, he had trouble
with the Imperial authorities in re-
lation to the payment of his forces,
and finding bis csreer hampered, his
restless ambition led him to take ser
vice with the rebels. A large rsward
was offered by the Imperialists far
his head, and after several months he
was captured; but owing to the pro-
test of our consul his life was not
taken, but 1he Imperialists resorted
to an old and barbarous modo of
punishment, of picking open the
wounds he had received in battle, and
then turned him over to the American
consul Burgevine then went to
Japan, where he remained until he
had recovered from the brutal treat-
ment he had received. Some eight
or ten months sgo he again returned
to China to try und retrieve his for-
tune, but he was very soon taken pris-
by the Imperial Government,
oner
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vices from China, was drowned while
in irons. Burgevine* while be was in
favor with the ImpcriaHata, was a
Mandarin of the «red button,M and
had the power of life and death over
two large cities.
Wuiom v*. Wind Jnah Wlli«g*
3ra that many nenonethink them-
vee wise when they areonly windy.
If the aforesaid baa «ver made any
remark thatóor experience of peopw
would lead us to endone this la the
one. The community ia weighed
down with this kind o(F p^plty and
happy ia he who possesi " "
"cheek" to defy their t
attacks, or whom nature'
cently created deaf. The
possesses certain tenon for us; wa
would not acoept the itch upon tike
most favorable terms: immediate dis-
solution is what we have no particu-
lar desire to contemplate. But the
windy man is worse than all com-
bined. He seems to infest all your
places of resort. He enlightena you
on all questions of importance, what-
ever the topic mar be, and hé wants
you to understand that whatever oth-
ers may have said, lis only is right.
He tells yon what ha doss, and he
said at such and such a tiné j how
he should do if be were yon: He
tells you what people say about you,
and where he thinks yon have maned
it. His opinion of everybody's abil-
ities except his own ia very —frfr
rate, and ne takea no special pains'to
conceal it. Wherever yon
find him—he is ubiquitous—a
von find him, he sucks. In
barbarian country, yean sgo, the in-
habitants used to my, HSwi the
Turks, the comet and the devil, de-
liver us!" For dur psrWgive us all
these and take the man of Wind.
TACTICS FOB HUGGING.
1. Place the piece on the right
aide, as in Hardee's order anus, cast
the eyea to the right without turning
the head, extend the right arm,
the hand behind the
it above or about the middle baud or
belt.
2. Make a right wheel, niaa the
left arm, place it on the shoulder of
the piece, the eyes resting about two
inches below the top ornead hand ¡
at the same time move the left foot
oblique about twelve inchss¡ bsnd
the right knee, keeping the feet at an
angle, of forty five degrees.
3. Drop the head to the right,
bring the, piece to the body with a
finn gr^sp, to prevent its jostling j
place the left ear against the cheek
of the piece, and at the command
four, hug in double quick time.
At the command, "arms a-port,"
come to the position of a soldier, and
look military—like a aheep.
A wide awake miniater, who found
bis congregation going to aleep one
Sunday, before he had foii)y com-
menced, suddenly stopped and ex-
claimed : ''Brethren, Una is'nt foir.
it is'nt giving a man half a chance —
Wait till I get along a piece, and
theq if I ain't worth listening to, go
to sisen; but don't before I get com-
menced. Give a man something like
a fair cbanoe, and that is all I ask of
you." i
Young ladiee should nevsr oUeet
to being kissed by a printer; ¿Ley
should make every allowaiiee for the
freedom of the press.
m amsi
An old bachelor ssya that the pro-
per name for marriageable
ladies ia "waiting-maids."
An inveterate bachelor ghrea as a
sson for not getting anniei, that'
he wishes to T ■ "
ion of the
iu 1846. Mrs. B. having been of the beaten paths of life. As yet andas we are informed by latead- "shake."
A yonng lady vocalist, feeing much
alarmed during a rsbsanal,' IsrtéW
she trembled so she cmM 1lit
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Osterhout, J. P. The Texas Countryman. (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1866, newspaper, May 11, 1866; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180235/m1/1/?q=+date%3A1865-1876: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.