The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-09
4 Renlarkab Career.

Ii. American adyenturer, BrRaEviNH,
was. ..mlrkaUle career in China has been
l...,. &. ssed by n cruel death, was native Of
N,,, III. North Carolina. His father was
T.,, t.mtn, and IN officer, first, in the army
e. N.ryLsox, and subsequently in that of
Spa. afterwards coming 10 America in the
cru.tr Of Surveyor General OF Florida.
Il. r r~.pd al American lady, and died
Ill 1872 tlyiae 4 family consisting OF his WI
Gu.-. 40 sons and daughter. The eldest or
.4,sa sons is believed 10 have been briga-
t..c.. .4yral in the Confederate service. Ihe
yuaa-r.~t. whose romantic life has come 10 so
a..- 4 close. went TO Washington city in
..... s:vgc lie obtained place as page III the
Jt.... states Senate. From his earliest
y,,.s III. Was a hard student, and at seventeen
W.s o proficient in the Greek, Latin and
i.r-.a languages, and the higher branches
Il. =. ...r!natics, an accomplished drauShts-
-. Hli acquainted with civil engineering
aa. laval architecture. a writer III the
WASH zion Star, 10 whom we are indebted
T.. l..sr particulars Of his history, says be
.a. olsen heard him, in his early youth, speak
d. 4., ll4S fJr the future in such terms as
av..l .vld i stranger 10 suspect his sanity
= bald w an Empire III Egypt; TO unite
... .. .Jns Of the Orient; 10 regenerate Chi
Is. found q new Assyri9, We're the wild
ID. .s Of his boyhood.
Ia .1" springof 1858, BCRGErISR, "ithoat
..a d, IN his pocket, left Washington, went 10
d." . urk, and worked his passage from that
4 III. E" san Francisco. Thence he went TO the
~t... Ii Islands, next China, next Australia,
,.o worked in the gold mines for n rev
'er-, with success. We next hear OF him IN
y N "a. learning the Hindostanee language I;
'u.. ..t hoard n British man of war as sailor
.... with his head shaved, in the hospital in
E.fns. From Naples, lie went 10 London,
wa.,. he led for a time Z quiet life, and finally,
n. lore than four years Of wandering, re-
..I to Washington. From Washington
.e s, -Jyed 10 Detroit, where he accepted
I"-..tpn "a clerk in the postotIice, and edited
49, .aicatoI, n Democratic paper. In 1853
-y lin left America, and went TO China,
E... whose history his life for the last five
}e-., ass been identified He rose to hiSh
i....o .a he Imperial army, and was seeond IN
con aw4ad in Il great and successful battle, In
"a. ID W.Rn, the general commanding, was
al. b. this event, BURGEyISB became
a'r..udrr in-chicf Of al army OF sixty thou
80" >ciplined men, mostly Europeans and
t..1l.ons. In the eyes Of BuRGEyISE, this
'., The ,irst step 10 4 throne To friend
Y. A.nglon ne wrote, - Ia tt1o years shdIt
.. 'Eno." For over year he held, with
IT grGit and distinction the command of
-@ i:aperial army, but having difficulty
.-4 he Imperial authorities in relation
I'D. payment OF his forces, and finding
= nveer hampered, his restless ambition
p. a.m 10 take service with the rebels. -
4 ..r." reward was offered by the Imperial.
~s ty~ his head, and after several months
Re- "s captured but owing to the protest
tI Consul his life was not taken; eai
~' I1pe!ialistg resorted TO an old ana oaroa-
..-a aoie Of punishment, OF kicking open the
..Hads he lad received in battle, ana then
>.Aed him over 10 The American Consul
1gs'E'Iss then went 10 Japan, where he re-
&.!ns4 Natil he had recovered from the brutal
fehII+ent he had received. Some eight or ten
""N.A ago he again returned TO China TO Try
"|A '''f.eyc his fortune, but he was very soon
.~f.A prisoner by the Imperial Government,
,''''- AZ Ne are informed by late advices from
.'.-".1 "bs drowned while in irons.