Beaufort Republican, 1871-11-09

' "l! granite ana marDie ana sandstone are > not fire-proof? Is not the capital, the I treasury, the patent office, the postoffice ? department, fire-proof?" r "Why, bless your soul, nol Not one of > them. But they are probably safe, for b\\ that, because they stand away from other > buildings?all except the postoffice. If we ; should have such a fire in Washington as > that in Chicago, I should fear for the postoffice building. Why, my dear sir," he continued in a more snappish tone than ever, "do you know there is but one fireproof government building in the country? That's the appraiser's stores in Phiiadelpbia. The material is brick. Brick is the only absolutely fire-proof building material I know o? They say the Seneca t stone is fire-proof, and it has stood some wonderful tests, but none of the govern1 ment buildings have been built of it. Of k course, granite and marble are good ' enough, if buildings are apart from others, i That's the trouble. Government build1 ings ought to have big grounds around ' them. Then there would be no danger. But I have great faith in iron shutters." ' Woodhall on the Rampage. She Attempt* to Bed ace a Steamboat Clerk ?A Second Joseph Andrews. The Albany limes gives the following r very amusing account of Victoria Wood^ hull's journey up from New Yoik on the Troy boat: Just before the steamer Connecticut left her dock in New York the night before last, a carriage drove up to the wharf,

a desire to repay as iar as be was able the money which I had expeuded for his' comfort during his long sickness. In the profoundest sense Alice dary never loved but once. The man whom' she loved is still alive; yet goesip with thfe keenest scent, has never fond or naatodf him. With all her fullness of affection, hers was an electric and solitary sotoL He who, by the very presence of his bsKing, was more to her than any other more tal could be, might passed from her life; but no other could ever take his placnA proud and prosperous family brought' all their pride and power to bear on a son to prevent his marrying a girl unedocated, rustic, and poor. "I waited for one * who never came back," she said, "yet I 1 believe he would come until I read in a J paper his marriage ti Another. Can yon think what fife would be?loving one, waiting for one who would never come." He did come at last. I saw him. Hia wife had died. Alice was dying. TUb gray-haired man sat down beside the grayhaired moman. Life had dealt prosperously with him, as is its wont with men. Suffering and death had all from her save the luster of her woadrotff eyes. Froor her wau and wasted face they shone upon1 him full of tenderness and youth. Thn* they met, with life behind them?the^ who parted plighted lovers when life wa* young. He was the man whom she forgave for her blighted and weary life, with? a smile of parting as divine as ever lit the? face of woman. Fashionable Woia#s foyer*.

may be again beset by the attentions and blandishments of Victoria, on her financial bower of Broad street, and the housetop of Murray Hill, where she communes (vide Theodore Tilton's biography) with Demosthenes and other guardian spirits, in untrammelled affinity. Alice Cary's Love. The Facts About Her Relations with Rn* fm W. Grliwold. A story under title of the "Unknown Love of Alice Cary," in the newspapers, is still traveling through the length of the land. It asserts that in her youth she was affianced to Rufus W. Griswold; that he was false to her?forsaking her for a woman of the world; that long after, when he return to New York friendless, poor, and sick, she forgave him the great wrong that he had done, and nursed him till he died. This story, in many conflicting phases, tfas often to her great annoyance told of her during her life. The fact that Rufus W. Griswold did iu his last will bequeath to her his personal effects was made much of in printed and private circles, and used as an unanswerable proof that at one time he had been her lover. Within a week I have read, in alettef to the New York Hfvening Post, that the will proved the love and relationship between the two persons beyond a doubt. Yet no less, in its foundation the story is fa!se. Referring to it at once, while we two sat alone together, Alice said to me: "I will tell you just the truth. If you ever think' it necessary, you can * ' '* " l- U-i 1A LA. ka

Then I saw wat motive wuz actooatii be Amerikia Napoleon, and I wuz agic ost in wonder. Whoever the Democratc nominee is, he will simply be a shadder, iv wich Tweed will be the substance. Tweed will be the power behind the hrone, wich is greater than throDe itself Ind wat a glorious prospek opens to us Think uv a Democratic President in 1873, nth Tweed behind him I Think u\ Tweed makin collectors, and assessors, ,nd postmasters, and all uv 'em bein reponsible solely to him ! Ef he hez made iv himself the revenues uv one city, wal rill he do when he hez the nashen to ileed ? I shell to wunst cultivate pleasant reishens with Tweed. Petboleum Y. Nasby, P. M., (Wich wuz Postmaster). Fire-Proof Bnildings. n Interview with Supervising Architect Muliett. The Washington correspondent of the Jincinnati Commercial has recently had a onversation with Mr. Muliett, supervis ag architect of the Treasury Department, n the subject of fire-proof buildings. In newer to a remark made by the corns ondent, be said: "Why, my friend; you don't know what ou're talking about. You now know that here was not a fire-proof building in Chiago. I could have told you that beforeand." "Why the Tribune office was regarded 8 fire-proof, and other marble and granite uildings were so regarded. I believe they nly lacked iron shutters," I ventured tc eply.

methin like ten thou?but never mind, she! be done." a "Then agin," sed Tweed, smiliu still b ander and with the faintest sejestion ov o wink in his left eye, "I wood sejest that r >u pledge the Democratic party to be a mest and economical expenditoor uv the p iblic funds 1" g The Chairman turned pale with sur- I ise, but he coincided. Everybody coin- ji des with Tweed. F "And while yoo are at it," continued t e great chieftain with a smile, the bland- a s uv wich can't be described, "yoo hed r ttter put in a resolooshen denouncin the b ofligacy uv the management uv matters & Noo York City, but makin it, mind a o, ez the legitimate result uv Radical I gi?lasben four yeers ago. Draw up this t soloo8hen so as to make it plain that it's & e yoor drivin at, without exactly n&min I e.?> " ' a "Why, what shell we?" b "Don't go on, my friend," sed Tweed, t: lilin a smile wich for blandnis excelled 8 e most delishus Joon morning, "it's c utch better to hev the corrupshen de- J >un8t by us than by the enemy, partike- * rly ez we know more definitely about it. a nd I wood sejest that yoo hev a resoloo- ? eD, boldly challengin a comparison be- ? ">?? "Rnnnhlitin anrl TW>moeratic ad -

, and from it emerged three persons, two , wearing the garb of women and one dressed in the habiliments of the sterner sex; but nature or custom seemed reversed in . this instance, for one of the seeming females gave orders to the coachman, paid , the fare, attended to the baggage, pur, chased the passage tickets, and then gave her arm to the healthy mortal who had stood by holding a poodle and carrying a , parasol, marched him into the cabin of the steamer and seated him upon a cushioned ; chair, while she went in search of a state I room. Her female companion, she found, > had alreany purchased a room, but it was [ in a gangway, and it made the first lady t very angry to find that her friend had > been so sadly imposed upon. So with dashing eye and scowling visage she marched straight to the clerk and de manded that the room be changed for a i better one, "for," said the lady, as she stood on her tiptoes and glared in furiously at the clerk, "I am Victoria C. Woodhull, of 44 Broad street, New York. "Oh!" murmured tie clerk, with the , greatest timidity, "I was not aware of i that;you shall have the best room on the

7 my hands a clappin vociferously at this 1 init. There's a great many of me in t tat halL" 1 After the adjournment uv the Conven- 1 tun for dinner, the Chairman uv the v immittee on Resolooshens came into the ^ om to submit the resolooshens they hed a epared, that they mite be shoore they 8 ood meet Mr. Tweed's ideas. The great u an read em attentively and handed uv v n back. t 44They won't do," sed he sententious1) "In what respeck are they faulty!" ask1 the Chairman, obsequiously. "Woodent it be well enough," sed Mr. weed, with a smile still more bland than e first, woodent it be well enough to it in a resolooshen denouncin the cor- a ipshen, in general terms, uv coorse, ecifiyin partikerlerly, however, the espial corrupshun uv the Nashnel Gov- C nment, and that uv States which is c jder Radikal control?" ii The sublimity uv sich a sejestion comin o om Tweed struck the Chairman all uv a a ?p. p t4Certainly I will, ef yoo wish it," sed j, but I sposed?that is, my idee wuz ? y a general way, yoo know, that the lea t t d about corrupshen, in view uv?well, c am list now holdin a place wich pays b

3 these things. They think that if a bnild3 ing is made of granite or marble, that's 3 all that i# necessary. Iron shutters and 3 all such things cost something. I make f my estimates for a public building, but * they are always cnt dotal so I have to * cnt down my plans. Now in this Chicago t horror yon see the effects. I'll bet you ? the proprietors of the Tribune tall hare * iron blinds on their upper windows in 1 their next building." J "What difference will it make," I asked, E "if granite is not fire-proof?" i "Granite is not fire-proof," he contin continned, - ned, continned, "but, as I said before, it will stand J a good deal. It is probable that the court1 house would have stood had it not been 3 for the wooden cupola and the open windows. The Tribune office would probably i have stood it if it had iron shutters outi side on all the windows. Yet it is by no means certain, if the fire raged with the > intensity that is described." "What, then, is to be done," I asked, - *- - " i "? i.i