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Rh that was organized to run the V'icksburjr batteries. The enterprise was a faihire, and the thirtv-four men engaged in it were either killed, wounded. r>r captiirtHl. Brown was paroled with his fellow- corresponiient. Allien D. Richardson (q. v.), at Viek.sburg and sent to Richmond, to go north by the first flttg-of-tnice boat. The Confederate authorities, however, were unwilling to release the " Tribune " men, and during the next twenty months they were transferred to seven different prisons. In the winter of 1864 they succeeded in eluding the guards at Salisbury. N. C, where they had been in charge of the hospitals for a year, and after travelling 4(K) miles by night through a hos- tile country tlicy reached the National lines at Strawberry Plains. Tenn., on 14 .Ian., 18<$5. There they telegraphed to the "Tribune" that they had escaficd " out of the jaws of death, out of the mouth of hell." bringing with them a full list of the Union soldien< who had died ut Salisbury. This was published, and forms the only authentic account of their fate. After the war he whs con- nec-tetl with the New York '"Tribune" and " Times," and has served as corres[K)ndent for some of the chief journals of the country, also contrib- Dting to |>eriodical literature. He has published " Four Years in Secessia " (Hartford, 186.'i) ; •' The Great Metropolis "(1869); " .Sights and Sensations in Eun.fjo" (1«71): and "Women " (18851).

'''BRUCHESI. Louis Paul Napoléon.''' R. C. arch- bishop, b. at -Montreal. iH <)<t.. IH.',."). His early studies were made in tlu- M-hools of the Christian brothers at Montreal. He made his cla-'^sii-al course •t the little seminary of the Snlpicians. and at his own request was sent to Prance to study philos^jphy in 1874, in which year he received tonsure from the bands of Canlinal Guibert. archbishop of Paris, and commenced the study of sacred sciences under Dr. Olier. After three years thus spent he went to Rome and entered the French wminary of the Sulpicians, and subsequently studied at the Roman college uniler the Jesuits where he received the degree of I». I>. He received onlination from Car- dinal Monaco in the basilica of St. .John I^ateran. He assisted at the corrniation of Leo XII I., travelled through Europe, and returned to Moiitreiil, where he became the private secretary of Archbishop F'abre. He was now chos«'n professor of dogma in Ijaval university, dischnr>;ing at the same time the duties of chaplain to the Ursulines. His fame for eloquence was wide-spread; he was freipiently calletl on to speak at the Catholic circle, Canadian institute, in the university course, the Royal socjet v, and the congress of Hxi. In 1884 he travelled I'n Europe for his health, and, returning to Montn-al, labortnl in the parishes of ."^t. Bridget and St. Joseph. In 1887 he delivered in thi- new Ijival faculty at Montreal a course of lectures. He ac- companied An.'hbishoti Fabre to Rome, retuniing home to assume as the archbishop's secretary a large share in the tulminist ration of the archdiocese of Montreal. Dr. Iiruch('-si became titular canon of the cathedral, sui>erior of religious onlers, vice- rector a</ interim <if I^val university, commissjiry of the government of (Quebec province, i)n'sident of the Catholic school commission of Montreal, and discharged many other important offices. He was appointed archbishop of Jtontreal in .Iniie, 1807, was consecratfsl by Archbishop Begin in the Montreal cathedral in August of that year, and in December he visited Rome.

BRUIX, Eustache. French admiral: b. in Cape Frani;ais, San Domingo, West Indies, I'.Iulv. ~r,^: d. in Paris. 18 Manh, 180.'}. He entered the navy in 1776, was with Count d'Estaiug at Savannah, October, 1779, with Charles Louis de Ternay at Newport, July, 1780, with Count de Grasse at Yorktown, October, 1781, and with Mar- quis de Vaudreuil in the West Indies in 1782-'3, being promoted ensign at the end of the campaign, and was associated with Count de Chastenet-Puy- segur (o. v.) in 1786-"7 in preparing a chart of the coast of San Domingo, and of the currents around the island, and published, with the latter. " De- tails sur la navigation aux cotes de Saint-Do- mingue et dans ses debouqueinents " (Paris, 1787, with atlas, 2d edit.. 1821), which work secured his promotion to lieutenant. In 1792 he commanded the frigate "Semillante" for a cruise to the Lee- ward islands, but was dismissed in 179^ on suspi- cion of being a royalist, reinstated in 1796. and amminted to the command of the frigate "fiole" of the station of Martinique. He was afterward chief of staff of Admiral V'illaret Joyeuse (q. v.), assisted in the exi)edition to Ireland, was pro- moted rear-ailmiral. and became secretary of the navy in 1800, but. resigning, he assumed command of the fleet at Brest. He was af'erward com- mander-in-chief of the flotilla assembled at Bou- logne for the invasi(m of England, and ini[)osed on Napoleon. One dav the emjieror had em- barked on the admiral's >oat for the purpose of re- connoitring the blockading British fleet, which was continuing a galling fire. They had advanced for some distance, when bullets whistled near the emperor, and Bruix ordered the rowers to pull back. "Keep advancing!" ordere<l Napoleon, "Pullback" responded the admiral. "Sailorsof my guard," exclaimeil the emperor, now thoroughly incensed, "obey your emperor!" ".Sailorsof the guard," resi)oiided Bruix coolly, throwing in the air his baton of admiral,einblem of authority, "olx-y your admiral, who alone commands here;" and adilrcssing Napoleon, saiil, " I am, sir, your de- voted servant, an admiral of your navy, a French- man, but I am iKirn in the |iart of the world which is the lanii of liberty, and where every one under- stands how to |K'rform his duty, despite the ex- alteil iiosition of his guest." And the emperor kept silent, and never in his life did he receive such a rej)roof. A few days later Admiral Bruix fell sick, ^ust when Napoleon had issued orders to relieve him of his command and for his arrest, but they were momentarily suspended, and he was taken to Paris, where he died.

BRUMBY, Thomas Mason, naval officer, was b. in Marietta, Ga., in IH-'i;). His father, Slajor Arnoldus V. Bniinby. was a graduate of the U. S. military a>'ademy class of WiH; he later became president of the(ieorgia military academy at Mari- ella, where his son «iis born. The family moved to Athens in 18li:i. and to Atlanta in 18(18. The son enlcreil the U. S. naval academy, 2.5 Sept., 1873, and was graduated, 18 June, 1879. He served on the "Tennessee," being pnimoted ensign, 20 Nov., 1880; on the receiving-ship "Vermont," on the "Jamestown," on the " (Jcdney," and on the " Van- dalia." He was one of the siirvivoi-s of the hurri- cane off .Samoa in .Man'h, 1889. He was promoted lieutenant (junior grade). 21 April, 1887. lie again serve<l on the receiving-ship " Vermont " and on the si-hool-ship "St. Mary's." He was promoted to lieutenant, 24 Aug., 1892, and was appointed to- the "New York" in August, 1893, and was trans- ferretl thence to the " Vermont" in October. 1896. From Septeml)er, 1897, until January, 1898. he was at the naval oliservalory and war college; he was then a.ssigned flag-lieutenant on the "Olympia," of Dewey's squadron, Ix'ing present on the flag-ship at the Manila victory. At the surrender