August 17, 1854 (5 pages)

BY Jd. & CO.Be / Main Street, opposite the head of Church Street.” For year, in advance. ... se, mopths,.,.. ents, $2 per square (ten . n, and $1 per square for each sub ae re ONN & MONTGOMERY, Attorneys at Law, Conyeyancers, &c. &., Main st. “27 tt Bat Ais Pen i AEG AA TAROT AR IE SALON TRINA I SEA RR a a geon and Accoucheur, basement story of the Masonic Hall. ; lif ee geon and Accouchetr, Main street, opposite Adams & Co’s Express, Rough & Ready. 12 €m OZIER, RICHARD, Provision and Liquor Dealer, opposite Post Office. 35 tf EN & CARMAN, DBS.,—Uffices, Main street, Grass Valley, in the cottage lately occupied y Mr. Skillman; in Nevada, office on Commercial street. Dr. DEN will reside permanently in Grass falley, aud tender his services to the public. $5 3m Joon. 24 tf Sans Se ee ta ie ee aie HSH, J. W., Lentist—Office at Dornin’s Da. guerrean Gallery, Main street. 35 tf See en ee ele ge OUSE, J. M., Justice’s Court—Office on Mill street. 2 tf Ps eee Ee ALLER, FRANCIS, Bookstore and Stationery, one door west of Masonic Hall, Main street. 7 tf ILMEAM, S. M., Wholesale and Keitail véaler Groceries and Provisions. In connection he has also a Butchery and Bakery establishment, and has constantly on hand Meats, Breads, Cakes, Pies and Paitries of every description. Fancy fixings furnished for Dinner Parties at short notice—Rough & Ready. ee > See NEE ee OS Se ee EYWOOD & BROTHER, Grocers & Provisiou Dealers, Boston Ravine. Also, Clothimg, Boots and Shoes, Miners’ Tools, &c. g@~ Goods delivered free ef charge. 10 tf ELM & MAY, Empire Livery Stable, Broad . ANSE Wark ‘escort he could st., Nevada. Carriages and the best of horses can be had at all hours at a racments’ warning. 29 tf House 3 oF 8. ‘cut and prepared in the shop. Also, Cabinet and ‘Yomer work of ail kinds is neatly executed and ito. Shep on Mill street, between 1tf promptly attend: Main and Nei}. Law, Mill Street, Grass Valley. 46tf Bee eo ae ee eee AMB, WM. H., Watchmaker and Jeweler, Main street, opposite Post Office. 24 tf OUTZENHEISER, W., Wholesale and L Retail Druggist & Apothecary, one door west of Masonic Halli, Main street, a tf ARSHALL & C@., Dealers in Groceries, Provisions and Liquors, Hardware, Queensware, Preserved Fruits, Meats, Jams and Jellies. keeping Utensils, Carpenters’ and Mining Tools, &c., &c. Goods delivered free of extra charge. 35 tf ae Life. —we laugh—we e Wdve—we droop—we die Ab wherefore do we laugh or weep? 4, then a @onfused sound from the outhit deep drift. Gaebler, as soon as he . Was Sa&sfied that the robbers were fleeing. ga directethis domestic to despatch after them ~. around € gunshots. ‘Phey then waited quiet4d something like the muffled tread of . GRASS\ VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1854, 7 af 5 lle, like a.bobtailed on. a rockety ie A cfisis ‘have arisen, What are we? © a&—This are aday for the pop. _. Defencless State of California, balls t a-roost, to be lookin’ up. A _» Hon. James McDougall in a speech deliverse of Representatives. in speakitical necessities. says:— __ t of the Federal Government pa 4 DWARDS, C. BR. & CO., Grocery and . 7 ta, : scat ina veal 7 tai ; . wife and daughters were abse x Bakery, Main street, above the Eldorado Sa. . boring city: his only son. a youth of twenty years, and the two domestics—who. at present. constituted the rather slender guard of . . the frowning battlement—had retired at an early hour. weary with the chase that had occupied them since sunrise. Midnight had just . been tolled by the clock, After counting the} strokes and leaning back for a moment in his luxurious chair, the while holding his head, . as though by pressure he would dispel the) lassitude that had stolen over his senses, he! . bestirred himself, took a few brisk turns across . the room. and resumed at the same time his wb weet thoughts that ly fly? Fdo our fond hearts#cling ~ things thtdie? = © O, life! is att thy song “Endure—and die")? The Banker's Prisoner. ly. awhiltlonger, until fully ‘assured of the flight of {but the pmioned man, and then unbarred\se massive door, slowly ba@ to seize their prisoner. A sight »ehill the bloud of even those stern men greted their vision. Instead of a Kving man, traggling to be free, they saw nothing but «naked. blood-stained corpse ; and what moi appalied.them. was the fact i at cadless one. The? warm red ogi the scenes ®, curgling over’ Inured ae the od banker was to not look calmly @a sight like that ; he co It was a dark, tempestuous night. THE! that bad been fatal, and handle the muticastle. whose towers had of two centuries. touched with the tints of death. ing them fromevery eye but the Ail seeing. Gustave Gachler, the present lord of the castle, was seated along in his chamber. seat and his occupation. it early on the following morning in the benk of Kiel. It was rather risky In those days which date as far back as 1743—for the ownsuch weight. The thick, dark forest—-on the edge of which his castle stood, and which stretched in : See sn Pe «t Sien Reinter:-Sash . main a single night under his roof. bold chieftain, who for five years had. leen gloom miles beyond him—was the rendezvons of a daring band of brigands. a ehetsas Ay muster was 20 the banker would not have suffered ed tde it n reBm the wind howled and swept with far:ous blasts . through the old forest. and aronnd the ancient . and flinging a10ld robe over the white arm withstood the storm . \ The snow tell thick and . fast, whirling like maelstrom eddies, or piling up in huge and almost impassable drifts, and everywhere wheeling with the noiseless flight’ of a bird, from cloud to-soil, blanching all it high in the! It was such . a night as the doers of evil deeds delight in— its darkuess and storm so thick and fierce. secureing them from the fear of detection. hid. His . ble escoryto carry thither the treasure W _ had comenigh being fatal to them instead of He had that day late in the afternoon re. ceived a heavy sum of money, and was busied now in counting it over, intending to deposit j . and hand, with the ropesyet fastened otf ‘ wrist. Then the door was Opened ; each had ¢ ; t in. ae eee er of even so strong a hold as his, to retain . strung his nerves to look@amblanchingly up. long upon his pr mises a golden treasure of . But thatthe ‘ rans TR any . end few in tam ‘er. . ‘lated corpse. ‘hey closed the door upon it. and hand whify hung in the deadly noose, they hastened an upper and distant room, /and waited Wh impatient hearts for the _ break of daw, Slowly. tediously wore the hours away but not until the sun was quite avens, could the four men break . the spell yiich the last night’s horror had . flung over il@ir nerves and hearts. and praceed to the? duties. Itwas determined afi some consultation to despite young Gust . with one @the old retainers tothe neighBoring town.@ot only to callupon it for a suaeah . the headi@ss prisoner, but to summon with . them’a detachment of police to hold the corpse. and see if it would givea clue by . which the living villains could be detected. . Leaving by the back entranee, and not trusting tolbok back lest the horrid sicht should againg@ppal them, the two hastened on, and . depite the drifts which everywhere impeded . them. despatched their errand. oon after the clock had struck the chimes c noon they returned with not only those we whom they had been sent. but a number , 00. of the first citizens of the place. They lantered, as they bad left, in the rear of building, and. proceeding to the gra rere informed by Gachler of the sucet stratagem he had adopted ; and the 1 being withdrawn, wereshowa the tig ful le on the sight. But the blood which had curdled in their’ veins as they looked upon the fettered limb. now rushed like a lava torrent ; and their hearts. which they had steeled to human feeling, were in an instant vital with heey £0) ? i Ve sf ~ 0 Ca, * _. There, upon the cold stone sill, half buried ina snow drift, clasped the feet of the murdered man, sata young and lovely woman. . Iter ‘tresses, dark as the shadows of night, were unbound, and fell like the mantle of. and swung it} fall: were@till: oozing from the . i of terror—-for bea@d passed his early years: . in the camp and @ the battle-fieldhe could: ( not ask his serwats to loosen the slip-knot‘like a bear with a sore head. Flop together . bale ber camp meetings and jails: 4 1 every eve went. #0, Now till the day. of the. nt 3,000 miles ; deserts and od'd Nhoop for Dick Dailye, 41m ; intervene. ‘There is no ¥ ay ‘Feller Citizeas—Jerusalem is to pay. and . through tbat intermediate country for we haint go% atiy pitch. Our hyperbélical . parties who go.armed for war. For all pur‘and majesti¢canal of creation kas unshipptd Peek . r. and the Gaptain’s broke his neck, . 20 way , her ee ig Getcha the vasty . time of war: _No man of military skill would ee gi of dimuns. Our wigwam’s . undertake to carry a considerable army from eashirt ona brush fence, . the Mississippi to the Pagific by land. The tse ere ‘latitudes is vanishing . sea. the fearful, treacherous .sea, mast be reAre such things to be did?. lied on ; the’ dangers of the tem ‘ name of ihe American Ea. pestilence must be encot ve az atsys 3 C S > here“is hone even for an army: in i and then peoplé, and who impose upon us speciés of exaction and outrage. Of the perils of the sea we have hai cent instance, in the terrible fate of th tims storm-gwept. from the deck of the” Francisco. From the pe-tilent atmosphi encountered'in crossing the continent, withou;and now’s:ts on the’ telegraph, if such. doins is, goin’ on to be conglomeraed? I repeat te you in the name of the peaf liberty, when he’s flewin’ over the efoud-capped summits ofthe Rocky mountains, if we’s goin’ to be extemperaneously big yogged in this fashion?» Oh, answer me. Let me not blusu in ignorance, as Shakepeel says. Shall we be bamhoozlefied” with ape; a such unmitigated oudaciousness? Methinks . I hazard no Mepoears from trutt ban saying: Ihear you yelp— No sir, hass-fly !’ Then . that poison-charged atinosphere has a greater ‘lect me to Congress, and there’ll be a revo-. number of the lives of our people than were lution sartain. sacrificed on the battle fields of Mexico. Is Feller Citizens+If I was standin on the . it known to this committee. or if known, is adamantine throne of Jupiter, and the light. the fact.appreciated, that we here are farther ning was flashin’ around me. I'd continue to} from California—that more obstacles interspout! I’ve sprunga leak and must hewl. vene than intervene between us and where war now rages 9n the banks of the Danube? —that we could more readily place an army upon the banks. of the old Euphrates than —into ranks and bear me through. Feller Citizens—You know me, and rip me out with a mill grap if I won’t stick to you . like brick dust to a bar of soap. Whar is; Such is the fact. California is a familiar . my opponent? No whar! I was brought up. name; but it is in a distant land, sir. /among ye, feller citizens, and papped ina; * © * Saif $ ‘ % . school-house. but he can’t get around mej, _ In case of a conflict. where would a hostile . With bis hifalutin. big words. Hictum, stric-. power strike us? Strike us where we could ; tum albronto, catnip, Brazeel. Eoglooney. be struck most securely. And I state here, ; and Baffin’s Bay! What do you aj] think o’ ; that ? ‘29 4* Go it, er . . SBakepcel said, when César stabbed ‘hi the House of Represeftativés. Feller Citizeas—Lect me to Congréss . Ill abo ish mad-dogs. musketeaps*and wae ilation of the cents, aud goin for the annihilati cut off. the commerce, destroy the cities, and for a time crush the rising greatness of our root, hog, or die,” Ft This might be done be. wnole Pacific coast. and fel on that cvast, were it ever so potential. ould England thus expose her Indies to hecomme the prey of an enemy? California is the JifdigS of these Atlantic States, But stippose this Government could furnisl’ all @he® protection required. To mainate crow and fustifiben hawk-P ihe raisins every day. Sundays excepte 'quor enough to swim in. Yes, feller citizens ‘lect me to Congress, and I shall be led'to/ a singlé year. would cost this Government . exclaim in the sublime, the terrific language} $50,000.000. This statement is not made in_of Bonapart. when preaching in the wilder. considerately ; it is no exaggeration. It ' ness— Richard’s himself again !”? _. would cost this Government $50,000.000 to On, then onward to the polls,--“ gallop . gefend that coast for a single year—supplies, apace, fiery footed steeds,” and make thefroops, arms. everything must make awoyage _welkin’ tremble with anti-spasmodic yeM8#@B4 of seventeen thousand miles. : Daily. at es © The fact is.it cannot be disguised: it ‘Hence ye Brutus, broad axe and: glory?” . must be recognised that with the present Let’s licker. Faisal means of communication, the Federal Govaioe is , ~~Pernment cannot Jurnish federal protection Tue Scuoor House—There were some fif-) #0 California. teen or twenty barefooted healthy looking boys and girls, playing. and statmpering. and shouting around the duor, and I wondered at the evideaces of a prolific reproductiveness, ae “EprraorpinaRy CHALLENGE—GREAT PisToL Suor.—Mr. Edward W. Paul, of St. Lou. is. publishes in the Republican of that city, gorpmerte and governmiént there is: pest and the . n a, . already—had I not better sue in the tropics, but few entirely escape; and . upon the shores of the bay of San Francisco? . . that any second-rate power could effectually fore the. arm of this Government could be . tain afi@defend that coast in time ef war, for —__——_—________—-. . the terror of the country. cluding eveng ef . Remain sg C. J., Attorney andCounsellor at . fort to secure him. and . with stealthy paces to the spot. House. finished his work. when suddenly he was starperpetrating e¥iry . week robberies such as might befit the fingés . Clwag to the silken lashes of her half-closed of a fiend. bad learned that for one night te . CYes. and ber parted lips were stained with . mighty sum would be in the banker's cast}eblood, as though she had pressed frantic kiss. and knowing well. that if oace secured in th . C8 Upon the gory hand that hung just above . vaults of Kiel it would be beyond his power: her brow. _ She was cold in death. They bu. he determined to obtain it at once, and under Tied them in one grave-—sad though it secmcover of the darkness and storm led his band 4. that the beautiful and the pure should est beside the sinning and the vile. . Two years after. the formidable band were erprised in their stronghold, captured. and lide to suffer the vengeance of the laws they id se long outraged. The mystery that yet hg over the affair of the midnight attempt OBhe castle of Gaebler was then elucidated. The silence of degth had reigned for some time in the old castle. Gaehler had nearly tled by a noise; it was beard but an instant, and ceased so suddenly he could not determine its character. A brave old man he was, a ee en en a ae ees . 3 z . © ~ 4 : ae eaten aeEe: E., Wholesale and Retail . not easily frightened ; and he concluded it T captain, perceiving one of his men thus Manufacturer of Tin, Copper and Sheet Ircn . Must have proceeded from a mouse or some Ware; dealer in Stoves, Miners’ Tools, and Hardware generally. East of Masonic Hall, Main street. 2 tf OBERTS, E. W., Attorney at Law and Notary PubliclRough & Ready, Nevada county, Cal. 24 tf OSENHEIM & BROTHER, Watchmakers and Jewelers, dealers in Watches, Jewelry, Diamonds, &c., Nevada. 92 tf Imp'soned, feared that if he left him. he mig) reveal that which would destroy them all. Ye consulted a few moments witb the rested hesitated an instant, whether he shoulteut off the arm and strive to bear the woundd man away, or cut off the head and leavehn. Fear decided them. and he was decapiined, his body despoiled of its clothing and le But whked as the young robber was. there Was 2TOMnace about his life. He bad one other truant animal, and proceeded calmly to secure his treasure in the massive iron chest which had stood for years-beside his head. board. But scarcely five minutes had elapsed ere he heard the noise repeated, and this time it continued longer. and more distinct. too. Hastily turning the key, he hurried to the door, and after cautiously listening for a moment, became convinced it proceeded from UL INCHESTER, S. G., Droggist, a1aj. below. He immediately lighted a dark lan-. 4@Y S€CUPe from unmanly outrage a young Dealer in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Perfumery, Fancy and Toilet articles, Main street, next door to Beatty House. Physicians’ Prescriptions compounded with care and dispatch. 28 tf TILDE, JOSEPH, Grocery and Provision . was hard at work on the outside. striving to store, Boston Ravine. Constantly on handa make a breach in the wall immediately besupply suited to the demands of customers. 21 tf I. O. OF O. F. Mountain Rose Lodge, No. 26—Instituted June 5, 1854, meets every Monday evening, at the Masonic Hall. Brothers in good standing are cordially invited to attend. J. H. DICKSON, N. G. W.C. AULT, R.S. Rough & Ready, July 21, 1854. 45 3m* I.0. Oo. FY Grass Valley Lodge, No. 12. INSTITUTED 28th July, 1853, meets every THURS. DAY night, at MASONIC HALL, Main street. Brothers in good standing are cordially invited to attend. E. McLAUGHLIN, N. G. S. D. BOSWORTH, R. S. Jan. 26, 1854. 19 tf —$——$——$——$—— SNOWY MOUNTAIN DIVISION, NO. 8, SONS OF TEMPERANCE, meets every Sat urday evening at Masonic Hall. All Brothers in good standing are cordially invited to attend. S. S, HOLL, W. P. P. C. Huntrey, R.S 44€m, MADISON LODGE, NO. 23, F. AM J. M. FOUSE W. M. CHAS. M. PETERSON, Sec’y. Masonic Hall. By ordcr, ROUGH & READY LODGE, NO. 52, . Tobber’s hand sought to raise the iron bac MEETS EVER\ SATURDAY EVENING, at Rough & Ready at early candle light. By order E. W. ROBERTS, Secretary. A. C. KEAN, W. M. AW BLANKS PRINTED AND FOR) ner that the sale at the ‘Grass Valley,Telegraph Office,” at the inner well, unable to stir an inch. reasonable prites. MEETS EVERY TUESDAY EVENING, at the . to those within (ure antern alone indicated tern, armed himself with his cutlass and dou-. 224 beautiy) girl, whom one of their band ble-barreled gun. and descended with noise-. }@d capturei. “He had obtained permission less step the grand staircase. determined to . °f bis chief) retain her as his own, and in ascertain the canse of so strange a noise at . ON® Of those caverns of which legend tells that late hour. Hesoon found thatsome one . M@2Y 4 Story. he had given hera secure home. There thenceforward he carried his treasures : there he wooed and won her. She had been three months his bride, when he left her on that stormy evening to join his band on the atfik upon the castle. In vain had she urged hin to refrain from going ; to stay with eh might not be; he was the bravest of them ,]]. and could not be spared at snch a time. Unknown to him. she trackside the great entrance door, which was guarded on the inside by a strong iron bar. H perceived that they were making the opening nearly on a level with the bar, and inferred cerrectly that their ohject was to insert their hands and thus lift the old iron sentine] quietly from its post and effect an easy entrance. . & satisfied himself that euch was-the } ed his steps. and aficr vweutching them file o state of the case. in less time than it has tg./ i their narrow path, crept close to the emken us to tell it. he at once awakened his son . bers that yet glowed on the broad rock which, and servants, and revealed to them their per. . in the depths of te forest, had served them il. Without the least noise or sign that. fora hearthstone, waiting anxiously and immight betray alarm to the robbers, who sti]. Patient till thet return. Their hardened Were heard proceeding cautiously with their Dearts beat wildy for a time, as thev marked desperate work. they arose. armed themselves, . Bt agony whenshe found not amongst them and seeing that the windows and side an]; Jet beloved. Rough, vile men. asthey were, back doors were well barricaded, and that no there was not de that could tell ber he hung attempt had been made elsewhere, Gaebler . * headless corps@beside the castle door. They stationed one domestic in the rear of the . tld her only Ig hung there a prisoner, and mansion as a sentinel. to apprise them should WOuld mayhasfree himself ere dawn. With the brigands divide their forces in the hopes , the step of aghased decr. she bounded from of succeeding there more easily. The other _them. and ‘say through snow and storm. was sent to the armory for a strong rope. and . They dared 4 follow her. and only guessed. ordered to rejoin him and his son at the front . 88 44 those #ho found her on the morrow, door as soon as he had procured it that she had died of horror. Silence . The roper’s grave. which. if tenanted but the castle. by himsef' would have been shunned as a . Weird spot, because of the beautiful bride that slept on his bosom. constant in death as in life, vasa green and sunny place. And should the traveller. even at this distant day. he temyted by the beauty of a summer twi‘light td ramble amid the crumbling monuments of the graveyard of Kiel. and inquire what lonely, flower-gemmed bank that was and darkness reigned throughout ) . n, the progress making by thos without in their deep laid villainy, <A they fancied. in the most perfect security. As soon as the hanker saw that a man’s drm was thrust through the opening in the wall. and that the which secured the door, he was at once on the alert. He quickly made a running knot i of his rope, passed it around the wrist of ie . e TRE ee aed aaa robber. strained it tightly. drew the arm fur-. Story of the banker's prisoner and a ther through, and fastened the other end of . ride. the rope to the iron halustrade in such a manrobber found himself pinned to “Tsee through it now.’ as the maid servant said, when she knocked the bottom ont A breathless hush for a few Moments suc-! of the pail. death over her fair bosom. Frozen tear-drops . which seemed to characterize whoever inhabited it. While we were some distance from it, however, I heard a loud rapping on the . Window sash, and the liftJe ones disappeared . with a rush into.the house. That sound was too full of old memories, recollections of long ago, not toexplain the problem that had puzzled me. That log house, standing there all alone in that little clearing, was% school house, a ‘seminary of learning,’’ a small branch of a great system, that has thrown and is throwing this country forward, with a rush of progress such as finds no parallel in the world’s history. As we passed it, the door stood open, and I took an observation of the inmates. There was the plain but neatly-dressthe following extraordinary challenge : “Owing to the frequent and urgent solici. tation of many friends. Iam induced to make the following progpsitions : Proposition 1s€—I will fit a half dollar . to the end of a twig two inches long, and while a seeond person will hold the other end in his mouth, so as to bring the coin within an inch anda half of his face, . engage to strike the half dollar three times out of five, at the distance of ten paces. or thirty feet.— I will add in explanation, that there are several persons willing and ready to hold the twig or stick as described above, when required. ProrosttiIon 2d.—I wil hit a dollar tossed in the air, or any object of the same size. ed mistress, with her clean calico dress and . three times out of five, ON A WHEEL AND FIRE. black apron, her white neckerchief over her Proposition 3d—AT THE worD, I will split shoulders, and crossed gracefully over her . three balls out of five on a knife blade placed bosom ; her hair combed smoothly and modestly from her forehead. and fastened ina knot on the back of her head, and a class of . little girls before her, about hearing them read. One chubby litile fellow, of say eight or nine years of age, was standing by himself in the middle of the floor, with a paper cap on his head, his pantaloons rolled half way to his knees, his legs and feet bare, and the forefi: ger of the right hand in his mouth, and his face downward ina ludicrous, sheepish and shamefaced fashion. There was no mistaking his position. He was undergiong punishment for some sin against the laws of the school. demonstrating the great truth that reaches all the way from the cradle to the grave. that the way of the transgressor is hard. There was something so old-fashioned. so familiar to me in all this, that Iwas tempted to laugh and cry at the same time, as the present and past stood ont so palpably before me. Ja The “ Industrial Lominary,” (Parkeville. Platte Co, Mo.,) of the 13th June, reto make claims. The country is swarming with emigrants. Men on horseback, with cup and skillett, and ham and flour and cofare facing westward; while gentlemen and ladies are driving furiously to and fro in carriages—printers writing—lawyers speaking —doctors gallanting ladies and selecting . sites for residences—companies with flags waving. staking out the vast prairies—trees falling—tents stretching—cabins going up— everything alive. and everybody wide awake. Hurrah for Kansas! ‘Westward the star of empire takes its way.’ ’”. A Fatuer’s Apvice.—Jeems, my son, keep away from the gals. Ven you see one coming. dodge. Just such a critter as that young ‘un cleanin’ the door on the other side of the street. fooled your poor daddy, Jemmy. If it hadn’t been for her, you and your dad . might have been in Californy, huntin’ dimuus, my son. SHAME TO MANHoop.—To see a delicate woman rubbing bed-clothes over a wash-board . from morning till night, and a herculean . gentleman measuring out rolls of lace and . ing we beat. each other’s coats : fee tied on behind, and with axe shouldered. . yertisements or newspaper notices may not at the distance of thirty feet. Proposition 4th.—l will hit three birds out of five, sprung from the trap, standing thirty feet from the trap when shooting. Proposition 5th.—I will break, aT THE WworD, five common clay pipe-stems, at the distance of thirty feet. Proposirion (th.—I engage to prove. by fair trial. that no pistol shot can be produced who will shoot an apple off a man’s head, at the distance of thirty feet, oftener than I can. Moreover. I will produce two persons willing and ready to hold the apple on their head for me, when required to do so. Prorosition 7th.—I will wager, lastly. that no person in the United States can be produced. who will hit a quarter of a dollar, at a distance of thirty feet, oftencr than I can, ON A WHEEL AND FIRE. Tam willing to bet $5000 on any of the above propositions. one fourth of that amount forfeit. So soon as any bet will be closed. the money will be deposited in the Bank of the State of Missouri, until the money shall . have been paid over by the judges, or withferring to the immense emigration. to Nebras. a ae ee ka, says: ‘ Now is the time for Missourians will be forthcoming when any of the above . propositions are taken up. Any one taking I will give the best and most satisfactory references that my share up any of my propositions. must address me through the St. Louis Post Office, as the admeet my eye. Propositions will bé received until the first of September next. I will require satisfactory referenees at the outset for the depositing of the money wagered. MApaME Sontac.—Madame Sontag. from her arrival in the United States up to the Close of her Mexican engagement, had clear. . ed $100,000, and she had caleulated that another season or two, with her new company, would have nearly doubled thisamount. Her agent in Europe had concluded engagements for her return, which in forty nights, would have brought her $60,000 more. It is but . a short time since she purchased a noble chateau and domain in Germany, with a portion . of the proceeds of her American tour.—Alta. The servant of a Prussian officer one day met & crony, who inquired of him how he got along with his fiery master : “Oh, excellently !’’ answered the servant ; we live on very friendly terms ; every mornthe only difdelicate ribbons, would make a Pawnee In. ference is, he takes his off, to be beaten, and dian laugh at our assumptions of chivalry. . 1 keep mine on.” supper, do I?” . Facts and Fancies. * 2 ey learn, says the ‘Alexandria (¥a.) Gazette, that a young lawyer, who had dust settled in one of the lower counties of Virginia, was informed that there had been an order of Court which required all young Jawyers who ‘settled there to give security that they should . not be chargeable te the county! =~ ,“‘ Hallo, Sharp,” said Pop, meeting him yhe other day in the street, “you hobble, myboy ; what is the.matter with yon?” %0O,1I had my feet crushed, through the carelessness of a conductor, the other day, between rail— road cars—that is all.” “And don’$ you mean to sue for damages?” ‘Damages! no, no. Ihave had damages enough f ~ -water-wheel Of-a ‘saw-mill, says tends to apply for a pension, as* be vivor of the ‘Revolution. : aed “ Mother, did you ever hear sissy swear?” ~~ “No, my dear; what did she say?” “ Why, she said she wasn’t going to wear her darned stockings to chyrch on Easter Sunday.” Somebody advertises to agents to sella work entitled “ Hymenial Instructor.’ A cotemporary adds: “ The best Hymeniai instructor we know of is a young widew.— What she don’t know there is no use learn. ing.” Burns, the runaway slave, says -he never saw such a massa as Massa-Chusetts! The report that a schoolmaster chastised a boy with a railroad-switch is doubted. if he did, he got off the track. Joe savs—“ Sam. I have lost my watch overboard ; it lies in twenty feet of water. Is there any way to get it?” “ Yes,”’ says Sam, ‘ there are divers ways.” Cuitpish Srxcerrty.— A lady who wae quite in the habit of droppingin at her neighbor’s about meal-time, in the hope of obtaining an invitation to partake with :the family, was recently completely nonplussed by the unhesitating frankness of a child. Knowing that a neighbor’s supper-hour was . five, she called in about four,and settled herself down for a long call. “Tt takes two tomake a bargain,” and the lady honored with the call had no idea-oef giving an invitation, if it was in her -:pewer to escape it. Accordingly the hour of five brought no indications of supper. Time were on, the sun was near its setting, and still the same. A little girl, the daughter of the lady in question, began to grow quite uneasy. At length. her mother having gone out for a moment, the visitor said—* You must come over and seé me, Mary, sometime.” “No, I wen’t,” said the child. “Why not?’ “ Because I don’t like you.” ‘But why don’t you like mo?" “ Booauso I-am-hunery, and want some supper.” ‘But,’ said the ‘vistter, amazed, “I don’t prevent you having yeur * Yes. you do.” said Kittle Mary. ‘“ Mother said she shouldn’t have supper till you are gone. if you did't go til midnight.” In less than five minutes the visitor Was marching out of the front door with a very red face. She hasn’t called to see little Mary since. Little Mary. in her childish frankness. has not yet learned the important Jesson which after years will not fail to'teach her. viz: that ‘the fruth. however excellent or desirable in itself, is not to be spoken at all times.” A Powerrct Pcrr.—A New York pill doctor, who advertised in a Cincinnati paper, asked the editor to give hima puff. The editor, good natured, wrote ‘a ‘first rate notice.” from which we make ‘the following extract: “One single pill wora in cach pecket. will . instantly give ease and elasticity to the tightest pantaloons. A little quantity will create an appetite in the most delicate stomach, or physic a horse. They will also be found to give arich flavor to apple dumplings, and a peculiar zest to pickled oysters; they will thicken soup, reduce corpulent persons, and are excellent bait for mouse traps. One pill dissolved in a bucket of rain water will be found a. perfectly water-proof lining for canal embankments ; placed in steamboat boilers, they will effectually prevent their bursting. and greatly increase the speed of the boats. As for their medical qualities, they are justly entitled to be called. -\Medicamentum Gracia Probatum.” i.e., “a remedy approved by grace,”’—for they effectually cool St. Anthony’s fire, and stop St. Vitus’s dance. They purify the pimples in the small pox. and eradicate the red gum ‘in ‘teething ; they reduce white swellings and ‘cure the black jaundice. blue devils, yellow, ‘scarlet, or any ather fevers; they cure also the thrush in children, and pip ia hens, the stagger in horses, and the nightmare in owls. But further enumeration is unnecessary ; suffice it to say that this medicine isa combination upon new principles. discovered by the present proprietor’s immortal grandmother, and are an exception to all the‘rules of science. common sense, and experience ; so that while they are the most powerful agent in nature, revolutionizing the whole animal economy. and eradicating the most incurable diseases, they are at the same time a perfectly innocent preparation, and may be taken with entire safety by the nureing infant—all powerful, all harmless.” He Wov.pn’t po 1t.—A friend of ours who . deals in plain English, and has no acquaintance with large words at that, happened to take a walk to Swampscott one pleasant morning recently. A stranger was to preach at the Swampscott church that day, and the bell had nearly finished tolling. when our friend hove in sight of the church Being well dressed, and looking decidedly dignified. he was at once taken for the expected minister. Ashe approached the church, he was met by several hardy sons of the ocean, and one of them addressed him : * Sir, do you officiate to-day 2” Our hero, slightly misunderstanding the purport of the question, answered them indignantly : ‘No, I'll be cussed if I'll go a fishing Sunday, for anybody !” The Swampscott friends con¢luded that he wasn’t the man they had taken him to b:.— Lynn News, AE ees Snag if'asury

BY Jd. & CO.Be / Main Street, opposite the head of Church Street.” For year, in advance. ..... se, mopths,.,... ents, $2 per square (ten . n, and $1 per square for each sub ae re ONN & MONTGOMERY, Attorneys at Law, Conyeyancers, &c. &., Main st. “27 tt Bat Ais Pen i AEG AA TAROT AR IE SALON TRINA I SEA RR a a geon and Accoucheur, basement story of the Masonic Hall. ; lif ee geon and Accouchetr, Main street, opposite Adams & Co’s Express, Rough & Ready. 12 €m OZIER, RICHARD, Provision and Liquor Dealer, opposite Post Office. 35 tf EN & CARMAN, DBS.,—Uffices, Main street, Grass Valley, in the cottage lately occupied y Mr. Skillman; in Nevada, office on Commercial street. Dr. DEN will reside permanently in Grass falley, aud tender his services to the public. $5 3m Joon. 24 tf Sans Se ee ta ie ee aie HSH, J. W., Lentist—Office at Dornin’s Da. guerrean Gallery, Main street. 35 tf See en ee ele ge OUSE, J. M., Justice’s Court—Office on Mill street. 2 tf Ps eee Ee ALLER, FRANCIS, Bookstore and Stationery, one door west of Masonic Hall, Main street. 7 tf ILMEAM, S. M., Wholesale and Keitail véaler Groceries and Provisions. In connection he has also a Butchery and Bakery establishment, and has constantly on hand Meats, Breads, Cakes, Pies and Paitries of every description. Fancy fixings furnished for Dinner Parties at short notice—Rough & Ready. ee > See NEE ee OS Se ee EYWOOD & BROTHER, Grocers & Provisiou Dealers, Boston Ravine. Also, Clothimg, Boots and Shoes, Miners’ Tools, &c. g@~ Goods delivered free ef charge. 10 tf ELM & MAY, Empire Livery Stable, Broad . ANSE Wark ‘escort he could st., Nevada. Carriages and the best of horses can be had at all hours at a racments’ warning. 29 tf House 3 oF 8. ‘cut and prepared in the shop. Also, Cabinet and ‘Yomer work of ail kinds is neatly executed and ito. Shep on Mill street, between 1tf promptly attend: Main and Nei}. Law, Mill Street, Grass Valley. 46tf Bee eo ae ee eee AMB, WM. H., Watchmaker and Jeweler, Main street, opposite Post Office. 24 tf OUTZENHEISER, W., Wholesale and L Retail Druggist & Apothecary, one door west of Masonic Halli, Main street, a tf ARSHALL & C@., Dealers in Groceries, Provisions and Liquors, Hardware, Queensware, Preserved Fruits, Meats, Jams and Jellies. keeping Utensils, Carpenters’ and Mining Tools, &c., &c. Goods delivered free of extra charge. 35 tf ae Life. —we laugh—we e Wdve—we droop—we die Ab wherefore do we laugh or weep? 4, then a @onfused sound from the outhit deep drift. Gaebler, as soon as he . Was Sa&sfied that the robbers were fleeing. ga directethis domestic to despatch after them ~. around € gunshots. ‘Phey then waited quiet4d something like the muffled tread of . GRASS\ VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1854, 7 af 5 lle, like a.bobtailed on. a rockety ie A cfisis ‘have arisen, What are we? © a&—This are aday for the pop. _. Defencless State of California, balls t a-roost, to be lookin’ up. A _» Hon. James McDougall in a speech deliverse of Representatives. in speakitical necessities. says:— __ t of the Federal Government pa 4 DWARDS, C. BR. & CO., Grocery and . 7 ta, : scat ina veal 7 tai ; . wife and daughters were abse x Bakery, Main street, above the Eldorado Sa. . boring city: his only son. a youth of twenty years, and the two domestics—who. at present. constituted the rather slender guard of . . the frowning battlement—had retired at an early hour. weary with the chase that had occupied them since sunrise. Midnight had just . been tolled by the clock, After counting the} strokes and leaning back for a moment in his luxurious chair, the while holding his head, . as though by pressure he would dispel the) lassitude that had stolen over his senses, he! . bestirred himself, took a few brisk turns across . the room. and resumed at the same time his wb weet thoughts that ly fly? Fdo our fond hearts#cling ~ things thtdie? = © O, life! is att thy song “Endure—and die")? The Banker's Prisoner. ly. awhiltlonger, until fully ‘assured of the flight of {but the pmioned man, and then unbarred\se massive door, slowly ba@ to seize their prisoner. A sight »ehill the bloud of even those stern men greted their vision. Instead of a Kving man, traggling to be free, they saw nothing but «naked. blood-stained corpse ; and what moi appalied.them. was the fact i at cadless one. The? warm red ogi the scenes ®, curgling over’ Inured ae the od banker was to not look calmly @a sight like that ; he co It was a dark, tempestuous night. THE! that bad been fatal, and handle the muticastle. whose towers had of two centuries. touched with the tints of death. ing them fromevery eye but the Ail seeing. Gustave Gachler, the present lord of the castle, was seated along in his chamber. seat and his occupation. it early on the following morning in the benk of Kiel. It was rather risky In those days which date as far back as 1743—for the ownsuch weight. The thick, dark forest—-on the edge of which his castle stood, and which stretched in : See sn Pe «t Sien Reinter:-Sash . main a single night under his roof. bold chieftain, who for five years had. leen gloom miles beyond him—was the rendezvons of a daring band of brigands. a ehetsas Ay muster was 20 the banker would not have suffered ed tde it n reBm the wind howled and swept with far:ous blasts . through the old forest. and aronnd the ancient . and flinging a10ld robe over the white arm withstood the storm . \ The snow tell thick and . fast, whirling like maelstrom eddies, or piling up in huge and almost impassable drifts, and everywhere wheeling with the noiseless flight’ of a bird, from cloud to-soil, blanching all it high in the! It was such . a night as the doers of evil deeds delight in— its darkuess and storm so thick and fierce. secureing them from the fear of detection. hid. His . ble escoryto carry thither the treasure W _ had comenigh being fatal to them instead of He had that day late in the afternoon re. ceived a heavy sum of money, and was busied now in counting it over, intending to deposit j . and hand, with the ropesyet fastened otf ‘ wrist. Then the door was Opened ; each had ¢ ; t in. ae eee er of even so strong a hold as his, to retain . strung his nerves to look@amblanchingly up. long upon his pr mises a golden treasure of . But thatthe ‘ rans TR any . end few in tam ‘er. . ‘lated corpse. ‘hey closed the door upon it. and hand whify hung in the deadly noose, they hastened an upper and distant room, /and waited Wh impatient hearts for the _ break of daw, Slowly. tediously wore the hours away but not until the sun was quite avens, could the four men break . the spell yiich the last night’s horror had . flung over il@ir nerves and hearts. and praceed to the? duties. Itwas determined afi some consultation to despite young Gust . with one @the old retainers tothe neighBoring town.@ot only to callupon it for a suaeah . the headi@ss prisoner, but to summon with . them’a detachment of police to hold the corpse. and see if it would givea clue by . which the living villains could be detected. . Leaving by the back entranee, and not trusting tolbok back lest the horrid sicht should againg@ppal them, the two hastened on, and . depite the drifts which everywhere impeded . them. despatched their errand. oon after the clock had struck the chimes c noon they returned with not only those we whom they had been sent. but a number , 00. of the first citizens of the place. They lantered, as they bad left, in the rear of building, and. proceeding to the gra rere informed by Gachler of the sucet stratagem he had adopted ; and the 1 being withdrawn, wereshowa the tig ful le on the sight. But the blood which had curdled in their’ veins as they looked upon the fettered limb. now rushed like a lava torrent ; and their hearts. which they had steeled to human feeling, were in an instant vital with heey £0) ? i Ve sf ~ 0 Ca, * _. There, upon the cold stone sill, half buried ina snow drift, clasped the feet of the murdered man, sata young and lovely woman. . Iter ‘tresses, dark as the shadows of night, were unbound, and fell like the mantle of. and swung it} fall: were@till: oozing from the . i of terror—-for bea@d passed his early years: . in the camp and @ the battle-fieldhe could: ( not ask his serwats to loosen the slip-knot‘like a bear with a sore head. Flop together . bale ber camp meetings and jails: 4 1 every eve went. #0, Now till the day. of the. nt 3,000 miles ; deserts and od'd Nhoop for Dick Dailye, 41m ; intervene. ‘There is no ¥ ay ‘Feller Citizeas—Jerusalem is to pay. and . through tbat intermediate country for we haint go% atiy pitch. Our hyperbélical . parties who go.armed for war. For all pur‘and majesti¢canal of creation kas unshipptd Peek . r. and the Gaptain’s broke his neck, . 20 way , her ee ig Getcha the vasty . time of war: _No man of military skill would ee gi of dimuns. Our wigwam’s . undertake to carry a considerable army from eashirt ona brush fence, . the Mississippi to the Pagific by land. The tse ere ‘latitudes is vanishing . sea. the fearful, treacherous .sea, mast be reAre such things to be did?. lied on ; the’ dangers of the tem ‘ name of ihe American Ea. pestilence must be encot ve az atsys 3 C S > here“is hone even for an army: in i and then peoplé, and who impose upon us speciés of exaction and outrage. Of the perils of the sea we have hai cent instance, in the terrible fate of th tims storm-gwept. from the deck of the” Francisco. From the pe-tilent atmosphi encountered'in crossing the continent, withou;and now’s:ts on the’ telegraph, if such. doins is, goin’ on to be conglomeraed? I repeat te you in the name of the peaf liberty, when he’s flewin’ over the efoud-capped summits ofthe Rocky mountains, if we’s goin’ to be extemperaneously big yogged in this fashion?» Oh, answer me. Let me not blusu in ignorance, as Shakepeel says. Shall we be bamhoozlefied” with ape; a such unmitigated oudaciousness? Methinks . I hazard no Mepoears from trutt ban saying: Ihear you yelp— No sir, hass-fly !’ Then . that poison-charged atinosphere has a greater ‘lect me to Congress, and there’ll be a revo-. number of the lives of our people than were lution sartain. sacrificed on the battle fields of Mexico. Is Feller Citizens+If I was standin on the . it known to this committee. or if known, is adamantine throne of Jupiter, and the light. the fact.appreciated, that we here are farther ning was flashin’ around me. I'd continue to} from California—that more obstacles interspout! I’ve sprunga leak and must hewl. vene than intervene between us and where war now rages 9n the banks of the Danube? —that we could more readily place an army upon the banks. of the old Euphrates than —into ranks and bear me through. Feller Citizens—You know me, and rip me out with a mill grap if I won’t stick to you . like brick dust to a bar of soap. Whar is; Such is the fact. California is a familiar . my opponent? No whar! I was brought up. name; but it is in a distant land, sir. /among ye, feller citizens, and papped ina; * © * Saif $ ‘ % . school-house. but he can’t get around mej, _ In case of a conflict. where would a hostile . With bis hifalutin. big words. Hictum, stric-. power strike us? Strike us where we could ; tum albronto, catnip, Brazeel. Eoglooney. be struck most securely. And I state here, ; and Baffin’s Bay! What do you aj] think o’ ; that ? ‘29 4* Go it, er . . SBakepcel said, when César stabbed ‘hi the House of Represeftativés. Feller Citizeas—Lect me to Congréss . Ill abo ish mad-dogs. musketeaps*and wae ilation of the cents, aud goin for the annihilati cut off. the commerce, destroy the cities, and for a time crush the rising greatness of our root, hog, or die,” Ft This might be done be. wnole Pacific coast. and fel on that cvast, were it ever so potential. ould England thus expose her Indies to hecomme the prey of an enemy? California is the JifdigS of these Atlantic States, But stippose this Government could furnisl’ all @he® protection required. To mainate crow and fustifiben hawk-P ihe raisins every day. Sundays excepte 'quor enough to swim in. Yes, feller citizens ‘lect me to Congress, and I shall be led'to/ a singlé year. would cost this Government . exclaim in the sublime, the terrific language} $50,000.000. This statement is not made in_of Bonapart. when preaching in the wilder. considerately ; it is no exaggeration. It ' ness— Richard’s himself again !”? _. would cost this Government $50,000.000 to On, then onward to the polls,--“ gallop . gefend that coast for a single year—supplies, apace, fiery footed steeds,” and make thefroops, arms. everything must make awoyage _welkin’ tremble with anti-spasmodic yeM8#@B4 of seventeen thousand miles. : Daily. at es © The fact is.it cannot be disguised: it ‘Hence ye Brutus, broad axe and: glory?” . must be recognised that with the present Let’s licker. Faisal means of communication, the Federal Govaioe is , ~~Pernment cannot Jurnish federal protection Tue Scuoor House—There were some fif-) #0 California. teen or twenty barefooted healthy looking boys and girls, playing. and statmpering. and shouting around the duor, and I wondered at the evideaces of a prolific reproductiveness, ae “EprraorpinaRy CHALLENGE—GREAT PisToL Suor.—Mr. Edward W. Paul, of St. Lou. is. publishes in the Republican of that city, gorpmerte and governmiént there is: pest and the . n a, . already—had I not better sue in the tropics, but few entirely escape; and . upon the shores of the bay of San Francisco? . . that any second-rate power could effectually fore the. arm of this Government could be . tain afi@defend that coast in time ef war, for —__——_—________—-. . the terror of the country. cluding eveng ef . Remain sg C. J., Attorney andCounsellor at . fort to secure him. and . with stealthy paces to the spot. House. finished his work. when suddenly he was starperpetrating e¥iry . week robberies such as might befit the fingés . Clwag to the silken lashes of her half-closed of a fiend. bad learned that for one night te . CYes. and ber parted lips were stained with . mighty sum would be in the banker's cast}eblood, as though she had pressed frantic kiss. and knowing well. that if oace secured in th . C8 Upon the gory hand that hung just above . vaults of Kiel it would be beyond his power: her brow. _ She was cold in death. They bu. he determined to obtain it at once, and under Tied them in one grave-—sad though it secmcover of the darkness and storm led his band 4. that the beautiful and the pure should est beside the sinning and the vile. . Two years after. the formidable band were erprised in their stronghold, captured. and lide to suffer the vengeance of the laws they id se long outraged. The mystery that yet hg over the affair of the midnight attempt OBhe castle of Gaebler was then elucidated. The silence of degth had reigned for some time in the old castle. Gaehler had nearly tled by a noise; it was beard but an instant, and ceased so suddenly he could not determine its character. A brave old man he was, a ee en en a ae ees . 3 z . © ~ 4 : ae eaten aeEe: E., Wholesale and Retail . not easily frightened ; and he concluded it T captain, perceiving one of his men thus Manufacturer of Tin, Copper and Sheet Ircn . Must have proceeded from a mouse or some Ware; dealer in Stoves, Miners’ Tools, and Hardware generally. East of Masonic Hall, Main street. 2 tf OBERTS, E. W., Attorney at Law and Notary PubliclRough & Ready, Nevada county, Cal. 24 tf OSENHEIM & BROTHER, Watchmakers and Jewelers, dealers in Watches, Jewelry, Diamonds, &c., Nevada. 92 tf Imp'soned, feared that if he left him. he mig) reveal that which would destroy them all. Ye consulted a few moments witb the rested hesitated an instant, whether he shoulteut off the arm and strive to bear the woundd man away, or cut off the head and leavehn. Fear decided them. and he was decapiined, his body despoiled of its clothing and le But whked as the young robber was. there Was 2TOMnace about his life. He bad one other truant animal, and proceeded calmly to secure his treasure in the massive iron chest

which had stood for years-beside his head. board. But scarcely five minutes had elapsed ere he heard the noise repeated, and this time it continued longer. and more distinct. too. Hastily turning the key, he hurried to the door, and after cautiously listening for a moment, became convinced it proceeded from UL INCHESTER, S. G., Droggist, a1aj. below. He immediately lighted a dark lan-. 4@Y S€CUPe from unmanly outrage a young Dealer in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Perfumery, Fancy and Toilet articles, Main street, next door to Beatty House. Physicians’ Prescriptions compounded with care and dispatch. 28 tf TILDE, JOSEPH, Grocery and Provision . was hard at work on the outside. striving to store, Boston Ravine. Constantly on handa make a breach in the wall immediately besupply suited to the demands of customers. 21 tf I. O. OF O. F. Mountain Rose Lodge, No. 26—Instituted June 5, 1854, meets every Monday evening, at the Masonic Hall. Brothers in good standing are cordially invited to attend. J. H. DICKSON, N. G. W.C. AULT, R.S. Rough & Ready, July 21, 1854. 45 3m* I.0. Oo. FY Grass Valley Lodge, No. 12. INSTITUTED 28th July, 1853, meets every THURS. DAY night, at MASONIC HALL, Main street. Brothers in good standing are cordially invited to attend. E. McLAUGHLIN, N. G. S. D. BOSWORTH, R. S. Jan. 26, 1854. 19 tf —$——$——$——$—— SNOWY MOUNTAIN DIVISION, NO. 8, SONS OF TEMPERANCE, meets every Sat urday evening at Masonic Hall. All Brothers in good standing are cordially invited to attend. S. S, HOLL, W. P. P. C. Huntrey, R.S 44€m, MADISON LODGE, NO. 23, F. AM J. M. FOUSE W. M. CHAS. M. PETERSON, Sec’y. Masonic Hall. By ordcr, ROUGH & READY LODGE, NO. 52, . Tobber’s hand sought to raise the iron bac MEETS EVER\ SATURDAY EVENING, at Rough & Ready at early candle light. By order E. W. ROBERTS, Secretary. A. C. KEAN, W. M. AW BLANKS PRINTED AND FOR) ner that the sale at the ‘Grass Valley,Telegraph Office,” at the inner well, unable to stir an inch. reasonable prites. MEETS EVERY TUESDAY EVENING, at the . to those within (ure antern alone indicated tern, armed himself with his cutlass and dou-. 224 beautiy) girl, whom one of their band ble-barreled gun. and descended with noise-. }@d capturei. “He had obtained permission less step the grand staircase. determined to . °f bis chief) retain her as his own, and in ascertain the canse of so strange a noise at . ON® Of those caverns of which legend tells that late hour. Hesoon found thatsome one . M@2Y 4 Story. he had given hera secure home. There thenceforward he carried his treasures : there he wooed and won her. She had been three months his bride, when he left her on that stormy evening to join his band on the atfik upon the castle. In vain had she urged hin to refrain from going ; to stay with eh might not be; he was the bravest of them ,]]. and could not be spared at snch a time. Unknown to him. she trackside the great entrance door, which was guarded on the inside by a strong iron bar. H perceived that they were making the opening nearly on a level with the bar, and inferred cerrectly that their ohject was to insert their hands and thus lift the old iron sentine] quietly from its post and effect an easy entrance. . & satisfied himself that euch was-the } ed his steps. and aficr vweutching them file o state of the case. in less time than it has tg./ i their narrow path, crept close to the emken us to tell it. he at once awakened his son . bers that yet glowed on the broad rock which, and servants, and revealed to them their per. . in the depths of te forest, had served them il. Without the least noise or sign that. fora hearthstone, waiting anxiously and immight betray alarm to the robbers, who sti]. Patient till thet return. Their hardened Were heard proceeding cautiously with their Dearts beat wildy for a time, as thev marked desperate work. they arose. armed themselves, . Bt agony whenshe found not amongst them and seeing that the windows and side an]; Jet beloved. Rough, vile men. asthey were, back doors were well barricaded, and that no there was not de that could tell ber he hung attempt had been made elsewhere, Gaebler . * headless corps@beside the castle door. They stationed one domestic in the rear of the . tld her only Ig hung there a prisoner, and mansion as a sentinel. to apprise them should WOuld mayhasfree himself ere dawn. With the brigands divide their forces in the hopes , the step of aghased decr. she bounded from of succeeding there more easily. The other _them. and ‘say through snow and storm. was sent to the armory for a strong rope. and . They dared 4 follow her. and only guessed. ordered to rejoin him and his son at the front . 88 44 those #ho found her on the morrow, door as soon as he had procured it that she had died of horror. Silence . The roper’s grave. which. if tenanted but the castle. by himsef' would have been shunned as a . Weird spot, because of the beautiful bride that slept on his bosom. constant in death as in life, vasa green and sunny place. And should the traveller. even at this distant day. he temyted by the beauty of a summer twi‘light td ramble amid the crumbling monuments of the graveyard of Kiel. and inquire what lonely, flower-gemmed bank that was and darkness reigned throughout ) . n, the progress making by thos without in their deep laid villainy, <A they fancied. in the most perfect security. As soon as the hanker saw that a man’s drm was thrust through the opening in the wall. and that the which secured the door, he was at once on the alert. He quickly made a running knot i of his rope, passed it around the wrist of ie . e TRE ee aed aaa robber. strained it tightly. drew the arm fur-. Story of the banker's prisoner and a ther through, and fastened the other end of . ride. the rope to the iron halustrade in such a manrobber found himself pinned to “Tsee through it now.’ as the maid servant said, when she knocked the bottom ont A breathless hush for a few Moments suc-! of the pail. death over her fair bosom. Frozen tear-drops . which seemed to characterize whoever inhabited it. While we were some distance from it, however, I heard a loud rapping on the . Window sash, and the liftJe ones disappeared . with a rush into.the house. That sound was too full of old memories, recollections of long ago, not toexplain the problem that had puzzled me. That log house, standing there all alone in that little clearing, was% school house, a ‘seminary of learning,’’ a small branch of a great system, that has thrown and is throwing this country forward, with a rush of progress such as finds no parallel in the world’s history. As we passed it, the door stood open, and I took an observation of the inmates. There was the plain but neatly-dressthe following extraordinary challenge : “Owing to the frequent and urgent solici. tation of many friends. Iam induced to make the following progpsitions : Proposition 1s€—I will fit a half dollar . to the end of a twig two inches long, and while a seeond person will hold the other end in his mouth, so as to bring the coin within an inch anda half of his face, . engage to strike the half dollar three times out of five, at the distance of ten paces. or thirty feet.— I will add in explanation, that there are several persons willing and ready to hold the twig or stick as described above, when required. ProrosttiIon 2d.—I wil hit a dollar tossed in the air, or any object of the same size. ed mistress, with her clean calico dress and . three times out of five, ON A WHEEL AND FIRE. black apron, her white neckerchief over her Proposition 3d—AT THE worD, I will split shoulders, and crossed gracefully over her . three balls out of five on a knife blade placed bosom ; her hair combed smoothly and modestly from her forehead. and fastened ina knot on the back of her head, and a class of . little girls before her, about hearing them read. One chubby litile fellow, of say eight or nine years of age, was standing by himself in the middle of the floor, with a paper cap on his head, his pantaloons rolled half way to his knees, his legs and feet bare, and the forefi: ger of the right hand in his mouth, and his face downward ina ludicrous, sheepish and shamefaced fashion. There was no mistaking his position. He was undergiong punishment for some sin against the laws of the school. demonstrating the great truth that reaches all the way from the cradle to the grave. that the way of the transgressor is hard. There was something so old-fashioned. so familiar to me in all this, that Iwas tempted to laugh and cry at the same time, as the present and past stood ont so palpably before me. Ja The “ Industrial Lominary,” (Parkeville. Platte Co, Mo.,) of the 13th June, reto make claims. The country is swarming with emigrants. Men on horseback, with cup and skillett, and ham and flour and cofare facing westward; while gentlemen and ladies are driving furiously to and fro in carriages—printers writing—lawyers speaking —doctors gallanting ladies and selecting . sites for residences—companies with flags waving. staking out the vast prairies—trees falling—tents stretching—cabins going up— everything alive. and everybody wide awake. Hurrah for Kansas! ‘Westward the star of empire takes its way.’ ’”. A Fatuer’s Apvice.—Jeems, my son, keep away from the gals. Ven you see one coming. dodge. Just such a critter as that young ‘un cleanin’ the door on the other side of the street. fooled your poor daddy, Jemmy. If it hadn’t been for her, you and your dad . might have been in Californy, huntin’ dimuus, my son. SHAME TO MANHoop.—To see a delicate woman rubbing bed-clothes over a wash-board . from morning till night, and a herculean . gentleman measuring out rolls of lace and . ing we beat. each other’s coats : fee tied on behind, and with axe shouldered. . yertisements or newspaper notices may not at the distance of thirty feet. Proposition 4th.—l will hit three birds out of five, sprung from the trap, standing thirty feet from the trap when shooting. Proposition 5th.—I will break, aT THE WworD, five common clay pipe-stems, at the distance of thirty feet. Proposirion (th.—I engage to prove. by fair trial. that no pistol shot can be produced who will shoot an apple off a man’s head, at the distance of thirty feet, oftener than I can. Moreover. I will produce two persons willing and ready to hold the apple on their head for me, when required to do so. Prorosition 7th.—I will wager, lastly. that no person in the United States can be produced. who will hit a quarter of a dollar, at a distance of thirty feet, oftencr than I can, ON A WHEEL AND FIRE. Tam willing to bet $5000 on any of the above propositions. one fourth of that amount forfeit. So soon as any bet will be closed. the money will be deposited in the Bank of the State of Missouri, until the money shall . have been paid over by the judges, or withferring to the immense emigration. to Nebras. a ae ee ka, says: ‘ Now is the time for Missourians will be forthcoming when any of the above . propositions are taken up. Any one taking I will give the best and most satisfactory references that my share up any of my propositions. must address me through the St. Louis Post Office, as the admeet my eye. Propositions will bé received until the first of September next. I will require satisfactory referenees at the outset for the depositing of the money wagered. MApaME Sontac.—Madame Sontag. from her arrival in the United States up to the Close of her Mexican engagement, had clear. . ed $100,000, and she had caleulated that another season or two, with her new company, would have nearly doubled thisamount. Her agent in Europe had concluded engagements for her return, which in forty nights, would have brought her $60,000 more. It is but . a short time since she purchased a noble chateau and domain in Germany, with a portion . of the proceeds of her American tour.—Alta. The servant of a Prussian officer one day met & crony, who inquired of him how he got along with his fiery master : “Oh, excellently !’’ answered the servant ; we live on very friendly terms ; every mornthe only difdelicate ribbons, would make a Pawnee In. ference is, he takes his off, to be beaten, and dian laugh at our assumptions of chivalry. . 1 keep mine on.” supper, do I?” . Facts and Fancies. * 2 ey learn, says the ‘Alexandria (¥a.) Gazette, that a young lawyer, who had dust settled in one of the lower counties of Virginia, was informed that there had been an order of Court which required all young Jawyers who ‘settled there to give security that they should . not be chargeable te the county! =~ ,“‘ Hallo, Sharp,” said Pop, meeting him yhe other day in the street, “you hobble, myboy ; what is the.matter with yon?” %0O,1I had my feet crushed, through the carelessness of a conductor, the other day, between rail— road cars—that is all.” “And don’$ you mean to sue for damages?” ‘Damages! no, no. Ihave had damages enough f ~ -water-wheel Of-a ‘saw-mill, says tends to apply for a pension, as* be vivor of the ‘Revolution. : aed “ Mother, did you ever hear sissy swear?” ~~ “No, my dear; what did she say?” “ Why, she said she wasn’t going to wear her darned stockings to chyrch on Easter Sunday.” Somebody advertises to agents to sella work entitled “ Hymenial Instructor.’ A cotemporary adds: “ The best Hymeniai instructor we know of is a young widew.— What she don’t know there is no use learn. ing.” Burns, the runaway slave, says -he never saw such a massa as Massa-Chusetts! The report that a schoolmaster chastised a boy with a railroad-switch is doubted. if he did, he got off the track. Joe savs—“ Sam. I have lost my watch overboard ; it lies in twenty feet of water. Is there any way to get it?” “ Yes,”’ says Sam, ‘ there are divers ways.” Cuitpish Srxcerrty.— A lady who wae quite in the habit of droppingin at her neighbor’s about meal-time, in the hope of obtaining an invitation to partake with :the family, was recently completely nonplussed by the unhesitating frankness of a child. Knowing that a neighbor’s supper-hour was . five, she called in about four,and settled herself down for a long call. “Tt takes two tomake a bargain,” and the lady honored with the call had no idea-oef giving an invitation, if it was in her -:pewer to escape it. Accordingly the hour of five brought no indications of supper. Time were on, the sun was near its setting, and still the same. A little girl, the daughter of the lady in question, began to grow quite uneasy. At length. her mother having gone out for a moment, the visitor said—* You must come over and seé me, Mary, sometime.” “No, I wen’t,” said the child. “Why not?’ “ Because I don’t like you.” ‘But why don’t you like mo?" “ Booauso I-am-hunery, and want some supper.” ‘But,’ said the ‘vistter, amazed, “I don’t prevent you having yeur * Yes. you do.” said Kittle Mary. ‘“ Mother said she shouldn’t have supper till you are gone. if you did't go til midnight.” In less than five minutes the visitor Was marching out of the front door with a very red face. She hasn’t called to see little Mary since. Little Mary. in her childish frankness. has not yet learned the important Jesson which after years will not fail to'teach her. viz: that ‘the fruth. however excellent or desirable in itself, is not to be spoken at all times.” A Powerrct Pcrr.—A New York pill doctor, who advertised in a Cincinnati paper, asked the editor to give hima puff. The editor, good natured, wrote ‘a ‘first rate notice.” from which we make ‘the following extract: “One single pill wora in cach pecket. will . instantly give ease and elasticity to the tightest pantaloons. A little quantity will create an appetite in the most delicate stomach, or physic a horse. They will also be found to give arich flavor to apple dumplings, and a peculiar zest to pickled oysters; they will thicken soup, reduce corpulent persons, and are excellent bait for mouse traps. One pill dissolved in a bucket of rain water will be found a. perfectly water-proof lining for canal embankments ; placed in steamboat boilers, they will effectually prevent their bursting. and greatly increase the speed of the boats. As for their medical qualities, they are justly entitled to be called. -\Medicamentum Gracia Probatum.” i.e., “a remedy approved by grace,”’—for they effectually cool St. Anthony’s fire, and stop St. Vitus’s dance. They purify the pimples in the small pox. and eradicate the red gum ‘in ‘teething ; they reduce white swellings and ‘cure the black jaundice. blue devils, yellow, ‘scarlet, or any ather fevers; they cure also the thrush in children, and pip ia hens, the stagger in horses, and the nightmare in owls. But further enumeration is unnecessary ; suffice it to say that this medicine isa combination upon new principles. discovered by the present proprietor’s immortal grandmother, and are an exception to all the‘rules of science. common sense, and experience ; so that while they are the most powerful agent in nature, revolutionizing the whole animal economy. and eradicating the most incurable diseases, they are at the same time a perfectly innocent preparation, and may be taken with entire safety by the nureing infant—all powerful, all harmless.” He Wov.pn’t po 1t.—A friend of ours who . deals in plain English, and has no acquaintance with large words at that, happened to take a walk to Swampscott one pleasant morning recently. A stranger was to preach at the Swampscott church that day, and the bell had nearly finished tolling. when our friend hove in sight of the church Being well dressed, and looking decidedly dignified. he was at once taken for the expected minister. Ashe approached the church, he was met by several hardy sons of the ocean, and one of them addressed him : * Sir, do you officiate to-day 2” Our hero, slightly misunderstanding the purport of the question, answered them indignantly : ‘No, I'll be cussed if I'll go a fishing Sunday, for anybody !” The Swampscott friends con¢luded that he wasn’t the man they had taken him to b:.— Lynn News, AE ees Snag if'asury