Washington Telegraph (Newspaper) - February 25, 1858, Washington, Indiana -T It - T. s - s ai 6 s t k a w o o - a se 1858. Atm 5 EXPRESSLY THE WEEKLY ne TUE SUNNY KA A rough and ill came to the when breakfast over at the leader said Charles Fontain get ready lo start home but in 'the same room where hud learned Business worth much the unfavorable news in the and loose a very looking off in a approached and Redrew cut of miss your game I shant be tain that he was a and obtained said that he wanted a supply ply of produce for his extensive was then informed that there could be a large of produce purchased on in the part of the at a great soon appeared with the full for the whole and in a few minutes they were all ready to said ' lets for the old fellow drove like old Nick was after he will think the devil - the produce belonged to an has got him if don't and country who was anxious to said and leave the thousand That is worth chance for a speculation at once of a what say boys and he determined to j my they ail cried hasten to the place and fasten the with one his haste ho forf ot the hadn't we bettei need lid to be which was to the ' pistols exact locality of the produce which was them for that eld fellow is sai to be had at a This he dis- buld than such old coons are generally when he had driven some would not be a bad the St. but it was late to back the hope ofj after having any further their ordinary he would not | themselves that paid any attention to what had to told the le It was their if been under overhaul iii a swamp passed had liim e- but tlie event tint the it with his down on the poor horse's and the distinctly heard the of the the crack of ' Jackal hear the old r He hns nearly his horses Tlw need pushed on in such fts though he we bettei strip the old fellow depends on how he behaves If he delivers like a gentleman will not demand more than forty-nine thousand eight hundred of but if lie is obstinate and why we trouble him for every ' is the and the whole we have never liad him in our clutches and I think we better get all we can. for no doubt the old fool will go home and even if we were only to lake three fourths of his ready rhoney at this him off with his in his hark don't you hear him near us it is time to prepare to give him a hearty do you stop out beside the in that open I will cross over on the opposite while two of the boys go a few paces and two a few paces When he is just opposite us it will be proper to enter upon our orders and scarce had each one taken the position when the One of highwaymen gave a when at the lime and Dick stepped from the road presenting pistols and both uttering at the same time those fearful words and your money i he arrived at the upper of the city he w is at a no produce dealers could be found were willing to sell at a so great was the he been laboring that it now actually a matter of in his whether he had been th tiie was in the upper or lower p of the Much tims had been sind when he arrived at tiie St. again it was after twelve He determined as soon as to leave for thinking he could p iss over the most dangerous of the - l ER which if done he consider himself safo from which strange to had not entered his mind As soon he prepared to it was now becoming somewhat late iii aud lie had driven down to Canal and glanced al his watch seemed to seize his with all its withering When he had crossed over he immediately struck off down the river road at a considerable Ha did not a carriage that left Ihe hotel after he nor did he notice that next carriage that crossed at the ferry was this same for he was a consid erable distance ahead When that carriage there was one thai crossed immediately after aud that corriage contained the very excepting who Frank Gardon had heard plotting the destruction of had little dreamed that to take an interest in him to rob him that very But yet there was by some mysterious a strange dread produced in his and becoming more and more at every turn of the road in after he had driven few miles he had so much that he boald scarcely sit upright in his car persons we have alluded who crossed ferry soon after and who were planning his after crossing the drove hastily up to a livery in and there exchanged their carriage for Thus equip d made their way down the in great They were soon out the they put to their horses and rode at the top of sheir speed some or five miles when they an old delapidated building and gate keeh on the bat of be and he that point before they were ready for the it was then agreed to rest and rob him anywhere on road By taking a circuitous and lew they rather doubtful that Fontain had already gone beyond After riding s at a brisk they come to the Eich dis ir to ex discover a hud irone i- the in the a that s ct tnd then hastened on to the rem to lay in till tile time for mean pale hard ly enough to distinctly the but still Fontain hastened He d of the danger he was Very much (i from some yet he did not like to ioad from he would liave termed He wan fully aware that the most pait of the road lay before this swamp had been tiie last of many a who passed At times he would halt and thinking if there was he might receive some and avoid it. He sometimes he could hear the tread of at others that persons were talking behind his ve Every ruftle of the leaves caused his blood lo run and the nearer he reached the dreaded spot lie had never in all his life passed without some fearful the more and more intense became his and perspiration was rolling freely off and his horses were their when at last they came to p klead hardly knew what to to proceed or roturn to But after a moment of more calm reflection than he had had for two he concluded to proceed For the first time he drew his revolver to ascertain whether it was in goOd order become satisfied that it make if and having 1 aid it on the of his whistled to the then cracked his whip and they were soon under good had driven but a few hundred yards when he discovered that one of Ivts horses was becoming very and more and more so at every hundred feel he traveled He was too much frightened to examine for the cause of his horse's but endeavored him 00. The noise he made o- d with st beg r now back with nie to On scent and w lonk alter li wiil be red Mie in i eii li la - in of the in Old in tlie lower part of the li s for which wms ciin his very seemed lo dispel every sy feeling arose in his He well knew was and that seme in be for he never renew the charge Frank was of During the day his mind much cast and lie seemed perfectly at lault to the course for him to Weli did he that for whom he alone would never to love should do nothing to stay the who had avowed it their intention to and perhaps Fon that she would once become thu than he at once set industriously about his that he might if be able to overtake and apprise him of the plot laid against With all haste he his and then prepared to start for Just he reached the at the foot of Canal he much to his the boat had left her moorings and was some distance out in the having on board a which he looked with no little His anxiety to cross the river was now every it is but a few blocks from Canal street to the he it best to remain where he was fearing that he might miss the time of the lower and thus be It to require a longer time for the ferry to make that trip than it ever had and he was noW really impatient No sooner had she touched the wharf than he was pacing the deck with a nervous and wondering If she would never Finally becoming so uneasy that he could bear it no he stepped up io the captain and out his isn't it about time slie was I have business of importance on the other and should like to gel there fes soon as our need no assistance of yours in running this was the gruff answer of the sooner had Frank reached other than mounting his and sinking the rowels deep into its he was ofF at a pace down the river He did not look for the carriage that ilis river before Nor was it of any for it had been exchanged in for saddle who had crossed the river in it were some miles in the he had gotten beyond the limits of the he increased the speed of ilis him on as if in the effort to save his own He seemed to be hurried on by a supernatural He neither io the right or ill at foi whole life was at orders to j Frank u and savage manner in his voice did not in the took to the leaving none but pick on tne field to light foaming steed A new impulse liad been given lo his he as he never had The was to itself h to do a noble and chivalrous and he evidently felt some of that that brave men to place in ihe most imminent peril on the battle He knew full the swamp was the place the banditti would and at every bound of his horse be endeavored to nerve himself for the if he meet them on the Once he paused to thinking that perhaps ho might hear but he could liear nothing but the rustling of the breeze as it passed werit as fast as his fatigued ever on the alert to catch the faintest sound of horses feet or carnage but still lie heard thai told him of horse at length began to and h e was obliged to slacken his for he knew he hold out Oj traveling much He had deeply wounded his ho needed at this slackened rate some when he distinctly heard the rumbling of carriage Leaning forward and putting spur to the he rode with all possible speed into the In a short time he heard distinctly the money or your Now was the time for and nothing daunted by the peril ho knew he was he called oud at the top of his my br ave here are the This my fine One moment more and we'd have been too the time he had uttered these words he was in fair view of the two who stood in the rear of the Frank's keen eye was quick to discern that they were the rear he in stantly drew his revolver and discharged it at the one who stood In a he flred and two of the clan were then beneath his horse's weltering in their Jack stepped forward and aiming at Frank's he but the horse reared just at that and received the shot in his The faithful animal rolled the and Gordon now became engaged in combat on Jack fired again at but by some means he missed his when before he had time to shoot Frank blown out his and to settle tbe account for his black and damning and carry off the He stood on ths opposite side of the carriage from so much surprised was he that he knew what to He was a brave but not so much of iv and when Prank made his at the front of the he gained courage and But horses wheeled quickly round at the and the bullet struck the silver mounting of the Quick as thought Frank but his ball only look effect in Dick's right felling him to the when he began begging in a mosi piteous this while strange as it may Frank was as cool as though he were cn gaged in his daily But now he felt a strange sensation stealing over He knew that already he had killed three the fourth was at his feet pleading for God's said the spare my knows I am not fii to my dear or whatever you may for the sake of one who loves spare my thrice accursed guilty I will not dis grace myself by spilling fur h -i the blood of a wretch like and let me speak to found that it was passible for him to do and he rose to his spoke to him as are a and had I not has tened with all the speed that my horse could carry this man would now have been a lifeless You have doubtless sent many a man to his long to get a few glittering pieces of that have only served to sink 3011 deeper in cause you to You now have come very receiving your but I will not vengence on but you a chance for rop guilty and hereafter devote your to end seek forgiveness for youi But before yon le me trouble you for your as you will have no further use for look from him his Ct lie was about take into the presence of his daughter very man whom he had secretly cursed for winning her love nor was he the nature of the reward he was soon to he had drove up to his hif servant came out and look charge of the and Fontain nnd our young friend the It had been many a day since Frank had crossed that J nor g did he ever dream he was to be ushered in by Edward the owner of the did he of ever realizing such noble sweet revenge as he felt when rising the steps that led into the furnished But it was even and that had taught him one of the most valuable lessons he had ever But when he was entering the door he felt a sweet and blissful delight that none but those who to good can His heart leaped for joy at the prospect of meeting his she was his of but her image was stamped so deeply upon that time nor tempest it. He felt that ihe would give one hour in the presence of Eleanor under the circumstances thai i hey were about to for a whole without her ke CT following slipped in under our it of cur i lias now to live in the rest of We ity tlie poor and ' at laeti in winning the fair he PIC r UK E was midnight towards the close of the on a sultry morn in December previous to ihe revolution of the hist when the burning moon was setting in the Eastern casting a brilliant shadow over the gorgeous clouds which entirely obscured be firmament and the unclouded sun down its noonday beams Ul intensity of like tho shrieking of heavy thunder through the deep of the Western prai sound of such a spec tacle to the feet of the for feline monsters of the just gathering together for their evening and ere the sun was for the sports of the fair a Stood gazing on eyes lovely had changed her I she did not Her calm did a made to 0, God I lose niy hair in tresses fiill her snow-white neck for a a smile to tell That I her love might saw her cast Hit eyes the e at To I I'm driven looked lier lovely That lovelier did 3-';t, T saw a Of often I c the I 11 know her I I fain find her grasped the J felt a a fairy God's look why art down and dear Koeak at mo To serve yoa 1 am saddened face all brightened suid filled I Vv aINT A SET HOOPS all things betokened a response loo and then searched the dead stripped them of all threw them far out inio he lor all and although he h id sworn vengeance on who he wf s not acting upon that noble unto others as 3 0U would others should do unto which his mother had ever sought to inculcate in twelve o'clock he became some what more but as the hours pass ed slowly and wearily he began to feel more and more A dread came over his He felt that the vindictive feeling he had harbored against was in fearful violation to every good feeling and principle he had ever and he gave way to the better feelings lhat had hitherto lain dormant in his He felt that he Would in some degree bo a party in this man's murder he made some to stay the of ihe or by Bome to their A of and his mind was made up to do all in his to save th's man who had caused him the keenest pangs of pain be had Wer will be hfc and upon a nobler principle than that which bitter rancor envenomed hate I will risk my life the man I if need This will be act ing the part of a and I feel that I am now called upon to re yenge in that christian like I had Frank laken this two who stood iti then went to the carriage in sat who up to time ha ' not said a but who seemed of his much he once thought of trying to sava hi life by offering any resistence what Frank had a full view of he trust my friend you can e i without further molestation there no further Fontain almost think are you I am but my poor horse le a shot which was tor im and he is among the my good sail when he fairly the fad that he was out of have saved my and you have only to ask and any thing in my power shall be yuu know not the grati I are you not with me I have lost ray I will feel thankful for the to God you ask a favor more worth tl we proceed ' but now I we go as one is ly I trill examine the accordingly and found that the lameness of the horse from a loase he and the horse was theu able to was not long in leaving for he could not exactly easy while he he came within sight of his own When he came within few fed yai ds bat spoke again to Frank and said you have saved my what do I owe jou What can I give yuu to reward you for the bravo manSer in which you risked your life for me You are a to but God knows you have a noble the you not we may settle when we get to your and when you are out of Keck tlie Belle Britain about of and short in ber to New Picayune A touching the great and all of may not bo to your As I liave before the New York as a general are the best dressed ladies in In this are lo Not that wear richer fabrics or je luder the side of a had Ti u r au some of your cut down before the trees had ber belles beat us in their nightly iy of laces aud and in to take and engaged in 1 , J necks and short But the more evening dinner by the roadside in arms of The they may have for three gentlemen a young 1 stones and spider web the enduing two previous to the above two pedestrians might have been seen riding on in a three-wheeled can up to the brow of a three about years than the other latter from the manner in he addressed evidenly her remainder of her dress consisted tf two pairs of pantaloons neatly the tops of her it vulgar always lo wear And as to we leave them iy low In the presence of certain distinguished ladies I have grateful for the use of a pink fan to conceal my hills of do not think me squeamish or I am not a bit of it. But by a golden strap a lime and a place for ali gathering of promiscuous is not the lime for a exhibition for a to the axletree of the timid last was an old elderly gentleman of whose venerable features The not to bk 0*. disclosed the livid hues of the Siberian Union denies the His bald head was profusely report that negotiations are in covered with very long silver locks ot between the Administration sandy and which he had for withdrawal of tho during a severe attack oi sea caught from the next door from the emigration of the to some island of the who resided several blocks and the purchase of lands in Salt him in the He was also Yalley by the in the same manner as the clothed in a worn-out frock which was secured by straps under feet were save his he had ho garments to shield him from He had lost has to as to one of the military departments of the where presence is required independently of the aud would probably remain in that department in the strength that has been lie had lost though every Mormon arms above the collar bone and as con should evacuate tho are only squatters on the d to This added his total rendered him un of general is particularly severe on the He says most pious of will enter the Churl on Saturday a face us long as the moral descant upon and bewail the and wrongs heaped upon trodden son of and on the following day in his or candy swindle a nigger out of the pewter on of his walking and do it in the name of the He thinks that a regularly built business in the Kingdom of than Paulding in Nicaragua Salt never having paid one cent for It be remarkable if the negotiate for the purchase of its own lands it has never The only thing will make the Mormons leave or 10 the the Union will be tini of troops in large enough bers to that be Hent to bleed a who languishingly tx doctor iou are a great To which the doctor yei I am Used to sticking
