New-York daily tribune., 1843-03-06
II, other ssalf of n story.

of the genus Greenhorn, who undertook to raise
the wind by buying up lot of oxen on credit in
| Berkshire Coxnty driving them down 10 West
field, and there selling them for considerably less,
cash on the nail, then he had agreed to pay for
them then getting himself robbed OF the proceeds
and going home to do his creditors out of the price
OF their cattle. But the operation turned out badly,
in accordance with the fatality which has seemed
to attend all financial enterprises for some years
past the sei-robbery was detected and the fnan-
cier regularly used up. So much the public al
ready know. We are ebou. 20 relate different
and hardly less amusing branch of The story.
On cold day in January, two strangers, intent
on business, halted at the snug village of West
Ged. Mass. They intended to stop but day or
t.wo; bit snow-storm after snow-sterrn poured
down; the roads and Railroad were blockaded; SO
they were detained in state of elegant leisure
several davs, during which The robbery OF the on
dealer transpired and made considerable noise,
without much attracting their attention. One OF
Them was from New. York, and had there heard
of robbcries freqAsnty 70 be greatly electrified
BY the announcement; the other was Bank
Cashier, with thoughts intent on his own business.
They shared not therefore, in the excitement or
the gossip of the village; they remarked that they
we're good deal the objects of popular attention
and scruliny but they attributed this to the fact
that they were the only strangers in the village,
or perhaps to their dignity of presence and their
personal destinations.
At length the skies cleared away, the roads were
caI -ha
and the strangers prepared to depart. They paid
their bills, had their baggage taken to tic Depot,
and were Just stepping into the cars when that
terror to evil-doers, he Sheriff, rained down
upon them with a pair of writs charging them
with tie robbery of the up.country ox-drver aiofe-
said Hero was dash of cold-watcr for you
The stealhy glances of interest AID curiosity they
had fancied directed at them in admiration had
been leveled at them net as gentlemen, but as
pickpocke,s And now, after being hived here
for days, when they should have been elsewhere,
they must forego the ears, and remain over ia du-
rance to be searched
There was no help for it, however, and they
submitted in stern, speechess Indignation, to be
stripped, and handled, and explored, clothing aad
baggage. until it vas made evident to the most OBJ
stinate incredality that thoy had not farthing of
the money which the ox-dealer alleged he had been
robbed of. And at last, as they were passing out
of the S,ar-Chanber ,hrough he Ladies Parlor of
the Inn, they had the felicity of hearing the aged
matrons inquiring with great zest, :" Haze they
found the money Oh them Jellocs get -
But now the boot had shifted TO the other leg,
and it can hardly be surprising that the strangers
cavarted little. If they blessed the village
and its gossps, the Sheriff and his instsators, the
ox.mon and his money, not exactly after the fashion
of the Sermon on the Mount, must lay the
blame in part on the frailty of Human Nature and
the peculiar vexations TO which they had been SUBJ
iects1 The cars we're now gone, and day must
Sc lost any how. "Sherif" said the Cashier
chat pal;ry scoundrsl aeMr auos robbed az all
NV head on it As l am quite used to such
'overbaulings this, so l cannot take them so
easv as some might. l will not go home, l will
attend to nothing else, till that rascal has been
made to confess his rogvery. shall start after
him at once, and you must go with me-
The Sheriff agreed and they set off. At the
very first village they reached the scent became
very strong The ox-man had here told that be
sold his oxen for more than their cost, and had
been robbed of sum which in Wesrtic!d he did
no, pretend to have had They pushed on, and, on
reaching the culprit's house. the Cashier jumped
upon him in most nsinuatng manner: You
scoundrel You have reb5ed yourself to cheat your
creditors, We have tracked you out; and it you
do Mt own up and produce the money in ose min
ute, I'll thresh you within an inch Of ysur life !
The chap was taken completely by surprise and
dreadfuly frightened He acknowledged the
corn, produced the money, and owned that he had
required the boy who accompanied him TO west
field to go behind him, GU, open his pocket take
ou, the pocket. book, and throw it over the fence
at designated spot, where he went aiterward and
picked it up He intended of course to cheat his
creditors out of The price Of their cattle by this
trick instead of which he obliged by lis mis-
carriage to divide the money among them, owe
them the balance, and pay some costs, TO say
nothing Of some new shadngs of his personal char
ac,er, which will doubtless qualify him for az early
emigration to Texas.
MoRAL.-Enterprise and ingenuity meet with
little encouragement reward in these days.
MORAL 2.-The interest we inspire Is not a.
ways of factoring nature. If the bellies OF
strange place appear particularly attracted by your
outward man, it viii be well, before assuming any
airs on the strength thereof and undertaking 10
Gu, DASH to satisfy yourself that they take you,
not for thief but 4 gentleman.
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