Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-11-26

The grand master Of police: a little cup
board was ihroWD open, and she was pre-
senled with the identical ball dress which
had been taken from her on The night o.
her exile-lhe eWels were indeed gene
but there was not a bow, flower or a
peice Of lace Of its blackened and faded
irippeIy wanling-even the Witbered
nosegay and the fan, in which a long
generation Of spiders or brown beetles
had nestled, were carefully restored IL
her. She was therceforward at liberty.
This lady never knew the cause Of her
punishment, or Of lis cessation. Sand
did you never make the inquiry!" 'Whai,
be 50 long in Siberia, and not yet have
learned discretion! 'And what was said
to you on your temperance in socielyf
Nolhing-lhose who had known me for.
merlV made no comment--;O those who
inquired, who is Nadine? where 10
she from! where has she always lived? it
was simply answered Madame de
msure depuis beaucOuP d'annees snr ses
terres"--'Sbe has long been buried a.
midst her estates."
During the administration Of thu late
police master, a parsonage OF consideTa
Bile importance discovered, on stepping
into bis sledge, that he had either lost his
pocket book containing Two thousand rou-
bles, or had been robbed of it. He apt
applied to one Of the police officers, in l..
sistinR that it should be found. The Of
fee major asked description oft, and
OF the number Of the notes. He was
answered, that the latter was unknown
and that no distinct recollection ol the
pocket book was entertained, further than
that il was new red one, and that ii
csrtstRly contained The sum in question
An hour after, the police major return
ed triumphanly; he had place the tllei
in cu>tody, and he returned the pocket
book with It's contents untouched, to its
illusIrOus owner, who passed warm ell
ogium on the activity and zsal of the
body TO which the major belonged, and
probably recommended him for promo
ton. The next day, however, his High
ness felt something hard Ia tho lining of
his fur pelisse, which Oh examination,
proved to be the original pocket book,
With lis notes, which had slipped through
rent in the pocket, and which the po!
ice man had pretended to restore him,
the hopes OF his patronage and the fear
Of his displeasure, having been consider.
ed worth a sacrifice OF TWO thousand rou
bles.
The following occurrence made known
by the merest chance, and which took
place two winters ago, will furnish en-
tire evidence of some Of the foul deeds
attributed 10 same guardians OF public Sc
curly. Three Rnssian maIchanIs, who
had been enjoying copi0uS pototians, were
returning home very much lhe worse for
liquor, and one of them was so far iG>
loxicated, that Ills companions were OBJ
liged TO leave him in the custody Of the
bouiouchnik, or watchman. In the course
o(a few hours, when they Wero little
sobered, regrelting what they lad done,
went back TO fetch him, but The b0ui0u.
chnIk, and the Two police soldiers de-
clared tnat he had gone away long since.
They were a out TO depart, satisfied Of
the trulh ofthis statement, when one OF
them espied The boots and cap Of his
missing friend, which he Immediately re
cognlzed. In consequ Of The suspi-
ciOn excited by this Cir umslance, they
repaired to the grand master Of police,
in whose office they had some friend,
through the intercesson Of whom orders
were obtained that an immediate search
should be made Of the boudke, or watch
bouse. Although the body Of their COM
panlon was not at first forthcoming, his
clothes, together with those of many 9th
ar individuals, were discovered in The |
possession of the b0uIsuchnic, ,aRd his as
sstants, and hole was at last psrcsiVGd |
which communicated with the interior oi
the walch-hOuse with The canal, near
which it was situated. Here the remains
of the murdered man were discovered;
and u the coarse Of the investigation
which enEued, it was elected that whole
sale system of murder had long hssn car-
ried on in The watch>box, by its guardi-
ans who were in league with the waters
Of a neighboriDg tavern, who, wheB any
Of their guest were sufficiently intoxicated
caused them to be conveyed away by the
boutouchAik, Who, after numbering them,
stripped the bodies, which we're cast
through this hole bSlsw the ice of the
canal where, long before Il broke up,thOy
would be carried away by the current
The assassinations were daily psrpe-
tralsd in little wooden bsx, scarce ten
feet 10 diameter. in the Nsvsky Prospect,
the most pspalOus street in ST. Peters,
burgb, and Whish is generally as much
crowded as the uppsr end otOxfoad street
in London. The guilty parties we're
punished with the knou,: but tie whole
circumstance acquired more than usual
RolOristy from the fact, that the emperor
| to Whese ears it came, caused sOms Of