The Arkansas banner., 1849-03-13


 ments written obligations, 10 bind his soul to the 1 evil one"
 1 It Cayoilo. the half Indian maiden, whe had entered into the and listened the words of tie stranger, and shuddering for her lover--who had never spoken Of love to her-she whispered the warning in his ear
 Juan heard her voice; he felt the thrill of her pulse as her hand encountered his neck, but he did not raise his head and gaze upon her Gace. The map of | El Dorado riveted his soul.
 | The light Of the rising streamed through the easement over Juan's pallid brow. and over the mild. timid face of Cayotla while e visage of the ] stranger was in shadow. The empty goblet on the floor gittered like tire-coa At this IiIoment Juan raised his head and shuddered as he caught cleam of a face which grinned upon him from aperture l in the wall
 " 1t is the face Of death v he fate red and reached forth his hand to grasp tine hand of Coyots. Take | your map, here IS your map Here is E1 Dorado ' and clasped the hand of the Mexican girl, while llis hnggsrd face was oyerspread by msInegtary smile. Herr, in the light of home, shines the true Dosado." ra Keeplng hts hand beneath his ehia, the s,ranrer whispered gently and his eyes devoured Juan's face =" gold in river sands gold in bars, gold in rocks | With this room full of gold, you command the commerce of the world"
 And the Cayotla and the stranger conteu3ed for | the possession of Juan, while the skeleton face grihRed merrily above, and the map of Fl Dorado giOwed in the sunshine, from the table. Nho con quered7 Let us
 "Are we almost there 7'' asked Juan, as toward the close of Il beautiful day they entered the con fines of gloomy ravine, whose pcfpe molecular rocks were topped with piues-'l 'am hangry and foot sore, and by the mass il to me that in these twenty days we've Journeyed as many thousand
 miles. ca have not spoken since left the Jesuit mission of San Jose this morning. Tell me- are we near il yet--this Fl Doradol''
 st.- singularly marked countenance and murmured- Very near,' while they passed into the depths of the ravine, where d twilight gloom slept like raven aTnoug the rocks and trees.
 By the Mass. This is glorious. Gold in the sands, gold in bars, gold in rocks That poor 1 Cayoila a silly thing. Now for Inez and the empire of the world But first of all a room Gui oi gold. That was your promise, my friend :" l They crossed brook which sang and sparklej through the twilight. The stranger bent down and soooped handful of sand from the little riyulet-- sand which sparkIed with countless points 0f light " Gold is in the sands he whispered. and they went deeper into the gloom, following the course of the brook. until they came to a cavern through whose mouth it battered gayiy. The stranger led Juan through the cavern mouth, and presently they stood beneath immense roof of rock, iilu- mined by light wA ich seemed to flow from the | bowels of the earth.
 l Gold in bars," murmured the stranger and Juan, with his heart pal alptang with the very agony of rapture the golden bars, huge, cumbrous md glittering, piled up along the cavern floor, like | logs of wood before farmers door.
 " Two hundred billions ot millions of doubloons v cried Juan. "Cayotla was fool-decdedy :" | The stranger led him inward from the cavern into a dark passage which sunk iuto the bowels of i the earth and which was in fact an inclined plane l of a mie moro in length.
 "Gold in rocks. '' said the stranger, as they passed from dark ness into light. Juan uttered an incoherent shriek of joy. He stood the ihresIl- hold of which gold ss heaped ninasses like blocks of granite in quarry. light emitted from these rocks filled the place with golden light ] The very air breathed of gold
 ! Juan, iii the very eNtravsganee of his joy, at tempted 10 of the smallest rocks. but his effort vas in vain. All the force Of his sinews braeed the work by the very madness of rapture could not stir the mass one solitary inch. ''Gold, gold eold! he said !" Certainly Ca yotla was a fool. Millions. billions, trillious, and trllions, millions and millions. By-the-bye, my good fellow, I'm hungry a ipor0 after a three days fast. Can We have nice fowl or two, done to a turn, and flask of wine SC would not be difficult to take"
 :" Eat " said the stranger, who seated upon a rock of gold, with his legs arranged crosswiss like Turk; !" Eat drink. ' and the cow fell back from his face, he reached forth his hands to- ward juan. One hand was filled with golden sand -the other grasped golden stone worth perchauca some hundreds of thousands of dollars. |" You mock me, " iallered Juan, shuddering, he knew not why.
 a Eat! drink" said the stranger, and the gold cavern rung with his hollow laughter.
 "l will leave this place, |" said Juan, turning pale | and red again he spoke. |" Friend, | am not yet in your power. You have nnmaskcd yourself loo soon. have not signed my soul away-you have no parchment stamped with my name written in blood"
 "The man who sacrifices hope and home, and all the Iabors of life for gold needs no parchment scroll to bind him to the gold dey.''-aOd again he smiled. turned his eyebals to the light, with look ci horrible mockerv " There Is no going back in the gold hunt. my dear" Then 10 the silent horror of Juan Gonzas, the mouth of the cavern was closed by huge rock of gold, weighing some twenty tons. and he alone there with the Gold Devil, who sad |" Eat. drink - amid his bursts of merry laughter. -
 PART SECOND AND Lssr-cuIFoRNIA NOW.
 The sequel 10 this story is found in a letter sent from California by overland express, and dated No vember llth, lsI9 IL Is addressed 10 gentleman of ihis city,
 | Dear Rob Come oui here right off; comcsI say, aud bring Charley and Bill with you Don't show this letter ior the world. for am almost crazy with loy, us write il, aud at the time l tremhc with fear lest the U. S. government should get hold of our secret, and deprive us ol i000ooeW0Om0bn0 00000N millions Of gold eagles. l write this in sym pathetic ink, which you wiil comprehend when you are unable to read il without placing il before the fire. How trembie lest Polk should get hold of our awful secret. To be brief. let tell you aii about it. Some days back lon tho 1th) Jake and left the four thousand fellows who washing gold from the sands, aud struck off on own hook. We naturally concluded that there must be a fountain for all this golda quarry, in fact. where il slowed away in umps, and see barf foai"l 1T. VIZ HAVE DISCOVERED TRE Com CAyEKxa Net soul knows of il bat Us lgo. and We spend onf days iii watching The mouth ol the cavern from dis [ lance, and al night go into the cavern strike light, and measure the gold Measure it, by love Why it lies in iunps and chunks, sad rocks and blocks. as thick as coal in Pottsve. We haze made rude eaiimalo of the amount hddeH here in its pure state, tnind ys, for II has been melted long ago bv volcanic hfe--and this Is moderate caicalaton:
 Gold iu chunks about the siIs oi peck msasute- xl l0o0G0on000oOp0Heou0 millions