Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-05-17

as to propose TO give five hur
r dred dollars in. cash and no question
a asked, if the money was retu.net
!. But as this involved the clear los
of three thousand FIVE, hundred casl
3 already in hand, honesty remained q
"A discount,and the burglars generous
} ly permitted the sufferers to ask q
many questions as they pleased. Fat
nestock, Beverly & Co., never hear
oftheir money. afterwards!
The ambiguous language of Ml
Damon had excited various suspi
cions, which his free manner Of liyin:
and the Auslness Of the money mar
ket shortly alterward added consid
cradle weight to. So shIewd an IN
diyidual could not but see. in th'
Isidewayf glances and mnttered re
marks elected by his passing dow
the street each day, that something
was brewing, but like man who has
lsmeIt rattlesnakes before, he only
held his head the higher and walked
by. l.,-,-falF.. s.e7:t f,,,s
| His wife, to whom he had impart.
ted these suspicious, eounseled him
to prepare bis weapons, but laughing
at her fears, be continued his. daily
walks with no other defences than
the usual tools Of a gambler, viz: a
Bowie-kniie and two braces OF double
barrels. g ss-.-, s
He had speedy cause to regret his
carelessness. however. for while
at the coffee-house, one
evening about dusk, he was seized
from behind, blindfolded, gagged and
conveyed to skiff in the river, in
which he was rowed across to
the opposite side, before he could
form the shadow of an idea what late
was contemplated for him,
Carrying him up the bank, his
captors, -four in all, led him half a mile
back through the den, tied him to q
holly tree, and opened the object Of
their lawless act. ~
Ore of them, easily recognized by
his voice 70 be Dr.. Veneer, in spite
of bis mask told him that four thou
sand dollars was too much at a time,
that he must tell them what he bad
done with the money, or they would
whip him to death. 7. s,.:
This short, but comprehensive
declaration, was followed by the dis
play Of their whips. four horrible,
instruments, terribly enough to wear
welts into the hide of an alligator.
But the gambler bad been schcoiec
in profession from which all
fear is banished. His trade had led
him too often within the cracking
shot of pistols and the cut Of steel,snd
his reply was thundered out as bold
as Auyergne's, 5.s Bas s.-i.'tE. .
) 'Wbip away and be did; bute'fl
you don't kill me, I'll kill fourHof
you!' .3,aFj a3Isz -s't .yiss:a91l 5s.5a
, 1t is not my purpose to detail the.
horrid scene; the trial of endurance
On one part, of brute strength on the
other; suffice that the hardened rnh
fan was more than a match forSthe
whole ef them, and that. although
their thick whips we're clotted with
blood, and their arnislweary with the.
exercise, his indomitable spirit de-
fed them to theilast. lAsshe feil-in-
to faint, they sat down. those four
apprenticedly tocounsel with
each other ai b bseo,is ,oiia1oit iaa5s'
1t was past midnight. The sultry
air of the river bottom, occasionally
heated byone Of those breatbs that
se5inexplicably meet the traveller in
a summer nigat, gave evidence Of a
coming storm.gaThe bites ofathe
mosquitoes, THAT choked the very
air in clouds, were distressing beyond
all endurarce, and asthe half naked
body of their prisoner hung back
in its Eaiatness, the stripes of bloody
skin, torn loose by their hip-lashes,
we're quite hidden by theiriolack, ca.
ger forms. What should theyitido!
I 1.-The suggestion Gofa Dr.d Veneer
cannot be entertained fora moment;
the reader may readily guess whatit
was. sFinally.it was decided that
Damen should lie here until morn.
ing, and the purity would then re-
turn gsz3d af0e5s Ni6T1 = Eai'lIsl.
{lTTo remair, there amongithe mos
ouitoes! Far more kind 10 have
adopted the shorter plan Of the doe
tor 8. and letthe black mould of the
canebrake cover lis dead. 1Bot thun-
der clouds we're banking up on every
side, and the regulators hurried 10
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