White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-07-09

predominant. Legrand appeared exhausted with
excitement, and spoke very few words. Jupi
ter's ceuntenanee wore, for some minutes, a:
deadly pallor as it was possible, in the nature
of things, for any negro's visage to assume. He
seemed stupefed-thunder-sti Presently
he fell upon his knees in the pit, and, burying
his naked arms up to the elbows in gold, lei
them there remain. as il e.Soying the luxury Of
a bath. Atlensth, with deep sigh, he exclaim-
ed, as if in deep solilOquy-
And dis all come OBJ de goole-bug! de putty
goole-bug! de poor little goole-bug. what
boosed in dat slbage kind OBJ style! Amt you
shamed OBJ yourself, nigger7-aDswer me dat!'
1t became necessary, at last, that should
arouse both master and valet to the expediency
of removing the treasure. 1t was growing late
and it behooved us to make exertion, that We
might get everything housed before daylight. Il
was difficult to say what should be done, and
much time was spent in deliberation-so con.
fused were the ideas of all. We, finally, light
ened the box by removing two-thirls of its con,
tents, when we were enabled with some trouble
to raise it from the hole. The articles taken
out were deposited among the brambles, and the
dog LIT to guard them, with strict orders from
Jupiter neither, upon any pretence, to stir from
| the spot, nOE 10 open his mouth until our return
We then hurriedly made for home with the
chest; reaching the hut in safety, but after OK.
cessive toll, at one O'Clock in the morning.
Worn out as we were, it was not in human ma.
ture, to do more Immediately. We rested until
two, and had supper; starting for the hills imne-
diately afterwards, armed with three stout sacks,
which, by good luck, were on the premises A
little before four we arrived at the pit, divided
the remainder Of the booty, as equally as might
be, among us, and, leaving the holes untitled,
again set out for the hut, at which, for the sec.
ond time, we again deposited our golden bur
thens, jutt as the faint streaks of the dawn
cleaned from over the tree-tops in the Elst.
We were now thoroughly broken down; but
the intense excitement of the time denied us re-
pose. After an unquiet slumber of some three
or four hours duration, we arose, as if by pre-
concert, to make examination of our treasure.
Tie chest had been full to the brim, and we
spent the whole day, and the greater part of the
next night, in a scrutiny Of its contents. There
had been nothing like order or arrangement
Everything had been heaped in promiscuously.
Having assorted all with care, we found ourselves
possessed Of even Easter wealth than we had at
first supposed. In coin there was rather more
than four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
estimating the value of the pieces as accurately
ms we could BY the tables of the period There
was not particle of silver All was gold, OF
antique date and great variety-French, Span-
ish and German money, with few English gum.
cas-. and some counters of which we had never
seen specimens before. There we're several We
make nothing of their inscriptious There was
no American money. The vaIae Of the Jewels
we found more difficulty in estim-tiBg. There
were diamonds-some of them exceedingly
one Of them small; eighteen rubies of remark
able brilliancv; three hundred and ten emeralds,
all very beautiful; and twenty-one sqpphires,
with an opal. These stones had all been bro.
ken from their settings and thrown loase in the
chest. The settings themselves, which we pick
ed out from among the other gold, appeared to
have been beaten up with hammers, rs IL to pre-
vent identification. Besides all this, there was
a vast quantity of solid gold ornaments; nearly
two hundred massive finder and earrings; rich
chains-thrty of these, If remember; eighty.
three very large and heavy crucifxes; fine gold
oensers Of great value; -prodigious golden
punch bowl, ornamented with richly chased vine,
leaves and BlcchaDaHan figures; with two sword.
handles exquisitCy embossed. and many other
smaller articles which l cannot recollect. The
weight Of these valuables exceeded three hun.
bred and fifty pounds avoirdupOis; and in this
estimate have not included ono hundred and
ninety-seven superb gold watches; three Of the
numbey being worth each Eve hundred dollars,
IL one. Many of them we're very old, and as
time-keepers valueless; the works having suffer-
ed more or less from corrosioA-but all were
richly iewelled, and in cases of great worth
We estimated the entire contents of the chest,
that night, at a million and half of dollars,
and, upon the subsequent disposal of the trink.
cts and jewels "a few being retained for our own
usel it was found that we had greatly underval.
ued the treasure.
When, at length, we had concluded our ex.
animation, and the intense excitement of the
time had, in some measure, subsidized, Legrand,
who saw that was dying with impatience for a
solution Of this most extraordinary riddle, en-
tered into a full detail of ell the circumstances
connected with it.
You remember" said he, "the night when
handed you the rough sketch had made OF
the seTrabeas. You recollect, also, that be-
came quite vexed at you for insisting that nv
drawing resembled deaths head. When you
trst made this assertion thought you were jes-
ting; but afterwards called to mind the pecu-
liar spots on the back Of the insect, and admit
ted to myself that your remark had some little
foundation in fact Still, the sheer at my graph
&c powers irritated me-for am considered a
good artist--and, therefore, when yea handed
me the scrap of parchment, I was about to crum-
pie it up and throw it angrily into the fire.
The scrap Of paper, you mean,'' said I.
"NOi it had much the appearance Of paper,
and at first supposed it to be sacif, but, when
came to draw upon It, discovered it, at once,
to be piece Of very thin parchment. 1t vas
quite dirty. you remember. Well, as was in
the very act Of crumpling It up, my glance fell
upon the sketch at which you had heea looking.