Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-03

tYes my dear"
"Draw that money out of the Blunder
buss Bank this very day, if you don't wan
10 find yourself wifeless and chiIdless with
in week."
With this awful threat she disappeared
and Joseph hailed an omnibus,
"Ah! Won Muff, how dye do?"
"Good monining, Crokur. Dreadful
times these What's the newsg'
"You've seen the mornings paper
Enormous list of failures. Can't stand il
much longer, sir. Everything must go
banks go-eYerything- general smash-up.
"Good God! you can't mean it. Surely
the city banks are safe. l have a hundred
thousand deposited"
"Draw it at once, then. Don't hesitate
don't lose an instant. Perhaps you're
lost. That's all I've got to say"
Won Muff pulled out his large red pock-
et-handkerchief, and wiped the perspiration
from his face.
He remained silent-overcome by re-
Elections. When he left the omnibus at
Stone street, Crokur put his head out OF
the window, and called after the retreating
capitalist.
"Attend to that at once, Won Muf, or
consider yourseIfa ruined man."
Won Muff entered his office in Stone
street terribly perplexed. He found Serum
mage there-Scrummage who knew the
financial condition Of every institution in
the country.
"Well, Scrmmage, how are the banks! q
"Bound to go before long. I've given a
week"
aWhat, do you think SO, too, ,Scrummage
And the Blunderbuss?"
No better than the other. Got money
thereg"
"Yes."
"Then draw it out Immediately; that's
my advice" And off he went to counsel
some other bewildered mortal.
Won Muff now began to realize the panic.
To think was only to make matters worse.
AS rushed into the street in frantic alarm;
as he hurried along, be saw an immense
crowd sfpeople before the doors of the Wa
terspout.
"Whats the matter hereH he timidly
inquired of bystander.
"Run on the bank"
"Good Heavens. you don't say so!'
And onward he has,ened. Two men,
talking in an eager, excited way, dashed by
him the next moment. He caught the
word "Blunderbuss;" this was the climax
| of his agony. He directed his steps at
once to the bank where his treasure was
deposited. s..
The quiet and repose that surrounded
that veteran institution somewhat reassured
him. His fears, however, were not to be
dispelled. "This is the calm," he said to
himself, athat invariably proceeds the
storm. There is deception in it. I am
i st in time" So he entered; drew his
money in gold, and, with the aid of several
porters and cart, had it conveyed to his
office in Stone-street.
An air of immense satisfaction pervaded
Won Muff's round, good-natured face, when
he saw the last twenty dollar piece depos-
tied in his safe-one of Chisselhem's iron,
patent everlasting safes. No fear of that
bursting He lighted a cigar, and, putting
forth the smoke in long succession of
wreaths, he turned to many years stand
ing in the house of Won Muff d Co., and
whispered:
"All light now, boy; let the banks break
if they like, and be e. 10 them"
1t was, of course, necessary that the
large amount of treasure recently transfer
red to Stone street should be watched at
night, otherwise burglary in the third de-
gree might be as disastrous as the breaking
of bank. Won Muff himself, with the
enthusiasm of a recruit declared he was
ready to mount guard for a fortnight; he
he could obtain sleep in the evening
and morning before and after the full
filment of his nocturnal duties; and those
accommodating clerks, Feekes and Sturp,
consented to assist him, on condition that
they should be supplied with brandy and
cigars at discretion. Those preliminaries
being settled, Won Muff went home to din
ner. He looked round upon his fellow-cit-
izens with the air or a man who had Just
achieved coup d etat
Won Muff experienced special glow of
pride that afternoon on entering the por-
tails of his spacious mansion in the Avenue.
In the evening he returned to the Office,
taking with him, for defensive purposes,
the musket with which his sire performed
prodii;gies of valor in the Revolutionary
War. He thought it prudent to inform
his wife, through the domestic, that he
would not return home until the following
day.
The first nights watch passed off tolera-
bly, well. Cigars and stiff brandy and wa
ter were provided, and the guard were kept
awake partly by the liquor and partly by
mysterious noises, like the picking of
locks and other burglarious sounds. On
more than one occasion Won Muff brought
up his musket to the present." and took
deadly aim at the knob of the door, and
his two attendants nervously handled the
reyoIyers they had borrowed for the emer-
gency. They had no occasion, however,
to use their weapons. Toward morning
Won Muff looked very haggard and fatigu-
ed. He felt "confoundedly done up" as
he himself expressed it; SO, aboat six
o'clock, after shave and muttonchop,
be ensconced himself in his armchair, and
fell asleep. But neither the attitude nor
the place were favorable to q comfortable
snooze. People, too, commenced 70 poor
in, for the news of the nights watch had
by this time extended throughout the
whole business community, and the utmost
curiosity was manifested to know the re-