Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-06-11

and soand-A Rsaansrssivs Mynssy.
Some weeks dincs = sfast' and wsalthy
man Of business len ~ city on an Eastern
tour. and while visitlag the cities in that
quarter INDUCED lasGaly in various dsvo-
tions, not among The Lot Of which was the
vinous god. While - New York he made
financial settlsmsU1ruith several houses
there, and received - balances in gold,
smounting 70 some o1AOOO Ill Of which he
very imprudently plessd in his trav cling
trunk He then visited Washington, where
having encountsgedse number Of political
and personal friends, ~ increased his daily
and nightly potatious 20 such an unusul de-
gresithat be was not sober for fortnight.
At the end Of that period he began to re-
feet upon his folly and the propriety of 60
ing home, and settling down to the routine
Of business once more. In collecting his
baggage together, the merchant was much
surprised aud alarmed 10 find that his tronk
WITH the $l5,O 900 had disappeared from the
hotel. He inquired for Il Of the propriett :,
clerks, and potsrs, Who al told him he had
taken It to his room, and that they had not
seen It atervard. Under the circumstan,
ces he knew that the house would not be
and could not be made responsible for the
money; and he came ct last to the melan-
choly reflection that his last ''spres" had in
addition to sundry unmentionable expenses
cost him the round sum of $4,000. He
tried to be philosophical, but was more dis
posed to give way TO his feelings and mount
again upon the fiery and demon stesd that
always throws its fider in the dust, and af-
ter bears them to the marsh of despair.-
But reason prevailed over inclination, and
with face sober in in double sense, he
stole away very quietly one morning; and
long before his usual breakfast hour. was
rushing toward the West on the lightning
train, very serious and very self-denuncia-
tory.
In due time he arrived at the Spencer
House, his usual stopping place, and having
registered his name, taken tea, and asked
what was the news, he was told that bill
for express charges against him, for $lS had
been left there, and after wards, when he
learned the bill was for trunk, made him
indignant to 50 outrageous "a tariff To
have lost $l5. 600 and then be swindled, he
declared was more than he would submit
TO- and was talking about a suit, when he
was adv ised to look at the trunk in the
baggage room. He did 90, but declared
that it was not his. having no initials or ia
miliar marks. Those stupid express fellows
he said, had sent an old trunk to him be-
longing to somebody else, and wished him
to pay for their stupidity; but If he did, he
hoped he might be Id.
TO the express Office he went, and told
them the trunk was not his, and that he
would not pay for it, whereupon they said
it had been forwarded from Washington 10
his address at the Spencer House, and that
as there was considerable money in it, they
did not care whether he claimed it or not.
Again he returned to the hotel, obtained q
key, opened it, and found among his clothes
and many very familiar articles the bag
with $4,000 in coin apparently untouched.
His joy may be imagined, but the mystery
YVES not explained. The contents. not the
trunk, was his; but how these had been in
explicably lost and more inexplicabiy found
he did not undertake to divine.
The merchant Immediately returned to
the express Office, told them it was call
right" and paid the charge upon the trunk,
with more willingness, he says. than any
thug he ever did in all his life How the
devil the thing happened. he frequently
asks himself, without the least probability
of arriving at q satisfactory solution, and
then adds by way Of consolation, that he
don't care . cent, since he made $4,000
by the incomprehensible operation.-Cin
cinsati Enquirer.