The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-15
THE DAILY, /, EMPIRE.
ra H. H, ROBINSON. .san
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
From the Pittsburs (Pehn) DisphAch1i
Two Brothers Meet In the Gold
Regions After n SeparatiOII. of
Fifteen YearsT-,JOy at Home.

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Some fifteen years ago Hugh Nc,
then a youth Of this city, determined TO
seek his forttffe In the then newly!iiseov-
cred land of gold in California. Alter Sc
IcnrlDg the funds necessary to see him safe
ly through the overland route he badc
adieu TO his parents, sisters and brothers.
and went forth 10 gather the precious ore
that was 10 make him, and those connected
with him by the ties of relationship, indie
pendent, OF poyerty's chilling blasts. He
reached EidoratO In due time, but his sue
cesswas that OF thousands Of others who
went thitherl before and after him--as n
general thing unsuccessful. For a time he
.corresponded regularly with his friends at
home, but az length his letters grew less
nequent and ut last no tidings reached his
parents as to the whereabouts or situation
of their absent boy. For five long years no
news Of Hugh Mo. reached his agonized
parents. Was he dead? Had he forgotten
themY, Would they never see him again
were questions often asked, but never salts
tactorily answered. As he was the "dar-
ling son, bis mother could not endure the
suspense, ] and determined, cost what II
might, TO know his fate, and declared that
she would travel all over the gold regions,
and never return until she found her boy,
IL living, or his resting-place, II dead.
Az this juneture Mark Me-, young
man who had Just returned from the army,
informed his mother that he would be the
"Japhetn who would go forth In the search
Of his long lost brother. This arrangement
proved satisfactory, aud In q few days he
was away on his errpnd OF love. After
many weary months of travel and frultless
inquiry, he reached Ruby City. IN Idaho
Territory. Here he put up at a plainAlook-
inghotel, and after partaking of refresh
ment, made his accustomed inquiries as to
whether the landlord knew a man named
Hugh Nc, who had been in the gold re-
gions some fourteen or fifteen years. To his
surprise and Joy hewhs informed that man
of that name was then In the city of Ruby,
aud that he could be found at the ''sales-
room" across the way, where certain par
ties were engaged In selling valuable gold
mining claims. Thither he wendell his
way and after paying flfty cents for admis-
sion, found himself face to face with his
long lost brother. who, of course, did not
recognize In the man the boy he had left
years before. NO Do 'l-' iH17 'dif
Awaiting an Opportunity Mark Mo-
carelessly approached his brother, and
asked him how long he had been in the
mining regions, and If he had seen much
of them. Hewas, IN reply, informed that
he had beenin the land of gold for num-
ber of years. and that he had ''prospected"
wherever the glltteripg gold was supposed
to abound In the greatest Quantity. He
upon being Uniformed that he was a Pitts
burger. interrogaled him as TO whether he
had known Il family by the name of
Mo-. He replied that that was hisnafn
that he had left home fifteen years before
that for long time he had corresponded
with his friends; hut for the past five years
he had not written TO nor heard from them.
He then informed him that he, too was n
native of Pittsburg. and that he had been
intrusted with o message for man named
Hugh Me-, should he meet him, and If
he would give him g private audience. he
would deliver it. OF course the interview
was granted, but of what passed beyond
the fact that the two brothers, SO long sep
arated, came to know each other. we are
not at liberty. We may state, however,
that Hugh Mo-, after many ups and
downs, among them long captivity among
the Indians, is now ''well-to-do" In the
world, and that his brother remains with
him. The joy OF his family, OH hearing u
few days SINCE, that he whom they had
mouTned as dead, was still in the land Of
the living, may be imagined, bat not ex-
pressed In words. l,.lr . .trf..