New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-06-16
HIDDEN TREASURES.
"A Strange Friend - The Myateri
Voice F" - Narration of Discover,
Truth Stranger than Felton,

OF the war planter in Arkansas, but for
Union sentiments he maintained lost all
property that could be burned or st0E
was utterly impoverished, and forced to u
for protection to the Union lines at Mempk
Here he found employment from the ma
to guard certain property, belonging in h
to the city and in part to the GOVERNED
the United States.
At that time he was in state of dessf
ton, and could not even get paid PRONE
for the services he did perform. In N
emergency he applied to notorious dea
in cotton, who, by his operations on h
sides of the army lines, had made mon,
for loan of forty dollars. To his surpds
the cotton operator responded with IA
dollars, and the remark that he could rem
it at his pleasure.
That night, the narrator made fire ne
his guard walk, and, to overcome an as.
matte difficulty of breathing, inhaled m
ture of chloroform and ether, which short
| placed him under somnoridc inAuenoI
while he was sitting by the watchfrI
by voice from some unknown and inv
BILE source, which yet appeared famiH
telling him, rapidly and indistinctly thai 4
he would look in certain place, undo
| pile Of government lumber, near where
| lived, he would find something to his adv
tage. He awoke, and thinking this onh
| dream, paid no attention to it.
| On his return home, wet, cold, and !
hausted, he again had recourse to the I'd
| mixture. He again slept. The same strans
yet apparently familiar voice repeated
the same rapid and anxious manner vi
had before been told him. lie AVID
but again regarded it as a dream. A til
time ne slept, and a third time that M
mysterious voice informed him that II J
should look under certain planks he wo.
| find something to his advantage. Still
gave no heed TO the visitation.
The next night the same thing war
| peated, and as the narrator awoke in conf
| sion, his wife asked if he had not he'd
some one speak. He answered ono, u
he was only dreaming, so little importat
did he then attach to the matter.
Immediately before daylight in the mon
| ing he again used the chlorofoTm miXtuN2
and was in a disturbed and painful I'D (
when the same voice addressed him
the same manner, repeating the intormati
as to where he would find something 10 q
advantage.
The annoyance became so great tina.
length he told his wife what had transpinH
and she, woman-like, insisted that he sho +
20 Immediately to the lumber and look =
the advantage" He declined to 20 tts +
until night, but in passing the Lumber
the way to his guard duty, he noticed
place that looked very much like that VIII
he had dreamed ofso much. Upon lifting
plank, he was astonished to see where sOni
thing had been very ingeniously conceaaI
So well had it been done, that, unless
accident, II would probably never havebaI
discovered.
He suspended further investigations taa
and when he went to dinner comma
Gated to his wife what he had seen. 81
fancying that untold treasures might 4
concealed there insisted on an immedg4
investigation. They went to the lumctl
and, without being seen by Others, ilscOs|
cred, carefully concealed, n small carl
jar, containing, as it proved on examlnj
ton, three thousand dollars in Uni.el
States currency, one hundred and eighi1
dollars in gold, mallpocket knife, a iial
diamond ring, and lady's breast pin
The narrator and his wife counted tht
money many times. On three of the bill
were evident marks of blood. On one
the three were plain prints of bloody Il
gers. That note he has to this day. III
unexpected good fortune afforded ref
from pecuniary endorsements to III
refugees, and they did not hesitate to 4
ploy the means thus placed At their 4
posal to pay Off little debts, with the exul
ion of the fifty dollars loaned from therI
ton operator.
A vigilant watch OF the lumber pile led 4
the discovery, two days afterward, that
owner of this hidden treasure was the "a
cotton operator from whom the fifty dolsI
had been borrowed. He went TO the pia|
discovered his loss, and walked ralkl
away.
The narrator having been educated ~
surgeon, applied for an army appointn3
was examined, passed, and accepted
close attention to his professional dntie,
was speedily promoted. served in nearly Il
the campaigns through Tennessee andF
Vicksburg during its great siege, and vi
with Sherman 10 his campaign thNAI
| Georgia.
After the army had advanced eighteer Y
twenty miles beyond Atlanta, the surgal
was ordered to the rear to attend to al
business of his brigade that had been ~
lected. While at the rear, he was told ~
wounded man in little abandoned hosI
some three or four hundred yards from u
| IOdueluc. mt Iouc W Tic pAaSS ia NuNs--I
and found there a wounded man aNAI
Who he was the surgeon could not leaa
except that his name was Blake, IS VI
wounded man was In great pain and unsh
to talk much.
The surgeon administered dose Of nH
phine TO the wounded man, who could
no possibility recover, and then returneis
the road. Bnt it was so choked up WI
trains that he found it would be difhcul,
make his way back to the front WHERE
brigade was encamped. He therefore We
again to the house where the wounded ~
was lying, determined to remain there ~
night. The wounded man soon after
pired. The surgeon wrote few lines "
tached the paper TO the dead mans CLONE.
then took his blanket, laid down, and ri
soon asleep.
The aforementioned voice was ss|
heard quickly but plainly telling the III
geon to unscrew the top OF an old andnss
that was in the fireplace, and that thsNs
would find money; but he must not tag, h /.
He awakened and Immediately made ~
tie light, did as the mysterious vii III
directed, and in the hollow of the bras -
of the andiron foundtwo hundred doila1nS
gold Some paper had been forced ~
on 1t to pack and prevent its rafting w.
handled. He then replaced the none !
nearly as possible as he found 1t, 'lneWs.,a
with It slip of paper on which he TFu..i
"Your money has been discovered ~
signed his name thereto. .,a
The surgeon would have taken the mG.s
had he not been directed by his mystneniN'ss
visitor, through whose instrumentanH
was discovered, not to do so. "A
Afterward when In Rome, Georgia, - -
on the day previous to the entry Of y
army into Savannah, the surgeon rece ".
communication from the voice oil ms ~. ~,
terious visitor, but too rapid to be dls..u,s,
Once afterward, in Cairo, he was aar y,
ished by the same voice not to make ~ X,
. chase at certain sale Of government. W, ~
erty; this admonition was not heedee, h, n
the reckless purchaser lost money p' :
! operation. =, cO-
The writer closes his narrative !. oi s nj