The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-11-11

inst YOU send something good or bad, no
matter. iust the words. / understand
mighty onick, hal hal Never you mind
the War Department :,
And 3d." continued John, "off went
without a very clear idea Of what was ex-
pected, or how 7 was to do it,"
"And now the rest Of it sounds tremen.
dously likes page from Munchausen' bn. II
is ell clear, historical fact. Mitraliie wro.e
letter, which got TO Washington anout a.
soon as 7 did, urging me to keep my e.re
and ewes open, and promising II ! sent mn. III,
ANYTHING Of Importance he would naive WIN
me on the profits. I saw by that how tef,
ribIv nervous he Was getting, and conciuneu
that affairs must he even worse with nun
,ban 7 knew of. Nevertheless. began 70
| he trifle excited myself, and though n ~
| q sort Of horrer of speculation. especiaii,
| ro1d Gambling. 7 commenced to look arouhu
| me pretty sharply for items. Anone 1.ns'
adventurers. [ fell in with old Sam dornan'
| If Cincinnati, one of our correspondents
ond q nenhew of his, queer, spoon y. o
follow and we went around Sightseeing
together. -, :, fo- other uncle or
| ,enbew hut continual succession OF COCK
| to;Is and had to leave them in their rooms
COON after dinner, somewhat the worse LOT
wear. while ! continued my search Tor In
formation under difficulties.
81 didn't find out anything IN particular
oil that night or the next forenoon, nut
saw the sights pretty effectually, ana aoou'
noon T went into my friends room to wake
them nm. found the nephew lolllng dis
cans6,otelv in n chair, and the uncle in bed
with o hirh fever, the natural result OF ms
foolishness the day before. The hopeful
youth began the story Of his tribulatlon ny
stating that he had expected his aunt there
that dav. but had received letter from her
saving that she had been delayed and could
not come at once.
IT asked him what the doctor had said
about his uncle.
"sOh. the old mans right sick, and l
reckon I'd better telegraph to aunt Sally to
come on right off,
"On the plea of splitting headache ne
berred me to send his message, and
tbourbt 7 would send one at the same time
to Mitraille & Co. Well, his telegram, save
the direction, read: Don't wait for any
tbinp. Uncle Sam very sick indeed
"While mine was simply:
"Nothipg stirring. Having good time.
"Now, how on earth these two little
affairs got interchanged is mystery TO me
to this day. Perhaps | did it; L don't
know: but twisted they certainly were, and
somehow both of them passed the censors.
When Mitraille opened his, he straightway
imagined that something had gone to Smash
in Washington, and that | had taken a neat
way of giving him hint, and ne rushed
out and bought all the gold his credit would
cover.
uHe wrote me an account Of his transac-
tons, whose magnitude almost turned my
hair gray and while he thanked me Tor
nv hint. he begged me to be sure that my
information was correct. thought at first
he was crazy, and then I became pretty
near crazy myself, thinking what might be
the consequences of the mistake. The first
thing I did-this was the next day, you
know-was to rush into Riggs and ask the
latest gold prices.
Guess nv delight when I found them
fairly jumping upward. 1t was wonderful.
Still was terribly nervous, for all sorts OF
rumors We're ahoat, and knew that gold
would fall rs quick as it could rise. The
feeling grew on me until, pretty nearly
nall Gc1nenIeu. L Neut lu1o 'ho sShSS' "Pi
Office ut Wizards and dashed off
"' It's all a sell, and big one.
"Well, the old gentleman took that as he
had the other one, and not only sold out,
but went short to the full extent Of his line.
1t was the luckiest thing in the world, for
sure enough, within forty eight hours
things did 90 down with crash. l began
to feel superstitious; there was something
uDcanny about it; and I packed my kit
and made fast for New York. did not
attempt an explanation, but I steadily re-
sisted all the old gentlemans entreatles to
20 on with it any further. / even managed
TO persuade him to close up his gold &C
count and OUTFIT. I had Lucille to help me
in that.
"The net figure was very handsome
one, tell you, and there was little trouble
about making the other arrangements after
my bank account was made up. My nom
ored father-in-law has the blindest talth IN
my Judgment; but told Lucille all about
it. What's more, I don't and won't specu-
late, and won't do business for any hrm
that does. It's all clear case OF luck"