Smyrna times., 1870-03-09
A Talk With alifornians.


Nr II tell you the story Of Paul BcaIes y
W ho was Paul Brales?'
iaul BeaIcs was bank cashier at or near
W ldiamNpoH. Penn, along about I he year 40
| In those days there were no express comma
! mes, and once "A month, or once a 0uarter
| laui bralcs, like all the bank cashiers Of ipte-
rlor P'nu>y wanna. had IN 90 To la,lrln!ia to
ADJUST his balances with the bank whic cores
ponded with his own. Paul >tarted one d,v
from W liIlamsport with S30OOO. which he
was 10 deliver IN person to the Farmers and
MrchanIcN Bank and he arrived in Philadel-
pima next day noon. He was Il TEMPERATE. vir
tuouS, respected married man. popular with
everybody aud we-to do.
| But on this occasion Paul Bcacs was nos
Se,Sed with the devil of poStponrm ent. and
being tired of travel he did not go promntIv to
bank but loungrd about the hotel till ey ming.
| Then he felt the other demon of rrckle,.;uess
that never came before, come to him and sur
grSt that he make night of it, In a few
| minutes ne was IN gambling saloon, and had
shortened hi, account some thousands Of dol
lars.
The next morning the bank received three
tourthS OF the money from WilliamSport. by an
anonymous hand, and PauI Beales was miss
ing. They searched for him. high and low in
vain. 1t was believed that he had been mur
dered, and his widow put on mourning while
all his community greyed for him
About that time there arrived in California
one Daniel ClarkSon, "A fine looking. a11blc
man, with little money but big will, and he
plunged at once into mining and business Tie
was honest and popular, and every man wa
man, and chlld soon learned to love him. He
was married, after some Years. 10 pocif.
woman, one who was dead shot with n ni.tnl
and had all the virtues that bloom keyond tbr !
sierra NevadaS, and in course of time We had
nominated Daniel Clarkson for .Anu,ye0,euto
or Mayor Of the city of San Francisco.
hlle he was walking one day on Mont
gomery street, man from PENNSYLVANIA step
ped up to him suddenly and putting out his
hand said
Paul. how do you do ?"
Right well, | thank you, sir" exclaimed
Daniel Clarkson; but after rau>e-"yon
have mistaken Inc for some one else. F."
Excuse me, said the man, but | was
sure ! had found Paul Buales, Of WiIliams
| port, Pennsylvania"
phml CIalk>on con'inueA on down the street;
! pretty soon he came to daguerreotvIe e saloon.
before the door Of which, conspicuous in
showcase, hung portrait of himself, the most
popular man III San Francisco Bearded and
grown older, and with that look of philo,opLic
thought which wise experience gives, he made
lhe prompt resolve to buy picture of Daniel
CiaEkson and send it to the Mayor Of Williams,
port to inquire II he reSemhrd in anv manner
the missing Paul Beales This pcrhals. was
me madncs' which lets out murder; but con
hdent and selt-po>>e>Sed the fugitive cashier
Lld 1t: The Mayor and his friends mu,ed over
the picture, and saw a resemblance, but at last
conc'uded to abide by the decision of the
widow oi Paul }raIcS. She had been waiting
all those years, hopeful that the deems of time
would give up their secret some lav: and
| hp pfi 4.
she recognized her husband and fell faintinr
70 the floor.
AT that day wretch SubsiSted in California
who earned his lgnominiouS bread by black
mailing the citizens in the columns of a vile
PRINT. He began by calling Daniel Cark>on
bank robbcr and thief, aud said he was fine
h!ure head for an A,0Hycmc,ta He filled
his paper with the name of Paul Beales. aud
the whole city luokcd up aSton>hcd to see lis
most respectable merchant maligncd in this
way. Ii Clark>on had killed the bIackmailer
he would have been justified on every side.
Not 50. lie protested that he had always been
Daniel I ark>on, and that he had never heard
Of Paul i ales. and 50 solemnIy did he aver
tins that not one Of his friends wavcrcd in hi,
support. But the printing wretch grew more
clrcumstantlal with every issue, and at last the
friends OF the merchant said
Carkson, you must go back to Williams
| pun duu SHOW yOurScH. Ou must lace tins
thing. We believe you, and will see you
through"
He said with all cheerfulness, that he would
take the next steamer, and SO he did, accompa
med by many supporters, and cheered as the
ship left her dock by great crowd He left
behind him in San Francisco two hundred
thousand gold dollars worth of property.
As the snip company was crossing the 18th.
mus OF Panama, on mules, Daniel GARRISON
was missing somewhere on the way, and for
three, years he disappeared anew At last they
found HIM working in candle factory in Gin
clnnati, dressed like laborer, and poor and
desperate. The California boys put him ON
his feet again. They said:
" CLARK -on, there is only one way to do tbi,
thing. Begin at the beginning, aud return To-
WllllamspOrt and to your wife.
lie said that he would do all that thew aekod
They paid the money that he had abscondcJ
with and lost. They persuaded the wife he had
IN California to give him up quietly. His own ,,,
wife, who had lived alone those wears. was clad
to have him back on any terms =; and there he
lives to this day, near WilliamSport, toIerabIv
old man, end his story is one of the favor;te
"reminiscences of our coast. : VasLinoton Ih,.
Chicago Tribune ''''0' 0''
Warly Al.