Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-12-02

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TRIED AND True.
An DER Trse STORY sf Calsfsrni. I.ise
In the year 1851, there were among
the early settlements Of San Francis.
co, California, two brothers NAMED
Thompsoi, who, having come thith-
er from an Eastern State at the be.
ginning Of the gold excitement,'
three years before, and Isbored con-
Jointly for the more generous favors
LOT fortune without com niet1surate re-
suit, tlecideti at last 70 separate f0rs
time; the one to go to the mines and
work for the fraternal partnership
there, while the other remained In
the city and improved such chances
as ordinary business should offer. by
such 40 arrangement two promising
fields would be worked at once, and
its wisdom was equally obvious to
both young men; but when 1t came
to the question of which Of them
should assume the hardships and per-
lis OF a miners life, neither exhibited
an alacrity to name himself for the
adventure. n ~
10 decide this dslicats poInt they
ldrBw los, By which ffos1s tila of fNte
the eitler Thompson was doomed to
become the miner, and accordingly
procured an outfit, and prepared tn
leave the city. Before taking the lat
ter step, however, the miner elect
chose to bring . little romance Of his
California LIE 10 sclimsx BY wedding
y young Eastern women, who like
himself, had len home ~ WOO fortune
on the Pacific coast and although
he could not take her. with him into
the wild, c0mfortlees LIE of the mines,
the satisfaction Of feeling that he had
at least secured her for himself,s and
had beloved brother In whose care
To leave her, gave him more courage
and inspiration for his departure than
might have been possible to him as q
bachelor. Welded he was, then, and
after a honeymoon Of heroic brevity
he consigned his bride to the protec-
ton of his brother, and bravely
marched away with pick and shovel
to the gold fields Of the north. Ea-
ger rs he naturally was to dig his
prize from the earth and hasten back
to the greater prize LEFT behind, he
was yet firmly resolved to deny him
self wife, brother aud home, until he
indeed be the bearer of some share OF
wealth. So when his first essay. in
the mines did not prove wholly salts
factory, he went sturdily onward into
the Indian country, and, amongst
the red men,. Hdding hunting and
trapping To his mining pursuits
Thence still moving further north.
ward, he reached Fraser River when
the excitement about the aurifer0us
yield of that locality was In its height,
/ and there succeeded In digging no
less than 200 ounces of the precious
dust, which he ut. once sent by ex-
pres e e BIZ wife and brother in San
From them he had thus far heard
nothing on Ills travels, Tor ft had been
agreed that they should not write un-
til he should be In some place reached
by regular mails; but now he was
impatient To know how they regard
ed his present, and felt sure that they
would devise some means of forward
! ing their written congratulations
The feeling was vain, however: no
letter came; and, after months Of wait
ing, the finally Indignant Thorn pson
wrote to friend in San Francisco
with enquiries respecting the silent
ones. The answer came that they
had recently disappeared from the
city, together, having apparently, i'm
their possession considerable sum OF
money, obtained no one knew exact
| ly how. The miner, Of course, knew
whence the money came; bit such In
telligence Of its seeming effect upon
those he held dearest lii the world APP
pealed to his apprehension In q most
sinister sense. He believed that he
was doubly betrayed; that his wife
and Ills brother had basely and heart
lessly practiced the blackest treach-
cry against him, finally to use the
gold he had sent to help beyond HIS
reach. Heart broken and desperate
the poor fellow thought no more Of
any goodly fortune FOR himself, but
cared only for such wandering, wild
adventure and savagery, as should d.
vert him from all retrospective and
tender thoughts. s
He Joined an expedition to the Great
Salt Lake, as 1t Is called, and remain
ed In the wilderness beyond reach Of
mail or messenger for several years.
Returning finally to Victoria, or Fra
ser River, he went with another ex
pedition to Idaho, and there, and in
Montana he was lost till rs late as
1855. From the latter year until 1858
he was resident of Salt Lake City,
going from thence to the once famous
White Pine mines, of Nevada, about
eighteen monthsago. Fortune smil-
ed ntst upon his generally listless ef
1 forts; he had life Of c0mf0rtless
vagabondage and the twenty years Of
his absence from San Francisco
wrought such lines In his face and
whiteness in his hair as forty happier
ones could not have produced,
Some two weeks ago the broken,
hopeless, and emblttered man, visited
u mining camp not far from the town
of Eureka, Nevada, for the purpose
of joining a company fitting out Tor a
trip to Arazonia, aud there says the
Eureka Sentinel, telling his story, be
was fated To be delivered at last
from the delusion of twenty misera-
able years. In the expedition pre-
pairing for Araxonia, was another
man named Thompson, who, though
neither recognized nor recognizing at
first, provedto 10 no ether than our
poor miners recrcaut brother.
When the poor vagabond wander
er discovered this, despite his wrongs,
he fell upon his brothers neck and
cried like . child; and not only did
that brother receive and return the
caress without shame, but he took the
earliest opportunity TO reprove the
other for leaving his wife aud brother
to suppose, for nearly score Of years,
that he was dead.
The pold had been rex.eiye.l. hut