Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-29

mitted to visit the scene of his marvellous
labors, but to no purpose. He then held
up before the d~iscoyerer the power which
they might acquire, and certainty Of
making together a fame unequalled since
the world began. He represented to him
the impossibility of concealment. except
with the aid of one situated like himself.
who could turn this new accession into the
now steady moneytides of commercial ex-
changes and swell without destroying
them. He attempted to show him the
danger to himself from the chagrin Of
those whose values he might impair OF
destroy, and the need of caution in ultil-
izing for himself his terrible secret.
THE sECRE NOT DISCLOSED.
His nearer sat with imperturbable coun-
tenance until the close of the bankers
harangue, and then replied:
81 will make you the depository of my
gold. You may control its issue, and we
will share the power its brings. But my
process must remain forever in my own
heart. 1 shall never reveal it. 1 will
bring you in a very few days more than
you have now in your vaults. My labor
atory is near the New Park, in a building
which would attract no attention, save
from its .dilapidated appearance. L was
at work there during the most of the past
winter. and have by degrees succeeded in
making myself quite comfortable without
attracting attention. I have several ways
of access to it, and never use the same
way twice in succession. I admit l have
experienced some fear of discovery and
attack but my guards are my dogs, and
they are faithful and silent. There is NJ
more danger than ever in the increasing
volume of my product, which will need
other means of transporting raw material
and bringing it back in the shape of gold
than this old valise and my hands.
THE CHEMISTS LABORATORY.
He then turned to a convenient table
and wrote a few lines, which he sealed in
envelope and handed it to the banker.
"There is the direction to my retreat. l
shall return in a week with more gold,
and if 1 fail to come you may know some
evil has befallen me. Then come to
me-"
The banker promised faithful obser>
vance of the injunction, and with many
prostestations of mutual fidelity and good
will they parted. The paper has never
been opened, and the manufacturer of gold
las steadily and punctually ~reappeared,
his weekly enormous additions
o the bullion of the bank. Tits said that
more than half a million have been man.
fractured within the past two months and
deposited in the bank.
TIE MANUFACTURED COIN IN CIRCU-
LATION.
Some of it has been converted into coin
md put in circulation. Many of our
leaders, who believe they are handling the
products Of our gold mines, now daily
.eceive and pay out this substance created
rom base metals by one of our most I'M
,btrusive citizens. Some of it has been
.un into the customary form of bars. and,
stamped with the brand and records of
most famous refinery, has been ship
ped abroad, as the basis of exchange for
a banking institution on a colossal scale,
{, be established on the comparatively
small beginning of one of u noted banks
and the effort will be made to make San
Francisco the center of all commercial ex-
changes and the great depository of the
products of the world. The scheme is
vast, proportional to the power which two
men hold in their grasp. 1t is frightful
to reflect what may be the result of their
ambition, if it should pass beyond its
reasonable limits. No human
imagination can conceive the end to which
the wealth of our modern Midas and his
banker may bring all established modes
of doing business, and, indeed, as we have
said the Government itself.