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Show Tha Portneuf Robbars. Our townsman, Mr. Levant Pease, is the gentleman who wm made to present his $17 to the road agents in Portneuf canon, Saturday morning. Mr. Pease says the robbers were very gentlemanly about the matter, two merely presenting t his head a j couple of wide-mouthed rifles, while a third went through his pockets, and extracted that $17 in currency, and silver pocket pieces. They also took hisderinger, but at his request gave it back. A $500 watch which he carried was fortunately overlooked by the highwaymen, which oversight, when they discover it, will cause them to go out and get somebody to givo them a sound flogging. Mr. Pease says he never before imagined that Spencer aud Henry rifles had such capacious and ferocious looking muzzles. The robbers were not masked, and the stage was stopped between 5 and 6 o'clock in the morning, so that Mr. Pease had good opportunity for surveying their countenances. coun-tenances. He studied them closely, ! and says that shauld he meet on he J would know him. The treasure boxes , taken contained nothing but letters. The robbers made no atttempt to go I through the driver who had iu his : pockets between $00 and $70 in cur-I cur-I rency. |