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Show A Novel and Curious the muff City. and "Blow Up IVith the rig." , Some jcars ago, the daughter of a prince merchant and well known of New York, was married in Paris, to a pGniiilei adventurer, whd represented himself as a Baron. g names, and gKttcriug coronets have an irresistible charm The ambitious city of Omaha is likely to be cngulphed in a sea of tribulation. After incurring an enormous debt in spanning the Missouri River, with a bridge that is creditable to the enterprising citizens of the scat of Nebraska's com- for the upstart aristocracy of our noblo-iaad hrgOi cities. The approached the heiress, whose lather's plethoric purse offered at. tractions more 'fascinating than even the dazzling beauty of one of Yew York's 'fairest daughters. A marriage was solemnized in accordance with the laws of France. A year afterwards death visited the mercial metropolis Omaha is about to be visited by a calamity, that will inflict a death-bloto its prosperity and growth. After a contenthn of some years with its mil-lionai- re High-soundin- ( self-style- n ill-fat- id wife of an impostor. Immediately the wldewer inadcV demand upon his deceased wife's wealthy rwireuts for an annuity of ten thousand l'ran s under the law of France, which pro- vides for the maintenance of destitute . nus-in-la- w j by fathers and mothers-in-law- . refusal' being promptly A' made, the Baron (so called) commenced nonaction in the Imperial Court of France, and judgmeut was rendered in his favor. The lanre property owned in Paris by the New York merchant, was disposed of in the meantime in a way in which it could - not be affected by execution. Au action was. commenced in the United States Circuit Court by the g to obtain a decree his deceased wife's pareuts to appropriate for his . support the sum f two thousand dollars per annum. The complaint of the plaintiff was based upon the decision given by the Bench in France." s . Eon-in-la- w, eom-pelliu- w trans-Missou- ri rival, regarding the terminus of the Union Pacific K lilroad, it is uuder. stood that the terminus of the road will be at Council Bluffs. The Attorney General of the United States has uuder advisement tho question whether the bridge forms a part of the road, and it is generally believed that ho will render an opinion that it is an adjunct to the great thoroughfare that connects the Missouri lliver with the western end, and that the legal terminus is at Council Bluffs. The s opinion has already been anticipated. The finger marks of the screaming parson who represented Iowa in the Senate are seen in the manipulation of the legislative and appropriation bill, to which was tacked an amendment pro viding for arbitrary measures in determining the course that should be taken by tho officers of the Union Pacific Company. Tho bridge across the Missouri river was constructed Attorney-General'- by the people of Omaha at an mense cost. ' As a consideration im- for their expenditures, the company resolved to make that city the terminus of the route, as it should be legi- A SAILOR'S - 8T0RT. BT WILKIR COLLINS. I have got an a'arming confession to make. 1 am haunted by a ghost. If vou were to guess for a hundred years, you would never guess what my shall imike'you laugh to beghost is. with and afterward I shall make gin flesh our My host is the ghost croep j of a Bedroom .Candlestick. Yes, a bedroom candlestick and candle, or a flat caitdh stick and caudle put it which way you like that is what tiuuiHs me. X vyish it tyits something uletfunter, an4 more out of the c. iuinou way; a beautiful lady, or a inine of g ild ami silver, or a cellar of wine and a cwuch a d horses, and such like. But, being what is I mut lake it for what it is, and make the best of it; and 1 shall thank you kindly if you will help me out by doing the same. I am not a scholar myself, but I make bold to believe ihat'the haunting of any mau with any thiug under the sun begins with the fi jghteuiug of him. At uny rate, the haunting of me with a bedroom candlestick aud candle began with the frightening of ine with a bedroom candlestick and candle the frightening of ma half out of my life; aud, for the time beiug, the frightening of me alto-gher out of my wits. That is not a very pleasant thing to confess before stating the particulars; but perhaps you will be readier to believe that I am not a downright coward, because you lind me bold enough to make a clean breast of it already, to my own great disadvantage so far. Here are the particulars, as well as I can put them : I was apprenticed to the sea when I wna about as tall as my own walkin- stick; and I made good enough use of my time to be tit lor a mate's berth at the age of twenty-liv- e years. It was in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, or nineteen, aud 1 am not , quite certain which, tb&-- I reached the age of .twenty-fivYou will please to excuse my memory not being very good lor dates, names, numbers, places, and such. like. No fear, th.ugh, about the particulars I have alien to tell you of; 1 have them all e in my recollection; I can see them, at this mouieut, as clear as noon day in my own mind. But there is a mist over what went before, and, for for the matter of that, a mist likewise over much that came alter aud it's not very likely to lift at my time of life, is et before-mentione- e d un-de- r: ship-shap- The Judce of tho United States and geographically. Circuit Court refused to issue a de- timately The charter nndjr which the it? ' Well, in cree in favor of the plaintiff. The eighteen hundred and eighUnion Pacific Company was organ- teen, : ." i ta '!. or nineteen, when there was peace t abject in, question pertains to the ized loft it to the discretioa of Com- iu our part of the world and not before domestic relations of our own citizens i &nd the duties raiid obligations ' missioners to designate the point of termination. therefrom, and the decree Omaha was selected, but adverse upon which the action is based, proon the part of the Iowa ceeded from the declaration . of an legislation General Assembly, has undoubtedly obligation not in conformity with our influenced the action of Congress in laws, and unknown to the common ' 9' adopting means for destroying the prospects of the flourishing city, that No Court in this country holds that is destined to be the nediain of exwhenever arf American .citizen shall change between the La'tes and the isit France ami reside there tempo- Pacific Ocean. rarily with his' family, his son or his daughter- by a rash' or 'unfortunate The Ktug of Spades. marriage, can cast upon the parents the perpetual', of an annuity for the Mr. Oakes Ames has been wife husbaud. The or the of mpport a Director of tho Union Pacific law of JPraucei relative to the obligaRailroad Company at a meeting of tion of fathers supporting .their, im- shareholders held yesterday in Bosis antagonistic pecunious ton. Ames is not to be easily bafto our institutions, and has a tenden- fled. Money is too tremendous a and idleness. fraud to encourage cy power in this age of materialism and In this country, support must be de- utilatarianism to admit of retreat iu e rived from hard work) and the the face of the startling facts which of Counts, Barons, and impovsuggest that his head should be erished PCtonPof ioti? gentility will bowed down iu shame. Impudence find it more profitable to contribute precedes considerations of honor. to the efaluelsofCsoeiety, than to After the startling developments descend to the condition oi itinerant made concerning tho corruption of beggars. the leading nieu of the country and the exposures of bribery which re' flect upon the character and fair A Father's Contrition. name of men occupying exalted posi Mr. Brooks', letter, published in tions in social and political life, the our telegraphic xlunms, has a tone election of Ames as Director of a gi cY manliness that will add to the gantic corporation is a bitter satire sympathy felt by his friends, at this upon the passivencss of a people hour of his deep sorrow. It is, we whose indulgence allows them to believe, the expression ef a heart that overlook criminalities and felonies js overwhelmed with grief, but un- that deserve condign punishment. ' tainted with siiu If he has erred in rpcculating in "the disreputable concocted by wily intriguers, Hotel Arrivals. his atonement has been niadey and OGDKN HOUSE. Victory will do him justico when the J. J. Mauox, - - - - Proprietor. fact is made known, that he unconMarch ov B and 0 Waters J wife, a Brundage, as himself sacrificed father, sciously Miss Norton, Cal; Joseph Healdsburjr. for ' the benefit af a Fannie Norton. Kl Dorado, Cal; Edward ' l - ' child. " Hartmau, New Ytirk. 1 '' , ; - ed sons-in-la- mul-titud- s wcll-belov- ' - cd r- it was wanted, you will say there was fighting, of a certain scampering, scrambling kind, going on in 'that old battlefield which we men know by sea-fari- the name of the jSpauih Main. ' The possessions that belonged to the Spaniards iu Souta America had broken iuto open mutiny and declared lor themselves years before. There wa plenty of bloodshed between the new government and the old; but the new had got the best of it. for the most part, under one General Bolivar a famous man in his tune, thougb he seems to have dropped out ot ptiOtlo'8 memories now. Englishmen aud .Irishmen with a turn lor fighting, and nothing particular to do at home, joiued the general as volunteers; and some of our merchants here found it a good venture to scud supplies across the oceau to the popular bide. There was risk enough,, of course, in doing this; ' but where one "Speculation .'of the kind succeeded, it nude 'up tut two, at the least, that failed.) Aud that's the true principle of trade, wherever I have met with it, all the world over. Among the,Lugi,ishmen who were con- n busicerned in this ness, I, 'your humble eertant, happened in a small way tq be one. ..; : 1 was then mate of a brig belonging to a certain firm iu the city, whien drove a sort of general trade, mostly iu queer places, as far from home as possible; and which freighted the brig; in the year 1 am speaking of, with a cargo of gunpowder ;tor Geueral Bolivar and his volunteers. Nobody knew anything about our insiruciions, when we sailed,' except ibV' Captain; and he didn't half seem to like them. 1 cau't rightly say how many, parrels of powder we had on board, or how much each barrel held I only kuow we had no other cargo. The name f" the brig was the a queer name enough, 'Good Intent for a vessel laden with will tell me, you gnupowder, aud pent to help a revolution. And as faras this particular voyage was coucerued, so it was. 1 mean that for a joke, aud t Inpo'you will en' courage me by laughing at it. The "Good Intent" was the craziest old tub of a vessel 1 ever went to sea iu, and the worst found in all respects. She was two hundred and thirty, or two hundred and eighty tons burden, I forget which; and Mie'h rd a crew of eight, nil told 'nothing like as many as we ought by rights to have liad to, work the brig. However, we were to set that against the chaaCeof foundering at sea, and, on this occasion-- , likewise the ehanca of being blown up into the bargain. , In consideration of the nature of our cargo, we were harassed with new relations, which wo didn't at all like, relative to smoking our pipes and lighting Spanish-America- , , our lanterns; and, as usual in such cn&es, on the ' groundswell rocked ' " the captain, who made the regulations, sleep. I was awoke by a scuffle 'on preached what he didn't practice. Not the f a man of us was allowed to have a bit ot castle and a gag in my mouth. Xh' lighted candle in his hand when he went was a man on my breast and a xaJ below except the skipper; and he used my legs, aud I was bound haud uj f ul his light, when he turned in, or when he in half a minute. The brig was in the hands 0f looked over his charts on the cabiu table, just as usual. Spaniards. They were swarua,,, ,J ver her. I heard six heavy This light was a common kitchen candle or "dip," and it stood in au old bat- the water, one after auother. spiail, l s.V" tered flat candlestick, with all the Japan captain mabbod to the h.ai t U8 he cai'" worn and melted oil, and all the tin running up the companion, and I It would have been a seventh splash in the Water. KXf.. showing through. , more seaman-likand suitable in every a lamp or lantern: he had had if respect but he stuck to his old candlestick, and that same old candlestick has ever afterward stuck to me. That's another joke, if you please, and a better one thau the first, in my opinion. Wei), (I said "well" before, but it's a word that helps a man on like,) we sailed in the brig, and shaped our course, first, for the Virgin Wands, in the West Indies; aud after sihti g them, we made for the Leeward Islands next, and then stood on due south, till the look-ou- t at hailed the deck and said the mast-heahe saw land. Thailand was the coast of South America. We had a wonderful voyage so far. We had lost none of our spars or sails, and not a man of us had been harassed to dea'h at the pumps. It wasn't often the "Good Intent" made such a voyage as that, I can tell you I was sent aloft to make sure about the land, and I did make sure of it. When I reported the same to tho skipper, he went below, and hail a look at his letter of instructions and the chart, V hen became on deck again, he altered onr course a trine to the eastward forget the point on the compass, but t hat don't matter. What I do ri member is, that it was dark before wc closed in with the land. We kept the lead going, and hove the brig in from four to five fathI can't oms of water, or it might be six I a for certain. say kept sharp eye to the drift of the vessel, none of us knowing how- the currents ran on that coast. We all wondered why the skipper didn't anchor; but he said "No, we must first show a light at the foretop and wait for an light on myself, every soul of us on board ?i beeu murdered and thrown into the ueu Why I was left, I cwuidn't think, till " saw I he pilot stoop over me wiih j41 tern and look, to make sure of who I was. There was a devilish gnn on Lis face, and he nodded h,s heau at as much as to say, Vuu were the mun v,lln hustled we down and slapped uiy faC(. and 1 mean to play the game of cat tui mouse with you iu return tor it I 1 coiud neither move nor speak, but I could see the Spaniards tuke off tbe oiain hatch and rig the purchases for getting up the cargo. A quarter of an Hour afterward 1 heard the sweeps of a schoouer, or other small vessel, m llt wat cr. The st ranee craft was laid alnn.. side of us, and the Spaniards set to worn to discharge our cargo into her The? all w orked hard enough except the iiiUaud he came from time to lime, wiiu iijs lanteru, to have auother look at me ant to grin and nod uiways in the sa.i e dev- ; : .. ... .1.1 I. . liiMi vthj. xl urn imi euougu HOW Hut lu be ashamed of confessing the truiu, imj I don't ouud acknowledging that the pilot (Tightened me. The (right, and the bonds, and the gag, and the not being able io stir hand or foot, had pretty nigh wofu me outly the time (lie Spaniards gave over work. Tins was just as the dawu broke Thcv had shifted a good part of our cargo u board their vessel, but nothing line all of it, aud they were sharp enough to be off with what they had got be tore da- e lk j i 1 ylight. - 1 my need hardly say that I had made up uuud by this time to the worst 1 could think of. The pilot, it was clear enough, was one of the spies of the enemy, shore." bad woruied himse.f into the couti- Wedid wait, and nothing of the sort ap- - deuce of our consignees without being peared. It was starlight, and- calm, suspected. He, or more likely his little wind there was came in puffs ployers, had got knowledge enough of us off the land. I suppose wc waited, drill- - to suspect what our cargo was; we Lad ing a little to the westward, as I made been unchored for the night in the sufe?l it out, best part of an hour before any- berth for them to surprise us; andwu thing happened and then, instead of had pail the penalty of having a finall seeing the light on shore, we saw a boat crew, and consequently uu iusufhuictn watch. All this was ciear enough but coming toward us, rowed by two only. H hailed them, and they answered, what did the pilot mean to do with me? Cm the word of a man, it makes mv 'Friends !" and hailed us by our name. They came on bonrd. One of them was flesu creep now, only to tell you what lie au irishman, and the other was a coilee- - did with me. colored native pilot, who jabbered a litt.e After all the rest of them were out of the brig, except the pilot and two tfpan- English. The Irishman handed a note to our ish seamen, these last took me up, bound skipper, who showed it to me. It in- - and gagged as I was, lowered me into formed us that the part of the coast we the hold of the vessel, and laid me along were off was not over-saf- e for discharg- - on thu floor, lashing me to it with ropes' ing our cargo, seeing that spies of the ends, s that 1 could just turn from one enemy (thai is to say, of the old govern- - side to the other, but could not rell had been taken and shot iu the self fairly over, so as to change my neighborhood the day before. We might ' place. Then they left me. Boih of tru.--t the brig to the native pilot; aud he them were the worse for liquor; but the had his instructions to take us to auoth- - devil of a pilot was sober uind that! er part of the coast. The note was sign- - ' as sober as 1 am at the present moment, 1 ed by the proper parties; so we let ihe lay iu the dark for a little while, Irishman go back alone in the boat, a.id with my heart thumping as if it was the pilot to exercise his lawlut inu to jump out of me. 1 lay about live authority over the brig, lie kept us 'minutes or so, when the pilot came down stretching off from the laud till noon tnc into the hold alone, He had the captain's cursed flat next day his instructions, seemingly, him to keep us weli out of s.gh dlestick and a carpenter's aw; in one of the shore. Wc only altered our course haud, uud a long (bin twist of cotton in the afternoon, so as to close in with ' yarn, well tiled, in the other. He put the land again a little before midnight. the candlestick, with a new "dip" candle lighted in it, down on the floor about This same pilot was about as a vagabond as 1 ever saw; a kiuny, two feet from my face, and close agains' cowardly, quarrelsome mongrel, who the side of the vessel. The light was swore ai the men iu the vilest broken feeble enough; but it was sufficient to English, till they were every one of them show a dozen barrels of gunpowder or ready to pitch him overboard. The more left all around j me in the hold of skipper kept them quiet, and I kept the vessel. 1 began to suspect what he them quiet; fur the pilot being given us was a fur the moment I noticed the bar lue horrors law hold ot me iroia by our instructions, we were bound to rels, head to foot, and the sweat poured on make the best of him. Near night-lall- , ' however, with the bestfwill in the world my face like water, 1 saw him to avoid it, I was unlucky enough to go next to one of the barrels of powder standing against the side of quarrel with him. lie wanted to go below with his pipe, the vessel in a line with the candle, and and I stopped hitn, of course, because it ubout three feet, or rather better, away was contrary to orders. Upon that, he from it. He bored a hole in the side of tried to hustlo by me, and I put him the barrel with his awl, and the horrid away with my hand. 1 never meant to powder came trickling out, as black his push him down; but somehow I did. He uell, and dripped into the hollow of When as lighthand, which he held to catch it. picked himself upas quick ning, and pulled out his knife. I snach- - he had got a good handful, he stopped ed it out of his haud, flapped his mur up the hole by, jamming one end of h'3 derous face for him, aud threw his oiled twist of cotton yarn fast into it, weapon overboard, lie gave me one and he tlieu rubbed the powaer lnio i" ucly look, and walked uU. 1 didu t whole leiiiith of the yarn till he h&a h of it. llnuk much of the look then, but I re- - ' blackened every The next thing he did as true os I numbered it a little too well afterward We were close in with the laudagaiu, sit here, us true aa the heaven above us all the next thiug he did was to carry just as the wind failed us, between aud twelve that night, and dropped our the free end of his long, lean, black, h to the lighted cananchor by the pilot's directions. frighttul a and dead, airless dle alongside my (ace. He tied it (toe It was pitch-dard ou deck, with was villian !) in scvoral lohH 'llm calm, skipper two of our bett men for watch. The round Ihe tallow dip, about a third of rest were below, except the pilot, who the distance down, measuring troni the coiled himself up, more like a snake flame of the wick to the lip of the canthan a man, ou the forecastle. It was dlestick, lie did that; he looked to see uol my watch till four iu the morning. that my lahiugs were all safe; and then But 1 didn't like tho look of thu tnght, he put his face close to miue, and whisor the pilot, or the state of things gen- pered i iu my ear, "Blow up witn the erally, aud 1 shook myself down ou ueck orig!" He was on deck again the moment to get my nap there, and be ready for shoved anything at a moment's notice. The last after, and he and the two othersfarthest At the me. I remember was the skipper whispering ihe hatch on over fitted to me that he didu't Iikc tho look ol end from where 1 lay they had not of 1 blink things cither, aud that he would go be- it down quite true, and saw I alooked in when iu low and consult his instructions agaio. daylight g.iiuiuering that is the last I remember, before the that direction. I heard the sweeps U slow, heavy, regular roll of the old brig the schooner fall into the water eplash. mast-hea- w.-.- o - at ' ' j t) j - j j i j j j j j hair's-breadt- vU-ve-u slow-matc- k, bloody-minde- , |