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Strict attention paid to shipping in good order. j"\v ?t apl *l yy [PUBLISHED BY BEQUEST.] THE GOLD - JBUGry Mi .??. ^-?- ?,.,,.,.,.>. BY EDGAR A. POE. (concluded in our next.) The chest had been full to the brim, and wo spent tho whole day, and the greater part of the next right, in a scrutiny of its contents. There had been nothing like order or arrangement. Every thing had been heaped in promiscuously. Having assorted all with care, we fouud ourselves possessed of even vaster wealth tbau vc had at first supposed. In coin there was rather more than four hand rod ami flfty thousand dollars?estimating the value of the pieces, as accurately ns we could, by tho tables of the period. There j was not a particle of silver. All was gold of antique date nnd of great variety j ?French, Spuuish ?ud German moucy, with a few English guineas, and some couutcra, of which wo had never seen specimens before. Thore were several very large aud heavy coins, so worn that, we could niako nothing of their inscrip tions. There was no American money. The vulue of the jewels wc found more difficulty in estimating. There were diamonds, some of them exceedingly large and fine?a hundred aud teu iu all, and not one of them small; eighteen rubies of remarkable brilliancy; three hundred and ton emeralds, all very beau tiful; und twenty-one sapphires- with an opal. These stones had all becu broken from their settings and thrown loose in the ekest. The settings themselves, which we picked out from amoug the other gold, appeared to have bceu beaten up with hammers, as if to prevent identi fication. Besides all this, there was a vast quantity of solid gold ornaments; nearly two hundred inus&ivo finger and ear rings; rich chains?-thirty of these, if I rcmeuiber; eighty-three very large arid heavy crucifixes; five gold censers t f great value; a prodigious' golden p'uuclt bow'., 01 iitfiriettreti with ^richly chased vine-leaves nnd IJacchatiulinn figures; with two sword-handles cquisite ly embossed, and many other smaller ar ticles whieh I cannot recollect. The weight of these Valuables exceeded three hundred and fifty pouuds avoirdupois ; und iu this estimute I have not included one hundred and nine-seven superb gold watches; three of the number being worth each five hundred dollars, if one. Many of them wero very old, and as time keepers valueless ; the works hav ing suffered, more or less, from corrosion ?but all were richly jewelled and in cases of great worth. We estimated the entire contents of the chest, that night, at a million and a half of dollars; and upon the subsequent disposal of the trinket* aud jewels (a few being retained for our own use,) it wus found that wc had greatly undervalued the treasure. When, at length, we had concluded our examination, ami the intense excite ment of the time had, in some measure, subsided, Legrand who saw that 1 was dyiug with impatience for a solutiou of this inoHt extraordinary riddle, entered into u full detail of all the circumstances con nur ted with it. "You remember," said he, "the night when I handed you the rough sketch I had mnde of tho mrabo'iK. You re collect also, that 1 became quite vexed at you for insisting that my drawing re sembled a death's-head. When you first made this assertion 1 thought you wore jostiug ; but afterwards I called to mind the peculiar spots on the back of the in sect, and admitted to myself that your remark had sumo little foundation iu fact. Still, tho sneer at my graphic powers ir ritated wc?for I nm considered a good artist?ami, therefore, when you handed mo tho sorap of parchments I was about to crumble it up nnd throw it angrily into tho fire." "The scrap of paper, you mean," said I. "No; it had much of tho appearance of papor, aud at first I supposed it to be such, but when I came to draw upon it, I discovered it, at once, to he a picco of very thin parchment. It was quite dirty, you remember. Well, as I was in the very aot of crumpling it up, my glance fell upon the sketch at which you hud bocn looking, and you may imagine my ustotiishtuent when I perceived, in fart, the figure of a death's-head just where, it seemed to mo, I had uiudo the drawing of tho beetle; For a moment I was too much amazed to think with accuracy, I know that my design was very different in dclnil frotu this?"Ithough there was a cer?ain similarity in general outline Presently I took a candle, aetf^otinfc myself* at the other eNtf of&etoom, proceeded' to scrutinize the? parchment more' closely Upon turning-ft over; I saw my own* sit etch upon trttffoVeree/ just es T had made it.- My^'filjMjjilea, how, was' mere surprise At the r'Anlw'l^Aniirlr ablc similarity of outline?at fttfetngular coincidence Involved : in. thb'^lactj' that unknown to mo, there should Atft*'been a sknll upon the other side efjno parch ment, i in mediately benenth tjH^gure of the kcarhbtcus, nn4; that thwfrtfbll, no6 ehly irt outline, hut in siKWuKonld st? closely resemblo'tity; drawing. $'ilMy the singularity of this cuincidfrn?t^ahebl?tely stupified mc for a time. This tl the usunl effect of such coincidences, "^tho mitrd struggles "to establish a- connection?a sequence of cause and effect??aud; being unable to do so, suffers a speffje? of tem porary paralysis. But, when I recorcrod from this stupor, there dawntJd'upon me gradually n'ctfiiv'idrttm w*WWhH|ta1rttBd me even far more than the coin fide nee. 1 began distinctly, positively, tbj remember that there had been no drawifW dpdn the parchment when I made mV sketch of the *carab<r\iH. I became perfectly cer tain of this; lor I recollected burning up first one side and then thy, "other, in search of the cleanest spot.' Had the skull been thcu there, of couVso I could not ' have failed to notice it.^^eVe was indeed a mystery which I fctt'itifiVposs iblo to explain; but, even at that early moment, there seemed toglimaer|raihtly, within the most remote and secret cham bers of my intellect, a glotV-ivonn-like conception of that truth Vhich last night's adventure brought to so magnifi cent a demonstration. T arose at once, and putting the parchment securely dMrtiy, dismissed all fartber reflection until 1 should be alone. j '?When y ou'^iafl gone ,*a n ?i' w rpTn J u pi - ter Was fast asleep, 1 betook' myself to ;i more T9.-etlwlie.al Jn^estigat on of the affair,:^ In thif^'nrsl place 1 considered ; the nmaner.in which *ut bad come ' into iii r^ir^si.^i1rt#i* 1 .-put where we discovered the ?crirdmr?* was on the coast OI the tnaiu land, about a mile eastward of the island, and but a short distance above high water mark Upon t::y taking hold of it, it gave tnc a sharp bite, which caused nie to let It drop. Jupiter, with his accustomed caution, before seizing the insect, which hud flown towards him, looked about Iiiin lV.r a loaf, or something of that na ture, by which to take hold of it. It wus at this moment that his eyes, and mine also, icll upon the scrap of parch ment, which I then supposed to be paper. It wus lying half buried in the sand, a corner sticking up.' Ne.-tr the spot where we fond it, I observod the remnants of the hull tif what appeared to have been a sh p's long boat. Tbc wreck seemed to have been there for a great while ; for the resemblance to boat timbers could scarcely be traced. ?'Well, Jupiter picked up the parch tnent, wrapped the beetle in it. and gave it to me. Soon afterwards we turn -d to go home, and on the way met Lieutenant (i?. i showed hitn the insect, and ho begged me to let biin take it to the fort. Upon my consenting, he thrust it forth with into his waistcoat pocket, without the parchment in which it had been Wrapped, and which I had continued to hold in my band during his inspection. Perhaps he dreaded my changing my mind, and thought it best to make sure of the prize at once?you know how enthusiastic he is on all subjects con nected with Natural History. At the snmo time, without being conscious of it, I must have deposited the parchment in my own pocket. " You remember that when I went to the table, ior the purpose of making a sketch of the beetle, I found no paper where it was usually kept. I looked in tho drawer, and none there. I searched my pockets, hoping to find an old letter, ^ whon my bund fell upon the parchment. I thus detail the" precise mode in which it came into my possesion ; for the cir cumstances impressed mc with peculiar force. " No doubt you think me fanciful? but I hud already established a kind of connexion. 1 bad put together two links of a great chain. There was a boat ly ing upon a sea coast, and not far from the boat was a parchment?not-t paper? with a skull depicted upon it. You will, of course, ask 1 where Is (he commotion I reply thnt the skull, or death's-head, is the well known emblem of tho pirate. Tho flag of the death's-head is hoisted in ?!! esgr.g-.'mcnt:!. I have said that the scrap w i parch -T"?^"tf*-- (' ? ?' ' ' i ~ ? ment, and not paper. Parchmeut is durable?almost imperishable. Matters of little moment are rarely consigned to parchment; since, for the mere ordinary purposes of drawing or writing, it is not nearjy. ho well adapted as paper. I his reflection suggested some meaning? some relevancy?in the death's-head. I did not fail to observe, also, the form of the parchment. Atthough one of its corners "had been, by some accident, de stroyed, it could be seen that the origi nal form was oblong. It was juat such a slip, indeed, as might have been chosen for n memorandum?for a record of some thin-, to be long remembered and care fully preserved." "But, 1 interposed, "you say that the skull was not upon the parchment when you made the drawing of the bee tle. IIow then do you trace any connexion between the boat and the skull !?since this latter, according to your own admission, must havo been designed (God only knows how or by whom) at some period subsequent to your sketch ing the scarabiXXiM. T" ' " Ah. hereupon turns the whole mys tery ; although the secret, at this point, I had , comparatively little difficulty in solviug. My stops were sure, and could afford but a single result. I reasoned, 'for example, thus: When I drew the I tcarabn us, there was no skull'apparent upon the parchment. When I had completed the drawing I gave it to you, and obre: ved you nurrrowly until you returned it. 1 hen it was not done by human ageney. And neverlcas it was done. " At this stage of my reflections I en deavored to remember, and did remem ber, with entire distinctness, every inci dent which'occ'tired about the period in question. The weather was chilly (oh rare and happy accident!) and a fire was blazing upon the hearth. I was heated with exercise and sat near .the table. You, however, had drawn a obuir close to the chimney.' .Just as I placed -tho psrrch-Kbnt in youi\h;uid, and, a* you were in the act of inspecting it, Wolf, the Newfoundland, entered, and leaped upon your sholdors. With your left hand you caressed him and kept him off. while your right, holding the parchment, was pe-.-mitted to f?U listlessly between your-knees,- and in closo proximity to the fire. .At one moment I thought the blaze had caught it, and was about to caution you, but, before I could speak, you had withdrawn it, and were engaged in its examination. When 1 considered all these particulars, I doubted not for a moment that heat hud been the agent in bringing to light, upon the parch moot, the skull which I saw designed upon it. You are well aware that chemical prepa rations exist, and hare existed time out mind, by means of which it is impossible to write u|>on either paper or vellum, > that the characters shall become visible only when subjected to the action of fire. ZafTre, digested in a dun rnjiu, ond di luted with four times its weight of water, is sometimes employed ; a green tint re sults. The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit, et* nitro, gives a red. These colors disappear ut longer or shorter in tervals after the material written upon cool?, but again become apparent upon the ro-upblieation of heat. " I now scrutinized tho doath's-head with care. Its outer edges?the edges of the drawing nearest the edge of the vellum?were far more distinct than the others. It was clear that the action of caloric had been imperfect or unequal. I immediately kiudled a fire, and sub jected evory portiou of the parchment to glowing heat. At first, the only effect was the strcngtheuiu^g of the faint lines in tho skull ; but, upou persever ing in tiit experinieof, then* became vis ible, ut the comer of the slip, diagonally opposite to tho Spot ill which the death's head was delineated, the tiguro of what I ut first supposed to be a goat. A closer scrutiny, however, satisfied me that it wus intended for a kid." " IIa ! ha !" said I, " to be sure I huve no right to laugh ut you?a million aud a halt of money is too serious a mat ter fur mirth ?-hut you are not about to establish a thiid link in your chain?? you will not find any especial connexion between your pirates aud a goat? pirates, you know, have nothing to do with goats : tiny appeal tain to the farming interest." "But I havo just said that the figure was not thut of a goat." "Woll, a kid thon?pretty much tho sat?o thing." "Pretty much, but not altogether," said Legrand, "You may have heard of one Captain hiudd I at once lookcrl upon the figure of the animal as a kind of punning or hieroglyphtcsl signature. I say signature; because its position up on the vellum suggested this idea. The death's head at the corner diagonally opposite, had, in the same manner, the air of a stamp, or seal. But I was sorely put out by the absence of all else?of the body to my imagined instrument?of the text for my context." j "I presume you expected to find a i letter between the stamp and the signa j ture." "Something of that kind: The fact is, I felt irresistibly impressed with a pre sentiment of some vast good fortune im pending. I can scarcely say why. Per haps, after all, it was rather a desire than an actual belief;?but do you know that Jupiter's silly words, about the bug being of solid gold, had a remarkable effect upon my fancy ? And then tho series of acoideots and coincidences?' these were so very extraordinary. Do you observe how mere an accident it was that these events should have occurred upon the sole day of all the year in which it has been, or may be,sufficiently cool for tire, and that without the fire, or without tho intervention of the dog at the precise moment in which he appeared, I should never have become aware ol the death's-head, and so never the possessor of the treasure ?" "But proceed?I am all impatience." "Well; you have heard, of course, the many stories current?the thousand vague rumors afloat about money buried, somewhere upon the Atlantic coast, by Kidd aud his associates. These rumors must have had some foundation in fac . And that tho rumors have existed so long and so continuous, could have resulted, it uppearcd to me, only irom the circumstance of the buried treasure still remaining entombed. Had Kidd concealed his plunder for A time, aud afterwards reclaimed it, the rumors would scarcely have reached us in their present unvarying form. You will observe that the stories told are all about money seekers, not about money finders. Had the pirate recovered his money, there the affair would huve dropped. It seemed to mo that some accident?say the loss of a memorandum indicating its locality ?had deprived him of tho means of recovering it, aud that this accident had become know to his followers, who other wise might never have heard that trea sure had been concealed at all, and who, busying themselves in vain because un guided attempts, to regain it, had given first birth, and then universal currency, to the reports which are now so common. Have you ever heard of any important treasure being unearthed along the coast?" "Never." "But that Kidd's accumulations were immense, is well known. I took it for granted, therefore, that tho earth still held them ; and you will scarcely be sur prised when I tell you that I felt a hope, nearly amounting to certainty, that the parchment bo strangely fouud, involved a lost record of the place of deposit." "But how did you proceed V "I held the vellum again to the fire, after increasing tho heat; but nothing appeared. I now thought it possible that the coating of dirt might have some thing to do with the failure ; so I care fully rinsed the parchment by pouting warm water over it, and, having done this, I placed it in a tin pan, with the skult downwards, and put the pan upon a furnace of lighted charcoal. In a few minutes, the pan having become thor oughly heated I removed the slip, and. to my inexpressible joy, found it spotted, in several places, with what appeared to be figures arranged iu lines. Again I placed it in the jtan. and suffered it to remain another minute. Upon taking it Gff, the whole was just as you seo it now. Here Legrand, having rc-heatod the parchment, submitted it to my inspec tion. The following characters wore . rudely traced, in a red lint, between the death's head and tho goat; 53tjta05 ^ )6*;4826)4L ) ;80ti*;48tH^ ?0))8o;lt(;:t*8t?H8H)5*f;4ti);88*ltt?*.' ;8)*J(;485);5*t2:*U;49r?fi*2(?*? 4)?1!8 ?;4069285); )6f8)4 f.{ ;1 ( J1I,480S I j8:8{ I; 48f85;4 )485t?2880fi*81U9;48;(88;4(i/f 34;48)4J;161;:188;|?; "But," as'.d I, returning htm tho slip, "I am as much in the dark as ever. Were all the jowcls of Uolconda await ing me upon my solution o( this ouigmn, I am quito sure that I should be unable to earn thorn." " And yet," said Legrand, " the so lution is by no means so difln*o!t as you might he lend to imagine front the firat ?huHty inspection of the charac ters.?These characters, as any one might readily guess, form a cipher? thnt is to say, they convey a meaning; but then, from what ie known ot Kidd, I could not .suppose him capable of constructing any of the more abstruse crytographe. I made tip my mind, at once, that this was of a simple species?such, howevet, as would appear, to tho erode intellect of tho sailor, absolutely insoluble without the key." " And you really solved it?., " Readily ; I have solved others of ait abtrusoness ten thousand times greater. Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led mc to take interest ia such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which human ingenuity may not,- by proper applica tion, re-solve. In fact, having once es tablished connected and legible charac- n tors, I scarcely gave a thought to the mere difficulty of developing their im port, j^-j "In the present case?indeed in all cases of secret writ ing?the first question regards the language cd' the cipher ; for the principles of solution, eo far, especially, as the more simple ciphers are concerned, depend upon, aud am varied by, the genius of the particular idiom. In general, there .is mi alternative but experiment (directed by probabilities) of every tongue known to to him who at tempts the solution, until the true one be attained, i Rut. with the cipher now ? before us, all difficulty was removed by the signature. . The pun upon the word ?Kid' is appreciable iu no other language than the English. But for this considera tion I should have begun my attempt?* with the Spanish'and French, as the tongnes in which a secret of this kind would most nnturaRy have been written by a pirate of the Spnuit.li main. As it was, 1 assumed the cryptograph to be English. K Dr. Abernatby rarely met his mat. h ,b?t ou out#oefjsje>oo hurls owned was beaten. He wus seat for by an inn keeper, who had a quarrel with his wile, who had scarred hla face with her nail.", so that the poor man wus bieedln-. and much disfigured. Abernatby considered this opportunity not to be lost for ad monishing the offender, aud said : ''Madame, are you not ashamed of yourself to treat your husband thus?the husband who is the head of your house hold?your head, madam, in tact?'* '-Well, Docto-," fiercely returned the virago, "and may I not scratch my own head?" The Giels.?Can ire not bring up our girls more usefully, tea* showily, less dependent on luxury atid wealth f Can we not teach them from babyhood that to labor is a higher thing than mere ly to enjoy ; that even enjoyment itself is never so sweet as wheu it ie earned ? Can we not put into their n.lnds, what ever be their stations, principles of truth, simplicity ot taste, hopefulness, hatred of waste, and these beiug firmly tooted, trust to their blossoming up in whatever destiny the young maiden may be call ed.?[Miss Muloch. The other afternoon, iu Buffalo an ex cited individual, with a well-worn carpet bag in one hand, an umbrella in the oth er, and a shawl lunging over his arm, accosted oue of the street gamin at tho corner of Maine and Exchange with the quest toil: "Say, bub ! which is the quickest way for me to get to the Erie railroad de pot?" "Rud !" vras the laconic response, ??^-wcjwrowiBt >?. wsseawf*?*????-? A gentleman (tent a lad with a letter to the post-ofRcc, and money to pay (ha postage. Uuviug returned with the money, he said, " Guess I've dono tho thing slipk- 1'to seen a good many folks puttin' letter* in the poat-oflkt through a hale, and an I watched my chance, mid got mine in for nothing." Professor Golt a, K?nigsberg, ha* been experimenting upon tho nervous centre of frogs, lie fiuds that if you take out the braiu, and then rub a wet finger down the frogs hack, the oroature will oroak as ii pleased, Frogs must be eat>i, ly pleased. Colored citizens are being registered in Connecticut in anticipation of tho proclamation of the ratification of the fifteenth nmendmont, which wil| mike, them legal voters,