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THE GOLD - JBUGry
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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
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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,