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early of a de anj household. The ^ each robbery ye re ? from a gang of: ; htd {ifuMBDkn piling containing an of silver or jewels; nad jpsaatea by threatening i; mastered them, se d them, than quiet odioally to atrip the all the valuables it contained, i poaition filled me with anx [y house ia six mi lea from town, te centre of wide grounds, re Jkoy habitation but the gar "* at the gate. Both my ff had-iaherited a large of bulky family plate useless, whioh never oame out of the safe. imy own wishes been carried out, ounce of silver mad every jewel owned would hare been sent into to my bankers', but my wife ob d, laughed at my apprehenaions, begged me not to worry. But I continued to worry, and per d myaelf with conflicting plana for /, and one day while in town I it to the head-quarters of the police, ' inquired for Betts, the detective on this case. n By-the-bye," said he, after we had ked a few moments, "how many warrants haxe you, Mr. Powers ? Please toll me about them individually." I went oyer their names, and the de tective checked them off in hia memo * wandum-book as I gave the facta con nected^ with them. Saunders, the butler, had been with us seventeen years; the cook,, five years ; coachman and groom, *eren; and the ohamber maid, three?all fixtures in the house hold but Marie, my wife's maid, who ! bad come within the last four weeks. 1 Ah 1" exclaimed Betts, " where did at Marie ? Was she well reoom to this country with s family I of D? Starges. She was a child who died on the was thus thrown ant of nployment; she advertised, and my ifa saw her, liked her, ana engaged ? ." Did yon see her former employers ?" fr',i Yes ; both De Sturges and his wife ?chatty, agreeable people, of some means, apparently, and are going to ?attic in New Orleans." " Desariba her, if *ou pleais," said Betts, with a Keen interest, whioh sur prised me. "Maria is small, blaok-eyed, black haired, compactly built, with remark ably neat hands and feet She has a cy, laughing face, and her hair is __ rt, crisp, and early." PsUs laughed uneasily, then bent his hand, his elbow reding on ' /*l*fr. Powers;* ,?id he at laat, look ing up with a pocuK. flash in his eyes, I am going to take you into my oon jtdenc<v but yon must be OU^re^t, or k will Tuin me. I've sworn w Wfl i thing through, or resign my poai. ion. Im sick of this infernal foolery ' of oalltag myaelf a detective and letting reign night and day all over the The newspapers drive ma mad ! know nothing abdut the obstacles contend with,_ and goad us into steps, whioh oost us our tnd end In failure. I've g ia* the dark these nine by Heavens^. I believe line a glimmer of light." indicated intense exoite ls oame ?patmodioally, and he had to^d raw time^abross his on. Then opened it ? -j ? *> /began, look smil*, " fire the 1mt eix has these speoial _ig it m the work the other four : ation of seven to adroit burglars; house is attacked, orision for a , J, the thieve* I fourth, the leader a amall ruan. of active iriXlwoioo.1 ad rit me. >w there was a reoog ___ from hi* desk. ?Ms the full teeti i. Ben your ere se*that the general This small MMMi l?da everybody. no woman ha* the ?4ftoluiow to suit. As, Fof the thieve* 1 I before. At ? built into the la the wainscot s??? mMokbilbr flrf * <vT \ 7'tTLFT, clevergafttoMr; atthePratta', aprotege Mr. Po*A." oo 11 tinned Betts, bringing bis hand heorily down upon the knee, "ItmiMdy to a wear tha* yom b?re this dangerous inmate under your own roof in th# ohsrseter of jour wife's maid." 1 started as if Ihad been abot. *'But, Betts, admit that though I am an old fool, my wife is a thorough wo man, and, aa a rale, ? aspects all her own sex, yet she is positively fond of Marie.".- ... ^ v. ^ ' - "Marie is a olsver little pass. Wherever she has lived, as man or wo man, the whole family hare adored her. I hare always thought," he went on, with a sort of cbuokle, "that no faot about woman is more damning than that the good ones are, as a rule, the dull ones. Put spirit, sparkle, intel lect, into any one of them, and she is certain to play the deuoe. Has Marie shown any interest in these burg laries?" There oould he no doubt of her hav ing questioned me oonoerning them with intense eagerness, and if I spoke to my wife about my apprehensions while she was present, Marie never lost a word. "Does she know about your silver ? Has she charge of your wife's dia monds?" I started. That very morning I had shown her my safes behind a false book-case in my study, and asked her opinion whether anyone oould mistrust those innooent-looking enelyolopedias, or suspect the ezistenoe of a closet six feet square between my room and the library."* I was ashamed of my own greenness, but made a clean breast of it to Betts, who was good enough to re frain from expression of his opinion of my disoretion. "My word for it," he cried, "she has been waiting to find out that secret, and now she will leave your house lAthin forty-eight hours. Her pretext will be a reasonable one, sad she will promise sh? do?? return she bring he? gang at her heelk to rob your house for you." Thfl idea of connecting our jrifetty Marie with suoh outrages filled me with horror. I rejeoted it strenuously. "Whom did you see in town?" in quired my wife when I returned. "Don't speak of it," said I, looking fearfully about, as if the walls had ears, "but I was with Betts, the detec tive. You must not repeat what I say, Marie." " Never, monsieur I" oried Marie. "The faot is," I pfooeeded, sinking my voioe in to a sepulohral whisper, " that gang of masked burglars have been traced to New Orleans, and may be arreeted by this tims." " Then I hope, dear," said my wife, laughing, " that you will again sleep soundly in your bed. After you got up last night for the fourth time to prome nade about, pistols in hand, I decided it might be better to eat off pewter and wear French gilt jewelry than to lead such a life." I too laughed, and stretched out my legs comfortably. " Yes, I mean to like a Christian hereafter; be sides, I bdve brought home a dog." "A dog !" exclaimed Marie, startled. " Yes. T turned and looked at her attentively. " Don't you llk? dogs ?" She protested that she loved dogs better than anything in the world ; and when Jingle, the spaniel, was prodaoed it was. so pretty a aight to see her play ing with him that I was freshly in oensed with Betts for putting his cursed suspicions into my head. She took the little beast to bed with her, I believe, and next morning he would obev her lifted finger. That vary day she received a letter from Madame l>e Sturgea, bar former miatreaa, aaking her to oome and pans a few honrn with her before she left for New Orleans. Marie oarried the letter to Mrs. Powers. " Madame wishes to talk to me abent Mile. Helene," plead* ed the girl, with tears in her eyes. " To-moirow will be the birthday of the panvre ange, who lie* at the bottom of the oroel sea. . - " Poor Madame De Rtnrges," ex olaimed my wife, tonohed at the thought of the sorrowing mother ; "yon mnst spend to morrow with her, Marie. Oo in at nine o'clock and oome baek at Meanwhile I had telegraphed Marie's proposed movements to Rett*, and now, with tome nervousness, awaited events The detective had warned me that she would win the dog'a affections ; that she wonld leave the house promising to return, but would not return. Two of these predictions were already verified ; but if Marie oame back I could laugh at . his suspicions, and regard them as futile. nut Marie did n6t return at five o'clock; a telegram arrived in her stead from Madame De Starves, saying thai she had kept the girl, and would writ* at length and explain. Mast morning % letter was received from that B. She told my wife she was ill, jet ted to travel: homesick in a strange ,' without a familiar woman's face hen and that she fc?4 persuaded, forced, Marie to rem An and set | 4*t trHh Mr end he> husband for Mew that very evening. Am ?n r-botisd notelmm Mi thie* filed with protei at the neceesity.4>f thus to Belts thai -law'e and after lmtiagkit down, eager to see the wu on the stroke of twelve i tered the office, and t thought at first HtttBelts had failed me, for no one lMM^MS but a ponderous old gentle man with gold gUasas and white aide whiskers. I am not used to intrigues and masquerade*, and when I recog nised Belts in this cBbgwlse I could hardly refrain from exclaiming at his olevernese ; but his own ooolnasa kept ma within bounds, and I sat down bo side him, and began reading my paper. Presently, he edged toward me, and dropped these sentenoes into my ear: "It's all going beautifully?I followed the girl in yesterday?Went to?hotel? The De Sturgeses booked there all straight?Whole party left Jersey Oity at nine o'clook last night, ticketed ana luggage checked to Washington?Slip pea out of the cars st Newark, all three in men's dress, and were back here be fore midnight?Met eight fellows I know at a saloon in ? street, snd I can spot all eleven of 'em this very minute ?They're at a den in ? street, getting ready to play their little game some where to-night." "At my house ?" I cried. He shook his head. "Dunno," said he, looking straight into the fire. "Look here, Betts," I whispered, "this may be fun to you, but though I'm no ooward, i!is death to me. Why not arrest 'em now ?" "Tea, just so," he returned, irritably ?"why not ? Where's your evidence? Now, Mr. Powers, just look at this mat- j ter sensibly. You know as well as I do thatliiif the thieves we catch get off be cause nocne will swear to their identi fy at their examination. Now I'm anxious to make a sure thing of it for once, and take my oath that I caught them in the act." * J "Ton mean to arrest them while they are robbing me?" "I do." . * I "?11 right?only I. should prefer to have the row in another man's house." K"'. ' 1 -*?*- -*? nnlnt/w nl had gone down Jus oontempt, and went on tell me that lie had nsf stphed one off tti m; Johnson by name, to my plaoe to make a reconnaissance, under pretense of trimming my evergreens. Upon this man's report, and upon two or three other open questions which he did not .think it worth while to explain, de pended his programme for to-night. If by any possibility there wae a likeli hood of my house being entered at once, I was to know it by dinner-time, that I might be prepared for the burg lars. I was meantime to go home qui etly, and spend my time in my usual manner, so as to exoite no comment among the servants, and, receiving no word from Betts, I was to rest satisfied, and oonsider my house safe for another twenty-four hours. I went home aooording to directions, and set about spending my day in my usual way, but the house was so still, and seemed so deserted, I found it im possible to read, even to sit quietly in a ohair, for more than five minutes at a time. So I called the little dog, Jingle, and set out for a walk about the grounds, feeliDg some ouriosity to get a glimpse of the detective, Johnson. I beard the sound of an axe through the sombre stillness, and Jingle frisked , forward and barked st a man hacking at the firs in the shrubbery. I addressed him regarding his woik, and he winked back hi', appreciation of our mutual sharpneaa ; then I weat on, reconnoitred a few minutes longer, and again turned in. Uinuor-time oame, and brought with it a semblance of ooeupation, and when I wrk? half through my meal T suddenly renumbered Jingle, and sent for him to. kaep me eompany. He vaa not in the house. It flashed upon me that I had rot seen him after passing Johnson in the thieket, and I dispatched the ooach ruan to call him in ; bat only cohoes inswered the ory. He had evidently re gained out in the grounds with the polioeman, and I dismissed the snbjeot from my mind, finished nay dessert, and went back to my library fire. No word had oome from Betts, henoe I was safe for to-night, a* all areata, and I breathed freer, and atretohed my legs and dosed attti! ten o'clock i^ comparative oom fert... Then, rousing myself, I lit a lan tern and weak out the door and along the aide piaraaa to speak a word with Johnson, who, Beits haa arranged, waa in any ease to keep a watoh under the covered carriage-way. He wm not iK&re. I did not under* stand it Had he got drunk, or had Betts taken him away ? Perhaps, how ever, he waa still loitering at the edge of the grounda ; accordingly, I walked out on the lawn, and swung my lantern two or thrae timea. Then, aa it waa bitter cold, and waa beginning to enow, I turned in, and finding that it waa al moet eleven o'clock, I ordered fiaandeta to eloee the houae and aaad the ear-, vanta to bed, and to b?d I want But aa soon aa the light waa out, and my head touched the pillow, I waa freahly impreeaed by the myatary of Johnson'* diaappAarano*. an.l ar*v>rd' tngly I got up, opened say pi-tol-aaae, took out two rw-rolvera. an?fc pnttinff them and a sword cane within eaay roach, | returned to bad. . * Denca take this suapense ! ** aaid I. a# I again lay down *1 ahan't aleep a wink/* But after toenfug a few iimea. 1 waa ai '?aid one of them, in a to pat on that those slippers. Ton shall M^Hnwd in the least if yon will auB^kt and obey directions." pistols simed square in his eye^Hgf man will be docile, I suppose : aflj^HK I got up, and put on dressing-gb^^M-slipperi. Then one of the men ioflp^tir arms, drew them behind, aadflMled them: another fragged me wiHill of my own silk handkerchiefs * attMOi rendered harmless, I was led dc^HHtfrs, where mj household, in ra4pto stages of night attire, gagged arftied back to back, were awaiting MibiXhe dining room. I was put in aajwnn-chair, and fastened to it by feet ?|d hand*, then was left alone to stare ?n?t me. Maddened, desperate fcough I was, when I discovered thaAiRie mxth of the frisoners was JohneettiOie detective, recognised him wijth f keen sense of the ridiculous, and only wished that Bett^? whom I was mentally anuthema tizing with curses noi-Igad but deep? were in his plaos, an#lasting some of our humiliations. , ? Besides the three masked men who had mastered me and brought me down, there were five others Ija the dining-room. Two -mere left as sen tinels ovsr us, and the Mat at once fell to work in a way thai mean* business. A small, active man (was it our Marie?) motioned toward the*sideboard! , It was wheeled aside, and stepping for ward, he pressed the Aiding panfcl, and disclosed the oloset where tne silver in daily use were kepi, and the shelves were at once strip pad, and the contents piled on the table. "8- ? * The bedrooms Tp|rtrrfr- were next visited, the locks of fhcawers and ward robes wredchedHptftaQd the contents thrown pell-mell <Mhe floor for the ohief expert to deeMKa, what should be oarried off. SMBmi rooms gut ted, they same down with their spoils with it ______ my m* Ml that fate was cruel to me. Only one consolation illumined the blackness of my despair?my wife had oarried her jewels to town with her, and I was spared the humiliation of telling her I had lost them for her through' my idiotio faith in Betts. There was a long silenoe now, which I understood but too well; it war followed by three muffled explosions that shook the house like an earthquake, and almost simul taneously was neard the noise of a scuffle, and I opened my eyes to see tho room filled with polioemen, and hear pistol-shots exchanged, while our two sentinel* were thrown down, disarmed, and pinioned beforf our eyes. I looked and listened, mentally stun ned, without dear comprehension of the meaning of the uproar, for, with the noise of the fire-arms, the elang of manaoles, and the beat of heavy feet, the tumult was somewhat Unifying. In leas time than it takes me to de scribe it, the situation had been re versed, *nd now Betts, the deteotive, appeared in the door at the head of his posse of men, who brought in eight of the captured burglars, two- of them wounded and bleeding profusely, while the rest showed signs of having main tained a stout resistance ; all had lost their masks in the melee, and disolosed sullen and brutal visages. " How are you, Mr, Powers t" in quired Betts, ooming forward and Re leasing me. " I hope yeu're not hurt I beg your pardon for taking possession of your house in this way." Why did you mike me think I was safe for to-nigbt, Betts ?" " Because," he replied, with a shrug, 441 discovered you were just a little upset at the prospect, and I felt afraid of you." He ran his eye over the group beside me, and when he ssw Johnson, he grinned, snd going up to him, knocked his manacles off " You're a pretty detective, you are," ssid he, " to be caught and tied up by the very fel lows you were in waiting for I" Still, Betts was in too high good humor to be angry even with the hu miliated Johnson. Meanwhile I was peering into the face* of the thieves, fearing to find Marie among them. ?? Betts, "I gasped, suddenly, "you haven't got theiittle one." - He gave a tigerish cry, and glared from one to the other of his prisoners. *' You are sure there was another ?" M Wo doubt of it," I returned ; " any one of these felloWs is four Inches taller than the leader of the gang." In another moment he had set pioked men at work sesrehing both houses and grounds ; but he fever succeeded in finding even a traee of the eleventh of the party of burglars. Nor even after the ooimetion and heavy sentence of the other tea, would aay one of them confess the secret of their leadership, f had easily identified M. and Madame Pe Bturgee?both swarthy and rebust Frenchmen snaongthem, but in spite of ftU aay sgbrt* nei&er one could acknowledge irdbf such ft person they ha# eVer mas di*t. off in >fhe ' A Touching Case. The Indianapolis Journal announces the death, at the Hotel Bates, of Thomas Lt. Salisbury and Ellen E. Salisbury, hie wife, the former having died on Monday, and the latter on Saturday evening. 'Some of tha* circumstances attending the death of these two most amiable and exoellent persona were not only very touching, but rather extra ordinary They formerly resided in St. Louis, and while there were called upon to mourn the loss of two fine children, their sole family, who were lost together while skating near St. Louia. They were a young lady aged eighteen, and a ^iad of fifteen. They were drowned on the 21st of February, 1864, precisely ten years before the day of Mrs. Salisbury's death. Thia double affliction almost broke their hearts, and henoeforth they lived for each other alone, oonoealing their great grief as those only can understand who have been similarly bereaved. Naturally congenial and devoted to each other, their lives grew more clot ely together by reason of the hard provi denoe which at one dispensation had removed both their darlings from their sight without a word of parting or warning. When Mr. Salisbury was taken sick, his wife watched at his bed tide with sleepless affection. Day and night she ministered to his wants, till it was feared her own frame, never very strong, would wholly give way. About twenty-four hours before his death, finding him able to oonverse a little, she asked him if he knew her. He saia yes, and smiling called her name. To her inquiry if he was willing to die, he said yes. She said, " Thomas, you want to go and see the ohildren, do you not?" He answered, "Yes." Then she said, "Thomas, I will follow you soon ; you wait for me, I will oome very soon." From thai moment ahe evinced no more anxiety about her hus-. band. She seemed to regard his death as certain, and her own as soon to fol low. Yielding to the advioe of friends she rose and bade him good-bye. Im after bis death, ahe took to to sink rapidly. No ... or v imrrppoeSe did what he oould, but that wholly baffled his art. Her malady waa of a kind that no human remedy oould reach. The gentle lady was en tirely resigned to her situation, and seemed to oontemplate her approaching death with composure. During the week she steadily sank until it was ap parent that her end was near. On Sat urday evening, a short time before her death, her friends were startled to see her faee illuminated by a bright smile. It beamed with a light that never shone on sea or land and told of unspeakable ioy. Her eyes gazed into distanoe and her hands moved as if to welcome some one. A solemn stillness fell upon the bystanders, and the thought struok all that she was greeting her ehildrfen. From that moment the lady neither spoke nor moved, but sank away and passed from mortal life with the same eloquent smile upon her face. She kept her engagement with the husband, and followed soon after him to oomplete the family circle in the land of the hereaftar. The Next State. New Mexico- applies at the family door for admission into the Union an a State. Comparatively little seems to be known of this territory, its fertility, its resources, and people, by the average reader. Its geographical posi tion, distance from the settled portion of the other States, and inconvenient and nnoomfortable modes of pnblio travel render it almost inaooessihle to the modern traveler, and its world in nearly a sealed book to the people be yond its limits. She has an area of about 400,000 square miles, and claims a population of 112.000. She main tains also that her ability for self-snp port is well established, npon the Sound that, while all the other terri ries have, at some time during their territorial existence, appealed to charity for bread to feed their famish ing inhabitants, or relief from pesti lenoe or Are, New Mexioo, besides hsv iog an abundance for her own people, has always had a surplus more than sufficient to supply the army in New Mexioo and Arisoaa with breadstuffs and forage. The people are affirmed to be law-abiding, industrious, thrifty, and frugal, hospitable and genesous; conservative in financial affairs^ slow to oontraot debts, and willing to jaake sacrifices to pay themi It la further urged that sinoe the adoptfpn of the Federal Constitution fifteen new HAlla hate been admitted, Aach having V population of less than 85,000, ami one of the number less than B5,000, while the atvraga of the whole MWto was about 62,000. ^Lence she cotflndor* there is no principle of right or Justice upon whieh she oanbe laager iefn?*d 'admission into the Union. ? Tn Cost.?President Buohham, Vnrmoht University, says he finds of careful inquiry Chat a young ma f ing osll?gc free from, debfe and good pee of his vacakioi? money from time to tiUfci lt,n?di.o?b? mot. tbm ?, ??*! * A Morning Hjmp. To Thee, let my first off wing /is? Whose son creates the day, Swift m its inflosaos cleaves the skies. And spotless ss its ray. m Throughout this day Thy hand be nigh ; Preserve me ss before ; 9 Still lead, snd all my wants supply, Thou, whom I e'er sdore. - * Thy blissful providence impart. In bounteous mosaure Lord; , With gratitude imbue my heart. While I peruse JThy Word. Afflictions, should Thy lore bastow, In chse*isement for sin, Patient I'll bear the KtnMtlng hNw? Thy goodness, still will hymn. This day, whste'sr my vwring fate. Some virtue let me gain, That Heaven to me s low estate May uot have lent in vain. Be this and svery future day More holy th%n the past. That, treading in thy chosen way, I may reach Homf at Iwt! ? Luthsr Q. Rioos. Items of Interest. As tor owns only 700 houses. Look beyond the clonds never de spair. Ik? The spoken word cannot again be ?wallowed. When you die even your tomb shall be oomfortable. Better be upright with poverty, than unprincipled with plenty. He who weeps from his heart will provoke tears from the blind. Waste of wealth is sometimes re trieved ; waste of health seldom ; waste of time never. There are 25,000 women in the Iowa granges, each of whom is intrusted with a vote. The Census returns of North Carolina show 1,848 George Washington! among etloeik?I{ single life ' __ to" reason that ; ? twice as Throw life into a method, that every hour may bring its employment and every employment have its hour. Schoolmaster?" What is nothing ?" Boy?" It is when a man asks you to hold his horse, and jus^ says, * Thank i you.' " \ The Laramie Sentinel, printed six , hundred miles west of Omaha, says that the people there laugh at and ridicule the idea of Indian troubles. In a meeting of Chicago" saloon Jjeen ; ers one of them argued their immense * political power " because all the poli I ticians frequent drinking plaoes." " Napkins, s;r ! napkins 1" roared a Green Bay landlord; "no, sir, we haven't got any, but if you want to wipe your nose I'll lend you my handker chief I" The ice gathered on the Kenebeo river this season is estimated at 280,000 tons, and it is expeoted that as much.' more will be cnt before the season oloses. Be not stingy of kind words and pleasing acts for ffnoh are fragrant gifts, whose perfume will gladden the heart aad sweeten the life of all who receive tbem. A little American lad who had just oommenoed reading newspapers asked his father if the word " Hon.," prefixed to the name of a member of Congress, meant "honest." The Oalifornians have been telling ns for many years that Donner Lake on the Sierra Nevadas'was fathomless. But now they have found bottom all over it, and the greatest depth is 200 feet. The people in a town in Iowa wanted* a flouring mill, and finally they got it ^ i and they are very anxious to have ?"*? bank established SO* thpt they can hoi* row money to buy four. Nothing like having everything harilj. Country Practitioner (Sbout to g?,?p to London on business) I shan't be more than ten days at .Ike furtliwff, Mr. Fawoeps. You 11 visit Tneyj)ati< regularly, and take ease thl ** 'em slip through your well?-during my Milwaukee brewer# cannot be manufact 910 per barrel so long present prices* They say man o factored of of |8 a barrel, and that bre poorest business that "a invest in. ^ ^ A Georgia ft years old. her tfom the