A TOVNO Detectives' stories aro rarely . devoiii of interest,and when truthfulness is a promi nent element 'of theiv matter, they •40- quite positive importance in the eyes of the general reader. The one told by the *Meer, in the Now Oilcans Picayune, and printed below, is no exception to the rule. As a record of facts, giving prom lance to the keenness and courage of a woman, it will be found worthy of per mud : In 1848, a circumstance - occurred in New Orleans which, et the time, created an excitifmeut which affected the entire population. An old merchant, highly connected, Wealthy, and of ,distinguished social position, ono night myst eriously disappeared. His family were in infinite distress, and his businilW in consequent disorder. Ho left his store at a late hour, ostensibly to go home d ; but beforegoing, contrary to , his usual practice, ho put in his pocket a large sum of money. His way alongYeters street, on the bank of the river, Tar down in the Third dig.' trict of the city. His life may have been sacrificed and his body thrown into the doodthat rolledat his feet. Police regula tions at that time were bad, and crimes of this 4i - wig:lon were not unfrequeut ly perpetrdied: A little way back from the street was a ruinous building, half tumbling to decay, and inhabitell 7 l4 a number of people, men 'and *onon in ured to' vice, and bytobbery: • • Aiming thiO notes Kr. Coulay was known to pOBllOBB was one for 000, with thh;Word "Canal" written on the back. The rest wore of various denominatioils and without peculiar identity. t-;---:and myself visited the reel dears of the Missing man, at - the re quest of his wife, and by hbr we were charged with the duty of tracing out and bringing to justice his supposed murder etc. She was a tall, elegant-looking lady of 'commanding presence and great' cut ture. 'the wealth of her rich beauty and fine mind wore inherited by her &nih ter, a young girl scarcely twenty. `I 'he terrible bereavement had paralyzed the senses of the mother, but had aroused the energyand fi re of the young girl's nature., More like a beautiful Nemesis than Au ordinary woman she appeared to us. As we entered the room she was ip the act of consoling her mother. The long black halt) had escaped from its con. finenient Otid•almost enveloped , her per smite ebon tresses. The great, minded 'eyes were, tearful, but flashing and full of fire. The face was dark with the blood of her . SOT race, but the kW 'Was queehlyi:sl uder, , and fault less 'en a model, The g orious beauty of this young girl fascinated while it be wildered you. Rare in its exquisite love liness, the eye delighted to rest on the willowy outline and graceful symmetry. Starting up as we entered the room, sho inquired hastily, almost fiercely, I thought—" Are you the detectives ?" cf , We are," and I mentioned our • intakes; ."I must speak to you in private ? " she said,d and led the way to aOadioinini upartte9l4- • "What do you think of the matter ?" she asked ) when out of hearing of her •ipOttiet • , yet an opinion would WI mere guess work," I replied. "Nevertheless, I have come to one. I have no doubt ho has been murdered, and that the deed was committed some where near that old ruinous building by the river." "Some such idea has crossed my mind, but there ie ho trace as yet which can lead to proof of it." will find it,' rest 'assured," she ',saidi '"and to this end you must co-op°• tate with me.' And now listen to what I have to say: To.tlight, at twelve o'clock precisely, do you visit tho old building. 1 will be there. 'Ask for tho young wo• wan who apylied at nightfall to them for - shelter. Let your object be, apparently, to arrest her." _t "But I do not understand." "But you will. d am going there at , dusk, disguised as a beggar girl. Ily the time you come my informatioit EMI have been collected." Sim rose to her feet as she spoite,and now indeed die wore theep• potence of the Nemesis I had likely(' her to at first. Beautiful, but rigid as fat f looked that sot, determined face.— The beautiful eyes had lost their soften cd lustre ) and shone with a passionate light ambit 'ertiel." • ;rho lips were' pale'; but rigid as iron, and the beautiful nos trilsdilaied with au' expression, of short consuming vengeance. " I will read the guilty 'Secret," she said, "it the criminal is • thCro, however, deep in 'his heart ho may bury Strange as it 'may appear,. made no attempt to dissuade her from her par. bose.-- I could • not. I felt ,as if the eautiful creature exercised' over me a magnetic control. And with this under. standing . we took our fear, to prepare for the night visit to the old house and its dangerous inhabitants. Those acquainted with the city Ot that period can torte some idea of the danger of the plot, we bind formed. TO us it was • a matter of occurrence,' Bei for the yming girl, inexperienced and ten. duly matured,,tto:thrust4terself into, the very house of the unserupuleas mid dea perate wretches who were suspected of this crime was • simply appalling. It would'uot , do, however, to go to the plaiclbeforo the hOur appointed for our, cowing, for that would defeat the object` in view. It was, therefore,' With many misgivings, and an uneasiness but poor ly concealed, we bided our lima. But we determined to be there at the ,vory moment, and the clock was on the stroke of midnight When we knocked' at the door. lhe optside, of the house'gave no I • signs °Hite Within. :Tho shettera Were securely fastened, and no 'ray of light penetrated the darkness; but the Muffled sound of voices reached our tiers until our knock hushed them to al whisper. There was a momentary hesitation as if lethausoling together, •and then tlie,doOr was Opeeed wide. ' It was along, tow"'• room; " dusty and brown from age, Abed a dozen .per. , sons were seated around but every eye was turned to the doer: Two men had risen to their feet, and stood in an attitude, which might mean defence, before the Amen° i but the object that attracted our attmAtion most was a young girl ,sit ting in the centre of the apartment. for face was dark ode gipsy's, and the lon hair hung loose, on her shoulders. Her., dress 'was ,of • poor" Ma terial, . ragged and, unclean. • retches and rents had almost changed it's him and disguised its texture. She seemed too thinly clad for: 'that cold eight, nud hor slender • frame shivered, as if &qui cold, as the chill airfroni'the open door swept in. "What do you want'?" von; the stern question addreSsed to nit by ono of the men at the fire. Befere I time to reply, the girl sprang to her feet and' spoke instead': " Arrest these men l"_; . Her ' voice . ; "ivite low,lnt the face, flashing in the light of the tiro, was that of the Nemesis I I had seen that day. There Was a short, fierce struggle, and the men were in our power. The girl then walked to, place in - the .flocir, and touching " concealed spring, raised a trapdoor. She bade Mr. I. lift the box that lay•in the biding place. , The lid was wrenched off, and in it were the old merchant's money, papers, and peaket hook. ' With the money was found the bill, and the Word "Canal" written across it. • It NVUS not long before the men confess• od their crime. Thu old man had been murdered and his .bodS , thrown in the Over. - . The daughter accomplished berm's sion.l She had carried out her d4ign, and fumed to . their hiding-plate the proofs of the morderera crime. ft is Use / less to relate What followed. Long gyearts have fled since then and the young Nem• esis is yet among, the living. Beautiful still, there are many hearts' glad at her smile, and share with her the joys of the home she charms. But this strange in cident in 'her life will never lip effaced from her, mind, or fade from the memory of those who saw berthen. THE continuing rain in the augur par- ishes of Louisiana has thrown planters fur backwards in their crops. Appro. hensions are felt that Much seed - will be spoiled s and fears are • entertained that the grand Levee will not stand., In BOW places thorn is six font of water aoainst it. The snag-bont Albert has are rived at Vicksburg. She lies pulled tip 41 snags within thirty days and chopped down about 1700 trees. --Arrests artarliiii - hibiadrid,.and iu different; parts of Spain, continuo, 1140[tILS OW TEEM IFEA. • umlaut: Conifooi . of a Ottarnot*lp uppish*. Ono of the most gallant intinC ites of self-devetiou, of which" so: many are on' record in the history. or aegonnabiP lAA its dangers and sacrifices, was furnished recently by the commander of the',-pas sour steamship Colutnhia; Captain Carnaghan, which is tOldf' an ,English newspaper as follows: " for the Un common seamanship and's'- devotion of Carnaghan we might hay read today / about another wholesalelo s i ptlives and Eroperty to match that of the Hibernia. xactly the same accident befbli both vessels. ' . 't - The propeller of the Colu mb ia , like that of her ill-fated sister shlP, - broke loose in the sbaft•pipo whiles in mid ocean. ' Nothing'ean he more - perilous; for the sharp and' heavy metal blades, thus' loosened, are banged ;and beaten about the stern post, of the. vepael, and. the plates bf the counter are sa go to , be stove in or the 'item-post to 'be wrung away. Tho Columbia was in' that fear ful danger, and the captain saved his ship by sheer skill and pluck. .After re assuring his passengers, and getting his boats Clear and' ready against the worst, he first tried to drop the the screw by withdrawing the shaft. - This planonly let the sea to', without getting rid Of the propeller,, so that the shaft had to be re placed and shoved in firmly. The next hope was, tolash the broken screw somehow, so as to keep it from batterin the stern of the Columbia. But how cou ld that be done when a heavy sea was rolling, barely - leaving a moment to obtain a hold of the propeller, or even to see the restless blades ? Captain Car might: did it himself. He made the men lower him over the taffrail by a rope around his waist, while ho directed and guided with his own hands the necessary operations. The object was to have lash- Inge made fast upon the blades on bgth sides; the difficulty was to get,tho bights of the chains over each upperblade: ' Thirteen times the crow had to snatch the good captain up from the hoe .rible waves which rose to choke hint or dash hire lifeless against his own rudder. Fourteen times he hade them "lower him away" again, till- nt the last the cables Were drawn around the , screw on both sided, "Dowsed taut" with purchase blocks to ringbolts on the deck, and the Columbia - was safe from any injury with which 'she had been, threatened by her broken gear. ' The frightful noise of the blades thiin dering egatnst her stern plates Was no more heard during the•three weeks' {Wl in which the Columbia had to accomp lish—the.work was done "shipshape and Bristol fashion," but to finish it the first-tato sea captain had to go through a feat which all the imagination of a landsman can hardly compass—working at a most delicate trick of engineering in the pauses between wave . and wave, a 4trno of touch-and-go with death, in the heiee cold pillows 'of the North Atha:- tic at Christmas tirno, GitACHFUL 00)1PL1 lENTB.—Judge Story and Edward Everett wore once the prominent personages at a public dinner in Boston. The former; as a voluntary toast,' gave the' following : "Il'aine follows merit where Everett goes The gentleman thne delicately comPli• mented at once arose - and replied with this equally felicitous Impromptu : "To .whatever height judicial learning may attain in this country, there will al ways bo ono Story higher.". • —Regiments of 60 regular service and large numbers of volunteers daily offer their services to the Spauish Government for thu suppression" of the revolt in Cuba. • —A )Tomou committed suicide in New York last week, by holding her head in a tub of water- until she was drowned. --Buffalo . detectives talltifio themselves by getting swindled by and then arrest ing 'bogus guides" at Niagara —King Ferdinarid,father pf the reigning labg of Po'tngal, hna neeepted the eau didature fdr the throne of Spain. - --A weStern paper hag nn account of the "shooting of a wild eat by n . little boy five feet eight Inches long." —Wild geese ,pro flyrin4 northward Over New London, Connecticut: ADVENTURE W&TI1 SAVAutt From llio Toledo Blade. On Saturday morning Imt, a 504 , 1 man with a hadly wounded hand, ealll on one ,of the clergymen of this ci,,, saying he was a stranger in need of' t frterid and assistance, anti had been re. Commended to him. - lie then related tt, following in regard to his history: lie bad served live years in the arnr, in Company I', 18th regiment, I'. s, and received' three severe wounds in hi, body and limbs. When discharged, 1, 1 was tho fair West,. where he sou 4, and obtained employment on the rat ite railroad as brakeman on a freight true, On the 6th of July last their train, o t , .whiehlwero seven men with two 1 1 0 6 and a child, was attacked by Indiatt i weal. of Omaha. , • All the men were kille4 but hitnnil and the cowitietor while 'he 166 badly wounded by a shot through the hand, of which he bore ampn,and painful testi many in tho hand erip'pled far life, 11, two ladies and the child were burned it the car where they were riding, and thtis awful screams sounded in his ears to by time. The savages r;ealpeil Alive the ongiuto, out out his heart and, ate it while the boil .was yet writhing in the agonies of anti They hayo the superstitious ideallsitil makes an Indian . braYo .to oat a mitite man's heart, and if it Is yet warm Yid life all the better. The narrater said lit yells of the -.savages while doing the 4 murderous work were enough 0011 ono's blood. They delighted thenisolves, whilet.; l ear was burning with its human victicii by taking • bolts of dip goods' shoulder, and while riding rapidly letting the opening folds flout out 1114 streamers in the breeze bsbind thorn, NI was compelled to whoosh these hem rending scenes, and Would probablitice 'shared the same fate, a 9,11 the' caidactor 'also, had not some soldiers conik:twilia• ly upon theta and spadthoin. From the ."Boneli and tiar," &anecdote Of Thong as F. thattua The lion. Thomas F. Marahnil , kentuaky, once a prince of good felion wart defending a roan charged with sat deri,in Jessamine County,' Judge presiding. The testin.wy_ against tie prisoner was strong, and Toni struielf bard on the eross•examination, bath little purpose, for the old judge mit flexiblo in iris determination to rule oil all the improper testimony offered obis part of the defense. At !net Tom sort ed himself into a high state of mitt meat, and remarked that "Jesus Chris was convicted upon just such rulinitt: the court that tried bun," "Clerk," . eald the ju'dge, " enter El of ten dollars against, Mr. Marshall" "Yell, this is the first time I ens heard of any body being fined for nbut4 Pontius Pilate," was the quick seeps of Tom. ; Ifernthe judge became very indigniik and ordered tlin clerk to enter nook fine of twenty dollars, Toni arose with that .peculiar, provoking expression that no one tu imitate, and addressed the court with a mild gravity as circumstances troth permit, as follows: " It' your honor pleases, as a good rill zen, I feel bound to obey the ordslci this court, and intend to do se is ti.l instance i but as I don't happeti Whitt CI lily dollars about me, I shall hero& polled to borrow it 'of some , friend, Id. as I see no one present whose coofidtsct and friendship I have so long enjoiedu your honcesi I make no hesitation it asking the stfiail favor of a loan for ohs dam •to act tire up the amount of th fines that you; , have caused the clerk it enter against 'me." This was a stumpe v. The judge told at Tom, and then at the cleils, and fieall! said ) ' "Clerk, remit Mr. Murshall's lime% the State is better able to lose tidily 110 1 lays than gain." —The Ma i indchusetts - ruilivays kitty] 75 out o 109,187,381 pnstogo• they carried last year : and in doing 614, 155 employees were • :—.Thp. Brooklyn jail contains 281 car Iviets, 'of whom 135 are women, ---The latest Yankee invention is ' \ chine for darning stockings. ' —lt cost 81100 for soap awl comb!, 'keep Congress clean at this sersion,.
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