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hand of the decurion. Severe was the atruggle.
The central vein in each man's forehead came
oat into view: their lips were compressed;
their feet were steadied strongly upon the
Sloor; their shoulders quivered, and-after a
doubtful period of nearly three minutes-down
with a crash went the knuckles of Longinnes
upon the elm table.
"Now for the next," said Ch;erias.
"Do you mean to challenge mer" quoth ,
Pala. 1
"Even so," said Cth:rias, with an amicable
saile.
The ensuing struggle was much more severe
than the last. Cassius Cli-ria was consider.
bly older than Paulus: but '.Pulus had been
trained in the Athenian Ilancraltia, and it was 4
impossible for the energy and muscular power a
of Cbharias to break down the scientific re
slatance of his youthful opponent, nor could
Paulus pretend to bend back by main force the
mighty arm of the famous centurion. Indeed, c
Paulus had, throughout, a downward but yet
an unconquered arm. Again and again CL r
risa thew his whole vigor into the tfl.rt, pant
lag and gasping; and each time 'Paulus, who I
had never opened his lips during the struggle' t
sailed at the end of it.
"You cannot do it, can you Clharias l" cried f
Thelles who also was smiling.
" Well, scarcely," said Clerias; " in fact, I y
cannot. IBut you would be just as powerless." t
A laugh met this, that was not unlike the a
laugh with which Paulus, a few days before 1'
had greeted Claudius's panic-stricken depro- a
cation of being selected to break the Sejan a
horse.
"As powerless!" cried the ex.-gladiator; '
"why, you have had the best of it against ourT'
ehick here ; who when he comes to his plenary f
powers, will have the beat of it against us all. r
Bat you are speaking now to Thellus-I may
have gone into a wrong calling, or, if it be t
allowable, I may yet have rashly chosen it; r
but, once upon the sands, I have walked them t
a king-give ug your hand, and hold it up if
you can."
Cassmins Cha'rias-brave, handsome, youth
fil, and vigorous-seized the mighty hand
proffered to him, and found his own arm in
stantly bent powerless back upon the table.
" I would not do that," said Thellus, " to
young master Paulus, our present leader, for
a hundred thousand sesterces. Ite must meet
-he has to meet, alas! the mortifications of
life; but I do not want to be, in his case, the
early vehicle even of the least of them."
Paulus bowed to Thellus, and said, smiling:
" I have known a few already; and it would
be no shame to be beaten by you in vigor,
valor, or skill."
Charias rose, stared, frowned and laughed.
He muarchcd up and down the room once or
twice, and then exclaimed :
"Why, Thellus, what an infernal establish
ment the arena must be! Such rmenc as you31
ought not to be sucked into that kind of vor
tex."
"Thellrs, though linilinlg, heavt.d a sigh.
"Colse, friends," clied l'aulus, nloving to the
centre of the largo chan.ber, "enough of pas
time. We have work to do. Sit round ume
here, in the middle of this room, while I tell
you something. Walls, you know, have ears."
Forthwith his three colpa~nions brought
cashions, and placed them near the settle
which he had set down in the middle of the
apartment, and, sitting before him, waited for
his communication.
" Yonder beautiful grandchild of the nn
canny looking Jew's poor clerk or scrivener,"
said Paulus in a low tone, almost a whisper,
after a moment or two of reflection, " not
only made one or two singular disclosures in
the remarks you all heard, but whispered to
me a very serious fact."
Here Cassius Chirrias, whose curiosity had
been already much spurred, appeared the very
embodiment of attention. ult allwere keenly
attentive. Paulus pursued :
"Learn, then, that in this queerly built or
queerly arranged house, there is, at this mo
menat, a crowd of men of dangerous appear
ance, and doubtless of deaperate dispeoit in :
some of them, friend Thellus, mlleln wiho haveI
-been in the arena. Nor is this hisall. 'hey have
comrades oilside, w ttt.ling our ten soldierls.
Longinus uttered that low-whispered whin
tile by which oomc Itnc Il~x'pres tl' Cool apprec
elation of a suldden caltlity.
"Twelve millions of 1'itetres1 , 13 flields',"
continued 11auls, " are to auIllylI 11e1 Iiho
abouts an object of great iltetnest. 1 till : 1
tain that we are to be attacked on tile road,
and yonlder chest is to Ibe taken front us
While here, or in Roue, first tilhe Jew's own
safety is our hostage, antd next, Lucius Iiso's
government of the city will be our safety.
But once we are on thile road, the Jew calcu
late. on a part of the beoty as a reward for
betraying us, to be got out of the robbers
themselves---while he looks to recover the
whole money and interest for it all the same
from the (Eracram w S sntum, in the end."
" We have twelve good horses," said Longi
nus. "sand might outstrip the villains."
" So will Ithey have horses," answered 'Paulus,
and no iron chest or wagon to clog their
pace; the spieerd of a column is the speed of itsa
slowest. iautt; ti.td tihen what cau fourteen
men do against .tevt ly ? You are aware that
the army., I.rllt stlltilolary Prietolians and
an Urban Glard, of s1itth LuI'ius l'iso wolld
nOet lend us a lIan beeolod ItII, aills, Ilhas gollo
north; anti there is lclt atllilt.r si litir to be
found at our dispotsa inll oil tIo1. .What aut
vice do you give ?"
The conjuncture was olviollusly strlolus.
They had " tried ams " Il pllay ; th'y were. now
to try wita in earnest.
Paulus's counsellors advised one course and
soother. 1. To rail:-bnt the diflicllty woull
wait also. 2. To semd to Germaieus for a lars
esri:.-bt time pressed, and the treasure
was waanted by Germanicas at once. 3. To an
s.ases Mit t y mwere to be met, tlwsl miles feom
.E,~ bywm e .lMire-.r, fet Mas woeuld start
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sfart early the night bef.re; neither pf these
plans would avail, for they would be too
closely watshed.
These were the devices of ready and well
exercised, but ordinary soldiers. Paulas shook
his head, smiling, and then gave his orders,
which his comrades soon felt were fraught
punies asia.
"After an hour or two of sleep," said he, " we
will roll and carry this wheel.chest straight
down to our stables. There we most lock
ourselves in with old Philip. We will then
and there unpack and empty the chest: the
gold we must next repack, as best we can, in
some corn bags, to be placed under several of
the many bundles and trusses of hay which
we must carry for the use of our horses on the
road, cording the bags roughly but strongly
and securely. We must, when this is done,
unpare a portion of the stable, and mixing the
stones with rubbish to prevent theist from
rattling when shaktn, we must relpack the
chest with that sortof treaeare. Tiogvtstones
from anywhere tlbe outsilde thU stable, and
convey them thither, would xcite first atten
tion, then cariosity, and idually a suspicion, if
not a Fure iutereullce, of our who;S design.
After these measures we will set out, leaving
Philip to keep pisscsssion of the stable, and
to prevent any person wh atver (who might
notice the di(slaceiusnt of the paving stones)
from entetring it for a couple of days; which
time past, he can follow us. The chest is one,
you perceive, which, a ithont the key, would
take iron crowbars ma:ty hours to break open,
and steel saws as many to bite through-the
lock being both cunning as a lock and the
strongest part of the whole fabric. Our pur
suers will not think of crowbars or of steel
saws; and the key I will fling into the first
water or wood we meet after starting. When
we are overtaken-or if we be-you must at
first make a show of figl and leave the
rest to me."
His three companions highly applauded this
plan, and they and he lay down on cushions
round the chest, one on each of its four sides
to take a short and very necessary slumber.
They soon awoke, and began to execute, point
by point, the scheme of young Paulus Lepidus
nEmilius.
CHAPTER III.
"We have made more than fifty miles and
the pursuers do not appear," said Paulus.
Longinus was holding for his superior the
bridle of the famous horse of which Tiberius
Caesar had made a present to the breaker of
him. Chbrias and Thellos were standing on
each side of our youth, who had dismounted;
and all three, shading their eyes with their
hands from adazzling Italian moon at full, were
looking along the straight backward road.
Two wagons were in front, or behind them, as
they now stood watching; the soldiers had
unharnessed the six horses of one of them
that in the rear-upon which the heavy iron
ched t was borne, and were letting them drink
from a roadside spring; the other wagon,
drawn also by six horses, and laden with corn
bags, and hay at the bottom, and various
paclkages and soldiers' crmber above, was
movinug frawaid at a walk, conducted by two
roldie rs, who rode the two horses in the middle.
High banks on each hand lined at that point
the Roman road, which led to the northeast of
Italy, and the.se banks were densely clothed
with copse-wood, which in certain places
thickened into an impenetrable jungle.
"Do any of you see anything " inquired
Paulus, when he found no one disposed to
answer his remark.
A few moments of silent watching followed,
when Longinus, the decurion, said: "I sec
nothing, centurion ; but I hearsomething-the
distant beat of hoofs upon this hard and
echoing road."
Paulus at once cried to the men conducting
the hay wagon in front (that is, behind them,
as they then were facing round) to drive for
ward steadily, but to take care not to blow
the horses until followed by the rearward
wagon, when' they were to rush forward at the
top of their speed aind to continue at that
pace. lie next ordered the two soldiers who
were giving water to the horses of the other
wagon in the rear, in which was the chest, to
relhs ness them quickly, and as soon as a body
of imoonted men should appear on the road
Ichind, :and should have thetl plainly in sight
--but not soluer-to push their horses into a
gallop, 3et to make sure of not gaining upon
the wagon in front, but, beginning as late as
plossible, to continue their gallop only about a
lhoInsand paces, and then to walk. Lastly, heo
t turtd to the six remaining soldier, and bado
Sthew daw :their short swords, loosen their
shiildse and prcepare for action. Upon which
he clapped his hand upon the emerald hilt of
his own very ditlerently shaped weapon, whip.
lied it out of the scabbard, and, springing into
the ephippia upon the back of Sejanus (or,
more properly, of the Sejan steed) he said:
"Thlellus, stand upon my right hand, a little
further, so as to give me room; my weapon is
made for cutting as well as thrusting. Chea
rias and Longinus, stay on my left hand. Let
us see whether we can keep this narrow road
awhile against all who may come.
By this timne the clatter from the south-west
of galloping hoofs upon the hard road had be
conime aiiudible to all.
" Legionaries of the fourth centutia !" cried
I l'Paulue, turingi roundl, " away froni the road
into the bruishood on either hand, three each
side. Get befolre us, as we face now, a few
I srd ."
iThe lRoman legionarics vanishbed silently
to execiute this orrder, and crept through the
copse on either hand of the highway. Mean
time the Ihay-wagon trotted steadily forward
and the other remained staltionary, ready for
an appareatly panic-sttrieken gallhi.
P'resently caone forward, with rattle of hoofs
and clang of metal, and with the play of the
I moonlight upon armor, a column of moanted
Smen, every one of whom had on hise face a
Slinen mask-not the mask used in comedies.
- The column filled the width of the road.
Fronting them like a statue, in the middle of
Sthe way, stood the olessal ehmanet horse, and
I lIke a state sat young Paules on his bhok.
The riders pulled hard and stopped a few
yards from him, when their leader palled out:
" Young centurion, no affectation or bhypo
crisy is required. Eleazar bas-perish my
tongue ! I was going to say that I knoew you
to be a youth of precocious prudence. It is
best to speak out what we mean and what we
want. You are conveying a large treasure to
the army in Venetia; we must have every
sesterce of it."
Paulus looked, and saw that the wagon
laden with the iron cheat had just departed in
well-acted terror at a gallop.
" Take it then," said he. " We have been
careful and sparing of the horses, and it is
only now we have pushed them into a gallop;
and I entertain a hope that we shall hold you
at bay so long upon this read that the chest
will have reached Germanicus Cesrar before
you-I am wrong; I mean to leave you here
upon the ground-before your followers, I say,
can accomplish two-thirds of the distance."
"Demented youth! " replied the other, "why
resist without the hope of success ? We are
ten to ouc. Wo can, besides, send men into the
copse on each ride of the read, and in a mo
ment they will be in your rear."
" You fifty men on the right," cried Paulus,
" and you fifty on the left, select three of your
best javelin throwers each side, and, after I
have i idden back from the midst of yonder
gang, give them a sample of what you can
do."
He made his horse bound as he faced the col
umn between Thellus, on the one hand, and
Charias and Longinus, on the other.
" Now," said he, shaking his long rapier
aloft " I have a great mind to ride through the
whole of you and back again for the mere
sport of it. Your horses are like cats compared
to mine; you are only fourteen deep, and the
beast that bears me, even if mortally wounded,
weuld trample down fifty of you in file before
he dropped."
The leader of the pursuing band was a
shrewd man. After a moment's consultation
with thq persons on either side of him, he
said:
" It is a bold idea, ycung centurion. If it
deceived us, you could march away unattack
ed. But we counted you leaving Rome; we
know for certain that you were only fourteen
men all told; we have a poet of two men more
than forty miles ahead of you, who would
have returned and joined us if any reinforce
ment had met or was coming to meet you. We
seriously mean to have yonder treasure, there
fore listen to good sense. You might kill and
wound a few of us, but not a man of your own
party would survive, and we should get the
chest afterward all the same. You will lose
your life, yet not save the treasure. That will
not be disinterestedness, but madness."
" In answer to that," said Paulus, who had
no objection to prolong the parley, "I must
remind you of your own singular disinterest
ednese. You will lose your own life in order
that those behind you may enjoy the moony.
You must love them more than yon love yotlr
self; for I swear to you that, if it comes to
violence, not a sesterco in the chest will yoIu,
at least, receive. The dead divide no booty,
If you have anuthority, then, over your follow
cr., order them back, and begone yourself."
At these words a cry arose from the crew of
desperate men behind:
" No orders for us, we are all equals here !
And one voice added : "It will be no bad thing
if some of us do get killed; those who sur
vive will each have more of the money." And
a loud laugh greeted this sally.
Paulus hesitated. A downright wish to fight
and a strong repugnance to obey, even in ap
pearance, mandates such as theirs, yielded,
however, to prudence, and to the conviction
ihat the proper moment for a struggle would
come only when the robbers should attempt,
if they should attempt this at all, to take the
wagon containing the hay (wherein the trea
sure was concealed) as well as that which ca:
r ried the iron chest filled with stones, to which
I they were welcome. Having therefore played
out this little comedy, he said:
S" ad I not a message of vital importance to
I give to Gcrmanicas Ciesar, which forbids me
to throw away my life till I have fulfilled the
errand, I would rather be slain where we stand
than comply. But I call upon you, TLelius,
I and Son, Louginus and Cbal-ias, to bear wit
t ness that we 3itld only to overwhelming and
, irresistible odds. Ten men cannot withstand
, seventy. lie p!eased to move aside, andl let
s these riders comue forward. I 'sill gallop on
1 with tLc, m and ,vt rtake the chest. Bring with
you tle legionatiics in the copso after nl, and
follow at a fast run. We may need you after
r all, slhouhld these new friends prove too unrea
a sonable."
f " We sha'n't prove unreasonable. You pay
us too well for that," retorted the leader of
the robbers.
Meanwhile, Thellus, Chcrias, and Longiuns
had stepped to the side of the road, and Paulnus
e had turned his horse round. lie forthwith
Srode off at a furious gallop, which soon left
- far behind him the cloud of straining pursuners
S" Was not that neatly done ?" said Thelluma
I in a low voice to Chenrias, "I did not think our
chick-chick was such a play-actor."
S" He is a splendid lad," said the centurion
" iBut come, no time is to be lost; these vil
lians nmay want to take both the wagons, and
1 we must all die on the road, rather. I am in
I commmand, I think. Legionaries, conme down
fromi thie copse, amid follow us at a iun."
SAnd the three friends,-aith the six legiona
rics buhind them, started at a -ort of eling
trot, which every Roman soldicr was obliged
Sto practice in the various gylllamnsiiums atL
- tached to the RIoman camps.
S Considlerably more than a thousand paces
r forward, they heard an uproar of voices, and
saw the freebooters in the act of turning the
Swagon whlich contained the iron chest. The
Sother wagon was far in front, nearly out of
I sight indeed ; and, as they afterwards learnt,
Swould by this time have been so altogether,
Sonly for the restiveness of one of the horses,
which had cost the drivers several miuntee.
SPauale had a design in gallopingo foriours
I ly, and obtainling so great lead of the eeb
bootere. Tite memstatbg .Wtees~ tk
of the rearward van, who according to orders,
were now going at a walk, be directed them to
cut the traces, to set free two of the horses
and then to ride forward on two of the re
maining horses, and join the escort of the
other vehicle. This meaure had several ef.
fects; first, there would be a fresh delay oo
casioned, and each delay increased the dis
tance which was now growing between the
pursuers and the treasure; secondly, the es
cort, and, if requisite, the locomotive power
immediately attached to the gold, would be
increased; thirdly, the vehicle containing the
chest needed six, or at least four, of those
small horses, to be drawn with anything like
the speed indispensable to the safety of the
plunderers, none of whom, until they had de
liberated, would be likely to part with their
own steeds, considering the chance of pursuit,
or the chance that their accomplices might
leave them behind, and divide the treasure
without them. But a far more important ef
fect than any of these was contemplated by
Paulus in the whole operation of seperating
his two vehicles, and this effect soon appeared.
When Chmariaes, Longinus, and Thellus, with
the six legionaries, came up, they found the
robbers in great disorder and uproar, endeav
oring to turn the wagon, nearly half of them
having dismounted, and working with their
own hands. Paulus, on his tall steed, was
conspicuous a little beyond the further verge
of thecrowd, and was holdingan angry dis
pute with the chief who had addressed him.
"You looked so formidable," said he, in a
low voice and with haughty smile, "as you
came thundering after me along the road
that I do not at all wonder the two soldiers
should have sought their safety in flight, and
in order that they might fly effectually, should
have taken the two horses with them."
"That one, at all events," said the other,
"which you are riding, most be instantly har
nessed."
"We must mend these traces as best we
can."
"Here's another set of traces in the cart it
self !" shouted one of the robbers.
"Good "! said the leader." Some two or
three of us must harness our own horses to the
vehicle, besides yonder chestnut steed. We
can ride all the same. No man need walk,
for that. Now, my master," added he, turn
ing once more to Pauniusne, "dismount, and give
as the key of this chest."
"The key Is not in my possession," replied
Paulos; "but I can tell you where it is."
" Where, then I and quickly I"
" Please to remember," said Paulus, " that
you have obtained possession of that sheet by
convention, by agreement. We might have
made you pay a dear price for it. Therefore,
before I tell you where the key is, let my men
pass. It was to spare them that I gave up the
chest."
" By all the gods!" cried the leader furiously,
" they shall never pass till we know where the
key is! It would take many strong men hours
of hard work to break open this box with
crowbars, or cut it with steel saws."
Paulus perceived that Chu:rias and the two
decurious, followed by the six soldiers, had
quietly and swiftly sprung into the copse
which still lined the road, and were working
their way round to where he stood.
Ile said, " A good locksmith in Rome would
soon mrike you a key."
"Are you courting a needless death f" roared
the other. " I am very likely to let a Roman
locksmith see this! Once and for all, where is
the key I"
By this time, some of the freebooters, who
had ridden after and caught the two stray
horses, and harnessed these and two of their
own to the wagon, and the two men who had
parted with their own had now mounted the
leaders. One of them here called out, " Cat
him down, if he don't tell us where to find the
key. We may have troops upon us before we
can take this money to a safe place and divide
it."
Paulus made his horse bound a few paces
away. Cha-rias and his companions sprang
into the road, and passing Paulus, who had
faced round again toward the robbers, resumed
at his comamud their vigorous slinging run
along the high-road in tl.e original direction
of the march.
"Listen to me," cried Paulus to the robbers.
" Time is more precious to you. than you are
aware. My men are now safe, and I'll tell you
where the key is. lint, first, lot me advise
tho~se of you who drive the wagon to move on
with it last; and, if they can leave some of
their comrades behind, they will evidently
have more of what is inl the box to divide among
themselves. On the other hand, any one of
you who may wish to abandon his share in the
box has only to come out here after me, and so
lose the brief time of security. If no more
than three of you come out at once, some of
them will doubtless lose something else besides
time; if any greater number come, let them
catch me."
" Cries of" The key ! the key I" interropted
him.
" The key of that chest," he resumed, " is
lying as faras I could fling it in the forrest on
the roadside either to the right or to the left,
not fifty miles from Rome. Farewell!"
As he said this in a loud voice, he slowly
turned 8ejanus, and trotted him in pursuit of
his running companions. Some of the robbers
believed they could find the key upon his per
son. A shower of javelins followed him, all of
which, except three, missed. One glanced
against the back of his helmet; two others
stuck in the small rings of a steel shirt. At
the same time, the rattle of boofs behind
warned him that he was pnrsued. 1Ie turned
half-round on his saddle-cloths, exclaiming as
he increased his pace, " Right! Lose your
part in yonder box, which is even now trot
ting off. Come with me, my masters, and let
the others have the chest. Come along !"
They did not mean to take this advice, how
ever much they would have desirsd to punish
him for his trick respecting the key, as well uas
for his dejant and jeering tone. In spito of
iUneutery auger, thejr mRIsI~ii~ tb
wildest spirits. Their work had been short;
their success, as they supposed, perfect; and
there was money enough now in their posses
sion to give them more than the value of
twelve hundred pounds sterling each. The
great majority of. them, in fact, felt litrally
unable to tear themselves away from the iron
box, containing twelve millions of sesteres ;
and this division of their number, and conse
quent diminution of their combatant power,
were the very objects which Paulus had had in
view when separating by so wide an interval
his two vehicles. Had it become necessary to
defend the,one in advance, he felt sanguine
and even certain that he should have had only
a part of the enemy to resist, and even this
part would not long continue an attack which
might give their accomplices time to divide
the spoil in their absence.
Five men, however, among whom was their
leader, had dashed forth from the mass of
riders to wreak the anger of the monuent upon
the scoffer.
Paulus, going at an easy canter, his face
turned back, saw that they were not coming
on abreast, their chief being the best mounted,
and the four others straggling after him as if
in a race. He pressed Sejanuos for about a hubon
dred and fifty yards, and, finding now that there
was a sufficient interval between the leading
pursuer and his followers, pulled up abruptly,
and wheeled round.
' I have no need and no wish," he cried, as
his long rapier flashed above his charger's head
in a wide lateral sweep from left to right, " to
take your life, but you shall carry a marked
face to your grave !"
It was not a very violent cut, but measured
with great exactness, and delivered with half
force. There was blood on the three-edged
sword as it came away. The man yelled. The
next pursuer polled up in haste to let the
thiud join him; and in the meantime Paulus,
who had passed the leading robber on that
gentleman's right hand, now made a curve
across the whole road in returning, and flew
by him at full speed on the opposite side,
where the poor caitiff would have had to strike
or thrust across his own bridle. He made an
awkward attempt to do the former, but was,
of course, abort of his chastiser, who-continued
his course until be overtook Cassias Charias
and the others, still running steadily along the
road.
Here, looking back, he perceived that his
pursuers had given up the chase, and were
using their best speed to join the main body
who (somebefore and some behind the precien~
van) could be seen traveling away in the
distance at a vigorous trot.
"Stop a moment," cried Paulus dismount
ing; "take breath now."
And Chaerias, the two decurions, and the
soldiers all stopped, and gathered round the
young centurion. The four officers burst sim
ultaneously into a hearty laugh, and their
mirth rather surprised the grim legionaries,
who conceived that to have just lost twelve
million sesterces of military pay was no laugh
ing matter.
(To be continued.)
WESTERNI PRODUCE, LIQUORS, ETC.
800 BBLS. CHOICE MESS PORK.
1(0 casks CLEAR BACON SIDES, choice brands.
50 casks CLEAR RIB SIDES, choice brands.
5o casks BACON SHOULDERS.
100,0(0 lbs. DRY SALTED SHOULDERS.
50.000 lbs. DRY SALTED CLEAR SIDES.
50,000 lbs. DRY SALTED CLEAR RIB SIDES.
100 tlerces Choice S. C. HAMS.
100 boxes Choice BREAKFAST BACON.
100 tieroes REFINED LARD.
50 tierces Choice KETTLE LARD.
400 kegs Choice LARD.
500 buckets Choice REFINED LARD.
t10 bbs. Kiln.Drled CORN MEAL.
In store and for sale by
FINNEY. SHEEHAN & RUSS,
ap26 lm No. 81 Poydras street.
MARTIN DRUHAN,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
8ALE AGONT FOR
Blood, Wolfe & Co.'s English Ale and Porter,
NO. 39 COMMERCE STREET.
Between Lafayette and Girod. N. O.
In store and arriving constantly and will be sold a
quantities to suit. Thils Ale and Porter is wel known
and Is in good shipping order in cases of six dozen eah.
stone and glass bottles . . anto 73 ly
J, T. GIBPONS & CO.,
DEALxER IN
GRAIN, CORNMEAL AND HAY,
57, 59, 61, 63... New Levee Strect...57, 59, 1. 3
an3 71 Iv Corner Povdras.
JOHN HIENDERSON.
WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER,
~ anud 87....Tchoupitoutoul Street....8"> and 67
Corner of Lafayette street,
NEW ORLEANS, a.
Manufacturer of PALACE BOURBON and RYE
WHISKY, ALCOHOL, and all grades of RECTIFIED
WHISKY. less 73 Iv
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ng eono.. o requeete hl patrons to be redy fo
him when be alls, and hopes that all will be prepared
to pa him their pro rata, no that none will receive the
bene nt or wellwatered streeti, either at the expense
of their neighbors or of their obedient servant,
P. CALLERY, Undertaker.
4 2l Magazine street.
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Or TIMOIIY MORONEY,
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No. 203 Camp street,
j.y6 73 ly New Orleans.
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
FURNITURE ............. ...... FURNITURE.
HUCQ FLYNN,
167............ Poydras Street ............ 167
All who want to purchase CHEAP FURNITURE
can call at 167 Poydras street, between St Charles aid
Carondelet streets.
On account of retiring from the Furniture business, I
am now selling off my large stock of New Furniture a
greatly reduced rates I am selling at rates below that
of any house in the city:
Walnut Victoria Bedroom Sets, marble-top......... 15
Parlor Beta, eleven pieces........................... 110
Double Bedstead, with Teeters and Rollers......... It
Kitchen and Diningroom Furaltureatequaily low rats
Spring, HaIlr and eOss Mattresses, of the best quality
and at greatly reduced prices. no2 i31y
CARPET AND OIL-CLOTH WAREHOUSE.
ELKIN & CO.,
169............Canal Street. ......... 160
Have a large variety of
CARPETS-in Velvet, Brussels, Three-Ply and Ingrain,
at very low prices.
FLOOR OIL-CLOTH-all widths.
LACE CURTAINS,
WLNDOW SHADES and CORNICES
CANTON RIATTINGS-White, Check and Fancy.
sel14 73 ly
JOhN 3 OIS,
No. 291 Camp Street,
Returns his sincere thanks to the public for the liberal
patronage bestowed upon him In the past, and respect
fully solicits a continuance of the same guaranteeing
In all cases to afford full satisfaction. His store is W9s
stocked with a large and handsome assortment of
FURNITURE, MIRRORS, PICTURES, SHADES
CORDS, ETC.
Pictures and Looking Olassee Framed. Upholsterbl5
RepairMng and Varnishing done i the best manne.
MOVIING done with care and dispatch. s 7 "3 ly
J. A. KERNAN & THOS. WRITE,
PRAOTIOAL OILDERS,
106 Customhouse street, near Royal,
raw oL taes.
varnIshed. Having a businese exlevs. of neW(Y
forty ears in this city, they hope give satisskls
to teir customers, not only In the superior qualiid
their work, but likewise in their moderat ehargos.
N. B.-Tberatronage of the trade sollo-itsd.ibu ,
decoration anc country orders promptly nenuted.
- au31 7r3 ly
W ALL PAPER, PAINTS, WINDOW GLASS. 1a
119 ........... Common Street.......... 1
The undersigned, formerly of 105 Casn street,5
nounees to his friends and the pubile that he is
located at 119 COMMON STREET, between Camp
St Cuarles streets.
He calls especiael attentioen to his stock of WAt
PAPER, ranging in p rIce frem 14. a roil upwards.1
His stock of PAIVTSt)LS, GLAS WINDO
AD S, oeto. being very largea is sipe5,
bet much lower thba formerly, he Is enabled to sI
all articles in his line at greatly rdede pries.
Call and see for voreelvel
M. WaEEILAHAN 119 Common ste
 uine EngUlish WHITE LAD (B. ) alway0
uand. ul10 731
CARPET W'AREHOUSE,
yF ............ Chartes street ....... ..... f
A. BOUSSEAU, Importer,
uffirs at Wholesale Sad Retal
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