Locomotive, Volume 47, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1858 — Page 1

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A STUM OF FA UNTIE ROY THE FOKGER. What I am going to ti-11 you, gcntlctuon, liapponrd wlit-n I was a verj- young man, and when I was just setting up in business on my own account Mv father had been well acquainted for many years with lSIr. Faimtleroy, of the famous London banking firm of Marsh, Straeey, Fauntleroy, & Graham. Thinking it might be of some future service to me to make my position to a great man in the commercial world, my father mentioned to his highly-respected friend that I was about to start in business for myself, in a very small way, and with very little money. Mr. Fauntleroy received the intimation with a kind appearance of interest; and said that he would have his eye on me. I expected from this that ho would wait to see if I could keep on my legs at starting ; and that, if he found I succeeded pretty well, he would then help mo forward if it lay in his power. As events turned out, he proved to be a far better friend than that ; and he soon showed me that I had very much underrated the hearty and generous interest which he had felt in my welfare from the first. While I was still fighting with the first difficulties of setting up my ollice, and recommending myself to my connection, and so forth, I got a message from Mr. Fauntleroy, telling me to call on him, at the banking-

liouse, the first time 1 was passing that way. As you may easily imagine, I contrived to be passing that way on a particularly early occasion; and on presenting myself at the bank, I was shown at once into Mr. Fanntloroy's private room. lie was as pleasant a man to speak to as ever I met with bright and gay and companionable in his mannerwith a sort of easy, hearty, jovial bluntness aliout him that attracted every body. The clerks all liked him and that is something to say of a partner in a banking-house, I can tell you 1 " Well, young Trowbridge," says he, giving his papers on the table a brisk push away from him, "so you are going to set up in business for yourself, are you 'I I have a great regard for your father, anil a great wish tosee you succeed. Have you started yet? No? Just on tho point of beginning eh? Very good. You will have your diiTieul ties, my friend and I mean to smooth one of them away for you at the outset. A word of advice for your private ear. Bank with us." " You are very kind, bir," I answered, "andl should ask nothing better than to profit by your suggestion if I could. But my expenses are heavy at starting, and when they are all paid I am afraid I shall have very little left to put by for the first year. I doubt if 1 shall be able to muster much more than three hundred pounds of surplus cash in the world, after paying what I must pay, before I set up my office. And I should be ashamed to trouble your house, Sir, to open an account for such a trifle as that." " Stuff and nonsense !" says Mr. Fauntleroy. "Are you a banker ? What business have you to offer an opinion on the matter ? Do as I tell you leave it to me bank with us and draw for what you like. Stop 1 I haven't done yet When you open the account speak to the head cashier. Perhaps you may find he has got something to tell you. There I there I go away don't' interrupt me good-by God bless you I" That was his away Ah, poor fellow 1 that was his way I ' I went to the head cashier the next morning, when I opened my little modicum of an account. lie had received orders to pay my drafts without reference to my balance. My checks, when I had overdrawn, were to be privately shown to Mr. Fauntleroy. Do many young men who start in business find their prosperous superiors ready to help them in that way 1 Well, I got on got on very fairly and steadily ; being careful not to venture out of my depth, and not to forget that small beginnings may lead in time to great ends. ' A prospect of one of those great ends great, I mean, to such a small trader as I was at that period "showed itself to me, when I had been some little time in business. In plain terms, I had a chance of joining in a first-rate transaction, which would give me profit and position and every thing I wanted, provided I could qualify myself for engaging in it by getting good security beforehand fora very large amount In this emergency I thought of my kind friend, Mr. Fauntleroy, and went to the bank, and saw him once more in his private room. ' There he was at the same table, with the same heaps of papers about him, and the same hearty, easy way of speaking his mind to you at once, in the fewest possible words. I explained the business I came upon, with some little hesitation and nervousness ; for I was afraid he might think that I was taking an unfair advantage of his former kindness to me. When I had done, he just nodded his head, snatched up a blank sheet of paper, scribbled a few lines on it, in his rapid way, handed the writing to me, and pushed me out of the room by the two shoulders before I could say a single word.' I looked at the paper in the outer office. It was my security from that great banking-house for the whole amount, and for more, if more was wanted. I could not express my gratitude then ; and I don't know that I can describe it now. I can only say that it has outlived the crime, the disgrace, and the awful death on the scaffold. I am grieved to speak of that death at all. But I have no other alternative. Tho course of my story must now lead mo straight on to the later time, and to the terrible discover)- which exposed my benefactor and my friend to all England as the forger Fauntleroy. I must ask you to suppose a lapse of some time after tho occurrence of the events that I have just been relating. During this interval thanks to the kind assistance I hail received at the outset my position as a man of business had greatly improved. Imagine me now, if you please, on the high road to prosperity, with good large offices and a respectable staff of clerks ; and picture me to yourselves sitting alone in my private room, between four and five o'clock, on a certain Saturday afternoon. All my letters had been written, all tho people who hail appointments with me had been received I was looking carelessly over tho newspaper, and thinking about going home, when one of aiy clerks came in, and said that a stranger wished to see me immediately on very important business. " Did he mention his name ?" I inquired. "No, Sir." . ' -; . " Did you not ask him for it ?" ' " Yes, Sir. And he said you would be none the wiser if he told me what it was." " Does he look like a begging-letter writer ?" He looks a little shabby, Sir; but he doesn't talk at all like a begging-letter writer. He spoke sharp and decided, Sir and said that it was in your interests that he came, and that you would deeply regret it afterward if you refused to see him." " He said that, did he ? Show him in at once, then." Hewas shown in immediately. A middling-sized man, with a sharp, unwholesome-looking face, and with a flippant, reckless manner ; dressed in a style of shabby smartness ; eyincr me with a bold look ; and not so overburdened with politeness as to trouble himself about taking off his hat when he came in. I had never seen him before in my life; and I could not form the slightest conjecture from his appearance to guide me toward guessing his position in the world. He was not a gentleman, evidently ; but as to fixing his whereabouts in the infinite downward gradations of vagabond existence in London, that was a mystery which I was totally incompetent fo solve. " Is your name Trowbridge ?" he began. ' " Yes," I answered, dryly enough.

" Do you bank with Marsh, Stracev, Fauntleroy, & Graham?" " Why do you ask ?" " Answer my question, an'l J'ou know !" " Very wellj 1 ilo bank with Man.li, Straeey, Fauntleroy, & Graham and what then ?" " Draw out every farthing of balance you have got before the bank closes at five to-day." I stared at him in speechless amazement The words, for the instant, absolutely petrified me. " Stare as much as you like," he proceeded, coolly ; " I mean what I say. Look at your clock there. In twenty minutes it will strike five, and the bank will be shut. Draw out every farthing, I tell you, again; and look sharp about it" " Draw out my money !" I exclaimed, partially recovering myself. " Are you in your right senses ? Do you know that tho firm I bank with represents one of the first houses in tho world ? What do you mean you, who are a total stranger to me by taking this extraordinary interest in my alfairs? If you want me to act on your advice, why don't you explain yourself?" " I have explained myself. Act on my advice, or not, just as you like. It don't mattter to me. I have done what I promised ; and there's nn end of it." lie turned to tho door. The minute-hand of tho clock was getting on from the twenty minutes to the quarter. " Done what you promised ?" I repeated, getting up to stop hiin. " Yes," ho said, with his hand on the lock. "I havo given my message. Whatever happens, remember that. Good-afternoon." He was gone before I could speak again. I tried to call after him, but my hps had suddenly got dry, and the words seemed to stick on them. I could not imagine why, but there was something in the man's last words which had more than half frightened mo. I looked at the clock. The minute-hand was on the quarter. My office was just far enough from the bank to make it necessary for me to decide on the instant. If I had had time to think I am perfectly certain that I should not have profited by the extraordinary warning that had just been addressed to me. The suspicious appearance and manners of the stranger the outrageous improbability of the inference against the credit of the bank toward which his words pointed the chance that some underhand attempt was being made by some enemy of mine to frighten me into imbroiling myself with one of my best friends, through showinir

an ignorant distrust of the firm with which ho was associated as partner all these considerations would unquestionably have occurred to me if I could have found time for rellection ; and as a necessary consequence, not one farthing of my balance would have been taken from the keeping of tho bank on that memorable day. As it was I had just time enough to act, and not a spare moment for thinking. Some heavy payments made at the beginning of the week had so far decreased my balance that the sum to my credit in the banking-book barely reached fifteen hundred pounds. I snatched up my check-book, wrote a draft for the whole amount, and ordered one of my clerks to run to the bank and get it cashed before the doors closed. What impulse urged me on, except the blind impulse of hurry and bewilderment, 1 can't say. I acted mechanically, under the influence of the vague, inexplicable fear which the man's extraordinary parting words had aroused in me, without stopping to analyze my own sensations almost without knowing what I was about. 1 In three minutes from the time when the stranger had closed my door the clerk had started for the bank ; and I was alone again in my room, with my hands as cold as ice and my head all in a whirl. I did not recover my control over myself until the clerk came back with the notes in his hand. He had just got to the bank in the nick of time. As the cash for my draft was handed to him over the counter the clock struck five, and he heard the order given to close the doors. When I had counted the bank-notes, and had locked them up in the safe, my better sense seemed to come back to me on a sudden. Never have I reproached myself before or since as I reproached myself at that moment. What sort of return had I made for Mr. Fauntleroy's fatherly kindness to mo 1 I had insulted him by the meanest, the grossest distrust of the honor and the credit of his house and that on the word of an absolute stranger of a vagabond, if ever there was one yet 1 It was madness, downright madness, in any man to have acted as I had done. I could not account for my own inconceivable thoughtless proceeding. I could hardly believe in it myself. I opened the safe and looked at the bank-notes again. I locked it once more, and flung the key down on the table in a fury of vexation against myself. There the money was, upbraiding me with my own inconceivable folly telling me in the plainest terms that I had risked depriving myself of my best and kindest friend henceforth and forever. It was necessary to do something at once toward making all the atonement that lay in my power. I felt that as soon as I began to cool down a little. There was but one plain, straightforward way left now out of the scrape in which I had been mad enough to involve myself. I took my hat, and, without stopping an instant to hesitate, hurried off to the bank to make a clean breast of it to Mr. Fauntleroy. , When 1 knocked at the private door and asked for him I was told that he, had not been at the bank for the last two days. One of the other partners was there, however, and was working at that moment in his own room. I sent in my name at once, and asked to see him. He aud I were little better than strangers to each other; and the interview was likely to be, on that account, unspeakingly embarrassing and humiliating on my side. Still I could not go home. I could not endure the inaction of the next day, the Sunday, without having done my best on the spot to repair the error into which my own folly had led me. Uncomfortable as I felt at tho prospect of the approaching interview, I should have been far more uneasy in' my mind if the partner had declined to see me. . To my relief, the bank-porter returned with a message requesting me to walk in. What particular form my explanations and apologies took when I tried to offer them is more than I can tell now. I was so confused and distressed that I hardly knew what I was talking about at the time. The one circumstance which I remember clearly is, that I was ashamed to refer to my interview with the strange man ; and that I tried to account for my sudden withdrawal of my balance by referring it to some inexplicable panic, caused by mischievous reports which I was unable to trace to their source, and which, for any thing I knew to the contrary, might, after all, have been only started in jest. Greatly to my surprise, the partner did not seem to notice the lamentable lameness of my excuses, and did not additionally confuse me by asking any questions. A weary, absent look, which I had observed on his face when I came in, remained on it while I was speaking. It seemed to be an effort to him even to keep up the appearance of listening to me. And when, at last, I fairly broke down in the middle of a sentence, and gave up the hope of getting any farther, all the answer he gave me was comprised in these few civil, commonplace words : "Never mind, Mr. .Trowbridge; pray don't think of apologizing. We are all liable to make mistakes. Say nothing more about it ; and bring the money back on Monday if you still honor us with your confidence." He looked down at his papers, as if he was anxious to be alone again ; and I had no alternative, of course, but to take my leave immediately. I went home, feel-ino-a little easier in my mind now that I had paved the wav for making the best practical atonement in

my power by bringing my balance back the first thing on Monday morning. Still 1 tiassed a weary day on

Sunday, reflecting, sadly enough, tliat I had not yet made my icace with Mr. Fauntleroy. Mv anxiety to set myself right with my generous friend was so intense that 1 risked intruding myself on Ins privacy by calling at his town residence on the Sunday. He was not there ; and his servant could tell me nothing of his whereabouts. There was no help for it now but to wait till his week-day duties brought him back to the bank. I went to business on Monday morning half an hour earlier than usual, so great was my impatience to restore the amount of that unlucky draft to my account as soon as possible after tho bank opened. On entering my ollice I stopped, with a startled feeling, just inside the door. Something serious had happened. The clerks, instead of being at their desks as usual, were all huddled together in a group, tdking to each other with blank faces. AVhen I hey saw me they fell back behind my managing man, who stepped forward with a circular in his hand. " Have you heard the news, Sir?" he said. " No. What is it ?" He handed me tho circular. My heart gave one violent throb the instant I looked at it. I felt myself turn pale ; I felt my knees trembling under me. Marsh, Straeey, Fauntleroy, & Graham had stopped payment! " The circular has not been issued more than half an hour," continued my managing elerk. "I have just come from the bank, Sir. The doors arc shut there is no doubt about it. Marsh & Company have stopped this morning." I hardly heard him; I hardly know who was ttlking to me. My strango visitor of the Saturday had taken instant possession of all my thoughts ; and his words of warning seemed to bo sounding once more in my ears. This man had known the true condition of the bank, when not another soul outside the doors was aware of itl Tho last draft paid across tho counter of the ruinhouse, when tho doors closed on Saturday, was tho draft that I had so bitterly reproached myself for drawing ; the one balance saved from tho wreck was my balance. Where had the stranger got tho inform. atiou that had saved me, and why had he brought it to my ears f I was still groping, like a man in the dark, for an an swer to those two questions 1 was still bewildered by the unfathomable mystery of doubt into which they had plungetl me, when the discovery of the stopping of the bank was followed almost immediately by a sec ond shock, far more dreadful, far heavier to bear, so tar as 1 was concerned, than the first. N hile I and my clerks were still discussing the failure of the firm, two mercantile men, who were friends of mine, ran into the office, and overwhelmed us with the news that one of the partners had been arrested for forgery. iNever siiau l torget the terrible Monday morning when those tidings reached me, and when 1 knew that the partner was Mr. h auntleroy. , I was true to him I can honestly say I was true to my belief in my generous friend when that fearful news reached me. My fellow-merchants had got all the particulars of the arrest They told me that two of Mr. Faunlleroy's fellow-trustees had come up to London to make arrangements about selling out some stock. On inquiring for Mr. Fauntleroy at the bank ing-house, they had been informed that he was not there ; and, after leaving a message for him, they had gone into the city to make an appointment with their stock-broker for a future day, when their fellow-trustee might be able to attend. The stock-broker volun teered to make certain business inquiries on the spot, with a view to saving as much time as possible, and left them at his office to await his return. He came back, lookinrr very much amazed, with the information that the stock had been sold out, down to the last five hundred pounds. The atl'air was instantly investigated ; the document authorizing the selling out was produced ; and the two trustees saw on it, side by side with Mr. Fauntleroy's signature, the forged signature of their own names. This happened on the Friday ; anu me trustees, wiinout. losing a moment, sent the of ficers of justice in pursuit of Mr. Fauntleroy. lib was arrested, brought up before the magistrate, and re manded, on the Saturday. On the Monday I heard from my friends the particulars which I have just nar. rated. , . But the events of that one morning were not destin ed to end even yet I had discovered the failure of the bank, and the arrest of Mr. Fauntleroy. I was next to be enlightened, in the strangest and the sad dest manner, on the difficult question of his innocence or his guilt. Before my friends had left my office before 1 had exhausted the arguments which my grab tude rather than my reason suggested to me, in favor of the unhappy prisoner a note, marked immediate. was placed in my hands, which silenced me the instant I looked at it It was written from the prison by Mr. Fauntleroy, and it contained two lines only, entreating me to apply for the necessary order, and to go and see nun nnmeuiaieiy. I shall not attempt to describe the flutter of expectation, the strange mixture of dread and hope that agi tated me, when I recognized his handwriting, and discovered what it was that he desired me to do. I ob tained the order, and went to the prison. The au thorities, knowing the dreadful situation in which he stood, were afraid of his attempting to destroy himself. and had set two men to watch him. One came out as they opened his cell-door. The other, who was bound not'to leave him, very delicately and considerately affected to be looking out of window the moment I was shown in. He was sitting on the side of his bed, with his head drooping and his hands hanging listlessly over his knees, when 1 hrst caught sight of turn. At the sound of my approach he started to his feet, and, without speaking a word, flung both his arms round my neck. My heart swelled up. " Tell me it's not true, Sir I For God's sake, tell me it's not true I" was all I could say to him. He never answered oh, me 1 he never answered, and he turned away his face. There was one dreadful moment of silence. He still held his arms round my neck ; and on a sudden he put his lips close to my ear. " Did you get your money out ?" he whispered. " Were you in time on Saturday afternoon ?" ' I broke free from him, in the astonishment of hearing those words. " What !" I cried out loud, forgetting the third person at the window. " That man who brought the message ?" " Hush 1" he said, putting his hand on my lips. " There was no better man to be found after the officers had taken me I know no more about him than you do I paid him well, as a chance messenger, and risked his cheating me of his errand." , " You sent him, then 1" . " I sent him." My story is over, centlemen. There is no need for me to tell you that Mr. Fauntleroy was found guilty, and that he died by the hangman's hand. It was in my power to soothe his last moments in this world, by taking on myself the arrangement of some of his private affairs, which, while they remained unsettled, weighed heavily on his mind. They had no connection with ' the crimes he had committed, so I could do him tho , last little service he was ever to accept at my hand j with a clear conscience. I say nothing in defense of lus character, nothing in palliation of the offense for I which he suffered. But I can not forsee that in the time of his most fearful extremity, when the strong arm of the law had already seized him, he thought of the young man whose humble fortunes he had helped to

build ; whose heartfelt gratitude he had fairlv won ; whose simple faith lie was resolved never to betrav. I leave it to greater intellects than mine to reconcile the anomaly of his reckless falsehood toward others, and his steadfast truth toward me. It is as certain as that we sit here that one of Fauntleroy's last efforts in this world was the ell'ort he made to preserve me from being a loser by the trust that I had placed in him. EXTRACT FROM THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE. The following extract from the l'rcsident's Message all he pays on the subject of Mexico was fet in type for last week's paper, but omitted to make room for other matters. COPITION OK A FF Alios IN MEXICO. Our position in relation to the independent States south of us on this continent, and especially thoso within the limits of North America, is of peculiar character. The northern boundery of Mex'u o is coincident with our own southern boundery, ficin ocean to ocean; anil we must necessarily feel a tleep interest in all that concerns the well-being arid fate of so near a neighbor. Wo have always cherished the kindest wishes for the success of that republic, and have indulged the hope that it might at last, after all its trials, enjoy peace and prosperity under a free and stable government. We have never hitherto interfered, directly or indirectly, with its internal affairs, and it is a duty which we owe to ourselves fo protect the integrity of its territory against the hostile interference of any other power. Our geographical position our direct interest in all that concerns Mexico, and our wellsettled policy in regard to the North American continent, render this an indisjiensahle duty. Mexico has been in a state of constant revolution, almost ever since it achieved its indipendence. Ono military leader after another has usurped the govern ment in rapid succession, and the various constitutions from time to time adopted have been set at naught almost as soon as they were proclaimed. The successive Governments have afforded no adequate protection, either to Mexican citizens or foreign residents, against lawless violence. Heretofore, a seizure of the capital by a military chieftain has been generally followed by at least tho nominal submission of the country to hts rule for a brief period, but not so at the present cri.-is of Mexican affairs. A civil war has been raging for sometime throughout the Republic, between the General Government at the city of Mexico, which has endeavored to subvert the Constitution last framed by military power, and those who maintain the authority of that Constitution. Tho antagonist parties each hold possession of different States of tho Republic, and the fortunes of war are constantly changing. Meanwhile, the most reprehensible means have been employed by both parties to extort money from foreigners as well as natives, to carry on this ruinous contest The truth is, that this fine country, blessed with a productive soil and benign climate, has been reduced by civil dissension to a condition of almost hopeless anarchy and imbecility. It would be vain for this Government to attempt to enforce payment in money of the claims of American citizens, now amounting to more than ten million dollars, against Mexico, because she is destitute of all pecuniary means to satisfy those demands. Our late minister was furnished with ample powers and instructions for the adjustment of all pending questions with the General Government of Mexico, and he performed his duty with zeal and ability. The claims of our citizens, some of them arising out of the violation of and express provision of tho treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, and others from gross injuries to persons as well as property, have remained unredressed and even unnoticed. Remonstrances against these grievances have been numerous, of the murder imprisonment and plunder of our citizens, by different parties claiming and exercising a local jurisdiction; but the General Government, although repeatedly urged thereto, have made no effort, either to punish the authors of these outrages or to prevent their recurrence. No American citizen can now visit Mexico on lawful business without immediate danger to his person and property. There is no adequate protection to either; and in this respect our treaty with that Republic is almost a dead letter. This state of affairs was brought to a crisis in May last by the promulgation of a decree levying a contribution pro rata upon all the capital in the Republic, between certain specified amounts, whether held by Mexicans or foreigners. Mr. Forsyth, regarding this decree in the light of a "forced loan," formally protested against its application to his countrymen, and advised them not to pay the contribution, but to suffer it to be forcibly exacted. Acting upon this advice, an American citizen refused to pay the contibution, and his property was seized by armed men to satisfy the amount. Not content with this, the Government proceeded still further, and issued a decree banishing him from the country. Our Minister immediately notified them that if this decree should be carried into execution he would feel it to be his duty to adopt "the most "decided measures that belong to the powers and obligations of the representative office." Notwith-' standing this warning, the banishiment was enforced, ' and Mr. Forsyth promptly announced to the Government the suspension of the political relations of his legation with them, until the pleasures of his own Government should bo aeertained. This Government did not regard the contribution -imposed by the decree of the 15th of May last to be in

strictness a "forced loan," and as such prohibited by the tenth article of the treaty of 182G between Great Britain and Mexico, to tho benefits of which American citizens are entitled by treaty; yet the imposition of the contribution upon foreigners was considered an unjust and oppressive measure. Besides, internal factions in other parts of the Republic were at the same time levying similar exactions upon the property of our citizens and interrupting their commerce. There had been an entire failure on the part of our Minister to secure redress for the wrongs which our citizens : had endured, notwithstanding his persevering efforts ; and, from the temper manifested by the Mexican Gov- , , ernment, he had repeatedly assured us that no favorable change could be expected until the United States " should "give striking evidence of their will and pow- " er to protect their citizens," and that "severe chas- " tening is the only earthly remedy for our grievan- " ces." From this statement of facts, it would have been worse than idle to direct Mr. Forsyth to retrace 1 his steps and resume diplomatic relation with that Government; and it was, therefore, deemed proper to sanction his withdrawal of the legation from the City

ot Mexico. . ; Abundant cause now undoubtedly exists for arestor . to hostilities against the Government still holding possession of the capital. Should they succeed in subduing the constitutional forces, all reasonable hope will then have expired of a peaceful settlement of our dif- ; Acuities. . On the other hand, should the constitutional party prevail, and their authority be established over the ' Republic, there is reason to hope that they will beani- ; mated by a less unfriendly spirit, and may grant that redress to American citizens which justice requires, so far as they may possess the means. But for this expectation, I should not once have recommended to Congress to grant the necessary power to the President to take possession of a sufficient portion of the remote ' and unsettled territory of Mexico, to be held in pledge until our injuries shall be redressed and our just do- ' mands be satisfied. We have already exhausted every milder means of obtaining justice. In such a case,