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Rh of his horse. The members of the fraternity who have been made prisoners and executed, acknowledged their guilt, and admitted that they were connected with a band which had ramifications throughout the Central States of the Republic, and kept regular accounts of their profits and losses, and made dividends to the stockholders on the best and most liberal commercial system. But the Republic and the several States are



now actively at work in conjunction, and it is "short shrift and a long rope" whenever they catch any of the precious rascals.

From the summit of the range which we had been ascending all the morning, we looked down at, on a scene of infinite beauty, and almost unlimited extent. Spreading out from the base of the hills on which