A BIG TREASURY THEFT. Ati Elaborate and Successful I|| ;; Scheme. How a Paokage of 2,000 Ten-Dol lar Notes Disappeared. Referring to the completion of a I new silver vault at the -United States treasury department, a Washington correspondent teils this 9tory : The system of guarding the enromous sums of money which are daily han dled by the department is so thorough and complete that only once in the last fifty years have the repeated ef forts of cracksmen and confidence men been successful in defeating it. The particular incident referred to occur red in 1870, when Spinner was treas urer. The amount stolen was a pack age ot 2,000 ten-dollar notes. The objectivt point of tbe thieves (two in number) was the division issue, the bureau to which the freshly-engraved notes are delivered, to be counted and turned into the treasury. Subsequent inquiry revealed the fact that the scheme for the robbery had been planned and matured several months previous, waiting meanwhile with tbe most commendable patience for a favorable opportunity to accom plish it One day the wife of a prom inent resident of Washington, in com- pany with an other-lady and her hus band, were passing the upper door of the room where the money packages were piled on a table to be counted. The first-named lady and the chief of division were well Yicquainted. As she came to the open door they recog nized and saluted each other.she with her friends advancing into the room. While in the act of doing so one of the thieves forced himself between the lady and her frineds. He immediately entered into conversation with Mr. Root,the chief of the division, making inquiry as to the manufacture, receipt and counting of the notes. Root sup posed him to belong to his friend's party, and was thus thrown entirely off his guard. The lady, in turn,sup posed-him to be an acquaintance of Root's. A moment later the two ladies, with their gentleman escort, sauntered care lessly to the further extremity of the room. The principal thief whose ob servations were elever and pertinent, soon absorbed Root's whole attention. His conversation showed him to be a man of fine mind and cultivated man ners. While chatting thus his accom plice hastily entered and approaching the messenger whose duty it was to watch the money packages,made some casual inquiries about a clerk who had long since been dead. The woman turned about to answer his inquiries. At this juncture thief Xo. 1 suddenly exclaimed : "Ah! I see my friends are leaving. I must join them." Root looked in the direction indicat ed. Sure enough, the party were moving towards the door. His eyes were taken off the stranger for only an instant, but in that time he had man aged to secret the package within the crown of his wide Panama hat, which he negligently swung in his left hand. The amazing coolnesss and audaci ty of the man was then shown by his polite invitation to Root to go out and "have something.'' The latter, however, declined with thanks,and the thief made his exit on the pretense of rejoining his friends. The money was missed within the hour that it was taken,but there was no suspicion that it had been stolen. On the supposi tion that it had notjbeen received from the Bureau of Engraving and Print ing,twenty-four hours were allowed to I ~elaps3. When the fact of the theft wat, fully established, the aid of the telegraph and Secret Service detect ives was freely employed. The effort was futile. The thieves escaped with their booty, andj have never to this day been apprehended. The most singular feature of the affair is that the stolen package was the only one of probable a score which contained notes of that denomination. The con tents of the others were mainly SSO and SIOO bills. How Clay Took Defeat. The following interesting incident was related many years ago by Mrs. Robert Todd, of Kentucky, tiie step mother of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and has never before been printed, accord lug to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The Todds and Clays were always on intimate terms, and in 1844 weie living near each other in Lexington,Ky. Hen ry Clay and James K. Polk were then rival candidates for the Presidency, the chances, as were generally supposed, being strongly in favor of the great Whig leader. As it turned out, how ever. the contest was much closer than had been anticipated, and finally advic tes from other states showed that the result hinged upon the vote of New York. There was no telegraph in those days t aud news had to come by the slow course of mails. The New York mail waa due in Lexington about 10 o'clock in the evening of a certain day, antf it was known that it would tell the story of a victory or a defeat. As it happen ed, a young lady relative of Mr. Clay was to be married on the same evening, and insisted upon his presence, though under the circumstances he would much rather have remained at home. Mr. and Mrs. Todd attended this me morable wedding partj, which was not large, and composed almost exclusively of the family connections and intimate friends—all ardent Whigs,and of course deeply interested in the pending politi cal event. As the hour for the arrival of the mail approached, Mrs. Todd saw two or three gentlemen quietly leave the room, and knowing their errand watch ed eagerly for theirreturn. When they came in she knew by the expression of each countenance that New York had gone Democratic. The hearers of the bad tidings consulted together a mo ment in a corner, and then one of them advanced to Mv. Clay, who was stand ing in the centre of a group, and hand ed linn a paper. Mrs. Todd aware of what it contained, fastened her eyes upon him. lie opened the paper, and as he read the paragraph which sound ed the death knell of his political hopes and lifelong ambition, she saw a dis tinct blue shade begin at the roots of his hair, pass slowly over his face like a cloud, and then disappear. Without saying a word upon the subject which must have monopolized all his thoughts, he laid down the paper, and turning to a table, tilled a glass with wine, and, raising it to his lips with a pleasant smile, said : "I drink to the health and happiness of all assembled here." Set ting down the glass, ho resumed the conversation as if nothing had occurred and was, as usual, the life and light of the company. But Mrs.Todd said that as soon as the contents of the paper were known "a wet blanket fell upon everybody," and in half an hour all the guests hid departe<l with heavy hearts —feeling tliit gill i i 4 flrry of the West" had fought the I tsi ihvsid nti 11 battle and lost t he prize forever. PICKim It is asserted that about a third of the banking done in the world is done in the British Empire. The feat of transmitting two tele graph messages along a wire at one time was first accomplished by l)r. Gintl, an Austrian, in 1853. Ratskin fur and ratskin slippers are a late London freak. Only the skin about the haunches is used, the remainder be ing too thin. Four rats are required for a slipper and sixty for a neck piece. The largest dam in the world has been projected by a French engineer in Brazil. It will be 910 feet long and 58 feet high. It will back tbe water over 1500 acres, and irrigate 2000 acres of bottom land. 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