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A. J. GERRITSON, Publisher,}
For the Montrose Democrat.
The Great Conflict Between Democ
racy and Abolitionism—Or be
tween Liberty and Despotism.
Henry Ward Beecher, in a thanksgiv
ing sermon in 1861, says :
"If the Constitution of these United
States, fairly interpreted, gives us the
power to bring slavery to an end, God
forbid t4at we should neglect such au op
portunity for its exercise. But, if that
power is withheld, or can be exercised on
f
pp by the most doubtful construction—by
a construction which shall not only weaken
that instrument, but essentially change
its nature, withdrawing from the States
local sovereignty, and coact-ling upon
Congress those rights of government
which have thus been withdrawn from
States—then will not only slavery be de;
stroyed, but with it our very govern
ment."
In Nov. 1865, in a speech at the Coop
er Institute, Mr. Beecher says :
"The North is more jealous to-day of
State Rights than the South. &a e
Rights came of old New Eng'and. We
have no disposition to take advantage of
our victory over the South by changing
State sovereignty or local independence.
The North have no right to impose re
strictions upon the South which they
themselves are not subject to. The North
must remember that when the South lays
down the sword, the war is at an end."
On the 10th of June, 1866, he says:
"I consider the doctrines brought for
ward in the Hole*, by Mr . Stevens,
to be doctrines of Belial, leading to de
strection—phat is, destruction of the
government.] If the power to abolish
slavery can be exercised only by with
drawing from the States local self govern
ment, and conferring upon Congress
tbore rights of self-government which
have thus been withdrawn from the Si at es
—then will not only slavery be destroyed,
but with it our very government ; and
not all the mischiefs of slavery rahoutd
tempt us to usurp it, but freeing our
selves from one evil,-it should open the
door for innumerable other ,, , and 6:I our
future with conflicts and irremediable
troubles. Slavery is not the otry danger.
With such armies, it is a matter of deep
anxiety what effect this war will have,up
sm our government itself."
Henry Ward Beecher has some concern
and anxiety, it seems, tin the iiherij t .s of
white American citizens, and it is this
fe-.in,T, that mnpels him to stand by the
President, and receive the censures of the
other Abolitionists who care only for ne
y,l'oes. To illustrate the difference be
tween them, and to show the determina
tion of the Abolition conspirators against.
the government, and their resolution to
accomplish its overthrow, the same au
thority—the Amencan BapiLt—is brought
furward again. .It says:
"Among the clerical clogs against the
abolition of slavery by Congress, we are
lorry to find the Rev. H. W. Beecher.—
Mr. Beecher strikes off the Tight arm of
Congress the moment it touchis slavery.
He says: ' The Constitution of the Uni
ted States stands upon tbe plighted faith'
of all the States, and Righted faith is in
itself the nature of a sacred moral princi
ple. Our fathers signedl the bond and we
accepted it. Can we afford to break it
for even so magnificent a result as the
emancipation of the slave ? Shall we rend
the crystal instrument—the joy Of the
world, and our pride ? Our faith is giv
en and roust be kept. We, who boast of
oar Constitution, must not, violate it our
selves, in putting down those who violate
it. We are not ourselves in a state' of re
bellion.,
"Mr. Beecher says : 'No central gov
ernment must be allowed to usurp the
power, of the State government.' But
those who oppose the action of Congress
on this subject, are the opposers of eman
cipation, either now or in the fa nre, the
abettors and supporters of our country's
grand enemy , . If Congress cannot use
the war power to abolish slavery, there is
no authority that can so use it. We are
determined to have this government made
what, it was intended to be—just and
free. We want no St. Domingo ghost,
stories .to guide us, no talk of Constitu
tional.compacts that have been rendered
null and: void by one of the contracting
parties.. Slavery must be swept away."
Here let - aim noted, that the South held
that th e c onetiffidonet compact was bro
ken by the North in refusing to carry out
its provisions in regard to fugitiv e slaves,
and that they were no long er under obli
gations' to remain i n the lclnion with a.
peopi e who'had vicilaterrthe'•contra c t
made bytheitfathers. The South had as
much right to go but of the• Union : as the
North had to meddle with slavery.'
In Feb. 1862 the Abolitionistki told - the
government and the people' plainly:thitt:
they had resolved to overthrow.,'ilie"
American Republic, and erect a-tiew . M3o'
on its ruins:This organ of theirs says':
" A year ago we could scarcely irive
brought ourselves to set dowr? calmly the,
valu e of this Republic. 'The preservation
of the natiob, the perpetuity of our fedei
al charters, and the Union of the States
as one indissoluable.empire, were consid
ered priceless; and the proposal to aban•
don our national organization, to throw
Laws and Conslitui ion to the winds; and
then to attempt the eunstruozion ofa new
Republic, or some other form of govern•
ment upon the ruins of the old, was so re
volting, suicidal, and repugnant to every
loyal feeling, that it could not 'be enter
tained for a moment.
" But the case is now changed. Men
are beginning to count the cost. They
are beginning to ask whether the terrible
farce they are enacting is likely to pay.
The question is asked : How much is our
government worth ? All will acknowl
edge that it is worth something. It has
been bought at too great an expense of
blood and treasure to be relinquished ex
cept for grave reasons. On the other hand
it is not worth everything. The price
paid for it may be too high l Ay, hear
it! ye that hold council at the White
House, or stand up in the halls of legisla
tion, this Republic will cost too much, if
purchased at the expense of justice. If
it makes no effort to secure liberty to all,
then the government is worth nothing,
and the sooner it can be swept away as a
nuisance, the better for the prospects of
mankind."
The wily the Abolitionists planned to
sweep away the government, was to re
duce the southern States to Territories,
as a pretext for claiming the right to gov
ern them. This paper says, in Mart
1862:
" The bill for organizing territorial gov
ernments in the seceded Slates has been
defeAni. Those who wou!d red .es h
States to the condition of Territories are
at gmatized as destroyers of the Union.
Abolitionists and Secessionists ought to
hang upon the same tree, is the impudent
langua , re wnich obtains currency even in
the harts of Congress. But war knows
but one la iv To the victor belongs the
the spoils.' Abolitionism is a thing of
life ; it is daily waxing to the proportions
of a giant. Woe to the puny tyrants that
stand in its path."
The woe is now sent forth against Pres
ident. Johnson and the other patriots who
stand in the patliiif Abolitionistn, as it
marches on to reduce the Southern States
to Territories ; then it was:President Lin
coln who stood in the path of this giant.
This paper says :
" Ail the proclivities and messages .of
President Lincoln, from the inaugural
down, have been couched in language fa
vorable to the rights of the Southerners
to hold properly in man. He says that, if
a decree of emancipation could abolish
slavery, John Brown would have done
the work effectually.
_Vie fear that his
tory will write hitn down•among the ob
stacles which the ear or freedom had to
surmount, before it could start on its vic
torious career. He holds, as much as any
Southerner, to the sacred right of States
to establish this species of property, inde
pendent, of any power in the nation to
prevent it. Let all hush governments be
swept away with the besom of destruc
tion I"
In Dec. they say : " The fact that liber
ty is the nation's soul, has been ignored,
and an organization formed under the
name of union' But Union can give no
inspiration. The war has been waged on
d fa ,e issue., Are we fighting for Union?
Do we hope to promote Union by . guns
and armies ? It is a mere pretense. We
are fighting for conquest. Our aim is to
subdue. We expect no Union unless it.
be a Union of force. What mean these
immense gatherings under the name of
Union_ Leagues? They niean consolida
tion. The government is being driven
into centralization. We must be consol
idated. It. is said by some, the assertion
that we are to have a, grand consolidated
nation, of which States ate merely provin
ces, is not true. But we may decry the
principle of consolidation ; we may pro
nounce it dangerous; we may express our
abhorrence of the old Federal aggressions
on popular liberty; •we may start at the
mention of the alien and sedition laws;
but we are sweeping along on the same
current, and none but a few Copperheads
to give the alarm."
And what was the reward of those who
gave the alarm ? A loathsome dungeon
in some dismal tort. Like Galileo they
were thrust into prison , for, proclaiming
i the truth. , The charges -upon which one
of those Patriots was seized, in the night,
by a body of armed men,; who bloke flirt,'
the bolts and bars of. his house, and.hur•
tied ofr to.prison, was, "that he address.
ed 3 meeting in which lie declaredthat 'the
present war is not , being waged, for the
preservation of the. Union, but a war for
the purpose of 'crushing out , liberty; and 1
erecting. a. despoi Imo i . a. war. - for the free.
dom of the blacks anti the.enslareinent of l'
I the whites.; ,declaring that, he was at all
times resolved to do what-he could to de-.
feat the attempts now-. being made to:
rhuild up a monarchy ;upon: Abe - ruins -of
ifree government ; asserting thati he, tirtn-
ly
• believed that the ,men in power are at: :
tempting to establish a despotisin _in. this I .
'country more cruel and , oppressive -than r i
! ever existed before.' ". : ~- , ,.. , I
Now why was .this. , man plain prisit4
for saying -in publiti , preeisdy: sibliethe Pi; ,
..per, above quoted, published and sent 1
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, AUG. 14,
abroad through the land ? Simply be-
cause he was determined to defeat the at
tempts
of the Abolitionists to build up a
monarchy on the ruins of our free govern
ment, and which this organ of the monar
chists was determined to sustain. This
martyr to liberty wrote from his prison
as follows:
" MILITARY PRISON, Cincinnati, 0.
" To the Democracy of Ohio :
"I am here in a military bastile for no
other crime than the defense of the rights•
of the people and their Constitutional lib
erties. Speeches made in denunciation of
infractions of the Constitution and laws,
and of military despotism were the cause
of my arrest and imprisonment. I am a
Democrat, for the Constitution, for the
Union, and for Liberty. This is my only
crime. For no word of sympathy fur the
men or the South who are for disunion,
fur no violation of law, but in obedience
to the demands of Northern Abolition
disunionists and traitors, I am here to
day, but ' Time at last sets all things
even.' To time I appeal."
That Clement L. Vallandigham was im
prisoned and exiled from his native land
for love of the Union, and disloyalty to
the new consolidated Republic, which he
saw was bein_T founded by the Abolition
ists, in which States were to be held as
conquered provinces, is proven by the tes
timony brought out in the extracts above,
and the condition of the country at the
present time. Never was them a more
triumphant vindication of a proscribed
and pert•eotited people than "time" has
brought to that portion of the Democrat
ic pry stigmatized as Copperheads, the
symbo:icat meaning of which, as will be
snow!' hereafter, is that of patriots, true
to their country and to liberty.
Every man who refused to fight for the
subjugation and enslavement of his own
rac2, and condemned a war waged to free
black men, and place white men in bon•
dale under them, is now fighting for the
freedom of the white people of America,
to save them from being erni-hed and
trodden under foot by the wickedest pow
er that has arisen among mankind since
Robezpierre, Damon and Marat met the
tyrant's doom—who were the lathers of
American Abolitionism-
The Radicals the Originators of the
New Orleans Riots.
The organs of the Radical revoltitionary
party in'this stction of the Union, are
endeavoring by all unfair means to fasten
the paternity of the recent outbreak in
New Orleans upon the cornier% alive peo
pe of that place. They declare that the
anti-union feeling is still rampant in Loui
siana, that secretly the " rebels" are plot
ting treason against the government, and
that a I Union men are in danger of their
lives from this dangerous element. of South
ern popu:atiou. Tuis position is taken by
the Radicals in order to divert public at
tention from their own scheme of revolu
tionizing the Northern States, and holding
power by force,
despite the will and wish
of the voters. The Radical plot, unearth
ed just previous to the adjournment of
Congress, has awaked public attention to
the dangerous character of the faction
which now rules this nation, and the fact
that Mr. Bout well and other leading rev
olutionist, wished Congress to remain in
session until the meeting of the Conven-
ClOll of 1864 in New Orleans, shows that
they were in full conference with the
Louisiana movement, and prepared to ac
cept it as one of the means to strengthen
their revolutionary attack upon the unity
of the States and the perpetuity of this
free form of government.
As to the 'Leans by which the outbreak
was provoked, the evidence isoverwheltn
ingly against the Radicals, and their white
and black agents and tools. The New
Orleans Picuyune, of July 31st, in sum
ming up.the facts in relation to the begin
ning and progress of the riots, says:
" Ibe sensibiiities of the people of this
city have been very much exci ed by the
revuiutiouary purposes on the part of ex-
CJuveutionists of 1864, who had appoint
ed to meet at the Institute on Monday.—
A meeting of the partisans of these men
was held on Friday night, at which the
most inflammatory language was einp:oy
ed to incite the Negroes to acts of violence.
They were told it any white man should
interfere with them, "kill him." It has
been well understood that. arms nave been
distributed among them with a view to
some such use as haseccurred. * *
"There was never any purpose to inter
fere with Couventionists, awl none of
the calamities of the day arose from any
attempt . .ot the kind. There was, never
theless, general uneasiness felt lest &mob
spirit lib Quid be excited. The principal
stores in Canal. btre4 and the
were closed, uud the streets tilled with ,
idlers, thus faciiitating a - disturbance they'
eatite , tie first to 'witness. There were taw
persons except begrime, iii - front of thiii
uttilotop'
s on Dryades street, when the ;
rump commenced their ant:l'mi '
signs Were given' 'of any atteintit 'to dis
turb them. It appears, however, that
relying:On the protection of the city;
not It‘sking for it, they had taken a coniiict
erabie n umber ofaimed licgroes,held' the.
tiouseilatict:to'tbiti incident' Most - =of 'the'
bloody incidents which follows are i fairly
to be attributed. The disturbance out-
side commenced' theiriiital Of i'gitig
of arme d
, negroes fitorn the town
which bred into the' croWd.'at the corner
of Canal street. The atone - I:need
there. The:police succeeded iu arresting
the Man who tired that 'shot, after sothe
tuniultuutis resistanee: The. ekeitetiieiii
of the negrues gi'ew to be ungot ; ernable.
The police, desiring, to abstain from all
appearance of intithidation to the :convO.
cationists, had not beat posted in finite in
the direct 'neighborhood. Just after the
disturbance at the Canal street corner
broke out, firing commenced at the other
end of the street near and about the'eut.-
ner of Common. The - Chief ,of Ponce ar
rived soon after, and was *received by a
volley of pistol shots, and immediately
there was firing along the line. The ne
groes had their clubs, and some bad.revolv
ers, aridch they wielded with vigor; but
the police were too strong for them.
"The police account corroborated by
witnesses, is, that, while they .were engag
ed with the negroes in front of the build
ing, they were tired on from the west win
dows by :the negro party within. The
Chief of Police bad been singled out for a
bullet from the window, which had failed
in its mission. The police returned the
fire, and that was the first movement
against the building. Up to that time,
the police had been engaged in clearing
the streets and attempting to preserve
order outside. Attacked from the rear,
they advanced - to take possession; and
Were. resisted at first. B'ut a white. flag
was exhibited iu token of surrender to the
authorities; but, when they undertook to
march in they were received with a volley
of balls, and a - conflict ensued, in which a
num her were kit led. The members of the
Convention that remained were arrested
by the police, and such of them- as were
nut hurt in the affray, or subsequently,
were permitted to go to their own hostess
on parole. Some violent scenes occurred,
which are to be deeply lamented as facts."
These are given by a neutral journal.—
They show most conclusive y that the
men who called together the Convention
of 1864, also made preparations for ariot.
This was a part of their plot. The ready
and patriotic manner in which the niassof
the people of the Southern States have
accepted the results of the late . coniesti,
and their manifested desire to obey the
laws and preserve the peace,, will:operat
ing against the perpetuity ufßadieal pow
er hi- the nation. - As ttmeans - olintiatn
ing the passions and prtjudices of the
Northern people, the - leaders of that parry
resorted to such a bloody plot as that
which developed its effects in New Or
leans. The people of Louisiana were op
posed to the meeting of. the Convention,
but the revolutionists determined that it
shoutd be convened, and more lives sacri
ficed by their wicked and unholy crusade
against the Union and the prosperity of
the country.
Bank Note Engraving.
A description of the engraving of a bank
note may be of interest. Genuine bank
plates are engraved mostly by machinery ►
not upon the bank•: plates but upon salad
plates of softened steel. This small plate
is put into a furnace, which is bertueticab
ly sealed, and is heated, and with the use
of animal carbon, hardened as hard as ras!
or steel. Then a tort steel plate is laid on
the top of this hardened engraved plate;
arid then placed into a powerful transfer
press, where a steel eylieder rolls over it,
back and limb, with thirty or tOrty tons
weight upon the cylinder, 'rind by this op.
peration the opposite of the engraving is
transferred to the soft plate. Thi4 plate
is hardened and transferred to a softened
steel cylinder, the cylinder is hardened
and transfers the device to the bank plate.
This is called a single transfer. Much of
the engraving -is doubly transferred, and
whilst all genuine engravings are transfei
red, the counterfeit is not ; it is engraved
directly npon the bank plate by hand.' •
E:v•tt artist of the bank note has his pe
culiar forte.
One engraves with the geometric lathe.
One with the medallion engine.
One with the ruling engine.
O►e engraves likenesses.
One mountains and hills.
Trees and shrubbery are engraved,• by
another.
Animals are sketched by another.
And letters are engraved by another.." '
Now, a hank note consists in the en
graving of likenesses, mountains,' hills,
trees, shrubbery, animals, and:. letters, so
that a dozen or more,artists are reqniredt,
eaeh one in ,his specialty, to. produce a,
bank note engraving. For •these reasons,
a bank-note artist can never, become a
counterfeiter, since the whole of his art is
comprised Within, the engraving of one
only niche many Oils to a
The followingstrictures, upon : karat:note
detection are well,ivOrthy of perusal: ,
It requires twenty thOnsaM l :4 4llo "!
worth pf,machinery, and from Afteen i y,t,
twenty artists,,to. produce , genuine banlt ?
plates; each' artist Standing at, the head
of his profession, writ excel the counter
feiter, who is late from State prison, v
ery business yersnn may beoptiie an SR
pert, anti the time is awing and Row is, :
whenhttsineas, Olen learn: r the,;trite
art of,iletectian„ or'-pay the' itetial,ty thiti;
thouiatidttritre payilie tot; their
eeited wisdom of Judging notes. The
lIEEM
'"hooded • h
country.mt tons ofd anger r
fivei, fifties; and' hUndreds,,
legal tender notes; also . with onetundred
Awl -fifties .compound interest notes, so
well ;executed as to defy detection by
nicety-fire per eunt,,,of i the .buskness pub
`Bit, 'hauliers nOt excepted. 'rrtip 'subject is
worthy of t he most brilliant business mind,
and yet millions, are lost by those incom-,
petentin jndge and too `wise' to' learn.—
CURIOUS WILLS.
SoMe Who inlife would not give a 'cup
of water to a beggar, by their wills leave
'enormous Berns to oharitres,4644,ere
themselves a kind of ppsthumous reputa
tion. Others allow not their resentments
to sleep with •them in the grave, but leave
behind them wills which excite the bit
terest feelings and animosities among the
surviving,relatives.
-Some wills are remarkable for their
conciseness and perspicuity g others , for
their upprecedented length,end contents.
One, man provides for a college, another
to a cat i one leaves a, legacy to
. provide
bread and 'herrings foi the poor 'th:Lent,
and kid gloves to the minister •-wbileoth
.ers provide for bull-baiting, Ae welfare
of maid servants, and promotion of ,mat
rinormy.
John Budge has kept his name out of
oblivion'` giving twenty Shillings a
year tow poor man'to go about, therr
iab church , of Ttysul , duEing sermon time
to keep people awake and dogs out, of the
chitich.
Henry Green, of Melbourne, Derby
shire, gave his property - for providing for
green waistcoats tor four poor women ev
e y year, such,waistcoaqi to be lined with
green galloon lace. In the same neigh
borhood, and inspired with a similar feel
ing,,•Thomas Gray provided grey waist
coats and grey coats.
John Nicholson, a stationer of Lbndon,
was - so attached to his family - name that
the bulk of his property. was given, in char
ity for-the support and' maintenance of
shah poor persons iti England as should
appear- to be of the, name of Nicholson.
,David Ildartinett; of Calcutta, while giv
ing. directions tolls' executor, said ! " As
to this fuleothe e'arcass; having already
seed enough of•Wiirldly 'pthiip, I desire no
thing' relative to - it to be done, only its be
ing stowed away,in my old green chest to
save expenses." then bequeathed to
one than all the debts be ()Wed, and to
his sincerity.
A Lancashire gentleman in the last cen
tury, having given his body to the worms
of the family vault, bequeathed an ounce
of rnodeity to the authors 'of the Free
Briton and London 'Journal,' giving as his
reason for the smallnese of the legaoY;tbat
he was "convinced that an ounce was
more than they'll ever make use of."
' Another testator ,
. after having
at great length in his *ill the number of
obligations he was tinder, bequeathed to
his benefactor ten 'thousand - [here' the
leaf turned over and' the legatee turning
to the 'other-side fotitid the legacy Wai]--
thairks. '
A testator who evidently' intended' to
thwart his relations aid be a benefactor
to his lawyers,gave a certain person "as
many acres of land as skill be found equal
to the area enelosed by the centre of os
cillation of the earth in a revolution'tound
the sun, supposing the mearfdistanee of
the sun 21,600 semi-diameters Of the earth
from •
•
An uncle left in his will eleven silver
Spoons tohis nephew :adding, " I have
wit Itot . the dozen, be the - reasoli.".
Tire fact was the nephew bad 'sometime
before stolen - the .- twelfth spoon . il'em :his
relative.
• ,
Sir Joseph Jekyll left his fortune to pay
the national debt. When Lcird Slati,fiekl
Beard of this he said,' " F ir JoSeidi, Was' a
very
,good 'Than and a gnod lawyer, liui
his . bequest . . w . .is . a very' foolish' one he
tnight'as well, ti6ve attempted 16 stop the
Middle arch of: Blickfriar's Bridge With
his full-bottomed wig."
Lord 'Penibrokii gave_"riof,htitg teLord
Say, which legacy I beqtieath hitt! becanSe
I know he will bestow it i on"thepopr';"
and then after giving °tali; 'equally pe
culiar legacies, he finished With;,"
I give. up:the ghost."
Dean Sitift's elaiacter was 'exeMplifieW
in his wilt. Among Others . , h*be d cpleatli ! :
ed to Mr. John. dratted, .of Clotnethan,''a
silver box, "'in which '1 deifire the, Said;
John to keep '-'the 'tobacco be tbiaally,
cheweth, called pigtail."
"'The celebrated Sarah, DuChelti s of Vtt.'
borough, left Pitt ' ten "thOusatid 'pound's
for the noble defence be made 'Or
support' of - the laws of. England' Mid:to,
present the rein'ef his country A Some'.
What' similar' bequest was`keeeittliteatiq
-" '
.
pc
,on left a mill aptionintig execu
tor:4, but no property except his name and
memory, Finch fie bequeathed amen ,
vti3i table ape~ctiee, ' to,totergn nations andi
the'Veit - ' ~,t;
"Lard charendon baddnotbing to Naye l ,
hie daughter but lie 'exeeutoPe kindneee; 1
and)letird'Nelsedieft - ueither pfrn-'1
at oi-persoutil estate behind
hebeqUelithed;" hie' 441,44 ',o4bgliter, 'to, `I
thVbeiiiiieenelof isouritTy. ' "
"Mitten's was itunatipaii'velititie,,`4 l
;word of viituith.4e' beiat 4 — the
time be made it..
I VOLIDIE XXIII NUMBER
wit; made - in
Byron%. '
•'-; Others wrote their wills in Vitae; ries
specimen I.we will give do' of William Jacket, of the pariah of 'laliogton,i which
was. proved in 1 ( 787, ;when no, Wit 00,10.0,11
'were reguired . to a, will otperaonat ciliate;
I give and bequeath"...
• * When I'M laid underheatit '' 1'
To my two loving.sistere Most
The whole of my store, .
. • We.re, it twice as much More.
Which.gpd's goodness boa givco, me hero.
And that none may prevent, :' ,
' •Thih'ink will 'and intent,'
Or occasion the least of law rabieti'';
With a-solemn-appetd, •
I confirm :sign and seal:
'This the act and deed of Will ,Jacket_.,, , .:
, Some Wills contain a kind of ausoMot
raptly of the testator, as well is ina
thdaghts and opinions. Saab' watt . 'the
will of Napoleon, which gave a hiindsomi
legacy :to; the wretch Cantillion, -" who
. had as much right to assassinate thatr,oli,
garcliist, The Duke.o.f . Wellington, es tho
ititier had 'to 'Rend' me to perish on th.
.rock of St. Helena." '
Such, , alsO, was Petty's,
-whteh,,states, with a 'Certain amount , of
self -pride, that. at " the full age of fifteen
T bad obtained the Latin, French sod
Greek langulges," and "at twenty yestris
of age'had gotten up three-score pound,
with as much mathematics at any of my
sze weref known to have." - -
For months past the Government baa
been making efforts, to deteet the parties
engaged in the manufacture , counter
felt national money: Detectives ,Ifrere
- postedin New York and other cities; iio
every place in fact where there" was 814-
picion their being, and the work aid
.vestigatitm and discovery has been going
on.
A 'few days ago the first arrest wee
made in New York. A young man earned
Thomas Wilson, who was suspected Of
being engaged- in printing counterfeit ctuk
rency; ;was taken into custody. He stout
ly denied, any complicity in the business,
but being inforined by Chief Detective
- WOod that - his business was knOwn, and
that hehad-been watched, he made a furl
confession, and turned over everything
.his ,p,ossession to the government: :This
consisted • of : nine finely executed; steel
fdrprin'ting'fractionalmurrency and
ten daar greenback notes:, and five &tee
for manufacturing the lc.ng, fifty cent
stamps. 'Dies, rolls, presses, and all the
appurtenances were taken into custody. '..
Another den was broken up ontsidethe
City, toivard Long Branch, shnrtly idler
the above, and' everything connected with
the manufacture of 'counterfeit' 'inoney
found there, was boxed up and, sent into
the city.
(.3
'thean•este in the
. city still sOntione t
Idirid-the eonsternationamont,the counter,
feitersis intense. This fat, eleven of thip
most ,notbd' man afitnenters of con
national 'Bid:irides have' been taken int.?
ensindy, and the amount of plates, kest
es, dies, rolls, printing 'apparatus, cone.
terfeit, money, Ro., seized by the deteci-
Lives,' is immense, and shows boar
Arvely the work was carried
Opportune appearance- of 'Ow •Dttek;
Lorenzo Dow, being belated' one'tiight
in his. travels, , unceremoniously entered
an out-of 7 the-way house and requested
ludging,s. The woman of Abe house ob,
jetted, having for a friend a' man whom
Lorenze soon ascertained was not her
husband. But Lorenzo insisted, andliihe
at last consented--immediately fastening,
against fitrther :unwelcome- visitors,. the
only outside door of the house. Soon .0
loud knocking was heard. It ;was bet
inobancl, unexpectedly return'ed:
Unable to leave the house, the friend;
to conceal himsetf, :jumped into a box
conveniently at limit:l, - Bnd hastily covered
himself :with the hatchelings of flax it con
tained, by which time the,wife , bad anft
fastened the door, and admitted, her, httan,
band. •
Hupidg spent • the evening at the telt,
ern, he was just tipsy enough to be both'
boisterous and courageous. .11e soon marls
tbe actlnain,ta,nce of Lorenzo, whom. ba t
had heard - inuch of but bad nevet
fie had 13ei , n' that h dnuld, raise dis t
devil, aid hi; insisted upon hisAinatedV:
atelyldoing: so.--net that lie , believed
RuYi:bAt :if there was any he 'mita& to'
84 . 9.4 1 0., ,/0 ;fain Lorenzo objeatedi'prch;
testing ins unaillinguess, and the danger ! .
atteitdineit, 4tc., but the,:inoic thaihsdf.,.
drunken htisband inSiated: ' -•- ' •-•!
At 'last said Lorenioi44,lr you are deoz
terththed to! gee • , himi opptu.tlua door c put
OP PO ,atan.d out of the Nab \
or be may ta . ke you with hith ; for When;
liki'dbineslie'scfill 69 'in fleizies,oftlie,"a44 -
Iwirn you brae eonsegueneek"
ing a. buttehanfmatches, that tberenughti
1 19 grenyllunell of brithstvnett.andfmutpi
tering
,oveict few unintelligible sunterma k i.
Lorenze s fire to the hatehelings,
died' out; reoinefoitb, thou evil one4id i
be goneAvaver 1 0 ' when out iipiaagoorie',
malYeeptilletely enveloped. in.datitekandr
11!'!t• ithP (Pm, APor, leaving 41!0:lutuat
with n-rpost pneaithly, yell., -To,hts 4zula
was. ready t%teet,ify,,thaa
Loritii(Yitet , only road,'
devil, for be " had seen and smelled Wis.°
Raid on the Counterfeiters.
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