The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-29 00:00:00

PIIILZDELPHIA, DEC. 2.

Yesterday the city was thrown into no little confusion
on ascertaining that several forgeries had been com-
mitted on our banks by a youth, a clerk with the firm
o t Messrs. Massey and Co., whose place of business is
27, South Wharves. This clerk, whose name is Maurice
Pitcher, left the city on Tuesday in a mysterious manner,
when, for the first time, a suspicion was excited in refe-
rence to the manner in which he had kept his accounts.
The bank books of the firm were inspected, and a visit
made to each of the banks in which they kept ac-
counts, when it was ascertained that forgeries to
the amount of several thousand dollars had been
perpetrated. On the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank
the forgeries amounted to $5,000; on the Bank
of North America they amounted to $4,000 ; on
the Bank of Pennsyli7ania to $2,500 ; ou the Phila-
delphia Bank to $1,500 ; and on the Mechanics'
Bank to $5OO. The forgeries on the Bank of North
America were committed in the name of Mr. Emanual
Eyre alone ; the others were in the name of the firm.
On an inspection of the checks, it appears that the sig-
natures have been carefully traced, by holding genuine
checks between them and a strong light, as they are ex-
ecuted in a style calculated to deceive almost any unsus-
pecting person. Pitcher, it is believed, has gone to New
York with the proceeds of this transaction, but from the
efforts now being made for his capture, he will no doubt,
be taken in a few days. He is the same individual who,
with a brother, figured in the extensive speculations
of the distinguished master Brooks, who, you may
remember something over a year since, then not ten
days out of the Penitentiary, proposed to enter into
the transportation business, married " the pretty
bar-maid" of Franklin-place, and by his address
imposed upon car builders, holders of depot property,
several merchants, and, by plausible and seductive pro-
mises, inveigled the two young Pitchers, both under
twenty years of age, with others, to leave their situations,
with the view of serving with him in his new business.
These young lads were with him for three or four weeks,
until he was discovered to be a swindler, and were with
him indicted for a conspiracy to defraud; but it being
the general opinion that the lads were " more sinned
against than sinning," they were both acquitted. It is
now feared that the virus of the villain Brooks took
deeper root than the public hoped for, and that at least
one of them is thoroughly innoculated with crime, if
indeed there was no disposition to take it in the natural
way. The present supposed criminal is about nineteen
years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, with red-
dish hair and a florid complexion.

Reinhart, the convict for murder in the Reading gaol,
yesterday morning, having previously by some means
freed himself of his irons, rushed past the female who had
taken him his breakfast, and made his escape. He was
shortly after captured, not, however, until he had re-
ceived a gun shot wound in the arm.
The business in Stocks to-day was again light at prices
much as yesterday. Sales IN ere almost wholly confined
to State Fives at 60. They closed at 594 bid. Exchange
on New York has again advanced to si.
OFFICIAL—TREASURY NOTES.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, DEC. 2, 1841.—Amount of
Treasury Notes issued under the provisions of the Acts of
Congress of 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840 :

$26,681,337 53
Redeemed of that amount 25,103,571 30

Leaving outstanding 51,577,766 23
Issued under Act of Feb. 15, 1841, viz.:—
Prior to the 4th of March... 673,681 32
Since the 4th of March... 5,423,300 97

Making 6,096,982 29
Returned to the Treasury
of that amount 415,890 68

5,651,091 61

Making the aggregate outstanding on
the Ist instant 57,228,857 84
W. FORWARD, Secretary of the Treasury.
MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, DEC. 2.—The sales at
the Stock Board to-day were to a fair extent, but prices
varied materially. Delaware and Hudson improved *,
Stonington I, Paterson I, Mohawk Bank of America
; Long Island declined I, Illinois 6's 1- per cent., Indi-
ana s's ; sales of Bills on Philadelphia 5 a 51, Balti-
more 4, Mobile 10, New Orleans 6 a 6i.
The ship Baltimore, tor Havre, carries out 53,000
Mexican dollars.
:Anothei`sale- of the State credit was made to-day at
auction, being 1014,000 dollars six per cent. stock, no-
minally at par. The actual price was much less
than that.
RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
$13,000 Illinois 6's, 1870,
3,t300 N. Y. State s'i 1858
1,000 Kentucky Bonds
5,000 Indiana Stl'
2,000 Indiana Dol. Bonds
120 Ditto Delaware and Hudson.
25 Ditto Manhattan Bank ..
10 Ditto State Bank
13 Ditto Bank of America
50 Ditto Patterson R.
50 Ditto Boston and Prov
100 Ditto Harlem ... b3 14
250 Ditto Long Island Railroad
10 Ditto Ohio Trust Co •• • • ..
25 Ditto Farmers' Loan
25 Ditto Canton Co. .
nw 20
100 Ditto Vieksburgh .. ..
k
10 Ditto Mohawk it an
62
25 Ditto N. Jersey It
75 Ditto Stonington
24 $6,000 Exchange on Philadelphia
szeoun BoARD.
60 shares Long .. .
'tto Harlem R

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Canal-street
50 Dit.. .
bbls of
$l,OOO Indiana
_ years lease of
STATE OF TRADE.—The f0110wing;................... 33i
was made at auction to-day.
Pots have
Twenty
of real estate
two-story house No. 194,
, tree
rent, sold for $5,000. of ground
Ashes.—Since our last, about lon
been sold at $6. No transactions in pearl
s worth re-
porting. Cotton--The market remains dull. Flo!"—
The market is rather unsettled. The large receivers
refuse to sell common brands Canal short of $6.50 ,
?
however have been made by some holders at $6.25. 'ales
rs
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, DF.e. 7.
There has been a small business done in Stocks to-
day, and prices show but little variation. Delaware and
Hudson declined 1 ; Harlem If ; Canton 4 ; Long Island
k ; Paterson rose -1 ; sales of Indiana Bonds at a decline
of 4 ; bills on Philadelphia 5 a 54 ; Baltimore Sit a 4.
The Clinton County Bank failed yesterday at Albany,
as we lon.. since predicted. 'The following is a list of the
safety fund banks which have failed lately :--
BROKEN SAFETY FUND BANKS.
Banks. Capital. Circulation.
Wayne County Bank sloo,ooo $144,392
Bank of Buffalo 200,000 195,000
Commercial Bank of N. York 500,000 121,370
Commercial Bank of Buffalo 400,000 246,000
City Bank of. Buffalo - 268,922
Commercial Bank Oswego
Clinton Co. Bank
200,000 193,616

Total . $2,250,000 $1,385,396

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Against each and all of these banks have we cati:
tioned the public, and sounded the alarm in season to
prevent loss. There are many others on the brink of an
explosion ; among them the Yates. County, Chatacqui,
Bank of Lyons, and the Genesee County Banks in par-
ticular. The weakness of these last-mentioned banks,
arises immediately from the disastrous speculations in
flour. There is now in this city over 200,000 barrels of
flour, which cost the miller over 7 del. 25 c. per barrel,
and which cannot now be sold f9r 6 dol. 25 c.; the con-
sequence is, that the drafts go back upon the Rochester
banks, and, added to their other difficulties, will bring
them down.

ABOLITION IN THE HOUSE-TEMPER OF
___ THE WHIGS-THE -MESSAGE.

WASHINGTON, DEC. 6, 1841.—We are to have a pro-
tracted fight on that most refreshing topic, abolition.
The go-by was given to it for to• day, but it.is to be met
and settled before any other business can be acted upon.
It is difficult to say,whether the Northern or Southern men
are most fanatical on this subject. A majority from all sec-
tions of the country are disposed to consider it tem-
perately, and without reference to personal objects; but
there are always a few men in Congress who have some'
petty interest to subserve by keeping alive an excitement,
and they uniformly make a parade of the championship
of the right of petition on the one hand, or of slavery on
the other. If this class of men could be kept quiet, the
difficulty would be settled at once. Let a Select Com-
mittee be raised, to which all abo'ition petitions shall
be referred. Let Mr. Adams be the chairman, and let
the Committee be composed entirely of rational men
from the free States, and we shall have a unanimous
report, which would be acceptable to all parties in the
House, with the exception of ten or a dozen red-mouthed
Abolitionists, who are bent on mischief. Unless some
such plan is agreed upon, we shall have the same scenes
of agitation and irritation year after year. A report
from such a Committee would put an end to all discus-
sion and excitement for ten years to come.
The question of the right of petition has become so
mixed up with abolition, that, with hardly a dozen Aboli-
tionists in the House, about one-half of the members are
arrayed against the South on the question of the recep-
tion of petitions. •At the extra session there was a, pro-
position for the adjustment of this question, but- it was
never fairly presented, and the whole matter was laid
over by common consent.

Froin present indications, but a small portion of the
Whigs will support the fiscal scheme of the. Admini-
stration. There is more bitterness toward th9,,l'rresideut
among the Clay-men than was anticipated. .
TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, SECOND
SESSION.—SENATE.

MONDAY, DEC. 6.—The Seeond Session of the Twenty-
seventh Congress, commenced this day, at 12 o'clock.
with a full attendance of Senator* The President pro
tem. having announced that there Was a quorunrpresent,
a Message was sent to the House of Representatives to
communicate that fact, and a Committee was appointed
to wait upon the President of the United States, with a
joint Committee from the. House of Representatives, to
inform him that the two Houses were ready to receive
any Message which he might have to communicate.
The customary resolution for furnishing the Senators
wit newspapers was then adopted, and the Senate ad-
journed until twelve o'clock to-morrow.