Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-01-22
VANDALEA:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %, 1884.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %, 1884.
\ We are authorized to announce Capt. BEN
JAMIN ROBERTS, candidate for the state SEN
ate, In the district composed of the counties
lot Bond, Montgomery and EIacoupin.
by last nights Mail, the first we have had
Tor week, we have received Washington
papers to the sth. We have time only to
glance at their contents; they contain little
congresslonal news ofinterest, except speech
es' and those we cannot give. In the House,
Dec. 81, MIR. Duncan from the committee on
Public Lands, to which was referred the ne
tltlon oil the inhabitants Of Tazewell county
in this State, reported bill! to give actual
settlers on the Public Lands prc-emption
right to one quarter section, at the minimum
Eprice. In tie Senate, Jan. 81, Mr. Robinson
presented memorials from the Legislature of
this State, on the subject of Roads and Canals,
respecting Land Offices, Post Roads, and
memorial praying remuneration for losses in
ne rae Indian war. Mr.. Hendricks, (ofIa.)
oiieieu resolution instructing the commit
tee on Roads and Canals, to enquire into
the expedcncy of making further appropria,
tons for the continuation Of the Cumberland
Road In Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The
Depcsite question is still the exciting topic
in both Houses. Mr.. Clay's resolutions. in
the Senate, and Mr.. McDuffie's, in the House.
(noticed last weekly are still under discussion.
HE CoUNTERFEirERs Six OF the couE-
terfeiteis, arrested at st. Louis, have been
committed for trial. Their names are Gar
land, Quilting, Wilson, Strattcn, George
Stevens and Foreman. a special session of
the Missouri district court is to be held for
their benefit, on the second Monday in Feb
ruary. The notice below of Mr.. Garland
and lis establishment, is from the Republi>
can
"James Garland, the principal in the man
iuiacturing concern-engraver, printer and
banAer-,is, II would appear from the state
tnents OF the Witnesses, man Of wealth.
AS near as could be ascertained by them.
MS cash and effects amount 10 $3.50, 0oo-
/ all OF which must have been accumulated
I from the business in which he has been en-
gagged. But better idea Of the extent of
his depfedatons upon society may be formed
IRON the fact, which appeared in evidence,
that since the breaking up of the band Of
coan'erleiiers in Canada, last spring, he has
sod counterfeit bills amounting to one mill
aoh OF dollars! 1t was stated tina. his estab-
lIsment was in such condition as TO enable
him to print forty thousand dollars of assert
ed notes in Que day. These bills were sold
at various prices, according to their denomi
nations; notes Of the U. S. bank, at Mr.. Gar
lands manulactory, as every where else
bearing tho premium. As well as We rec
oilect, Slo0 of the denomination of five dol,
lars, were sold for twenty dollars, cash notes
of larger amounts decreased in value. and
j loo notes OF the state bank of Mlssissippi.
sold Tor twelve or fifteen dollars. Great
numbers OF well dressed persons have been
seen by the farmers along the road to Gar
iahd's settlement, passing and re-passine.
whose business can easily be guessed; and
the "Ne-onga bank" is on every ones tonoua
IN that region of country At the time of
the capture OF Garland, the business appears
10 have been suspended in some measure. as
he had been for some time absent, and when
taken was sick. lie stated to the witnesses
that he did not intend to 'make'' any more
during the winter, and had sold out, and sent
OFT his stock. The cashier or clerk of the
bank, whose name is Spencer, was not taken
he having been, a short time before, des-
patched to Alabama with large amount of
counterfeit paper Spencer is a young man
who arrived here from New York some two
years since; and it would be well for the
Alabamlans to look out for him.
0E5r If the communication in the last Adj
yocate STONED Vo,doI;o Al not ,o olo,rI,-