Litchfield enquirer., 1835-01-29

' ons Pension agent, Robert I. Temple. of Yer mont, who had by forged certificates, defraud- ed the General Government of upwards of forty thousand dollars, was also guilty. it ap- pears, Of most atrOciOus piece of cruelty.- During the temporary absence ofthe Cashier I Of the Rutland Bank, (of which Temple was at the time President.) the sum of six thou l sand dollars was abstracted from the money | chests: and as no one but the clerk and the l president bad had access to the vault, the rob- l beFy, on the oath of the latter, was charged l upOD the former. The consequence was, that 1 the clerk ofihe bank, (who, we are informed, was fine hearted and excellent man,l was thrown into prison, where he languished for period of no less than eight mouths and if the president had not disposed of himself in the manner he did. the probability is that the young man must, ultimately, have sunk under his weight of misery. It was in vain that the clerk protested his innocence, and that he as- serted that he kDew not what had become of the money: for to stide all suspicion at the very threshhold. in regard to the real culprir, the president of the bank boldly accused the young man of the robbery and snbstantiateG the accusation, by solemn oath. On the sn. icide of Temple, however, the terrible truth was recently divulged-for the president of the hank himself proved the thief! Then. and not till thea, was the youth set at llber-
 ty; but feeble and emaciated as he is, and
 bowed down by sorrow. what we ask can
 console him ?-Ulsser Whig.
 On Thursday night after the closing of the Police office. MT. Ebbets, cashier of the Union Bank, aided by several others connected with that institution. came tO the office, bringing vvSfh ffaoup
 Thomas w. Douglas, whom they represented had forged a draft which he had attempted to have passed off at the bank. It was stated that on Tuesday near the lime of closing the Bank a boy came into it with check for Sl41O. which he presented to be cashed. The check purpOrted to be drawn by Messrs. Stan- ton and Starkweather in favor of J. DisbrOw, and bearing the endorsement of the latter.-- Suspecting that the check was forgery, the Teller interrogated the boy concerning it, who stated that he received it of a gentleman in Chatham street, whO gave it to him to get cashed. The boy was detained and exrr- tiOns used to feFret out the author of the for- gerry. No iidings however were obtained of him until Thursday morning. when the cash fer looking over the different cheeks of Stan. ton and Siarkwealher, which were drawn to order, discovered one for small amount in favor of Douglns, who had endorsed ii :: and he was immediately strnck with the close resemblance of the initial ID in the name of Douglas, and that in the name of Disbrow.- This convinced him that Douglas was the per. petrator ofihe forgery, and he took measures t0 have him arrested. In the evening. taking with him some 0f the officers Of the bank and the boy. Mr. Ebbetts proceeded to the house oi Mrs. - in Broadway, where Douglas boarded, and the hoy immediately selected him out as the person who gave him the check m Chatham street. He was then taken to the Police office, examined and denied all Knowledge of the transaction. Elemans and Merritt then proceeded to the lodgings of Douglas, and examining his apartment, found
 Ihtthe pocket Nf one of hts coats. U pocket
 hook containing check for Sl4lO, purport.
 ing to be drawn by Stanton and Stark weath.
 CT, and endorsed by s. Disbrow like Inc for.
 mer check, but not 50 well executed. This
 furnished strong presumptive proof that Dou
 glas was the fOrger, and after being detained
 in custody in the Police office all night, on Friday morning was committed to prison, to await his trial. Douglas had been a respecta. hle grocer in Broadway. was recently mar ried to an interesting young lady. and was on the eve of removing to Baltimore to embark m business in that cily.-N.Y Y. Adver.
 
 Pistols for Ttco.-Gen. Green, editor of the Washington Telegraph, has been chal tenged to mortal combat by one J. c. Bryce, supposed correspondent of the Western Virginian. Bryce in one of his letters intima
 ted that Gov. Tazewell aud Mr. Archer of Virginia, had been bribed by the Bank. Gen. Green noticed this slander, and concluded. his remarks with the following paragraph:
 And who is this correspondent nf the Vir- ginian We ask the Virginian if he is not one who having been nominatpd io the Senate for an honorable appointment, was rejected, and was then palned upon one ofthe departments as a clerk--and as recompense for the ig- nominy of his rejection, has been permitted while he was ostensibIy performing the duties of a clerk, to lounge about the courts and Magistrates offices and in vain seeking practice in the former, while he does pick up d l;i,!e in the latter Is this the correspondent ofthe Virgipiani"
 Immediately on the publication of the above, the aforesaid Bryce, full of wrath and fury, desired the editos to state whether he was alluded to in the paper. Green told him he had no business tO ask such n Quesiion. Bryce tEen said he should require the .s per- sonat satisfac,ion which one gentleman i,he blockhead) has right ,o expect from ano,h. err" Green iR reply, said he could give him nO salisfactinn, tor if he should ack now l.d .. his right to make. such demand. he sho,ld he surrendering the liberty of tha press "io the mefcenary dependants,s who iofrst ,he purlieus of the palace; who could not rend.r lDnre acceptable service, than by such means NNes AsvNap E,e.A rsL s f