Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1840-04-07

Insertion is forwarded. The address to the public to
heh we have referred states that said Parks cold
and IN the east amounting 10 $4,000 dollar. That
he came on TO Wheeling where he unprecedented, !.
udeiy treated by blackguards part Of bis money so.
len and he brought before the Mayor for trial where
he was acquitted. So FAR the statement applies to
hrs arrest and trial here, he is certainly point
Of general facts II is that very tall gentleman
was arrested here. about hroe weeks ago. who repre-
scented himself doubtless with truth. 10 be DR.. c. w
Parks. We said nothing of the circumstance. clher
before after the trial. because we thought he might
be nv innocent man and would dislike the notoriety
that would thus be given the affair; but since he has
appeared before the public think there exist
objection to doing so. with statcmen, of facts
Mr.. Parks arrived Mt Wheeling ON Saturday night
or Sunday. He was in appearance well enough--one
OF those anomalous bipeds that puzzle physiognomiss
Tie might have been by profession. Lawyer. Doctor.
Boatman. Farmer. Drover. Merchant or Mechanic. lie
might have in fact been anything but tailor but any
man must be satisfied that he was not a tailor, oe ut
least very bad one by the t Of his coat and the sur
plus of his collar. He had baggage. no trunk. no
hSins but little common tin box that he carried in
his hand. During Sunday he offered to exchange
hundred dol ar note on some bank in New Iork--onc
Of those institutions which have been created under
the general banking law, for currency at par. This
circumstance enough excite suspicion. as New
| York funds from eight per cent premium
Some disagreement occurred in the exchange during
which he accused the landlord of trying to cheat him
out Of ten dollars In the meantime, bysiander look
ing Bicknes Dctector, discovered that the insti-
tuition which issued these notes noticed not be-
d :ngi in cooi ts,id hum IT. Darl
called remarked eooy that he had that note and an
other hundred dollars the same bank and that be
had exchanged hundred dellars in Baltimore Shortly
after this Mr. Parks took the landlord his room open
ed his trunk and showed him that he had $4,000 all
in the money Of this Institution. This fact soon
became the subject Of conversation, and then il wa.
remembered that in the Baltimore Patriot that arrived
that day there advertisement setting forth that
900 Of the Of that Institution had been stolen
the notes named corresponding with the notes in tn,
possession Of Mr. Parks.
This considered. and we say, Justly considered
n sufficient warrant for his apprehension and trial
He was tried and though he was acquitted for want
Of sufficient testimony convict him. by law vet there
are many who cannot yet divest their minds of the
impression that with DIR. c. w Parks his very large
coat and his very lille box there was some thing moi
exactly right Perhaps, nay. da not pretend 10
deny but that DIR. c. w. Parks came honestly by the
26,0OO but he had n very small amount Of evidence
to show where II came from. All the papors that men
usually have who trade largely were wanting and
even that facility in counting money which is acquir.
ed by all who deal much IN il, was not manifest i'm
DIR. c. w. Parks DR. c. W. Parks may be acquainted
with Col. J. l. Williams Of Tennessee. now member
of Congress, and with Gov. Lumpkin of Georgia and
they may esteem him, for ought VIC know. yet Dr. c.
W. Parks may be better and they may be no worse
for the acquaintance. We were once introduced by
Senator Porter of La professional bIackleg as VIC
afterwards discovered; yet though, no better Of the
blackleg, of Senator Porter for being i'm
posed upon by and intimate with him. for the time be-
ing. DIR. c. w. Parks may never have bet but once
in his life. he asserted and the person who said that
he heard him offer another dollars. at Columbus for
some TO play cards with him. may have told whn,
was not true; but we know the who said This bet
ter than do DR.. c. w. Parks Dr. c. W. Parks
may not have pawRed $500 of his 5000 10 a broker
in Louisville for $3.50 of currency; but it i, asserted
that he did So and suppose that tho said broker
will not soon sec DIR. c. w Parks again. Dr. C. w.
Parks may be innocent q lamb, gentle Us a dove
fnnk as he says he is and perfect gentleman; but by
his publication abusive OF many Of our esmab CHI
zens. and making public that which but for his own
act would have been suffered pass by unnoticed he
seems 10 court Dooriety greater extent than most
gentlemen do Dr. c. w. Parks may have lost sI75
while his money distributed about in the hands
Of some thirty or forty persons in Wheeng bat be-
lieve that, if there thieves Wheeling as there
doubtless are, they have enough 10 steal good
money when they do steal not take paper that is good
for nothing. In fine, do not believe either he suf
fered wrong hero that any Of his money was stolen
Since writing the above have received copy
Of the paper from Dr. C. w. Parks himself with a re-
quest for Us 70 publish and charge him. We are not
50 easily gued. Had he forwarded $40 Of good mo
"ey we would have published IL.