Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-01-23
MORE SCIENTIFIC SWINDLING.

MORE SCIENTIFIC SsVINDLiNG.
An operation in the way of swindling was
performed on Sunday last, on board the stea-
mer Little Red which is a perfect chef d'ceume
IN its way-a game entirely original, and car
ried out vpon new and improved principles
The trick was played in the following manner:
tall robust looking man came on board
the Little Red at the mouth of the Ohio, while
on her way down to this city. He entered
his name as Robert Mcintyre, pretended to be
an agent of several persons in the North for
locating lots of land, getting out title deeds,
DC. lie heaped maledictions innumerable on
the sub-treasury scheme and its authors--not
tor its political effect on our Institutions, but
IN consequence of the Inconvenience which it
caused IN the transmission of money, of which
he had personal experience. Then he would
tell of certain number of boxes of specie
which he had deposited in one of the New
Orleans banks-how nigh losing one of them
he came, while crossing river at the time of
freshet in Georgia-how a negroattempted
to run away with one of them, when taking
them from the hotel to the steam. boat in Mo-
bile; and how .'roper-in" thought to divert
his attention from them as they lay on the Lee
wee in New Orleans, that another fellow might
have an opportunity TO run off with one of
them. He would again d-n the Benton
policy, and swear that whatever personal in
convenience he might suffer in transporting
his "precious metals" he was determined that
no one should fool him out of them. On lea
wing the boat and bidding the Captain good
bye, he made particular inquiries when the
Little Red would again start upwards. Al
though he had little else TO do in the city than
draw some of his specie out of the bank, he
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to the west in her. He then left the boat and
some four days elapsed before he was seen or
heard of, when on Tuesday he was perceived
approaching the boat, carrying in his arms an
ordinary specie box with the lid screwed down
in the most secure manner, the weight of
which appeared to fatigue him much.
"Massa," says negro, "justgib me dat and
I'll carry it for YOU"
$50 along, you black rascal says Mr.. Nc
Intvre, 81 would not entrust you with it for
all you're worth"
He finally reached the boat, sat his heavy
box down, and after little preliminary puff
ing and blowing, gave a loud "whewI" by
way of recovering his breath. After this he
asked one of the officers if he had ever felt it
so hot before, commenced tanning himself
with his handkerchief, gave another cut at the
rascally metallic currency system. and then
placed the box in the clerks office with strict
injunctions that it should be closely watched.
He now suddenly recollected that he wanted
$50 for immediate use, when the officer who
had seen the specie deposited handed him the
money. Mr.. Mcintyre then left the boat and
has not since been seen. After waiting pa
tiently until yesterday the officer who had
loaned him the money began to grow impa-
tent, and finally unscrewed the lid of the box,
when 10! instead of feasting his eyes upon
American half eagles and Mexican castings,
he found it filled Nth 6-ick-bdts.
This we look upon as one of the most inge-
NOUS tricks that has been played lately, and
Mr.. Mcintyre certainly deserves credit on the
score Of originality. BY having his pretended
specie box filed with bricks be was what an
Arkansas man would call IN town with a
pocket fullof rocks."-N O. Picayune
STUDY OF NATURE If we look, says Sir Hum
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