Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-09-15
GREAT roRGERiEs IN N. YORK.

/ GREAT FORGER1ES IN N. YORK.
Another wholesale forgery was made pub
lie in Wall street OH Monday and created
quite sensation. 1t was discovered that
checks of the great Auction House Of Aus
ten, Widening g. Co. had been found IN
several of the Banks, forged. The follow
inc amounts reported TO have been paid by
several banks on these forged checks
Union Bank $4,000 Phoenix Bank SIS 800;
Merchants Bank $4,000 Bank of Ameri-
ca $4,000; Seventh Ward Bank $4,000 =
Merchants Exchange $4,000; Manhattan
Bank 8 600; Bank of Commerce 81 800;
Bank of State of New York $500. The
forgeries were executed by youth Ia or ~
years of age, named Henry Saunders, the son
Of physician in Brooklyn, who came from
England FIVE or six years ago For 2 or .
years past he has been employed by A., W..
a. Co.. as clerk in their establishment
and about the first of August he disappear
cd, and has not since been seen. Circum-
stances make it nearly certain that he real
lied the cash, about $50, 0OO.-Mcrc. Jour.
Ayrca of ISaundcrs.-The remark Of the
Journal of Commerce that as young Saun-
ders, who obtained The money by for
ging Austen, Widening g. Co.'S checks in
New York, was still in this country, he
would "be captured without difficulty" has
met Nth speedy verilication. Constable
Clapp arrested him Wednesday afternoon,
about FIVE O'Clock, on board the Loo Choo,
in which vessel he had engaged his passage
for New Orleans. She has been detained
here day or two from her appointed day OF
sailing Saunders did not deny his identity,
but offered to give up $500 Of the money
The resi--which he stated at S2i 900, he
said he should not give up, and that he had
taken care Of il so that no one could get il
back. He supposed, he said, that he should
have 10 go to prison for 10 or 10 years, but
seemed to look at that coolly as an easy
means of earning the S2l 900. We under
stand Mr.. Clapps attention was directed to
him by his somewhat free use of money at
the Pemberton House, where he established
himself on coming to this city. He made
no resistance TO the arrest, but when the Of
fcer returned to the cabin, having LEI; him
for few moments after his first interview,
in which he had not disclosed his suspicious,
he found the young man with pair of pis-
ttist PhN VI hbiNi ht WIS attempting W lOdb,
but apparently could not readily do it, He
had laid in for the voyage box Of wine, a
demyohn of brandy aud one of gin, aud
this, with the trunk which he was known to
have purchased in New York, with its con-
tents, and 81 800 spoken of above consti-
tute all that there is yet to show for the sum
which he obtained.-Daty 1dg.
Bccr Drinking LGdics Mr.. Weed, of
the Albany Eve. Journal, in one of his in
teresting and familiar letters from England,
writes
Every body drinks beer in England. l
have astonished walters, in two or three in
stances, by asking for water. When you
set yourself at the table in Coffee Room"
or "Steak-llouse" for dinner, and have or
dered your Joint" or steak" or "chop,"
the waiter inquiries, "Hale, porter, or stout,
sir ?" IL in place Of either Of these nation
al beverages, you reply odter, he either
laughs IN your face or turns away wonder
ing where such wild chap could have been
caught Now that have seen something
of the English habits, ] am asionished that
Miss MartIneau should have deemed the cir
cumslance thai two or three American wo-
men with whom she met, were "not all for
love, but little for the bottle" worthy of
remark. The drinking of hale, porter, and
stout is universal here, with the females Of
the poorer classes when they can get it, and
with those of the better classes oil mechan-
les, females, people aud shop keepers
While at dinner at Birmingham, it was OBJ
served by all of us, tina; the ladies' Ga dozen)
at table drank porter as if they we're thirsty,
and as if it did them good. The lady OPP
posite me, who was well dressed and well
educated, disposed of nearly an entire botlle.
You meet ladies at every turn of the streets
in London, ''the rubric of whose faces show
the shrines at which they kneel" have
met ladies at Exhibition Rooms, whose fiery
faces entitled them TO the distinction OF be-
ing classed with Shakspeares knights of
the burning lamp" And you find every
sidewalk blocked up with lusty ladies', who
are indebted for their rubicund faces and
rotund persons, to habitual beer drinking
| yesterday sat in an omnibus with an old la /
dy and gentleman, evidently of the wealthy
class, the latter Of whom was a victim to /
govt, while the former displayed face and
nose, the maintenance of which had cost as
much as Falstaff paid for sack" to keep
Bardolph's salamander in fire.
POSTMASTER AT SoUTIAMpToN.- ]. /
N. Judd has been removed from the Office !