Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-10-23

Way of the -Transgressor'-A very
heavy defalca ton has been discovered
in New York City. It has been as
certained by the house Of Holford,
Bancker & Co, private bankers, in Wall
street, that the amount of about $40,.
600 Of the funds in their hands, had
been embezzled by their book-keeper
and confidential clerk, by means of
regular system of fradulen: and false
entries, and alteration of the books,
carried on for several years. The
young man, whose name (says the
Morning News)we suppress on account
of his afflicted family and fond and do
ting young wife and several small chill
dren, has not been the gamer by his
nefarious transaction, for he does not :
possess now one single penny Of the
whole sum. The fatal passion for- ~
ming first induced him to betray the
trust of his employers. He lost, and
his after larcenies were committed
with the hope of being able by a for
tunate stroke at play, to retrieve his
losses and refund the money. AS is
too often the case, instead of getting
out of the mire, he continued to 60
deeper and deeper into it, until at last
his crime was discovered.
Such is the history of all cases of
tie kind. It should be warning 10
young men never to engage in the fatal
vice of gaming, Here is clerk, who
should have been an ornament 70 soci-
ETY., utterly ruined by this dreadful pas
siol., and his famil y thrown into aiilic-
ton, which no language can describe.
The authorities in every large city
should think they had sadly neglected
their duty, until they have routed every
gaming establishment within their pre-
cinc,s Saturday Courier.
EXTRAORDINARY ARREST.
| Mysterious Case-Pursuit and .7,rest
| of a French Wom,an- Discovery Of
an Ertensiuc Gang Of There's.
The Baltimore Patriot of Saturday
contains the extraordinary narrative
that follows: .....I..
"A gentleman and lady, who had
been stopping at the Exchange Hotel
for some time past, as man and wife.
left in the cars of the Baltimore and
Susquehanna Railroad Company, on
Friday morning on thei: way to York,
Pa. A gentleman who had been So
journing at Barnum's was also a pas
senger inthe same cars. He observed,
after the cars had gotten some miles
from Baltimore, that the supposed hus-
band of the lady was not among the
visible. The next discovery made by
the gentleman was that his pocket
book, containing some $40 in money,
and some valuable papers, was gone.
The fact of the person who had been
accompanying the mysterious lady
having left the cars, excited suspicion
upon the part of the loser ofthe funds.
He kept the secret to himself, but on
reaching York, perceiving that tie
said pretty little French girl, or woman,
took her passage back to Baltimore, in
the return train, he also did the same,
and on reaching this city, gave such
information to the police as to cause
them to arrest her. She was accor-
dinghy captured on Friday night, and
taken to the pole Office, with a view,
more especially, to ascertain the where
abouts of her apparent husband. On
examination of the prisoners trunk,
it was found to contain much valua-
BILE clothing, jewelry, SC. Her per-
son also underwent private inyeSilga-
ton, and around her body, in belt,
was found $1,000 in gold. \ trunk,
known to be in charge of the NAH "a
Frenchman) who accompanied her,
has been seized. When opened, it
was found to contain nearly a bushel of
letters, running back in dates for seye-
raj years. These letters are mostly
written in French; some, howeverNare
In Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, German,
and other languages. They proved,
on partial examination, to be correspon-
dence with celebrated thieves in all the
principal cities of Europe and America,
giving detailed accounts of extensive
robberles, the best modes of eluding de-
lection, &c. Some of them, it is said,
mention the fact of large robbery
having been perpetrated in Paris some
years ago, and also narrate the manner
IN which papers containing accounts
OF 1t, sent to New York, to be publish
ed in the French paper there, had been
suppressed by the parties concerned.
In the trunk, which the woman undeA
arrest would not claim, and deniees4s
all knowledge of its ownership,was also
found $1,000 in American gold, besides
miniature likeness of. Cordial Richie
lieu, set in gold, and a handsomely
constructed seal stamp of raw head