Washington sentinel., 1853-11-09


The Counterfeiter's Arrest The Cleveland
Herald gives the following particulars respecting
the arrest of Baxter al Franklin Mills: 4fs III
year since the police of Cincinnati and Cow
ington obtained clue 10 an organized gang OF
counterfeters and six weeks since, a man was
arrested at Coyington, in whose possession was
found 81, 900 in counterfeit money Through him
further particulars in regard 70 the gang We're
certained. Ii consists of several hundred persons,
some of whom occupy respectable positions in
society.
The policemen came 10 Cleveland took rooms
at the New England, and one of their number
went 10 Franklin Mills TO purchase counterfeit
money OF Baxter. He succeeded in buying TO the
amount Of SITS. Baxter's arrest, as narrated yes
terday, soon followed. .f
Baxter was arrested at Covngton, KY, about a
year since, having in his possession $4,000 Of
counterfeit money His bail was fixed at $4,000,
but afterwards il was reduced to $780, the money
deposited, and Baxter disappeared
On Tuesday, the same officers arrested Josiah
Davis, teller of the Forest City bank, who has
since been discharged on bail. The officers pub
lished card in which they state they sus-t
pected Davis, from information gained In Coving-
ton and Cincinnati and accordingly arrested him
for being concerned with gang OF counterieiters,
and took from him small amount OF counterfeit
| money. AT the request of the president and
cashier of the bank they examined the vault, and
found small private package marked Josiah
Davis, containing time drafts and notes, and few
had been in the habit Of dealing in broken bank
bills, unknown to the president and cashier, who
would not have suffered il had they known i.
fCiRcinnati Afias.
Great Travelling and Telegraphic scheme.
Among other startling announcements, that OF
communication between England and any part OF
India in ten days. has been made. Il seems that
the railway from Ostend to Trieste, length Of one
| thousand five hundred miles, will be completed
within twelve months from this time. Letters,
parcels and passengers will then occupy but little
more than two days from the shores of the channel
TO those of the Adriatic four days will take them
thence to Egypt and by aid Of the railway from
| Alexandria TO Cairo, which is now rapidly advanc-
ing, they will be within thirtysix hours afoat on
| the Red sea, and in twelve days afterwards be
landed safely in Bombay, within three weeks OF
leaving London. Within this date, the electric
| telegraph now preparing TO be laid across the
| Mediterranean, will have reached Suez and four
thousand miles Of wire, which have already reached
| Calcutta, will connect every great town in India
with the port Of Bombay, SO that before the year
| 1856 expires, London will have communication by
electric telegraph in ten eleven days time with
| every part of India and by steamer and rail in
| twenty one days with Bombay.
| The advces from Italy also state that the Gloy-
raLe di Roma of the 4th, announces that the cleo
| trio telegraph, which already extends from Rome
to Bologna and Modena, is to be continued to Ter
racina, there TO meet the Neapoltan wires; so that
| Naples, Rome, Bologna, and Modena will form but
| one uninterrupted line.--BaA San. 4aa
| Case of Mrs. Gaines.--We have been in
formed by friend of Mrs Myra Gaines, that this
| lady passed through Wilmington few days since,
| and told her while here, that an old gentleman
| who has for long time resided in the West IN
| dies, waited upon her Mrs. Gaines) some time
| since, and said he was present when her mother
was duly married TO her father, Daniel Clark, Of
| which fact he was ready to bear testimony. The
lack Of satisfactory proof of this fact was the sole
cause of her former defeats in her efforts to recov
her estate and that upon the existence of this
| evidence being made to the defendant in suit
now pending in the Louisiana courts, he became
fully satisfied of her right TO recover, and therefore
offered TO purchase the properly at fair equiva-
lent, which she has accepted, since which trans
action Mrs Gaines says she has compromised
with nearly all the possessors of her fathers lands
| for very large sum Of money in the aggregate,
| the payment Of which will soon be secured to her.
Ii our information is correct OF which we have no
reason to doubt, Mrs. Gaines after series of dis
heartenng defeats, will at last obtain her patrimo
nial estates the sole heir Of her father, and
hereafter be cassed among the mionaires of
America W,kming gton (Dei) Gazette
Suicide.--The Pittsburgh Post of Saturday
says: Yesterday morning Richard M. Duncan,
young man who has been for some time past
ployed clerk in the Office of the engineer of the
Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad, was found dead
in his room in the Emmet Hotel, in Allegheny.
The deceased had been boarding there with his
wife and child since last TUESDAY. He had been.
in the habit Of drinking freely Of late, and il is
| supposed that he had become deranged in conse-
| quence.
On Thursday, he requested Mrs Sweeney, the
landlady OF the Emmett hotel to send out and pur
chase some audanum for him, but she refused.
| On the same evening he went out himself and
| purchased some His wife observed him lying
upon the carpet in his room about midnight, but
did not think anything about the matter, he had
been in the habit Of doing so for some time past.
She went 10 bed, and when she awoke in the morn
ing he was still there. She Immediately summoned
the lady and the boarders, and DR.. Elliott was
called in, but it was too late, as he had breathed
his last. An empty vial, which had contained
landanum was found by his side. The deceased
had formerly resided in Baltimore where his father
was clergyman.
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The state Fair.--The executive committee Of
the State Agricultural Society held a meeting al
their Office IN Harrisburg last week, when il was
that the receipts at the exhibition held
in this cty amounted to Si7 5OO--deducting 900
| paid in premiums and other expenses a balance