The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-08-30
On the night Of August 1st, the high con

! tfrfelterS IN Cdnada, VINO cdIIltu VI uuolhs
= five miles from each other in the woods.
" their implements were taken, consisting OF O
ID printing press twenty-six plates for pap
g money, one machine for stamping gold and
ver which weighed eight hundred pound
!. twenty four mouIds for running hard none
i dies, ink, paper, engravers' tools, and thousan
e of dollars of counterfeit. This is probably tt
:, most important arrest of the kind ever made (
- this continent. It is known that since the mi
= die of June last sixteen thousand dollars ha'
q been issued by the parties on the Nashua bar
- of New Hampshire, alone and circulated chief
y in the State Of New York. They are of Il
:, denominations of ones, threes and twenties, an
are executed with singular skill. Large amour
of gold and silver coin have also been issue'
T. The band was completely organised, and ha
r their engravers who could make all their plate
n and their printers and their signers of the bill
all of whom are now safely lodged in tn
Montreal JAIL
y Col. Fayette McMulin, member of congress
from Virginia, was robbed, few days ago, {
$780, while on the Fredericksburg train A
Individual implicated in the theft has been al
rested but the money was not recovered.
} appears the colonel was in a handcar, lively
miles from Richmond, and that unexpectedly
a freight train was met, too late to prevent
collision. Tosave himselfhe jumped, out, leav
ing behind his carpet-bag, containing the mon
ey. The collision occasioned no serious dam
age, and after the excitement, on looking fol
his arpet-bag it was missing, but soon found {
short distance from the track, cut open, and
the money gone. It is supposed the collision
forced it open, and that the money was instantly
picked up by the thief. The man arrested had
500 of it in his possession, and says that it was
given to him by another man.
| A dr.. Domino, supposed to be reduced to
extreme perjury, and who had for long time
lived very meanly died at St. Louis and the
pablo administrator proceeded to take posses
sion of his effects and sell them, to pay his flu
neral expenses. On removing portion of a
lot of frewood on the premises, there was found
under it a wooden box of considerable weight
which was broken open. 1t was found to CON
tain 81, 700 in gold. On instituting further
search on the premises, S4,OOOin paper money,
Missouri bills, were discovered wrapped in some
old fragments of clothing near the fire place.
A bag containing 500 more in specie was
eventually added to the treasure, and other
small sums in the course of exciting search were
brought to light, making the whole amount
found about Sc, 800
The female swlndler, whose exploits at one
of the hotels in Baltimore led to her arrest in
New York, but who was subsequently permit |
ted go and sin no more, is supposed to be the
same female who sometime since created SEN
poft No
says:
From the description given and style of pro-
ceedlng we incline to the opinion that she is the
notorious 'belle of Bellefontaine," who came
it over an ex-congressman, lawyer and parson
at Belefontalne, Ohio, few months ago. in the
same way, and is the same girl who was with
II. JONES' in Louisville, and was sentenced to
he pententiary for an alleged forgery, and par
Toned. She resides at Lafayette, Indiana
REMARKABLE.-The Chicago Tribune of /
ecent date publishes the following extraor- I
linary case, which should teach the greatest r
autlon in the matter of interments: G
Zone ofour citizens was attacked with choIe- f
a on Saturday, and about two O'Clock on that Il
tternoon was supposed to be dead. His shroud ,
vas prepared, and was about to be placed upon t
i'm. The storm came up-the windows of h
be room where he laid were open, the cold air .
harged with electricity, came rushing in, and a
ne supposed dead man revived and came to o
te. He is alive this morning and probably Il
Ill recover. We are much onnosed to the q
ractice of burylng people SO soon after death. i
'othing is so horrible as the thought of being
ured alive, and the mere possibility of such Il
n event should insure the greatest caution in n
A WILD BEAST PRocEss1oN.-The law re- j!
emily passed by the Connecticut legislature,
the passage Of wild animals through {
ny part of Connecticut excepting in the night i
me, and escorted and heralded by competent
yards, was, as the Rochester Democrat learns y
ON the Hartford papers, carried out practi. Z Z
ally on the eve of the fourth of July. A wild
ood-chuck was caught for the occasion. A r
lrge truck was then procured, in which was s
laced jackass. On the back of the jackass Il
as "Hiram," gentleman of color who never n
drinks from defence of law and order. On N
[iram's back was the wood-chuck, and the P
hole was drawn by splendid black gelding, v
nd surrounded by a body guard of hard listed 4
oters. As the law required that the wood S
luCh , approach SnOulu DC announced uuueT d ~
enalty of 500, a strong-lunged man went in !,
dvance, blowing a horn of terrible sound, by 4
hch the people for mile around were made O
lily aware that the wild animal was on the b
Dad, and would be cater them with a stick. " II
A VIEW OF NEBRAsKA.-The editor of the d
owa Council Bluffs Eagle, has recently made
three days trip into Nebraska He says he
NV elk, 81 turkeys, IS deer wolves and il
lid ducks plenty; found plenty of the fl O
est raspberries and strawberries he had ever G;
cen, and caught some fish. He speaks Of CT
ew town called Omaha, at which weekly n
paper is soon to be issued. The b
reefs are all laid out 100 feet wide and alleys P
trough each block 90 feet wide, a large square :,
nearly 10 acres upon central and comman- q
ing eminence is laid out for capitol square. Il
he lots contain about fourth of an acre each, Q
nd farther out they are five and ten acres in . .
re. They are 5 or houses, mostly frame, "
READY erected and many more in progress 7
nerels to be acommodious and elegant brick
ouse erected Immediately for the convenience g
the territorial Legislature. = =