The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-11-06
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We find in New York paper. the follow
ing sketch OF the fashionable life Of Hunt.
ingtOn, who was arrested in that city recent
ly on charge Of iOrgeries, before his ar
rest:
"And now Huntington is iS the Toombs i.
His trial will make work for the lawyers,
and attract good deal Of public attention.
II will be nice legal point whether the
lodging of these notes as collateral security
is tants mount to uttering them. The penal.
ty for each offence may be seven years in
the State prison, and If convicted on all, he
would require to live as long as old Parr to
serve out his term. In the meantime he
seems TO be quite Indifferent to his situation.
When Officer Bowyer informed him that he
cSme to arrest him, he coolly walked up to
the mantelpiece, took up a match, liz the ci
gar which he had in his mouth, and walked
OFT with the officer in apparent unconcern.
His cell Ht the Toombs is richly csrpeted
and furnished. His wife's carriage drives
down daily, and her care supplies him with
sumptuUus fare. He has his chunpaipne
and his Havanas, and don't seem to let the
degradation Of his position weigh down his
spirits. As an instance Of his extravaganza,
even now, it is said that after dinner day
or two ago he sent up to Thompson's for
fruit, and paid as high as $5 for FIVE pears.
1t will be asked what has become Of the
proceeds Of these extensive forgeries! We
have given an inkling Of the extravaganza Of
this man, which sufficiently indicates his
character in that respect, and we have no
doubt that within the last two years he has
been able to squander all the money that he
raised by the means we have described.
He owned two houses in Twenty. second
street, costing probably $4,000. These
were furnished regardless of expense. In
one Of these he resided with his family; iH
the other, not block distant, he muintuined
in grand style lady of beauty and accom-
plishments, who was not his welded wife,
He was fond Of snowy eQuipages and fine
horses, and ou:shone all lis competitors in
that line.
1t was usual TO see his lady driving two in
hand, and hims elf driving q similar team,
side by side. He kept open house for ali
his friends, and gave them the use of his
establishment. He rarely dined at home,
but generally at some OF the fashionable res.
taurants, with some fashionable ladies'. At
the watering. places his lady ouishone all
others in the spendor of her diamonds. 1t
is said that on the very day of his arrest she
had sent to his Office, from Niagara or Sara
toga, box containing $4,000 worth of
jewelry. Her brother took it in charge, and
the officers hnve not since been able to get
at It, We received the other day commu-
nication that he had recently bought, at
Tiffany q Co.'s, piece Of iewelry, price
y 800, for presentation to q lady. Mr.
Tiffany, however, says that this and other
similar statements are exaggerated.
With such lavish expenditure as these ex.
travagant tastes and habits imply it need not
be wondered what became OF the proceeds
Of the forgeries. ..
Huntington, like many other people in
New York, was determined to live like
prince--no matter who should eventually
have to foot the bill. Even now. when the
crash that was 10 be expected has come,
and when he can reasonably look for no
other fate than that of a. felon, he does not
lose his reck klessness, his indifference. He
eats his fine dinners and drinks his costly
wines in his little cell in the Toombs with as
much gusto as when he played tie part of
grand setgneur in Twenty second street
And even there the calamity that has befal.
len the household does not seem to press
heavily upon them. There is the same
"sound OF revelry by night" as in the times
when he was Furnishing in Wall street.
But the reaction cannot fail to come after
the eiddy excitement OF such lie. II is
sad to contemplate the end OF such lite.-
1t is sad to contemplate the end Of such a
brief career of dis pntion. The wealth
which his wife supposed perhaps to be in
exhaustable, will not save him from the
degradation Of convict's lie A young
man, OF good address and pleasing manners,
he night have lived life of usefulness, and
honestly became wealthy, as he desired; but
he conld not resist the tenn ptation OF getting
rich IN q hurry, and the end will be miser-
able existence in Sing Sing Prison. There
is moral in Huntington's career for all
classes of our citizens"