The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-12-23
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Tuesday Morning, December n 1854.

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Tuesday Morning, December -. 1855.
HISTORY OF HusT1SaToS, THE FeRaER The
New York Herald, of Saturday, contains history
of Charles II. Huntington, the forger now on trial
gathered from the speech of the counsel for the
prisoner. The ground Of defence, as before stated
is monomania The account says:
lie was born In Geneva, N Y. descsraed from,
the Pilgrim fathers, well educated, and attended,
Sunday school regularly. His boyish wavward
ness often called for the rod of parental correction
ne n&u Peacaat for destroying, and an irresisti.
Die longing 10 know the contents of tovs p;.nos
watches, &c, which led him to their swift destrnc
''on, 10 the marvel of his acouaintances This nm.
accountable erratic disposition had never left him
lie came to New York in 1913, when he became
clerk in furniture establishment and Afterwards
opened store in Hudson street. where he failed in
istT, largely in debt. This was a severe lesson
II he was capable of reflection ~
Next he turned broker in Wall street. hung ND
MS "shingle" IN front of basement, and entered
upon business, without capital or friends Scrib~
bling at bis desk he waited idlv for whatever
opening might present itself Perhaps he remem.
oered the story of Wilmington and his cat. and
did not despond. Soon he became engaged in SOL
enn enterprises-the establishment of cemeteries
near Baltimore and Buffalo Both of these failed
he then had TO do with cemeteries nearer home
which have languished died. In what ope
ration had he ever shown shrewdness or good
business capactyt
He had plausible manner but all bis schemes
were crude, crooked and fallacous-the work.
ings of morbid, erraiic intellect. His schemes
always exploded unless upheld by others He
never succeeded except by accident. He was
connected with q private steam laundry on the
lsthmus of Pansma, and when that failed be got
up stupid stock company for the same purpose
He next got up bank at Georgetown, D. c.,
for passing the bills of which he was indicted -
The late lamented district attorney saw Hun
md hq nf IL INN
the indictments went to some mysterious pigeon
hole
This was supposed to have blasted his fortunes-
Next he went to Name to bank, in more reg
ular manne-. He got charter for the manufacture
OF paper at Lewiston, the Little AndrCsceggiu
river, and supposed be had the privilege IF banking;
but after bills and certificates had been engrave
Boston banks pronounced it scheme of a madman
and had the charter repealed. He next turns up in
California sent by the charity of his friends where
by means of forgeries similar to thoss charged
against him, he bled his Wall street friends about
i 100 0L0
1t was generally against shrewd business men that
these insane frauds were committed. TIE counsel
would not now name these parties, but they might
yet call upon them to explain how it wss that they
destroyed the evidence of these crimes and still
ceived him into their friendship, and in in
stances into bretherly intimacy
No doubt they said of him, as did one of the wit
nesses they would call, 1.-The man must be crazy"
There was no evil intent, but ehildlike simplicity
On his return from California, in the spring of 1854
he went to the men he tad wronged with easy conf
dence, end they gave him full release from all their
clalEs.
In i849 he married respectable lady of Ithics
who has suffered anguish of mind and body on his
account, but has clung to him like true woman
They have two children and the erratic father was
leving father and husband This love fer his wife
m de him hesitate to commit seifdestruction. HI
stroy himself by jumping after ferry boat, that
the suicide should not be known The family fluc-
tusted constantly between affluency and penury.
In July, 1855, he hired and furnished plain house
Thlrty-nInth street, He i'll. and his family
subssted by the aid of fiends After recovering,
his wife went iat1 hs country and upon her return
he presented her with iuxuiousy fur nished house,
as q SURPRISE and cut up variety of syantics. be.
lievfnR fully that his wealth was firmly established
Attefwa ds he gave away, or somehow disposed of
this house, and occupied more magnificent one.
which he had tried once TO give away a mark of
gratitude.
The extravaganza of Huntington's mode of life
previous to arrest was commented upon. His resi-
dence IVES a museum of magnifcence. His apparel,
jewelry, horses snd equi page worthy of the
Car of all the Russias. All this spendor came
through Charlea Belden and Harvey Belden, who is
younger than Charles and like to him. Charles
Belden knew Huntingtons character and whole
1t was he who tempted Huntington to these
forgeries petted him and .miled approval upon all
bis prodigality Charles Belden had for period of
only five months established account at the ank
st the Republic Of five millions of dollars.
PHILADELPHIA COAL TRADE The Ledger, of
Saturday, says:
The Anthrscite Coal Trade is now narrowed TO
the operations of the Reading and Lehigh Valley
Railroads, SO far as the business with the Schuyl.
kill and Lehgh regions are concerned For the
week ending on Thursday, of this week there
was brought down over the Reading Road, Al, ,045
TONS and from the beginning of the present fiscal
year, l27 724 tons against 1921 tons TO CORES
ponding time last year. The Lehigh Valley Rail
road brought down, for the week ending on Satur-
day last 2G1 tons, and for the season. l76 tons
The present sudden ard very severe cold spell of
weather has somewhat stffened the market and
W. II md 1Aoto
an effort to advance the price 25 cents per ton.
NOVEL ESTRAY-The locomotive attached tn
the Central Ohio express train got away from the
conductor, engineer, and all hands. on Tuesday
evening, short distance beyond Zauesyille and
started on its "own hook" toward supdoyyn The
accident occurred at a switch, where the hindmost
car OF height train was just leaving the main
track The engineer and fireman, seeing that they
must hit the car, sprang from the locomotive and
the collision broke the connection of the iron horse
leaving it " with the bits in its teeth to run it's
race. A messenger returned TO Zanesvle. whence
a dispatch was telegraphed to the station further
west to ''look out for the locomotive" 1t ran 10
or 10 miles before it was caught Uheelin4y Argus.
GAMBLING ESTABLISHMENTS BROKEN UP.-Tbe
police sf Boston on Friday night made descent
upon the gaming establishments at No fremont
street, conducted by John L. Brown; at No ,
Stoddard street, kept by the Brothers Mead: at
No, IL Howard street, kept by Daniel Butman and
Charles McElroy. Many of the inmates were ar
rested and their implements" seized, but several
persons escaped by Ieaping from the windows,
distance OF twenty feet from the pavement.
A CHALLENGE.-Th N Y. Tribune states that
T. g. Meagher lately challenged H. ]. Raymond.
Of the N. Y. Times, to fight duel. The offence
" IS the publication of a paragraph saying that
Meagher had broken his parole when he escaped
from Australia. The story is that Raymond ne
gotiated with Meagher, and finally retracted and
explained the offensive paragraph in a manner
to satisfy the demands of the duellist. The send
1ng of challenge is contrary to law in N. York,
and the Tribune lectures Meagher for sending it,.
and Raymond for not placing it in the hands o
the district attorney.
SCARLATINA AMONG ANIMALs.-A week since,
swo children of one of our physicians were attack
ed with scarlatina, and during their illness had for
pets couple of kittens. Both the kittens subse.
uuently had all the symptoms of scsrlatipa, one
of them dying, the other narrowly escaping A
canary bird, whose cage hung in the room also
died with all the symptoms of the same disease
Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle.