Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-12

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title is ready to have a finger in everything He
/ operates forrailroad grants, special claims, in
creased compensation to contractors, elections
of officers of the House. and everything else
that comes up. He Is always on hand, and all
is game that comes TO his net. He wears a long
military cloak, which covers rather shabby in
ner habiliments has free and easy manner
about him, fequents the ycstibulc of the Ma
/ tional Hotel and the various barrooms, clutches
members by the button holes on all possible
occasions, and loses no opportunity of ingratia-
ting himself and earning the reputation of a good
fellow. He writes for oneori more country pa
pers, and thus has pretcnce of business. 1t is
doubtful, however, whether he is able TO make
much out Of his profession: He don't appear to
thrive amazingly well, and the inference is that
his contingent fees are small, or that he is not
very lucky at the faro table.
EXTENSIVE GousTEREEIrrsG OPERATIONS DIS
covEREp.-The police of New York, on Saturday,
made animportant arrest of Alleged vendors of
counterfeit bank bills, and recovered about
$50, 600 worth of the notes. The Herald says:
Word was brought to the chiefs office that
number of skifully executed bills on the Morris
County Bank were in circulation, which almost
detied the. experience of the employees of the
bank to detect, while brokers repeatedly took
them for genuine, and the Cashier wished Mr..
l Matsell to send competent officer to make an
arrest, as he thought he knew who one of the
parties were. Officer Masterson was according
~ despatched to work the matter up, and he
found that a man named John Garrison had no.
| tiled the bank that he knew where the false
money could be bought. After q conference
with the officers of the bank, it was at length
agreed that Mr. Masterson should be introduced
by Garrison to the suspected party rs drover
who wished the counterfeit money to pay for
cattle. He was accordingly taken to the Com
metcial Hotel, in CORTLAND street, where Car
rison introduced him to a person whom he called
John Williams Williams offered to furnish the
supposed droycr with counterfeit money on the
Morris County Bank to any amount for forty
cents on. the dollar, and produced the money to
show how well it was executed. At this mo-
ment one of the other officers entered the ROOM
aud Williams suspecting something wrong
sprang for the CRATE, and thrust the bills in his
hand in the fire; but they were picked out in
time to tell what they were.
Williams was taken to the chiefs office where
after some solicitation, he informed the officers
that he had procured the false money of Taylor
u Brother, money brokers' doing business at
the corner of Chatham and James streets. The
Officers, accompanied by the prisoner, proceeded
to the place indicated, and, after some manmu
Iyerin,g succeeded in arresting James NJ. and
Frank Taylor, on the charge ofpassing counter
felt money: The plan of catching them in the
act of passing the money was laid most adroitly
and succeeded admirably. twas done by Viii
liams buying the spurious bills of one of the
sus w selee.eu stooa Dy
change of two ten dollar bills, until thew saw
the counterfeit money produced, when they inn
mediately arrested the two Iaylors,ja tie8
The premises were then searched. when a
vi VI money was
ioulu, ail i in ail 70 over szV,vVi. ne
Estore, good, and bad, were taken to the chiefs
lottice. Among the.countcrlcit bills were num-
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ssbkiTisH CONSUL sUFfoc ArFn. - hea fatal fire
IN baltimore, Saturday night, was noticed by
telegraph. The Sun, of Monday, saws -
srise most tb;s
conilagration IL being The snffar.afion of Ar doc
Kuper, the British consul at sInort who su,as
lloder,ps In, tbe bonsa ITnonf NJ - =. q,
and Ladder Company. a woman and child were
observed at a window of the second story. Alatil
der der from their carriage was soon run up, and
h., ~ ND tne there
ed them that man was in the hacl room, ~ tb
second story. when s K Andras,s a,,5 io liz
Punk also of that compnny nobIy ents.ra5 tba
building with the view of rescuine him Tbey
were at first driven by the dense volume ~
smoke with which the house was filled hnt
again attempted to reach the room in which bs
floor until reaching the door, which they found
locked ~ o,,e,, itl,n,, ~, ta,.o, IL -