The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-12-18

business. He probably, however, did not raise more
than $500, 900 on it. We understand that a cashier
Of one of the banks was in the habit of making Hunt
ington advances out of the drawer on this forged
paper, receiving a large discount for it, and was for
tunate enough to escape loss, and that, on hearing of
Huntington's arrest, he went to the President of the
bank, gave In his resignation, told what he had been
doing, acknowledged that he had made large profits
thereby, and said that he thought it his duty to let
them know how easily they might be cheated in that
way.
And now Huntington is in the Tombs. His trial
will make work for the lawyers, and attract a good
deal OF public attention. 1t will probably be a nice
legal point whether the lodging these notes as collat-
eral security is tantamount to utterlng them. The
penalty for each Offense may be seven years in the
state Prison, and If convicted on all, he would re-
quire to live as long as old PAIR to serve out his term.
In the meantime he seems to be quite indifferent to
his situation. When officer Bowyer informed him
that he came to arrest him, he simply walked to the
mantel-piece, took up a match, lit the cigar he had
in his mouth, and walked out with the officer in ap-
parent unconcern. His cell at the Toombs is richly
carpeed and furnished. His wife's carriage drives
down daily, and her care provides him with sumptu-
Gus fare. He has his champagne and his Havanas,
and don't seem to let the degradation of his position
weigh upon his spirits. As an instance of his ex-
travagance, even now, it is said that, after dining a
day or two ago, he sent up to Thompson's for fruit,
and paid as high as five dollars for five pears.
1t will be asked what has become of the proceeds
of these extreme ~forgeries We have given an ink
ling of the extravaganza of this man, which sufi-
GENTLY 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
some 1875 600. These he furnished regardless of
expense. In one of them he resided with his family !;
In the other, not q block distant, he maintained in
grand style q lady of beauty and accomplishments
who was not his welded wife. He was fond of snowy
e~quipages and fine horses, and outshone all his compe-
titOrs in that line.
T. ruoc ,,c,oI4 10 oo III LII Ja1rSnr 4~o -. hon1
and himself driving a similar team, side by side. He
kept open house for all his friends, and gave them the
use of his whole establishment. He rarely dined at
home, but generally at some of the fashionable
restaurants, with some fashionable ladies. AT the
watering places his lady outshone all others IN the
splendor of her diamonds. 1t is said that on the very
day of his arrest she had sent to his office, from
Niagara or Saratoga, n box containing $36, 900 worth
of jewelry. Her brother took it in charge, and the
officers have not since been able to get at it. We
received the other day Il communication stating that
he had recently bought, at Tiffany & Co.'s, a piece of
iewelry, price 81 1900, for presentation to a lady.
Mr.. Tiffany, however, says that this and other similar
statements are exaggerated.
With such lavish expenditures as these extravagant
tastes and habits imply, it need not be wondered what
became of the proceeds of the forgeries.
Huntington, like many other personsin New York,
was determined to live like a prince-no matter who
had eventually to foot the bill. Even now, when the
crash that was to be expected has come, and when he
can reasonably look for no other fate than that OF q
felon, he does not loose his recklessness or indifference.
He eats his fine dinners and drinks his costly wines
in his little cell in the Tombs with apparently as
much gusto as when he played the part of grand
| SeigReur in TWenty-Second street and even there,
the calamity that has befallen 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 fourishing in Wall street. But the reaction can
not fail to come after the giddy excitement of such a
life. 1t is sad to contemplate the end of such a brief
career Of dissipation. The wealth which his wife
supposed to be inexhaustible will not save him FROM
the degradation of a convict's life. A young man of
good address and pleasing manners, he might haye
lived a life of usefulness, and honestly become wealthy
as he desired but he could not resist the temptation
of getting rich in a hurry, and the end will be a
miserable existence in Sing Sing prison. There is a
citizens.