Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-01-07

I0NI0Y 1yuopSiN
> He was torn in Geneva, descended from the
Pilgrim fathers, we'll educated, and attended
sunday school regularly. His b0yish hayward
ness often called for the rod Of parental corrsc !
ton. He had ! pencAant for destroying, and an
irresistible longing 70 know the contents OF toys
pianos, watches, &c., which led him TO their
swifs destruction, 70 the marvel Of his acquain
tances. This unaccountsble cratic disposition
had never left him. He came TO New York in
ls43 when he became clerk in = furniture store
and afterwards opened . store in Hudson street,
where he failed in lS47, largely in debt. This
was severe lesson, if he was capable OF rsiec-
ton.
Next he turned broker in Wall street, hung
up his s'shingie" in front OF basement, and en-
tered upon business, without capital or friends.
Scribbling at his desk, he waited idly for what
ever op nlng might present itself. Perhaps he
remembered the story of Wilmington and his
cat, and did not despond. Soon he became en-
gagged in solemn enterprises, the establishment
OF cemeteries near Baltimore and Buffalo. Both
of these failed He then had to do with Gene
teries nearer home, which have languished or
died. In what operation had he ever shown
shrewdness or good business capacity!
He had plausible manner, but all his schemes
we're crude crooked, and fallacious--the work
ings of morbid, erratic intellect His schemes
always exploded, unless upheld by others tie
never succeeded except by accident. DE was
connected with private steam iauhdry on the
Isthmus OF Panama. and when that failed he got
up stupid stock company for the same purpose.
He next got up Southern bank for passing the
bills of which he was indicted. The late District
Attorney saw Huntington, and the result OF his
Impressions was that the indictments went to
some mysterious pigeon.hoie.
This was supposed to have blasted his fortunes.
Next he went to Maine TO start a bank in more
regular manner. He got charter for the man.
ufacture Of paper at Lewstown, on the little An
droscoggin river, and supposed he had the priv
ilege OF banking; but after bills and certificates
had been engraved, the Boston banks pronounc.
ed it scheme of mailman, and had the charter
repealed He next turns up in California, sent
by the charity of his friends, where, by means
OF torgeries similar to those now charged against
him, he bled his Wall street friends for about
100000.
1t was generally against shrewd business men
that these insane frauds were committed. The
counsel would not now name these parties, but
they might yet call upon them to explain how it
| was that they destroyed the evidence of these
crimes and still received him into their friend
ship, and, in some instances, into brotherly init
macy.
No doubt they said of him, as did one OF the
witnesses they would call, "The man must be
| crazy" There was no evil intent, but child
like simplicity. On his return from California,
in the spring of 1854, he went to the men he had
wronged til easy confidence, and they gave
him full release from all their claims.
In lS49 he married a respectable lady of Itha-
ca, who has suffered anguish of mind and body
on his account but has chung to him like true
woman. They have two children, and the err
ratio father was loving father and husband.
This love for his wife made him hesitate to com.
nit self destruction. He once devised plan to
insure his life, and then destroy himself yjump-
ing after ferry boat, SO that the suicide should
be known. The family Huctuated constantly be-
tween affiuente ana penury.
| In July, 1885, he hired and furnished plain
house in Thirty ninth street. He WAS ill, and
his family subsisted by the aid of friends After
| his recovering his wife went into the country,
and upon her return he presented her with
luxuriously furnished house as a surprise, and
cut up variety of silly antics, believing, fully,
that his wealth was firmly established. After.
wards he gave away or somehow disposed OF this
| house, and occupied more magnificent one,
which he had tried once to give awey as mark
| of gratitude.
The extravaganza of Huntingtons mode of
life, previous to his arrest was commented upon
His residence was museum of magnifcence !;
his apparel, jewelry, horses and cquippage were
worthy of the Gar OF the Russians. He had be-
come second Wilmington, whose name was
like his own. -.....
These forgeries thus fostered have amounted
in all to S20,0OO,0O0, an astounding sum. @
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