Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-22
[Pron. the New York Post.l
Dc. Rland Redlvi1ns.
Arrest Of Physician and Eaitor-Imnenso
Saergies Of Valuable LiteratureScene II.

ATrest of a PiysieiGn and Eszitor-laan1enso
Sacrifice Of Valuable Literature Scene IN
the Office, etc.
Sergeant BirneY, whose war upon swindling
doctors, policy dealers, lottery agents, ct hoe
genus oHaHe, apparently failed for space has
again taken up the cudgel. He opens the new
campaign with fresh attack upon S. Hankn-
son, Md, alias Bland, Md, publisher of the
Neac York Journal He has made an affidavit
before the Mayor, setting forth that 'the said
Neao YOrk Journals an obscene, indecent and
scandalous paper, and is issued by the said S.
Hankinson for the purpose of ssindling aud
cheating the community, and sapping the morals
of the youth of both sexes, and that the adyer+
tisemcnts therein are not only indecent, but in
violation of the Law, and that said publication
is a nuisance of the vilest kind
This s. Hankinson has an Office at 81 Nassau
street. The business was formerly carried on
under the name Of r. Bland, but the Mayor
stopped the letters of that worthy gentleman
last summer, when suddenly the name of S.
Hankinson Was assumed.
The Journal is devoted to advertising the
miraculous medicines and wonderful secrets of
is renowned editor. They are mostly of nature
not to be spoken OF. Among the many, howev-
7; it may be mentioned that he adyertises the
"Hgean Secret, means whereby persons with
lold, ugly and wrinkled faces, can easily be
made to appear young, beautifully smooth, and
even handsome
| There have been advertisements, in former
numbers, OF recepts for transmitting base metals
to gold; but these are now omitted.
The most valuable service which the Doctor
| has rendered mankind, however, is the publica-
ton OF q certain book, which teaches various
wonderful arts, among whchimay be mentioned:
1 How to make fences, posts, siding of buildings,
roofs, &c, last one hundred years, and then pre-
ISeDt no appearance of age OF decay; how to -ex-
tract gold out ofall dirt, sand, gravel, &C.; how
to subvert the powers of nature; how to raise
crops OF grass and clover without seed; how to.
make all the hair on the head, whiskers, eye
Il browS, &C., fall of; to cause room to appear.
all on fire-awful to behold; how to make light
burn forever without replenishing it; how to
roast chickens, fish, meats, &c, without Gre;
Ihow, by the use of pepper, to dry up the human
body; how to make 81 appear like and be salts.
iactorily receiver as $2-''and SO any sum may
be made to appear double; how tomake charm,
against jurics and judges; how to attain know
ledge by the use of which We can foretell all
things to come; how to make horses, dogs, mon.
keys and all animals drunk, &C., &c.
The sergeant this forenoon proceeded to Han
kinson's office with warrant, and in spite of
the mystic powers of that worthy, arrested
4 him. lie was conducted to the Mayors Office,
and the Mayor, remarking thatlhe had done
playing with this sort of men, ordered that he
give bail, and that the case be sent to the Grand
Jury to-day.
The sergeant was ordered to seize all the,pa.
pers of the establishment The doctor re-
turned to his officer in charge of officer Wyn.
koop, with sandy-whiske-ed lawyer, who
refused to give his name, aud forbade the
Seizure of the papers. The lawyer loudly
asserted that there was no law for such pro-
ceeding, and told the doctor he need not go with
the officer unless he chose. 81 give you warn
\ ing" said he to Birney, "that if you take these
papers you'd SO at your peril. I shall hold
both the Mayor and you personally response
1 be-"
..That is right, replied the sergeant. "of.
Ecer, take the doctor and get bail, or lock him
up"
Lawyer-You have no right to. take him, and
oHicer-The commands of my sergeant are SUI
perior to,yours. Doctor, come with me.
Doctor-I shall.notI
i Saying this the doctor backed himself against
a cupboard and took knife, used ordinarily in
compromising his potent mixtures The officer
! assured him that resistance was useless and the
doctor, trembling with excitement, reluctantly
yielded.
The Sergeant then ordered his men to seize
! the papers. There were eight or ten bushels of
the Journal, some folded and some Just from
the press, and a great number of books done up
wrappers and directed to various places, most
ly in distant southern and western states
Two young women were at table folding and
wrapping papers. The sergeant requested them
to go with him as witnesses, but they refused,
on advice of the lawyer, and as there was no
warrant for their arrest, they were allowedto go.
1t is said the doctor receives from thirty to
fifty letters PEI day, containing remittances for
books and mixtures. When our re porter left
he had not found bail
-A.O.A--
INyRIGLEHESr OF a YOUNG LADY INTO AHoUsR
OF TLL-FAME.-The New York correspondent of
the Boston Atlus and Beenarratss the following
singular case of the inveiglernent of young
lady into house of ill-fame, the particulars of
which have not before appeared in print.
A young lady, most respectfully connected.
was on the street a pleasant afternoon, unattend.
ed, upon . shopping expedition, when she was
accosted by awell. dressed lady, who stated she
had been seized by sudden illness, and begged
to be assisted to her home, which was but a
short distance Her air and manner were an.
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