Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-11-05
LOCAL M ALTERS.

county, Nd, ON the charge of circulating q
large amount of counterfeit money, in the
shape of bills on the Bank of Commerce, Fred
ericksburg, Va. A gentleman from Kent coun-
~ gave us the following particulars viz: The
two men, one calling himself George w. Moore
and the other John H. Robinson, hired al
Chesapeake City Of Mr. Lane, a horse and
carriage, and started down the peninsula, on
the previous Tuesday, upon which day they
were seen to pass through Head-of-Sassafras
but on their way down did not offer any of the
bad money. Having gone as far down on the
Eastern Shore as they considered prudent, they
commenced their RETURN and began at once in
the rogue's parlance to "Shove the queer" and
in order to do so stopped at every store and
tavern on their route and purchased some
small article and banded out five dollar note
in each instance to pay for what they bought,
all the notes being on the Bank of Commerce,
Va. They continued to pursue their journey
towards Delaware, circulating their bogus
money pretty freely until tho suspicious Of
the store keepers and others began to be arous-
ed. They made purchases of Mr.. Dudley mer-
chant of Crumpton, and also of Mr.. Rolph
and others of Milington. AT the latter town,
these gentlemen made purchases amounting to
Sc cents, and succeeded in getting Off SIS of
counterfeit money. They offered some of this
money at Galena but it was refused. While at
the latter place a party of men arrived from
below, and having obtained the assistance Of
officer Hart and VanEant, the counterfeiters
were arrested and taken before Squire Davis
at Head-of-Sassafras where they had hear
ing, and they were by the Squire committed
to Chestertown Jail, for which place the two
officers above named started with their pri-
soners at once in the mail stage. After their
departure fears were expressed by some per-
sons that injury might be done to the officers
on the way to the prison, as neither of the
prisoners was secured in any way, and one OF
them was very violent and swore iiercely that,
"beiore he would be taken to prison, he would
suffer DEATH" and it is feared they may have
escaped from their captors. Great excitement
prevailed in Kent county, Nd, on account of
their having passed so much counterfeit money,
the inhabitants were greatly exasparated, and
many of them were anxious to put Lynch law
in effect against the prisoners. In the carriage,
which was returned to Mfr. Lane at Chesapeake
City by Mr.. John G. yoshell, were found o
pairs of gloves, quantity of tobacco, lot of
segars and bottle of whiskey, the latter Of
course being necessary adjunct to the busi-
moss of circulating counterfeit money.-COm-
mOanedM.
Royues About DoVer.-On tho night of Mon
day, October oath, about o'clock, Mrs. Han
nah NJ. Davis, Il widow lady, was aroused from
her slumbers by noise MS of some one at
tempting to unlock the door of the kitchen
she Immediately jumped out of bed, and the
noise ceased, surprising it to be the wind OF
rots, again laid down, when in a very short
time she was further startled by some one try
ing the knob of the door leading into the
house, and at the same time rushing against
the door, and with design evidently offorcing
an entrance. She again jumped out OF bed,
h0isted the window, called out who's thereV
Instantly the noise ceased, and the next thing
she heard, the scoundrel was in the language
of the lamented Colbert Hamilton, sitting sand
and scattering oak leaves, in the direction Of
the Depot. On the evening of the same day
another or the same ruilian, made upon Henry
Flowers, ono of our citizens. The circum-
stances were these Mr.. Flowers was going
home from the direction of Bridge Town ian
aF \ uIo,,h a xra mt N HI
vision Street by man. Tho man told him he
wanted his money, at the same time twisting
his fingers into F,s collar. Mr. Flowers drew
out his pocket knife and opened it with his
teeth, made pass at the villain, who immedi-
ately drew out of II side pocket, II butcher
knife, and made rush at Flowers. Flowers
then rushed OH the fellow with stout cane
with which he was armed, and dismounted him
of his knife, when the fellow concluded that
retreat was safest, and Immediately took to his
heels.
Rvnaipoys Caphired--On Friday night last,
two valuable negro men belonging TO s. w.
Spencer, Cashier of the Farmers and Mcchan-
les Bank, at Chestertown, Nd, stole horse
and carriage from Mr.. Spencer's farm, near the
above place, and made their escape from that
section. When they had arrived to within
about one mile of the town of Warwick, in
Cecil Co., they drove the horse in the woods,
and hitched him to fence where they left him,
and made their way on foot to Middletown, in
New Castle county, where they arrived in time
to take the train of cars going North on Satur-
day morning; but their fear restrained them
from attempting to go on board the cars.
They hid themselves, however, and lurked
around till night, and when the O'Clock train
arrived on its way to Philadelphia, they slowed
themselves away in it; but while the train was
taking in wood and water, Mr.. Spencer arrived
in pursuit, and procuring the services of an
officer the negroes were taken from the cars,
and returned to Ghestertown. They were well
armed, having two or three revolyers, dan
gerous looking knife each, and three sharp
corn-cutters. A few moments mors and they
would have been gone beyond Mr.. Spencer's
reach.
Arrest of FbgifiVes.-Twb of the mgitiyes
who escaped from the Jail at New Castle last
week, have been arrested by the Seventeenth
ward officers, Philadelphia Officer Lake ar
rested David Sylvester, alias Champion, on the
Delaware about eight miles above the city, on
Tuesday last. Lieut. Spear arrested Robert Nc
Ilhenny at Penn and Coates streets, yesterday