The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-17

The Boston Posts account of this man gives but
real life
Ten years ago was seated in my office at No. u
Wall street, busily driving the quill, when heard
a quiet step behind and then mild voice nquiring
II had the transcript of certain judgment against
one j. u. 1.-THE protector of the great Peg-ghe-
wah-wah Company for selling Indian medicines. |
looked up and man whose twisted foot and
pasied were quite familiar to me. but ofwhose
name calling l knew nothing.
eyes" | replied, 81 have the transcript"
"Wel, want it" he said; ''I'm going to collect
it for the creditor"
''Going to collect it l exclaimed, ''why the
judgment is perfectly worthless. Executions, and
after judgment, and all ordinary
means of grace, have long ago been exhausted upon
U. He Is hopelessly insolvent, and is besides the
most adroit scamp of swinder ever encounter
ed.
whats that to me?" broke out the visitor, in a
gruh strong voice, quite different from his first
tones. perhaps you don't know who | am. I'm
Burling, the man about town. You a LAWYER and
not know me! Sheriffs good for nothing; con-
stables are good for nothing; executions and credi-
tors bills are good for nothing Give me the tran
script-heTe's the order for it'll make the money
out of him."
l saiveled around my chair and stared at the
man. 'And viii you be so good, Mr.. Burling,''
asked, Gas to tell me what is your patent plan for
superseding officers and writs, and for squeezing
blood out of turnips, and cash out of the President
of the Peg-ghe-wah-wah Company"
Chow / do lit, you mean. Why dun EN- at their
houses, dun 'em in the street, dun 'em at the
theatre, dun 'em in church, catch 'em early in
the morning and stick to 'em all day; follow 'em up
wherever they go; go to meals and eat with 'em; go
to bed and sleep with 'em; give 'em no peace night
or day, Sunday nor week day, stick to 'em like
death to a dead niger. owes debt. He
won't pay it. follow him up all the week so he
can't do any business, nor go to see his sweet
heart, nor walk in Broadway, nor eat with
any appetite, nor sleep without dreaming. Pm after
him with the devil to help run him down. All this
won't do? Very well. When he goes to church
Sunday, he finds me in his pew. Your sherfs
can't work Sundays do my best business then. J
The congregation rise, and he rises, takes out his
book, opens at the place, and there he finds the
bill Eve stuck there, and gets so mad he can't say
amen"
"Sherifs and constabes" continued he getting
loud and fierce, twill sheriff go of Sunday morn
ing to parsons house and follow him to church
and walk up the broad aisle with him before all the
congregation, and go up the pulpit stairs close to
his heels, and slip into the pulpit after him before
he can shut the door, and take seat by his side
and get up when he gets up, and when he opens the
Bible, opens John Jones' bill full length and lays
There's that bill Of horse hire; pay it before you
preach! But, that's what / did-and i got my
money too
"And what commission did you charger"
"Fifty per cent" "Rather strong" | sug-
gested "but still your mode of procedure was
strong. Do you often get much as fifty per
cent??
"When l earn it, get it. DR.. C. of Broadway,
sent me to dun fellow who lived back in yard
and kept two bull dogs that he let loose when any,
body came to collect honest debts. | went to him
with horse-pistol in each hand and DR.. C.'s bill in
my teeth, and made him pay up. What did DR..
c. offer me for getting his sixty doars?-he offer
ed me one dollar. won't take it, says l. I'll pay
no more, says he. Pay thirty dollars saws l.
Get out of my Office, or I'll kick you out, SAYS he
Pay me thirty dollars, says |. Clear out says he,
and he kicked me out of his door and down the
steps into Broadway. | goes across to the - no.
tel and hires great arm-chairout of the bar-room,
and takes it across the street. and plants it on the
curbstone right opposite Dr.. c. office door, and
lays the bill had made out on full sheet OF fools
cay across my knees, hanging down so everybody
that went by could read in large, black sanded let
tiers:
Doctor c.
To- BURIISG, Dr.
For collecting of Richard Roe:-
Commission $4,000
And all the crowd kept stopping to read, so that
there was all the while two or three hundred peo-
pie standing on the Doctors pavement and reading
first my bill and then his sign, and making their
jokes | had hired the chair for the whole after
noon but he hadn't stood this than fifteen min
utes before he comes to the door, and saws come
here, you rascal, and | went in and took thirty
dollars ofths money, and left the bill receipted"
"But my friend, don't your impudent ways often
get you into scrapes; are you not afraid some one
will some day break your head?''
F'Break whose head?' he Numbered: didn't Col.
S. of New Orleans, man that's killed seven men in
duels, when went to dun him at the Astor House
didn't he grab me by the slack of my breeches,
and hold me out the fifth story window, and shake
me there above the pavement, and saw shall [ let
you fall, and break your neck on the stanes or take
you in and kick you down stairs?
"Wel," said /, anxiousy, 'what did you do
then?'
''What did do? said pay me that money! and
didn't he mil m in and
The intensity of his manner, as he thus related
his exploits, cannot be rendered on paper-espe-
cially when he exclaimed with closed teeth and the
fingers of his round hand clenched-''poy me that
money!'
He took the transcript, and limped out In ano-
Their day the hapless debtor and overmatch for all
the regular thumb-scTews of the law, came in to
beg piteousy | would call off the bloodhound.
told him it was the creditors affair, not mine. Next
day met Burling at the of Cortland street,
looking mild and happy, and asked him how he
succeeded. ''lhaven't got it vet" was the reply
che hasn't found me out, but he has Just paid me
five dollars to let him dine at the hotel down there
without my company. We've taken all our meals
together for the past two days, and he began to
find his appetite fall
Whether the five dollars was credited on the
Judgment, or pocketed as personal perquiste, l
never knew.
TIE BANK OF ENGLAND.-''The buildings cover
about three acres of ground. Many of its rooms
arc tppitu from tue CLASSIC mOueiS OF GreGca and
Rome. The employees number about one thousand
Several Of the officers reside in the bank. The
notes redeemed each day are checked, cancelled
and put away in boxes. After keeping them ten
years, they are burned. The accumulation of the
last ten years, in the vaults of the bank amount
to three thousand millions of pounds; and vet any
one OF these notes can be referred to in a minute
and the history of its issue and its return given
Inc oanK does all its own printing, and several
presses are kept busy. Everything is done by ma
chinery-the note is not touched by the pen before
1T goes out. | held in my hand Yesterday one note
for a million of sovereigns!
Sin the bulliOn-room ingots Of gold were piled ur
like cords of wood, and silver bars in vast moun-
talns. The machines for detecting light coin, and
Tor cutting them, are exceedingly curious and vet
simple Every bankers deposit is weighed, and all
the light pieces cut nearly in two and returned next
day. The system of the bank is as perfect and as
exact as clock-wOrk. And yet in spite of all pre-
caution, some small forgery is amost daily detected
But since the great forgery committed by Axtell
for f36O0O0, the bank has not lost any very heavy
sums; although in 1922 capital punishment for the
crime was abolished, when the 'od fogies' predicted
tnat everybody hard up would turn forper
SIN the specie department of the bank there are
bags and boxes of sovereigns and halfsovereigns
enought to make a miser mad; there are mountains
OF Mint drops, for which millions are signing and
lying, and perpetrating all conceivable crimesI |
was asked to lift big bag of sovereigns, and for
once, must confess | felt sovereign disgust for
money."-Col. Fuller.
Mr.. BUCHANAN AS MISUNDERSTANDING
hugh SWlngton Legare, of South Carolina
was United States Minister at Brussels in 1888
Mr.. Champion, who was the British Secretary of
Legation to Russia, dined with him, and the con-
versatlon turned upon Russia and the foreign min
listers there, Mr.. Buchanan then representing the
United States at st. Petersburg. Mr.. Legare des-
crlbing Champion, writes in his journal as follows:
august 5th y He is
a handsome young man of twenty nine with a gray
head, incining already to badness has been three
years IN st. Petersburg; knew Mr.. Middleton, who
he says was very well liked there Says Ran
dolph's John presentation, etc., was the funniest
thing OF the kind that had ever taken place-litte
Clay IL. R. was left alone, friendless and I'm
known. Lord Hatesbury, forgetting animosities)
sent for him to dine with him out of compassion
and afterwards treated him with all manner of
Kindness. Mr.. Buchanan, a very good sort of man,
but so destitute of all the requisites of diploma
tIst, that he Mr.. c. can't conceive why he went
TO st. petersburg; where he lives in part of the
town which Is perfect terra incognita, and there
is no society at St. Petersburg but the Court So
it goes, and that is republican wisdom. Why the
devil send an ambassador at all?
TESTIMONIAL TO LAMARTINE IN PAg1s.-Tbe
of Paris has granted to NJ de
Lamartine and his family the enjoyment for life of
a house and piece of ground in the Bots de Bou-
logne. The gift required the sanction of the Coun-
Gil OF State. 1t will hardly be believed that this
testimony OF gratitude and admiration-of graft
tude TO the man who, whatever may have beer his
errors, at one time certainly saved Paris and all
rance from the horrors of anarchy, and of adj
mlratlon for the poet who has shed lustre on his
this testimony has encountered
in that body. 1t can hardly be believed
that the President of the Council could be opposed
to the grant. fit be true, it will be said that
NJ Baroche thinks that NJ. de Lamartine had trop