Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-12-01
Memphis LIENS.

Memphis Items.
We copy the following items of Memphis news
from the AUacnche of the 18th inst:
ANOTHER COUNTEEFETTER ARREsTED-LARGE Haul
OF B0GUS MONEF-We have spoken of the probable
existence in the city of organized band of coun-
terfeiteIs. and gave the particulars a short time
since of the arrest of a fellow calling himself A E.
Taylor who arrested while in the act of getting
off some bogus money. Yesterday, officers B. A.
Carter and L. @. Tucker arrested man who calls
himself John Barrett, and upon whose person a con-
siderable amount OF counterfeit money was found.
Early yesterday, ii ascertained he succeeded
in passing counterfeit bill on Louis Raja who keeps
a grocery opposite the Beale ST. market. AMI also a
spurious bill of the denomination upon an up-
town Dar-keeper. One hundred and twenty-One dol
lars and twenty cents in good money found upon
his persOn-SZ6 20 of which in half dollars
and the balance in paper From the several articles
also taken from him, among which were a pair of
large buckskn gloves II Is evident that his Occupa-
ton was to trade his bogus money for good and to
do this he would purchase small article Offering
ten dollar counterfeit bill and receiving good money
in change. How many he he had succeeded in
passing before he arrested il is impossible 70
tell but the probabilities are that he has carried on
extensive trade. The bills in his possession on
the Citizens Bank of New Orleans are the best
executed cOunterfeits we ever saw, and no less
than six thousand dollars, we understand were re-
ceived by the Bank itself before the discovery was
made. Those on the Canal Bank of n O. are not so
well gotten up, but would be likely to deceive per
sons unused to the money. The following IS list of
the spurious bills found Barretts nersOn Three
$40 notes on the Citizens Bank of New Orleans
four $40 notes the Canal Bank of New Orleans
one 81 note on 4 broken Tennessee Bank and $40
note on the Manufacturers Bank at POughkeepsie, !
ny.
The existence of an organized band of counter |
feiters throughout the South is no longer |
doubtful Daily in exchanges we read of at |
tempts at getting OFF spurious money the Canal |
and other banks at New Orleans, and caution all to |
judges to its sOundness That Garrett has accom-
plices at hand Is the most probable thing in |
the word. and a sharp lookout will be maintained |
by the police.
Opments in regard to the Harper's Ferry affair and |
the probability that Memphis contains co-conspira- |
tors Of Old Brown the police are keeping a strict |
watch upon such individuals cannot give good /
account of themselves. On Saturday night last Of
fcers Stainbach and Oakley in their regular rounds
on Poplar street. heard the most uncOascionable
snoring, which proceeded from the house being
erected by Bishop Otey, next 10 Grace Church. The
officers proceeded TO explore the building and dis
covered fast asleep and literally smothered in news
papers, 3 man who gave his name Andrew J.
Jones. Being unable to give any account Of himself
the officers in accordance with ther duty locked
him up. He was t-ied before the Recorder yester-
ay and sent to the chaingang for thirteen DAYS as
a warrant. Jones is respectable looking man. well
dressed. and evidently possesses a superior educa-
ton The papers under which he was found are of
strange 70 say nearly every one Of them contain
full reports of the trials of the arpers Ferry in
surgents We do not wish to occasion alarm, but
the facts las we take them TO be- divulged in the
Palmer case should cause more than ordinary vigi-
lance to be exercised
A New ENGLAND CLERGYMAN IN THE MEMPHIS
CHAIN GANG--An old sot aamed Thomas Quinn,
who kss repeatedly been before the Recorder intoX
icaton was sentenced yesterday to thirteen days
the chaiHgang for being drunk. Quinn was form
erly Clergyman. and raised. and spent good
portion of his life in New England So it is! The
person who cannot control his appetite must take
the consequences. which are sure to follow. We
had much rather, however, see some of the = three
thousand" who have stolen the livery of God to
serve the Devil" in Qunns place-and we don't
know but we may confidently promise them safer,
If not better quarters, if they II come here.
A BoSroN Man EMBRACES a NEGRO.-On Saturday
nislrt a man who gave his name as John Crosby and
who halls from Boston, seen in close converse
ton with negro belonging to Mr.. Maddox
Doliceman observed the pair, and saw Crosby
with his arm about the neck of the negro and con-
Guided to arrest the fellow, and Crosby was accord
ingly locked up. he was before the Recorder yes
teTdsy and fined $40 for the embrace and received
some wholesome admonitions as TO such proceedings
In future.