The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-03-18

rHs Oaro Fsaups. Tho fsaud upon the ites-
sary Of Ohio, which has been for the nr' W."
thoroughly Investigated, though discovery"
time $50. 10 remarkable for the fact tna. -, ~.
todea over series Of years from iss. s,.,.
year 1886, aud during three SUCCESSIVE %
''easufers. When discovered It amou" ,,,h
yearly Sdoo,oo The defaications oees A., a.
s'ste Treasurer Bliss, In lsa7. lie e"'e'
nee poor man, and Of course hao W
course to others to give the required s"'e"
Bank President furnished part OF the su",, 90.
made arrangement by which the Bans .A'1'N
have the custody Of the State money, ana '"e "'o
Of certain portions of IT, Bliss lsunoneo oa' %
once, bought $50, 900 Of the Banks stock WIN 'ne
public money, received dividends on u wnicn ne
forgot ever to account for, aud also used the inter-
est received on the deposit. When he went out OF
Office there wss deficiency, which the succeeds
Ing Treasurer, Breslin, covered up by private ar
rsngerient With Bliss. Breslin followed closely
10 hiisss footsteps, and between specniations OF
his own and lending money on bad security, hs
proved defaulter to nearly half million
Among his "investments" was the "wild car
bank Of kanawha, Va. Breslin was succeeded by
his brother.in.law, Gibson, who, though OF oppo'
site politics. followed In the same tracks. lie
concealed the deficiency, and worked with bresiin
to keep 1t from the public eye. The failure 70
meet the amount due for State interest in 1890
exploded the whole affair. All these men, IL ap'
pears. were without any means of their own, ana
went into the cffice merely to make use oil the
public money for their own advantage. They
speculsted in lands, railroad aud bank Stocks ano
In fact, everything which promised to pay gooo
dividends. They rose in a short time TO the RANK
of financial princes, and there was no rotten con-
Germ which they deemed too low to invest the pnr
| lie money in.
| TIE DECIMAL SYsTEM.-Another movement is IN
progress in Great Britain, to secure the adoption
| of the decimal system, goods shall be sold and
duties paid by weight of 100 pounds instead OF the
| hundred weight Of III pounds. At recent In"
| terview with the Chancellor of the Exebequer, 1t
1 was represented by Mr.. Miller, Of the Bank Of
| England, that the H. pounds, instead OF 100,
causes FIVE millions Of useless figures to be written
every year, in nothing but invoices, &C., of bond.
ed tea aud many of these figures results OF
| useless calculation. An English writer, basing
bis calculations upon these figures, supposes, that
taking the whole business of the country, $4,000,
100000 of useless figures publicly written
every year in the United Kingdom which could be
saved by the decimal system.
CLERGYMAN ARRESTED YoR CoUsTERrEITING.-EI
| tensire Bnsiaess.-Ou Monday last, Rev. VIM
| Watson, pastor of the Methodist church at Glens
| wood, near Cleveland, Ohio, while preaching fu-
neral sermon, was arrested by officers from an adj
Joining county, upon the charge of passing coun.
terfei, money. The Plaiudsaler says
The people in attendance at the funeral were sc
ncenspd at the CticeTs that they thrust them from
the house. aud they concluded to retire until the
| obseautts we're concluded. The officers had previ
ousy searched bis house, in the csilsr OF which
they found inks pra 3es. papers, rolling machines
| and the entire apparatus for the manufacture OF
counterfeit bank Bills They also found about ST. Geo
n countcrfsit bls 5000 of which were Sos on the
Forest City Bank, of this city, and about $200 in
5's on the State Bank Of Ohio. The clergy M an
made clean breast OF the matter ne became
ago. and as he had been in early lie an ensraVe ne
had been very useful aud bard working member
three years He is about forty years old a man OF
family and has been very generally esteemed and
s Gy h sbs TO Get money
do good with This explanation was not very sat,
isfactory to his parishioners. however, and they
discarded him at opca.'
A few DAYS since the U. S. Marshal, in Essex
county, n. Y, arrested several persons for coun-
terfeit;ug gold and silver coin. In their posses
sion WAS found a book of 200 pages, containing
the rules and regulations of the "Mysic Circle Of
Alchemy but chiefly devoted to explaining the
method of manufacturing counterfeit coin. 4he
Utica Herald says:
| II sppears from the book, (Which has been eX-
tensvely advertised iu quiet wsy) that any Per
| son paying I've dollars was instructed In the Sc
| Gets received certificate of meru bership in the
"Mystic Circle Of Alchemy and copy OF this
hook containing full instructions for initiating coin
and for plating base metals by the most approved
scieLtitic methods We are unable to state how far
the "Mystic Circle extends. but ss success in cir
cuatinx counterfeit coins requires the concert Of
number Of p Isons. II cannot be doubted that the
operators have made large use OF the fraternity and
However this may be it is certain that the influence
! of the book has been most pernicious In several
districts In Northern New York. particularly in Es
sex county large numbers OF persons have been Sc
dCced from honest ot cupatiops by the ping op
portuuity seemingly afforded for &c ting rich with
ont labor and have entered the nefarious business
| of Manufacturing counterfeit COIN The business Is
carried on to large eytent in the deserted iron
mines of that region. There, deep In the bowels Of
| the earth accessible by paths known 10 none but
and ALLOW to cheat his faow-men and violate the
laws Although but few persons have been arrest
ad ge ers snspicon ests upon Rundredso OF otners
who nj rsue Re gular business and have no appa-
rent mesns Of gaining q livelihood In other parts
OF the State the officers are closely watching the
movements Of individuals who spected Of the
same crimes. -
MEDICAL GRApuArEs.-At the commencement Of
the Jefferson Medical College, Philsdelphia, Tues
DIV, ISL Of the graduates vert from slave states,
Us from free States, and from the British Pro.
vnces The following were among them:
Ijrgia;e-A Almond. NJ d; P Il Anderson; NJ
Barr. Nj ID: P Beadles; D B Benson; J Blick;
soees;r Il B brown; A Il Cauthome VIM u Coard:
s Corbip: G w COX; ] Crawford; Dorset,
jr: Edmunds; VIM Elder: Foote; K G Gee;