The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-27

LARGE HAUL OF CoUNrERFErERs IN PuILADE1-
PHIA.-The PHILADELPHIA North american of Satur-
dav, contains the following account of a band of
noted counterfeiters in that city on Friday last:
In police parlance, counterteiter is termed
"koniacker" With this class of criminals all cities
are more or less infested. Philadelphia is particu-
larly annoyed by their presence, and the more so
because of the aid and spccor rendered to their
underlings by magnates in the business. Yesterday
morning, bright and early, the police made des-
sent upon o'ib in ~orioao p~r.O of tho city.
The parties where the arrests were made keep
drinking houses, and would probably sue us for
libel, were we to mention localities
The arrests were follows-Josah Bright, Jim
PurdY, John Solomans, Reuben Kline, Jacob Zim-
norman, John Walters, Bill Buck and James Lat
ferty. These men alleged to have been engaged
for long period in manufacturing and selling spu-
rious gold silver and notes. Some Of them have
grown hoary in the business Josiah Bright is ff-
ty years Of age immortalized in police annals as
prominent counterfeiter. He has been convicted
of burglary, and endured several imprisonments.
Jim Purdy is 70 years of age, with hair white as
| snow, and forty years has been an outlaw He has
| spent many years in prison, without the slightest
| reformatory effect. Kline, Solomans and all the
others old hands in the business and so adroit
that justice is put to straits to insure its own salts
| faction Kline, Bright and Zimmerman are now
in prison. They were committed Yesterday by
| Commissioner Heazlett, in default of So 500 bail
| The others, excepting Walters, taken before
Aid. BETTER and committed in default of $500 bail.
| The three former were charged with making coun-
terfet coin, which is an off4nce coming under the
jurisdiction of the United States. The la ter made
paper money, which, only violating a law of the
state, is taken cognizance of by State officials.
From BUENos AYREs-By the arrival of bark
Star King, Captain Smith, at New York, we have
advices from Buenos Ayres to January A. The diff
teIentla duties for the port of Buenos Ayres were
| enforced January 2. The bark Susan Clark, ex-
pected to sail in few days for New York, will
bring the Charge d'Affaires, Mr.. Brent, who re-
turns home an incurable invalid. The bark u. D.
of Boston, Captain Fairfield, that to sail on the
5th for Boston, while in the Roadstead took fire on
January 4, and at the time the Star King sailed
was running for the City Banks. The boats of the
| United States brig cambridge, and of the other
men-of-war in the harbor, were alongside. She
would probably be scuttled, and undoubtedly con
demned, as she is an old vessel, having been built
in Duxbury in lS4l, and rating A ~.
THE APPEARANCE OF THE JUICES OF THE SUPREME
CoURr OF THE UNITED SrATEs.-The Washington
correspondent of the Cleveland Plaindealer, who
has lately been in the Supreme Courtroom, at
Washington, says:
''First on the bench sat Clifford, fat and sleek,
with grey hairs and weighing, should Judge
two hundred. Next, Grier, about the same size
and quite grey-headed; then Wayne, with light
but not grey, hair, and about hundred and
fifty pounds weight; next, Mclean, with scarcely a
white hair, though far advanced in age, looking
hale and hearty, andof about two hundred pounds
weight. Catren, with silver hair, but not so large
man as Mclean. Next Nelson, with whskers
from his round under his chin, and the only
one who had whisker. He would weigh one hun
dred and eighty, more. Last, Judge Campbell,
the only bald-headed man. He had silver side
locks, and above medium size Altogether, it is a
weighty body. In front of the judges bench
Every fine arm chairs) the busts of the venera
Bile Chief Justices Marshall, Rutledge, Jay, and
Ellsworth. The Courtroom is small; not large
enough to hold more than fifty persons"
FATAL AFFRAY.-Oa Wednesday morning last, a
difficulty occurred at Emory and Henry College,
Reece, and John b. Brownlow, of Knoxville,
Tenn, son of Rev. W. G. Brownow, in which the
latter struck the former on the head with stick
| KeeCe uleu the same n1pnI.