Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-12-24
J. EsLEY GREENE.
Rich and Racy Affair

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Rich and Racy Affair.
The Chicago Times, an unscrupuIous Breck-
inridge print. has, for some time, been elec-
trifying its readers, particularly, and Seces-
sion sympathizers generally, with the revela-
tions of certain j. Wesley Greene, who, it
was said, had been in Richmond, and had an
interview with jeff. Davis, who had submit
ted certain peace propositions, ssof the pre-
else terms of which the editor of the Time,
says, he is ssnot at liberty to speak, but they
are such as the South could honorably make
and the North could honorably accept.'' II
now turns out that the whole story of Greene
is fabrication, from beginning to end, and
Greene himself the gayest kind of ssIark -
The Pittsburg Gaeette, of the 18th, publishes
an expose, from which it appears that Greene,
IN 1861, aspired to the ministry in that CITY,
and presented forged certificate of member
ship in church at Buffalo. He next turned
up in Cincinnati as ga gseat sinner, % but, pro.
Tossing repentance, he borrowed SO which he
forgot TO pay confding brother, before his
departure. Subsequent revelations show that
he was actually preaching at Cincinnati, and
whilst acting in this capacity, forged notes
and papers by means of which he cheated an
old lady out of her property, having first in
gratiated himself into her good graces and
married her daughter. He then took his wife
east, spending money, travelling from place
to place, getting into trouble, and finally was
convicted of obtaining goods under false pre-
tences, and sent to the penitentiary. Willis.
there his wife learned to her horror, that he
had already awife and several children Hav-
ing served out his time, he went east again.
and married third wife, and, it is alleged,
again got into trouble which consigned him
to the Penitentiary second time. Wife No.
obtained divorce. In process of time, he
again turned up in Cincinnati and married
fourth wife. A card from Mr.. John Dunlap,
of Pittsburgh, sets forth that Greene has been
in his employ for something over year, work
ing at the ornamental japanning business, and
has been seldom absent-that in the month of
October, the time fixed for his having been in
Richmond, he was absent but ,tfre days. It
seems that whilst in Washington City, en-
tightening the President and his Cabinet, in
reference to JEFF. Davis's peace propositions,
he forged an order, signed by Secretary Stan
ton, upon which be diddled a shop keeper
out of an elegant and costly set of furs. The
fend was not discovered until he had left, and
as he took another route from the one he said
he was going, he has thus far eluded the Off
GERS who were set on his track.
This denouement of Mr. Greene will doubt
less spoil all the nice arrangements that were
lifting through The head of Fernando Wood
and other ssPeace Democrats" in the North.
All the political capital they have made or
can make out of the fiction of this adventure,
they are welcome to. We should think, how
ever, that hereafter they would be chary about
persons hailing from Richmond, lest the pub
lie might think that there are other green peo-
pie than those bearing that name.
If any of the ssPeace Democracy know of
the whereabouts of j. Wesley Greene, they
can make the fact known by addressing the
Secretary OF War, or ssany other man,