New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-06-07
Nqrp Orleans Daily GTesGent.
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE :, 1866.
Matters In Mobile.
THE sIc1LIAE coUNTERFErTERs-THEIR IMPLEMENTS
nI2GOYEREn.

THE sICILIAE COUNTERFEITERs-THEIR IMPLEMENTS |
DISCOVERED.
Our readers will reC0llect the arrest of gang
Of counterfeiters in the latter part of January
and their subsequent trial before the United
States District Court. This gang was ferreted out
by officers Shelton, Giddings and Whitney and
they labOred long and industriously to accom-
plish the work. On the 25th of January
officer Giddngs arrested one of the gang and after
holding him two days prevailed upon him, under
promise Of being released, to divuge the opera
tOns and members Of the gang. On this informa-
ton John Green, w. Fl. Sullivan and Antonio
French were arrested. The former was convicted
and sentenced to thirteen years and six months in
the penientidry, and the other two got clear Sub
sequently. q man named Morris, another of the
gang, was arrested and is now in jail awaiting
trial. By diligent Search the officers above named
succeeded in tracing the place of conceament of
their implements and TOOLS which were buried
in stable and yesterday morning they brought
them to light. These implements consist of plates
and dies for coming S. and 81 so gold pieces to-
gether with quantity of the raw material or
metal not yet stamped. They also found full set
of burglar implements, embracing g jimmies out
siders, nips, skeleton keys" ETC., which were
burned in the same place with the connterIeitlng
tools and have no doubt been used ny thls ne
farious gang more than one occasion The
gang was divided so that one party manufactured
the spurious coin and fractional currency, while
the other showed" it on the market These
Sictaus have operated very extensively and our
city is now fairly glutted with bogus" fractional
currency. They comprise very large organiza
ton, and it has always been supposed that their
headquarters were at ST. Louis. Portions of the
gang have been arrested at Louisville and other
points west. A few months ago, no less than
twenty-three Of them were arrested at Nashville,
and their nest broken -[Register.
BOLD AND EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.
We were this morning furnished with the par
ticulars OF one Of the most remarkable robberies
that has ever come to our knowledge. At about
three O'Clock on Sunday morning, a boarding
house, Conception street, was entered by
thieves who ransacked every room but one up
stairs. From the first room they entered they took
pair Of pants, and carried them out on the front
piazza after which they relieved the pockets 81 a
penknite, hne-t0Oth comb cOrksCrew, and even
took the suspenders but, strange as it may ap-
pear, they left a fine gold watch and chain IN.
touched, which were in the fob pocket and the
chain exposed. The second room they entered
was occupied by three young men, whose pants
they also carried to the front gallery, and relieved
the pockets Of all the greenbacks they contained
throwing aside the pocketbooks. They next en-.
tered room occupied by one man. and carried
his pants out, from the pockets of which they got
5000 in greenbacks. He had heavy gold watch
and chain lying on the table with his pants in full
view but the thieves either did not see it, were
not in search of tia! kind of plumber and the lat
ter supp0sitOn seems most probable.
But The stVangest part Of the story remains t
be told. One Of the rooms up stairs is occupied
by bliss Humphries young lady who shares he
bed with little three year old child belonging to-
relative. At about O'Clock in the morning III,
young lady was awakened by some unusual noise
and to her great CONSERVATION beheId negro a
the foot Of her bed, manipulating her dress pocket
In her fright, she rose suddenly in the bed, am
the negro ran down stairs dropping her p0cke
book at the head Of the staircase. Half bewildere
from the shock, the young lady was uncertai
whether or not it was horrible dream, and sh
felt in tie bed for her little charge but to her h0I
Tor discovered that the child was not in bed. Sh
jumped up, lit the CANDLE and after searching i
breathIess anxiety for few moments, found Il
little cherub under the bed, fast asleep bU
deathly pale. How the child got under the bed
mystery and it is not known whether or not th
black fend, who no doubt did it, attempted
drug the young lady and child. No clue ha
been obtained to the detection Of the bold Tol
bers,-[Lbid.
REPORTED DEATH or GEN. SLAUGHTER.
gentleman, just from Mexico brings us IL
painful information Of the death of our late frien
and companion, Gen. j. B. Slaughter who fl
some time commanded in Mobile when the Confe
crate fag still foated in our city. This death, in
strange land, is one of the many heart rendin
incidents of the late war, and We safely ad
that no man was more worthy of the admratiC
and love of his fellow citizens than Gen. Slaughte
We learn from the same source that Col. Of
doski, formerly oil the U. S. ordnance department
and afterwards chief Of the same department u
der Generals Bragg and Beauregard, is now, at II
advanced period Of life working as an engineer
Mexico al $40 a month, thus barely able to suppo
life. Col. Olodosk is a Pole by birth, and hayil
taken an active part in the revolution of 1881, hi
to escape from Poland into France, whence he le
for the United States, where he entered the arm
in the humble capacity of ordnance sergeant
position which he honored by his superior abb
ties Times, 5th inst.