The Montana post., 1866-02-17

EDWARD B. KETCHUM THE FoRGER.-,Every effort
is being made to obtain pardon for this high-cas
malefactor. The Recorder of New York, In passing
sentence, spoke thus soundly and eloquently. The
Eastern reporters have seldom noted speech more
befittlng judge in such case: "Occupying, you
did, an exalted position among the business of
this great commercial city; commanding as you did,
unlimited confidence and credit; possessed as you
were, of great wealth and influence, you became In
volved in speculations vast they dangerous
and ruinous; and then to the financial ruin of
yourself and house, which seemed imminent, you did
what of inferior position credit could have
done-raised immense sums of money upon paper
which was forged, the genulneness of which
doubted simply because you presented It, 1t was the
every day story varying only from other stories in
the magnitude of the forgerie and the greatness of
your fall, and you gave shock to credit and to
dence from which the business interests of the city
did not readily Your friends and those who
ask for you the mercy of the Court say you were
laboring under mania. But every man whose per-
sonal sympathies do not to some extent warp his
judgment, knows that 1t was no other mania than
that which sezes on every man who commits crime
in order to avert personal calamity which he cannot
endure to-meet. If, sitting here as Judge, should
mitigate your punishment for any of the reasons as
signed or because hearts are aching and tantlng or
| because of my own personal sympathies with those
who for you, should feel that every sentence
1 had passed upon first offender had been a wrong,
and that was indeed 'respecter of persons. Its
my duty so to administer the law that all men may
1
lection its power 1t may be well, as claimed by
your friends, that if you permitted to go free,
you would soon be able to redeem your reputation.
But if this Court should yield to their application, it
would be official declaration that men of influence
and station could offend against the laws without the
fear of punishment. Public interests and necessities
demand that the penalties of violated law should be
visited upon the offender by way of example well
as of punishne ent" The Recorder sentenced Ketchum
to four years and six months in the pennitentiary.
LEAD AS AN AMALsAMAroR.-Some gentlemen
connected with the Eureka Foundry are trying ex
perments with the lead process their operations look
Ing chiefly to the feeding. We have now three
styles of feeding the through the molten lead
Atwaters in which it is sifted to the surface ol
the lead and carried under by the floats of revolv
ing cylinder Lafin's uses the lead in a sphere il
which a vacuum is created, and the ore forced dowr
by atmospheric pressure through the lead, it
at the centre of W, rising through the lead agair
at the outsides of the W, and the one first abov
spoken of, which also atmospheric pressure tt
/ force the ore through pipe to the bottom of tn
, lead, and thence up through it. We understand
that the experiments thus far tried with the latte
are very satisfactory It can be applied to quick
silver we'll as Lead Black Hawk Col. Journal