American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-15
SUNDRY HUMBUGS.

try with swindling schemes and circulars,
and accounts Of imposition and cheating by
the humbug operators Many OF these re-
fer To parties described in this journal last
month and previously. Ohers are concerns
ing parties who have merely changed their
places aud names. Very many Of these
letters ask responses by mall but the num-
ber is 81 large that il is out of the question
to write to the bali Of them. Some ask the
return of tickers, &C., that they heve previ-
ousIy forwarded; bur this is not practicable.
We have thousands of those tickets, and cam
not afford time to hunt up any particular
mans documenr, unless it be OF special i'm
portance. Luok for our exposures in past
numbers before writing Remember thar
if we do not reply t. any inquiry either by
letter or in following number, it is an in
dicatun that the parties inquired about are
either swindlers, or at best OF doubtful char
acter. This re pnnse must answer for many
letters asking response, but which we can
not take time to respond to by letter. We
mention few new names, reserving others
for more time and room than we now have,
and others for further investigation.
We say without exception, every gift en-
terprise" now before the country is a fraud
aud that the investors in them win find it so
in 9, 500 cases out of every 10000. We have
accounts of more than fifty such gift enter
prises now under way in various places. The
soldier, widows and orphans sympathy
schemes are by far the most numerous. -
They literally "steal the livery Of heaven to
serve the deviP'- that is their own pockets.
A. d. BowMAS 4 Co., ivan Allen) we re.
fer to here, not TO pronounce them humbugs
but to say the use of Mr. Judd's name ON
their circulars as reference was wholly un.
authorized and would have been refused il
asked for. Mr. j. does not indoi Sc anything
which he has not examined with great care,
and even then he aims to avoid being an
noyed with a multitude of letters Of inquiry
as to the genuineneSs of any and every
claimed Endorsement, by refusing his sigma
tuIe.
We publish a multiplicity of names Of
swIndlers, but the operators are c)mpara-
tivrly few in number, and they change their
"busrne>s" firms and names at convenience
and often run several names aud places al
the same time. In our calls ON the swind.
ling gentry in various disguises, personally
and by proxy, the same Individual wi II on
successive days turn up in several Realities
For illustration, au old posr-offlce clerk,
whose real name is or wa, Thomas Fletcher,
afterwards was emp Dyed in a provost mar
shal's Office again he appeared MS "Whit-
man & CO.; anon as D. II Kelum & Co
etc, etc. After having tired various other
names until they brcame to well known,
he lately look up his own again.
A Masonic GIFT SCHEME. George w
Holmes q Co., are try,dg to PERSUADE a.
Go d Masons to seId them $500 900 Tor a,
many tickets, promising chanccs at SO sill
hats, S75 plated tea sels, 81 800 pun $, S22, ;
900 house, etc, etc., recko"ed at 5000, ,UU0 il
all, and sung perhap. haif us much. They
don't tell how much is to 90 to a " Hail an,
Asylum fluid, and l5ave the " time anC
place Of distribution TO be hereafter mamed. ,
No intelligent Maso" will bite ut tnls bait
NURSERY GIFT.-Sm'th Whittier, datus
at Chlcag', Nays he has lost the head oi hi
family (hc ought to lose his own heal,
and wants $4,000 farmers to console him d,
sending IN SlOO,OOO AT " each, aud prom
ises to give them chance "a fiCy thou
sandth chance-tu draw his wonderful lrui
farm OF "a acres, somewhere in st. joseph
Mich, he don't tell exactly where. PLENTY
of other widOwers would like similar con
ISOLATION. TO to digging, Smith Whittier
and not try to humbus hunest people out o
their hard earned dollars by your big PIC
ture and great promises.
SAM'L. BlcHToLD Co., of Philadelphia
ask people to send them 81 each, for sol
dIers' orphans hume, Offering III return 5.
pictures' anu oonus Oh ho"u' nan mii'io'
uoliarS worth Vi gii's' ina' may DO 10 cater
very green 'horhs, out not anybody else
Before investing i'r cnaritys saSe' better
~r''e u Gay oooke " o0, ana ask tnem
tue reiefenee " "eo. a oooAe Is alo"eu
Or worm a"y'nihg y allowed
OE ulFT ENTERPkl~ES, the meanest arr