Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-03-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.
$40 shoe the reuy age and Jodyof the times.

The officers Of the Secret Service of the
Treasury Department recently effected the
seizure of couuterfeiters' TOOLS consisting sof
steelplatcs, dies, presses, and various other
articles used by counterfeiters, at St. Louis
Mo. One of the gang was SECURED while IN the
act of printing counterfeit fractional currency
a large amount of partially finished lltty cent
fractional currency notes was seized at the
same time.
Somebody has been reading in scientific
journal an account OF a curious and recent IN
vention designed to catch sale burglars. The
depredator no sooner commences, IN perfect
ignorance of the secret arrangements, TO force
open the door drill the lock, or move the sale,
than by so doing he sends a telegraphic dispatch
to the nearest police Office, exhibiting the num-
Der registered in the police books OF tie mouse
in which the robbery is being effected
A. w. Lee, tho Treasury clerk who alb
seconded from Washington last january, with
some forty thousand dollars in u. s.. bonds,
which he had stolen from the Loan Bureau, has
been arrested at St. Louis under ill assumed
name. 1hirty-seven thousand dollars were
found in his possession by The officers who
made the arrest.
Mr. George Peabody has added another to
the long lst Of unparalleled gifts for charitable,
educational, and scientific purposes, by beatow-
ing $40, 900 for the promotion among the i'll
habitants of his native county OF Essex, Mass,
of the study and knowledge otihe natural and
physical sciences, and their application to the
useful arts
Gov. Brown!ow, OF Tennessee, has issued an
order calling for the organization OF volunteer
force to serge three years AMI to be subject to
his orders as comnlander-in chief. OaLenslbly
the force thus raised is to act As Il military
police to preserve peace and project the people.
The Secretary Of the Treasury yesterday re-
ceived intelligence of The seizure at Belfast
Maine, of large quantity Ct goods that had
been smuggled into the United States from
Canada, and which are valued ut thirty tho'lS-
and dollars
It is stated in the New York Tribune that
uuler the provisions Of the naval appropriation
bill, passed at the late session OF Congress, at
least 10, 600 employees in the government navy
yards will ba discharged during the present
year
The Gnangial action Of Congress is not re
garded as facilitating expansion to any extent,
and prudent people are shaping their affairs in
harmony with the declared policy of the Treas,
ury-steady and persistent contraction.
The New York papers announce that several
of the large dry goods establishments in that
city have established detective force, which is
employed to look after the clerks. The de-
tectivcs visit all sorts Of places.
a letter has been published in the Sioux City
Register stating that Fort Union WAS attacked
short time since by the Indians, but that after
a protracted fight the Indians were repulsed
with heavy loss " ~"
A delegation of New Yorl: frcmen arrived in
Charleston yesterday They were received and
welcomed at the depot b. the Charleston
hremen. ....