Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-12-03
ARREsr oR A WAsHINGroNIAN.-We conu

ARREST OF A WASHINGTONIAN.- copy
from the New York Tribune of yesterday the
following in relation to it:
On Sunday evening stranger of respectable
exterior, aud apparently some forty years of
age, entered a public house op Hudson street,
Jersey City, and, after calling for and taking
drink, threw down upon the counter SO Ma
tioua Bank note. The proprietor, James \.
Mcmillan, examined the bill and discovered it
to be well executed counterfeit, and believing
that the stranger knew it's character, caused
his arrest by Detective New WiGams. The man,
who refused to give his name, was committed
to the City Prison for the night. Yesterday
morning the prisoner was taken before Reeor
der Martindae, when he pretended ignorance
as to the cause OF arrest, except that he said
he supposed he had been taken in for intoxca-
ton.
The Recorder, having no jurisdiction in the
case, sent the prisoner before United States
Commissioner ackson, where he gave his name
as George w. Mclean, residence Washington,
and occupation corresponding clerk IN the
Uuited States Secret Service Department.. Mr..
Mcmillan then made an affidavit charging Nc
Lean with passing a counterfeit national bank
note upon him. Mclean denied all knowledge
of the transaction and urged that the position
he held under the Government would preclude
the Idea OF UlSlODcSC motives III tue uldItcT.
He said that he was subject to terrible intiic-
tion, and although he abhorred rum as much
as any one could, yet at times he was unable
to control his appetite, and when once he gave
way he could not drink liquor enough. La re-
gard to the bill, he claimed that persons In the
secret service were provided with them for the
purpose OF ferretlng out rogues.
John Dunn, secret service detective, stated
to the commissioner that he had been acquaint-
ed with Mr. Mclean for quite q number of
years, and he believed him to be an honest
gentleman, incapable of committing the crime
with which he stands charged; that his great
misfortune was that he gave way periodically
to intoxicatlon.
Commissioner Jackson said that 1t was his
province only to ascertain if there was sufficient
evidence to warrant the holding of the party,
and that all statements OF evidence In favor OF
the accused came properly before the court
He then asked Mclean If he was prepared to
enter into 81 900 bonds for his appearance,
Mclean said that he was stranger In the
place and again protested his innocence. De
tective Dunn said that Col. Wood was expect
ed. A moment after Col. Wood entered the
office, and stepping up in front of Commission
er Jackson desk, addressed him substantially
as follows:
.Mr. Commissioner am chief of the Sc
cret Service that mans misfortune is whiSkey;
he is a relative of mine, and know his habits
and failiDgs; but his friends forced him upon
me. and he has diSgraced me; he is a low villain;
he is not a detective, but a clerk in the Secret
Service Department, aud had no business with
that bill it is not marked; when he came on
here last week | tried to get some magistrate
to commit him, knowing that he would com
NIT some indiscreet act; l advised his friends
to go through him and take away all his
tod fO ha
of the law: he's low dirty villain; I'd like
him sent to the penitentiary for life. Good
day. Mr.. Commissioner
Upon the utterance of the last word Colonel
Wood, who had spoken In an excited aud dis
jOinted manner, seized his hat and rushed out
of the room.
His denuncation had fallen like bombshell
upon all present, and for few moments not a
word was spoken.
Mr. jackson then said: "Oficer convey the
prisoner TO iail;" which was accordingly DONE
AWEsTERN CONFIDENCE MANS EXPLOITS.
The story OF courtezan of louisville hav-
ing fallen heir to $500, 900, bequeathed by her
grandfather in England, tnrns out to be pure
fiction A Judge Leslie of Chicago, who
has narrowly escaped horse whipping and
lynehing in several Western towns, whose peo-
pie he had vietimized, told her the tale, as
means of getting her TO share his fortunes. -
The Louisville Courier Journal publishes the
following about the scamp's record: Last
spring Lawrenceburg, In this State. was cleo
trlhed somewhat alter the manner or LOUIS
vile on Tuesday morning OF this week. Judge
Leslie arrived there--Judge Leslie OF Chlcago
and he hung out his shingle as q tinker or
defective titles. He made the good people of
Anderson county believe that the titles they
held TO their property were defective, and that
he was their Messiah called from Chicago to
deliver them from bankruptcy and rum. lie
Was on the eve of an immense business, when
somebody exposed him. The Indignation OF
the people, on learning his true character,
knew no bounds, and the Judge-Judge Les,
lie Of Chicago-escaped a rail and tar and
feathers by an ignominious, but none the less
precipitate flight" He went away, though,
swearing vengeance and declaring that he
would overrun the country with United States
troops, If he could be protected lin no other way
at Lawrenccburg. This threat had the desired
effect. Some Of the old and wealthy citizens
of the place. fearing his story might actually
bring troops into the place, interceded for him
and he was permitted to return.
SUCH Is LIPE"-The ups and downs of
life are completely and sadly illustrated in the
lives of George d. Prentice and Walter n.
Halderman The latter, when boy, entered
the Louisville Journal office as clerk, when
MIR. Prentice was in the zenith of his power.
deOrge d. Prentice, in those days, was great
man. He stood second to none among the edl-
tors of whg journals in the land, indeed, he
had a national reputation. He was known as
aman of talents, power aud influence In the
country. Geo. d. Prentice was among the
foremost journalists of the times but now,
alas, how changed He is in the employ of
Dir. Halderman, his former clerk, now the