Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-10
FROM NEW YORK.
Correspondence of the Ohio statesman.l
New YORK, June 6, 1868.

c. Enright and John S. Allen, charged |
with defrauding the Government. 1t is felt |
to be just, despite all the protestations of
innocence. Collector Callicott when ar
raigned for sentence. and in reply to the |
question why it should not be passed upon
him, declared that in the transactions upon
which he had been tried, he was entirely |
innocent of any guilty intent to defraud
the Government. He concluded as follows:
! do ask leave to say for myself that left
the office OF the Third Collection District
of New York a poorer man than when I
entered 1t, and that during my term of Of
flee received in behalf of the Government
$1,400,000, all OF which was faithfully ac-
counted for. The accounts were examined
by the agents of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, and found entirely cor
rect. With these remarks Isubmit to your
Honor's Judgment. Judge Nelson, in pass
Ing sentence on Callicott, alluded to his in
telligence, education, and experience in the
law and in public affairs, and then passed
to the consideration of the decentralization
among the public officers appointed to col
lect the tax on distilled spirits, asserting
that the prisoner had been chosen in
the midst of this decentralization to
purify and re-establish official author
ity in this branch of the Government.
The Judge declared that he regarded the full
punishment under the law as moderate,
compared with the aggravation of the Of
tense, and thereupon he sentenced Callicott
to pay fine of $4,000, and to be impris-
oned for two years in the Albany Peniteu-
tiary, and in addition to be imprisoned un-
til the fine is paid. John S. Allen declared
his innocence. He was sentenced to the
Albany Penitentiary for one year, and to
pay fine of $4,000. Richard c. Enright
was sentenced to be imprisoned in the AL
bany Penitentiary for eighteen months,
and to pay fine of S2,500. He will remain
imprisoned, also, until the fine is paid.
1t will be remembered that Allen was
Callicott's deputy, and Enright was no.
tary public, chiefly engaged in swearing
sureties to bonds for the removal of whisky
from distilleries or bonded warehouses.
One swindle disappears only to give
place to another. A host of swindlers were
recently disposed of, but they are already
having their successors. The latest devel-
opment is as follows: Robert Il. James
brought action in the Courts against
Mathew Westbrook, charging that by an
advertisement he was induced to enter in
to o-partnership with the defendant, in
the tea trade, depositing with him $780,
This was romance on the part of West.
brook, for all which he was finally lodged in
Ludlow street jail. He still fingers in bond
age. His advertising pamphlet has come
to light, and is veritably curiosity. He
advertises "Sponting Greenbacks," cop
per plate issue of the denominations of $50,
sold at 81. He claims that they "are
wonderfully adapted for making show
in the window of exchange and
brokers' Office, just the thing to fill
up young mans pocket book, or bluff
his adversary on bet. Any man can swap
bill for dog. or even trade them for his
dinner" He then advertises "A Mys-
terious Invention" describing 1t as made
of strong metal, weighs an ounce and a
half; postage nine cents; lasts four or five
years; upwards of three inches in length
always right side up" This is claimed to
be available in every departments of ordina-
ry domestic life, in business, ETC., and will
even so facilitate travel that the posssessor
can "dead head V it on all the railway and
steamboat lines in the Union. This won
derful thing will be furnished at 30 cents
per sample, discount of 400 per cent. will
be allowed to agents. The closing para
graph in this mystery is as follows: "The
inventors object in Withholding the real
name and uses of his wonderful discovery
Is simply this-it enables the agent and
dealer in any town to first examine it for
himself, and, if suited, he can get supply
and make bold dash with new thing, and
by that means control the trade and get the
rum" Now, it doesn't seem to some people,
mayhap, that there are not fools enough
in this world to pay for the getting out of
such a pamphlet, but there are. The great,
taking thing advertised in this wonderful
catalogue is a Photographic copy of all
Government issues, from 81 to $1,000
These beautiful specimens, it is asserted, no
one can tell from the genuine, without the
aid of certain marks and descriptions, ex-
planned to the purchaser. The courts will
a few days.
The Tribune calls for interposition of the
law in the matter of mems walking
for a wager. One would have sup
posed that the objection would have been
founded on the gambling elements of the
thing, but the real grievance seems to be
lodged thus wise: admit that no one will
1aI L; 1od inhf hu
on his physical powers; it is not clear that
any ones vital and muscular energies will
be seriously impaired, his ability to work
diminished, and his life probably shortened
by it?''
On Thursday, in the Circuit Court of the
United State for the Southern District OF
New York, appropriate resolutions were
passed in respect to the memory of James
Buchanan. Chief Justice Robertson, Mr..
Courtney, United States District Attorney
tor this district, Chas. O'Connor and Judge
Nelson made addresses.
The press recently gave long accounts of
the robbery at ST. Louis of the actress Lot
ia, by her father, of S25,000 in United States
bonds. Accordingly, Mr.. Crabtree was ar
ICotcu uCiO Ou WCohCoudy hISub anu Gdk6D
to police headquarters. Soon after his wife
and daughter appeared and declared there
was no truth whatever in the report of the
robbery, and therefore the accused was dis
charged from custody.
The season" ends at Wallack's tonight.
s.The Stranger" being acted.
We have music in Central Park to-dav
for the first time this season. IT.
Chief Justice Chase in Richmond.
A correspondent, under date Richmond