New-York tribune., 1868-04-30
A HEAVY FORGERY -NAPHEGYI AGAIN IN
TROUBLE.

HEAVY FORGERY -NAPHEGYI AGAIN IN
TROUBLE.
Col. Gabor de Naphegyi, pseudo Hungarian
patriot was arrested al Edeewator g L. yes;e rday
ing for forgery. The following the prominent scts
OF the Coloncls difficulty: time ia April 1861,
Napncgy had long been the secretary aud knanc al
agent q! the AN dictator Santa Anna appeared
~ the office OF Powell Green & Co. No ~ Broadst.,
" y aud presented 10 the senior member OF the firm
recOmnerdat0Iy letter fOm the Hon. ReVerdy johnson
Of Maryland. the credit Of which letter Naphegyi
cciycd from that firm the sum Of S5oo0 Nothing trans
in the of interview with senator Johnson, Mr.
Columbus Powell asccrtancd from hin that the letter
was forgery, with the existence oi when ne Mr. John-
had been entirely unacqnauted up 10 that moment
The declaration on the part of MIR johnson naturally
rendered lhe adyanccrs VI Tue sOWo somewhat anxious
10 bring Col Naphegyi 10 terms touching the money
thus unfairly obtained 10y him: For awhile,
however. they bore patiently with the Colonels
too numerous prOcrastinatons, but finding ultimately
that they could not ebct settlement from the iiunCa-
by amicabe they decided trying the efl-
cacy OF legal measures and had MIN arrested The err
mtted In default OF 10000 bail His case - be invest
gated at Sapleton, on Monday. the 4th of May. The
cenee ana AYERS that tins attempt on the part OF Powell
co 10 yctmze him il in retaliation FOR the Reputation
by ms former prnisal sania Anna n St ms American
com herahc losers.
Gabo dc Naphegy has been caught at last For years
he has been passing himself of ~ Hungarian and once
at st. Louis IN $780, lie represented himself ms qondan
native OF Pisek Prague. in Bohemia aud his
l. SOnnenberG He very ceycrly translated his name
Hungarian, NOIHf being Nap, and BCr4 being HsJa
lie made his first appearance in this country at New
Orleans. IN 1872 and after short stay In that ety. the
police were at his heels The cause OF It portrait
of len TAYLOR III glass beads waxcd paper which he
exhibited at the ST. Louis and ST. Charles Hotels for raf
e, and after selling nearly all the chances" IL is sd
he took both the money and the picture and
ever after missed In that locality Catholic priest at
Carrolton louisiana might probably tell something OF
this mans hiding Tor week or ut least some OF This
priests gold coin found its way to ST. Louis without the
priests consent Here as the guest OF banker Mandel-
baum and the protege OF Drs Poliak, Pope.
to to- exhibit hydrooxyeen gas microscope and
solar microscope. and after involving the Convent OF
II Francis Xavier, the Female Seminary Of the Sacred
Heart and number Of privae gentlemen In heavy loss,
he suddenly disappeared. While ut st. Louis he caused
TO he published In the ,ei0er German paper, series
Of sketches, which gentleman connected with the
York press wrote for him These sketches he after
ward caused to bc translated into English palmed
them of as original He was In thus city for while, but
about the time kossuth arrived he left aud went 10
Washington, where he succeeded In amusing the then
President, Mr. Fillmore by translation Of the Lords
made of. aud when Gov. UJhazy reached Austin, in
Texas, III 1853, he introduced to Col" Gabor de
Naphegyi professor OF modern languages in the Uni
versy Of Texas As matter Of Mr. sOnnenberg
did not await the rise OF the sun but decamped and went
20 Mexico. At Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico he
undertook to build gasworks, earned money, and for
while made an honest living. The year 1865 him
back again in NewYork as a commission merchant at
No 4S Beaverst. His harvest was greatest when Don
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna sojourned here preparing
for an expedition TO Mexico This Mexican agitatOr
guest at Naphegyis house! on Staten Island, and
have perused memorial OF Don Santa Anna, r nephew
of the Mexican exPresdent, in which 1t is made clear
that II t be true rs lately reported from Havana that
and his presumed conederates have large share OF the
result 10 answer for. When he began at New-Oreans
few hundred dollars lie has extended his operations now
10 the tune Of as many hundreds Of thousands and IL
about time that MS should be stopped. At
time he came receiving life professorshp OF
chemistry In the Canadian University. Will Of
our neighbors the line, particularly those who
suffered IN the beetrootsugar operations. send down to
have look at their mani