Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-05
BY TEL E G RAP q
mrDSraHr DISPATCHES.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, NOVemuer Soionc'
Whitley, of the secret service division,
and his assistants have for over month
been an gaged in ferreting out one of the
most notorious gangs of counterfeiters in
the country, and have just brought their
lebors 10 a tuccessful close. It was first
ascertained that dangerous xty-pound
tobacco stamp was being offered to en-
terprising merchants at about one-tifth
of the Government price, viz: - tor
stamp that the Government sold for
sl9 20: and the inducements were 80
great that many firms heretofore bear
,ng uubIemished regulations in this city
and in Virginia, North Carolina and
other States embarked in the enterrr'se
and purchased large lots from the New
York manufacturers The first arrest
was made on October Is, in the person
Of Volney Wright. who, it is alleged, had
sndeayored TO sell an immense quantity
of these six,y-pound stamps TO men
named Copeland snd Walker. He was
Quietly held TO bail in the sum OF $4,000
20 await the action Of the grand jury.
The bed piece, roll and plate, with trans
fers. we're also secured by the detectives.
The next arrest was one Hart Pierce,
an accomplished eneraver of 30 Nassau
s,rest, on Octobsr 30, with whom we're
seized ell the dies aud machinery used
in counterfeiting. smong which was
press Tor transferring, costing $1,000.
Col. Robert Clark, who, during the
war. commanded the Fourteenth New
York Volunteers (Brooklyn Chssseurs),
was next secured, and bis room, No. BIT
Easl street. sssrehed, and in almos.
every bureau drawer, stsnd. boxes, trunks
and valises, evidences Of guilt were
found. One vslise contained the plate
of the sixiy-pound stamp, dies for max,
ing one-ponDy stamps, and hundreds OF
sheets containing two hundred and ten
pound stamps, together with about
SIS, 900 worth of clean, genuine stamps.
This property was all seized.
1t wss next ascertained that the mill
where these stamps were ground out was
situated about fifteen miles from the city,
at Princes Bar, Staten Island. Seven
men we're sent to the spot, who, after
tramp of half mile through the woods,
discovered the building, in which we're ar
rested John Riptou, steel and copper
plate printer, a native OF England, aged
thirty eight years; his partner, VIM
Skimpton, native of Maine, aged forty
years, and are tired sea captain. Ripton's
wife, three children and negro girl
were also on the premises.
In one room was a large amount Of
paper, such as is used by the Govern.
ment 10 the manufacture of red stamps,
large supply of inks, oils, and jugs
filled with gum, the latter being used for
adhesive purposes, and also die for
making three cent. silver pieces, steel
dies for stamping coins, containing all
the letters Of the alphabet, and dies for
ell arithmetical figures, but no plates or
printed work. In another room was a
press for punching the holes between the
stamps on the printed sheets, and in the
garden, about eighteen inches below the
surface, was found, on information given
by Ripton, a box which contained the
plate, On which had been transferred the
one cent revenue stamp two hundred and
ten times, the bed piece and transferring
die, large number of stamps, thousands
Of sheets ready for use, and other articles.
The prisoners and material we're brought
10 this city, and the former taken to the
United States Msrshaps Office, where
they were held in custody. 1t was now
sscertsined that sn engraver named
Reuben Carpenter, hiring an Office at
No. ii Bloomfield street. Boston, had
been employed 10 engrave United States
$40 bonds, and tfficers we're sent to
Boston, and, with the assistance Of the
detectives there, arrested Carpenter in
q the act of engraving pass on the Will
mington and Baltimore railroad. BE
surrendered to the officers, and $1,000
500 boRd, which he had been employed
10 engrsve by man in the city Eho was
10 the last stages Of consumption, was
found 10 his Office. Il is alleged thai
numerous ether prominent persons ia
this city are under suspicion and sur.
VIGILANCE, and it is also believed that sew
ersl hundred Thousand dollars Of thesI
bogus stamps have been put 10 circula
tion.
A large meeting was held here to-day
10 hear the report Of the Rev. DR.
Schoopf, on bis late mission TO Errope
connected with convention Of the Evan
Qelical Alliance, 10 be held in New Yorl
next autumn. The Doctor reports tha
quite a large delegation. who were en-
gagged to be present from England. in
GLIDING clergJmen from the Church c
England, dissentsrs aud laymeo, Will
the Arcbbishops Of York. Csntebery 40
Dublin, and other distinguished prelAte:
expressed their hearty co-oneraiion vii
the movement. Rev. DR.. Ihompson, i
speaking Of Father Hyacinthe, said lbs
while not desiring TO reveal q Priya,