The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-08-05
ANoTHER. sw1NpL1Na OPERATION.

A. gentleman in this neighborhood has placed in
our hands circular which he received q few days
ago, signed"NoYEs s. Co., So Wall St., New York, T"
and mailed at Brooklyn. Wehave seen frequent no.
tices of these expert scoundrels and their swind-
ling scheme, but this'is the first knowledge Us to
their circulars reaching this community.
The proposition made by these liberal and enter
prising individuals is substantially to furnish from
their "large stock of exact copies of the genuine
United States Treasury notes, (exccuted by the
most skilled men in the art outside of the States
prison. packages containing various amounts on
liberal TERMS" sc. The unsophisticated, on re-
ceiving this confidential circular, which impresses
profound secrecy, will at once conclude that here
is chance to obtain large amount of counter
felt money for comparatively small sum and as
the firm does not send samples for fear Of making
their busiress too public and doing themselves an
Injustice the result is often reached that parties
who wish to swindle other people send for packages
of this wonderful currency, perfect copies of the
genuine" Imagine the surprise of the would-be
speculator in counterfeit currency, on receiving as
return for the genuine article, simply photographs
of the various denominations of national bank
notes, about the size of fractional currency! Of
course, he "keeps the whole thing profound
secret" disclosure carries with it the convic-
ton that he intended to defraud others by passing
counterfeit mouey! His disappointment is a light
punishment for such mean rascality! We think
fer more of MOVES Co., than we do of their pat
irons.. Any man who will endeavor to get money
otherwise than lawfully, (even though he fails
ignominiously, as is the case with those duped by
these Northern. swindlers, deserves the deepest
scorn instead of sympathy for his pains. MOVES &
Co., with their circular carefully worded, merely
practice deception for really they do not prom
ise or pretend to give counterfeit money. Their
dupes expect to realize large Sum by passing bo-
gus currency upon their neighbors and friends.
The latter class is far more guilty.
We always take pleasure in exposing these
swindling operations, and any of our friends re-
ceving circulars of this description con subserve
the interests Of the community by forwarding them
to this Office. We would like to make Anderson
SO notorious in this respect to prevent the post
Office from being flooded with such documents.
As further explanation, we append on interes-
ting account of the origin of this swndle, copied
from the Washington Express
When Vim. E. Chandler was Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, authority was given to certain
parties in New York city to photograph the ma
tional currency he copies being about the size Of
our fractional currency.) as means of enabling
bankers and others in detecting counterfeits.
The firm undertaking the job did not succeed as
we'll as they expected, and the surplus stock was
disposed of to number of parties in that city,
who at once issued circulars, the tenor of which is
the same as that of ''Noyes & Co." 1t would be
impossible to state the amount of money realized
by their propositions, nor how many have been
swinded in their willingness TO defraud the Gov
ernment.
The Photographic copies ore packed in small tin
boxes, and sent to address Of the purchaser He
gets just what he bargained for-exact copies of
the United States Treasury or National Bank
Notes, and nc one doubts that the originals were
executed by the most skilled in the art outside
of the States prison-and tie packages do repre-
sent what the circular claims.
Genaral Spinner, the United States Treasurer, is
daily in receipt of letters from parties who have
thus been victimized. But what can he do. It is
certainly no crime; and if it was the accuscr
would lay himself liable to conviction in purchas-
ing what he supposed would be well-e1ecuted
counterfeits The Government detectives, as we'll
as the New York detectives, have given their at
tentior 10 the matter but have failed in every case
to find grounds for o prosecution. The "circu-
lars" are ingeniously worded, and the several firms
faithfully fulfill their part of the contract. The
only remedy is not to patronize the swindlers.
Such advice, however, is unnecessary to honest
men.