The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-12-22
FOUL BIRDS ON CONGRESSIONAL BOOSTS

cunning old freebooter declines to rob an
other in the same line, for the reason that
'Hawks shoIld not pick out other hawks
eyes'-which is another form of the adage
that thore should be 'honor among thieves. -
1t is no doubt an excellent rule in the profess
sion, and one that should be lived up to- But
recent developments prove that the law is
sometimes ignored to the sorrow of the vic
tim.
Our readers will remember the exposure
recently published OF the operations of the
pretended dealers in counterfeit money in
New lork, and the immense sums of money
made by the scamps ont of the vertlant vii
lainy of the country, which was revealed
when the police seized their book S and cor
respondence. This correspondence revealed
the curious, but not surprising fact, that a
southern radical member of Congress, one
OF the self-righteous saints, who cry "unclean"
whenever the name of Democracy is heard
that one of these exceedingly virtuous men,
had been in negotiation for supply of ''the
queer" His first epistle to the kind friends
in New York who were to make his fortune,
was as follows:
StrictlY contidential.l
OFFICE OF JOHN A. WIMpY, }
ATTORNEY AND CoUNsELLoR-Ar-LAw,S
DAHLONEGA. Ga, Oct. 4, 1869.
Messrs. Noyes & Co., New York Wall Street.
GENTS: l understand, from a source which T
deem reliable, that you have on hand fac Simile
bills Of United States Treasure notes, well execut-
ed.
You will please send me by Express $500 in two
dollar fac Smile bills of u. S. Treasure notes. $500
in one-doar fac Smile bill of same and $500 in
hfty-c bill Of fac Smile fractional Currency t.
States Treasure notes. | learn that you have So
per over two hundred dollars in fac Smile.
: BE sure and send them to me and address: "IIon.
John A. Wimpy, Atlanta, Ga" &C. 0. D."
L. 5. | refer you to McKillou, Spraolle e. co of
New York, for reference.
am member of Congress elect from the 9th Dist
mail duplicate of the above by this mail to New
York, for fear I have the wrong No. on Wall
street.
The Hon. Wimpy's education appears to
have been as deficient as his roguery and
and credulity were large. 1t is almost super
fluous to say that the Hon Wimpy paid at
the express office a large sum of money for
box OF sawdust His illusions to the cir
cumstance and TO his lost Sl2O are very
touching indeed. This is the way he be-
walls the deception and his hard fate
OFFICE OF JOHN A. WIMpY,
ATTORNEY AND COUNsELLOR-ATLAw,S
DAHLONEGA, Ga, Oct. A. 1869. !
Messrs. Noyes & Co., New York
GENTS: l just returned from the attendance of
the Superior Court in my circuit and found your
box sent to me by express awaiting my return. /
am much surprised and disappointed. l need not
communicate if am sold and deceived in you.
,Nofo tl,,y.
tom Of the box says, "This is done to misead the
express-keep cool. Do not mention our name
Destroy all trace of our letters. Shall we send
your leters"
Srs; l shall look and wait patiently and shall
make enquiries for the package of goods which you
promised to send. have paid out S120 dollars to
get your box here. desire you to send all nv
letters back by return mail.
Yours, &C., JOHN A. WIIpY
And thus the Congressman's fac SMILES
proved to be sick family, very, He went a
gathering and got shorn The scamps
who got rich out of their cunning scheme, of
course never expected to send anything in
the shape of countcrfets to their victims,
but we doubt if they ever dreamed of getting
so rare bird rs q Member of Congress in
their trap. In future Wimpy will doubtless
consider it as personal for anybody to say
"counterfeits," as Butler does if an allus ion
is made to spoons.
Speaking of Ben Butler reminds us that
there is another of the name in Congress, the
Honorable r. r. Butler, of Tennessee, an
other sweet-scented radical 1t will be re-
membered that he was found guilty OF selling
cadet appointments. Well he has Just come
up again, this time before the court of the
District of Columbia where the Grand Jury
have found two bills Of Indictment against
him for forgery. He made victim of a
poor widow, who entrusted him with her
business, and forged her endorsement to a
| check, by which he obtained $437 of her
money. A meaner or more contemplate
crime it is scarcely possible to conceive of.
The chances are that this choice specimen of
Southern loyalty will exchange the sleek
suit Of the Congressman for the molly garb
of the convict
This does not by any means complete the
list of worthless but we will defer the fur
Their enumeration until another time.
A new style of editorial notice is coming
into fashion, which may be styled the puff
matrimonial. Here is rather neat speci-
men, which we clip from an exchange