The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-10
BIG SCHEME OF RAsCALITY.
How Cresnhorns are Done fOr-ORsrs to =,
Bogus sreenbnclxs.

envelope received by gentleman in this city
this morning, and which, no doubt, are being
extensively Circulated
AUG. /, 1S70.-Dear ir;-You have been
recommended as reliable, and if you now 90
az on these terms your future is certain. If
you mean business send us an order at once,
and address. yours, sincerely, ID. A. Fenton,
No. 68S Broadway, New York.
The above is written on bill-head of w.
H. Morris & Co., importers of Broadway,
New York and is accompanied by the follow
ing circular;-
CoNTIDENTIAL AND STRICTLY PRIVATE.
We UiU only issue a .teU Of these taapoytant
letters, ana lre fully trust that aHy oae lcho is
fortunate enough to be entrusted UiM tile en-
closed int0Tiadtt0H, and Dldde tie recipient Of
its Golden Aaoar0S, aojH Study ii cdrefuIy
lAlpyeSS tie facts ap0n tbs memory. and then
QeStrOS the letter at once
When Congress authorized the present issue
Of greenbacks, the Treasury Department ex-
ecuted plates of enormous cost and wonderful
workmanship, from which the whole amount
Of currency authorized by Congress was to
be printed, and it was ordered at the time
that as soon as the whole amount had been
printed. the plates, some 100 in number,
should be taken from the Treasury Printing
Department, conveyed to the Navy Yard, and
melted. Now, it so happened that the plates
from which the l, ,, and . dollar bills had
been printed were not destroyed. How it
was brought about we, a matter of pru-
dence, cannot state. 1t is enough to
know that the plates are still preserved
unin ured, and we trust their whereabouts
WILL never be known except to the right
parties. We have now on hand
and ready for circulation some $500, 600 in
/, 2, and 5 dollar bills, printed from these
plates and of course they must be absolutely
la hoc
IN circulation. They are printed on first
class paper, cut the exact size as the green
backs, and are precisely similar in every
respect. The only possible method of de-
tecting them is by the paper, but our paper
is so perfect and so exactly resembles bank
note paper, that not one in ten thousand could
ever notice the difference; in fact. no one
has ever yet been troubled for passing these
notes. One man, however, put $4,000 of it
in bank here and was arrested on suspicion.
He was tried and the jury brought in a ver-
dict of not guilty on these grounds. Although
the Jury knew in their hearts that a poor
man could not have $4,000 in new /, >, and ,
dollar bills without knowing where he got it
from. and they fully believe it must be coun-
terfeit, yet the experts who were called on to
testify could not agree which of the bills were
counterfeit, one expert pronouncing a bill
bad and another pronouncing the same bill
good and another one bad. The truth was
they were all good and all printed from the
same plates that the United States greenbacks
were printed from, only they were printed
for the special benefit of ourselvesand friends
and not for the benefit of Uncle Sam. This
circumstance, however, set the authorities on
the scent to find out where this money was
coming from; accordingly for the last six
months we have not issued one dollar
cAd things have become quiet again.
AS men are apt to be SO indiscreet, we
shall not circulate any more in this city, but
we are on the lookout for a few trustworthy
persons in different sections of the country
to take the matter in hand, so as to divert all
suspicion from here; for you must be aware
that if the plates are once captured it will
kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. We
will not sell more than $4,000 to any one
man out of this lot, but we will keep all
faithful agents in sight, and give them a
chance when we issue another lot of $500, ,000
We only sell to one man in place, in order
to give our agents entire control of theil
own districts, and this rule we never depart
from. We wish to get this lot of $4,000
in circulation as soon as possible, and for this
reason we put down the price to the lowest
possible figures. We will SELL
The whole $1,000, in l and 5-dollar bills,
Tor iOt