Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-23
A COUNTERFEIT BALD.

Ransacked by Detectfves-EIghty
eight Warrants Issued for SimuIta.
neOus Service-Several "Respecta.
bles'' Tripped up.
From the Knoxville Press and Herald, Oct. 81.
AS far back as April last; complaints
poured in on the Treasury officials in Wash
ington from East Tennessee and Western
North Carolina, regarding the numerous
eounterfeits of the National bank bills,
greenbacks and fractional notes, showing
that there must be parties engaged in their
sale and distribution. The matter was
placed in the hands of Col. 81. G. Whitley,
Chief of the Secret Service Bureau, and
force of detectives experienced in all the
devices of "shoving the queer" were sent to
East Tennessee and Western North Caro-
lima. For five months they have been qui-
city weaving their nets. Assuming all
sorts of characters and disguise, they have
remorselessly pursued their work. As ped
lars, drummers, tobacco traders, stock buy
ers, farm laborers, as themselves counter
feiters-in all these and numerous other
Characteristic men spread themselves over
the territory, and by every maneuvre sought
to learn the secrets and to inveigle the I'M
suspecting into their tolls.
WHERE THE "QUEER' CAME FROM.
None Of the base money was printed in
this region, but was brought from Ohio by
one man, who, obtaining at different times
about $4,000, would dispose Of 1t in large
or small quantities, as he travelled slowly
through Kentucky and East Tennessee to
Western North Carolina. he would sell it
for large discount and the buyers would
again dispose of it for profit to others, or
would themselves pass it off to honest
tradesmen or farmers, as genuine. The
detectives say it was surprising to find so
many respectable" people concerned in
the nefariouB business, and many q poor
merchant and country sto-ekeepsr has
found, to bis great grief, that nearly all the
money he depended upon to repleEish his
stock, was counterfeit.
COUP D'ETAT.
Finally, the traps being all set, yesterday
was chosen as the day on which the ar
rests were simultar eously to be male
throughout the Eastern District of Tennes-
see aud the Western District of North Car
olina. Deputy Mars ais in sufficient num-
Der were appointed, and from Ash vile and
Greensboro, y. c., mounted deputies were
to serve the wsrrants on and effect the ST.
rest of sixty-eight implicated persons in the
Western District of North Carolina. About
twenty warrants were out for the East
Tennessee district. Two mounted parties
were TO have left Asheville yesterday, and
one mounted party was to proceed from
Greensboro, TO effect the arrest of those
against whom warrants had been issued.
Their success will not be known for a day
or two.
THE ARRESTS IN EAST TENNESSEE.
The officials of the Eastern District of
East Tennessee arrested ten men, so far as
known. Three of these were in Knoxville
and seven from the neighborhood of Car
ter's Depot and Johnson's Station, East
Tennessee. Their names are David III.
Taylor and Geo. w. Hickey, of Johnson's;
w. B. Taylor, Sam1 Thompson, Meredith
Y. Morton and Samuel jenkins, of Csrter's
Depot; Alex. Hughes; two miles above
JoGesborO; Hugh Harper, G. w. Weaver
and James A. sRhes, of Knoxville. The
three latter were before U. S. Commissioner
Aiken yesterday afternoon, and gave bond
In $1,000 each, to answer The hearing of
their cases was set for Tuesday next. They
are well known in Knoxville, and it is sup.
posed they will be able to establish their in
nocence of the charges against them.
The other seven arrested men were kept
in Greenevlle until evening and came down
to Knoxville on the night passenger train,
reaching here at Hos P. N. They were
Immediately taken before Commissioner
Aiken, and David N. TsylG T, who is dep
uty sheriff, and G. W. Hickey, gave bond in
$1,000 to auswe. tomorrow. Alex. Hughes
waived an examination and gave bond to
answer before the U. S. Circuit Court, next
month. The other four did not give bond
and were guarded in the Office through the
night. When arrested, several of the par
ties had counterfeit money in their posses
sion.
DESCRIPTIVE.
The counterfeits in circulation are so
cent currency notes of the Lincoln and
Stanton heads; So greenbscks; $40 National
bank notes, mainly on the Farmers and
Mechanics Bank, of Poughkeepsie, n. Y;
and $50 legal tenders, series of 1859. A
large number of counterfeit Mexican silver
dollars are also circulating. The best Of
these counterfeits is the SIS greenback, while
the so cent notes would readily escape de-
lection. But both these counterfeits may
be detected, the greenback by the want OF
the fibre in the paper, and the currency note
by the lack of the fibre and also by the alb
sence Of green dot printed in tue centre
of the blank space on the back of the gen.
uine notes. The other notes are generally
poor, but easily passed among the careless.
The chief among the men who have been
flooding our section with counterfeit money
for the past six months, is believed to be In
hiding liz Cooke County, ard there have
deputy marshals gone in pursuit of him.
There does not appear to have been any
collision among his dupes, who bought at
a discount, the false money, and the buyers
sold it again to others, and thus, by fraud
on the part of the buyers and through the
innocence of those who accepted it as good
money in payment of purchases made, the
counterfeits came into general circulation.
The arrests yesterday were in pursuance of
q comprehensive plan which the Govern
ment is working up in Kentucky, Georgia,
Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, OHIO,
and Indiana. Counterfeit money abounds
in all these States, the Government having
driven it from circulation east of the Ale
ghanies.
From the Knoxville Chronicle.
The detectives boarded ard lodged with
the counterfeiters bought their bogu:
money and made pilgrimsges away for The
ostensible purpose of passing it, but really
to lodge it with the United States Attor.
news, and then return for more. In this
way evidence is represented as having beer
obtained in about ninety cases in both dis
tricts.
Hon. A. 3. MEACHAM has been lectur
/ ing in San Francisco on tie Modocs, and il
rRrrating the circumstances attending the
assassination of Gen. Candy, and his OWL
escape, said: Boston began TO take my
scalp with blunt knife; Dut Toby inter
posed with devices to delay the operation
and when at length he had raised five Oh