Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-04-24

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ITCHING COCNrERFEIrERS.
United states Secret Service
fhe work Of the Bureau During
ne Past Five Ycars-Its War
mon the COmmterfeiters and the
kuklux.
the thousands in New York CITY
daily traverse Broadway in the
nity of Blocker street, few, il any,
awarc of the close vicinity of an
itu,iOn whose railific;ltiOns, extend-
from Maine to California, and from
lncsota to Texas, carrying terror
defeat into the ranks of outlaws,
Dse secret launtS no other organ
y lon in the land could reach or break
Composed of hardly fifty men,
maintained ut an annual expense
ess than Sl3O,OOO, it accomplislIes
rly an amount of work in the fer
NJ out and punishment of crime
ch vastly more costly systems have
strived in vain to effect. With its
ecrs or agents ia every business
fer of importance in the United
les or Canada. possessed ofthe most
Is Fect and ample information in re-
y To the criminals of whom they
S In pursuit, and hourly following =
~ victims with tcnacity which no
ouragcincn: can weaken, and Il
1 which never flags, the secret SER
~ has become the most etfectllal
nt for the protection OF the public
n kct and the public honor which any
4 or country has yet produced. This
~ sound eNtravayant, but that it is
lnd5e than justified by the truth the
1n0ts to be dcduced will show. When,
jn3SG9, the present Chief took charge
of3he Civil Service Division. for the
6Qtcau itself is but Il branch of the
INoasurv Department., the crimes OF
q1ntrrtciting and smuggling Mere at
Ii tlood-,de throughout the coun-
Large amounts of fraudulent cur
: cy We're not only handled in good
b by the honest and industrious OF
cla>e>, and employed in every de-
fmcnt of trade and business, hut
iSands of dollars worth of the vi
ed notes found their way over the
ntcr' of the Treasury itself. For
and cOuntcrteiterS carried on their
mess with an opennoSs and efi'rOnt-
which would have been ludicro,is
fe it not di>graceflll, while the COM
ative rarity of convictions and fre-
pnt commissions of the crime had
pressed the public mind to Il painful
ent. In the Eastern and Middle
es. of course. the operations OF the
ng>" were carried on in II more
bdued manner, but in the West and
hth-wcst the dealers in the ''uuecr"
vei about with impunity, and daily
led to the fortunes which their me-
OuS employment was securing
)ni. The denominations most honor
with their attentions We're the SIS,
SlO>, and the SOS. TIE SOS were
frequently initiated. and Il certain
PRESTON of the so National curren-
note WaS closely calculated to de-
he. and dealt in by the fraternity to
orrc>pondimy extent. Most of the
hnt trricitS, in fact, were upon the
tional currency, which seems all
ny to have been more favored by
"proicS>ion' than the greenback>
bper. Such was the condition of this
sinc>s in March, 1869, when Colonel
xhit!ey took command of the bureau.
the five years from that date up
the present time, he and his fifty
bordinates have arrested over 5000
these people. of whom 400 have
en convicted, and are now serving
their sentences. During the Fall
1873, over eighty were 'pulled," or
krc>,cd, in one gang alone, of whom
were recently convicted at the ses-
pn of the tuited States Circuit Court
Knoxville. Tenn. on which
casion Judge EmmonS was pleas
TO pronounce an elaborate COM
penda,ion upon the character and
Orkiny ofthe bureau. After alluding
the odium under which the Occupa-
Dn of the detective was supposed to
g. he went ON to say that he had Oh
8tved with pleasure the uniform
pllitr, energy, zeal, and discretion
ill which the officials of the secret
rvice had proceeded in their cam
Aign against the criminals who had so
ng infested that portion of the State.
rh caution has been exercised in
rcnhStantial details of the gangs OPP
a'ioh> acquired, that out OF the sew
atF or eighty arrested and held to an
yer not one had proved 10 he inno-
M. should such care be exercised
lhe future, the day was not far dis
N when the name of detective" :"
onld be as honorable as that of
y hdgc.' Nor was his Honor al enc
mat opinion. Citizens and officials
all classes and parties united in cx-
esSlng their appreciation of the ser
|seeS OF The bureau in Kidding them of
Ss OF society, no had long set law
Justice at defiance. This famous
Nt tennessee and North Carolina
my numbered among its members
efchants, farmers, deacoms, Justices
me Peace, attorneys for the State,
osliiiasters and Assistant P0stmasters,
~ even clergymen were found en-
eed in the nef;,riOus business. To
I'm an extent was this section flooded
IN spurious currency that it was al
;oSt impossible to do business of any
nd without receiving some of the
kr.,l'erielt notes in the way of change.
n 'neSe eighty prisoners, xs was stated
Ne' all, with one or two exceptions,
'a now i'll the Penitentiary.
me campaign against the kukluN
M and 1872, the Bureau also
oNeu oi efficient service to the Gov
',,h"nt. Members OF it were sent in
North end South Carolina ostensibly
private citizens, applied for mem
asn'p INTO the different klans. and
sn; ,t Speedily admitted. They accom-
,;ae ,eu !he latter on all their raids and