The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-30
NEWS AT THE CAPITAL.
A FAMOUS coUNrERPErrERs WORK.
Pulling the Wool over the Eyes of the
Detectiyes-Bond Purchase, Likely
To BE Discontinued For
Time. Pertinent Politi.
cal Gossip.
THE NEW COUNTERFEIT.

WASHINGTON, June 2o.-Itis is believed II
the secret service circles that the recen
counterfeit 500 notes, which have beer
so skilliully executed as to almost defy
detection, are the work Of the famous en-
graver and counterfeiter, Charles Ulrich
who some two years ago was released
from a ten years term Of service in the
Columbus, Ohio, Penitentiary, to which
be had been sentenced for counterieiting
Persons familiar with counterieiting, and
with the plate from which 1t is believed
this 500 note is printed, are satisfied that
1t is the work OF Ulrich.
It appears that after his release from
the Columbus Penitentiary evidence was
found tending to show that he was again
engaged in the work OF counterfeiting, but
he having betrayed one OF his former &C.
complices, an old man named Cole, in
Philadelphia, the secret service officials
chose to prosecute Cole and permitted
Ulrich to go without prosecution upon
turning States evidence. Ulrich, how
ever, surrendered his famous plate to the
secret service officers, which the latter &C.
cepted apparently as q surrender oil the
basis OF the counterfe iting of this famous
note. But those who have examined the
new counterfeits say that they bear evi-
dence OF having been made from an elec-
trotype OF that very plate, Of which the
government has possession, and that the
skillful Ulrich was probably cunning
enough before surrendering the plate to
have an electrotype, which would serve
for all purposes OF counterieitlng.
Ulrich, up to short time before these
counterfeits were placed in circulation,
was known by the secret service officers
TO have been engaged in pottery near
Trenton, New Jersey. He suddenly, with.
out notice, disappeared from that employ
ment without leaving a clue to his where
abouts, and very soon afterward these new
counterfeits began to appear.
THE BUYING OF BONDS.
TheTreasury's weekly purchase Of bonds
will probably be discontinued after the
present week, nor is it certain that the
Secretary will buy any bonds on the COM
ing Wednesday. The. disbursement for
present month, exclusive oiinterest on the
bonds, has been about sls,00000O. OF
this amount nearly 100000 were for
pensions to the survivors OF the war OF
1872 or their widows, and the other class
Of pensions for which appropriations were
made in the deficiency pensions appropri.
atoms bill, approved May 81.
The disbursements for July will be
heavier still, as the money called for the
general appropriation bills for the fiscal
year 1880 (which aggregates SlS0, ,405 ,000)
will become available as required by the
demands OF the service. The Navy and
war departments will need several millions
each Immediately. There will also be
few millions more to pay pensions. 1t will
therefore be readily perceived that the
Treasury will not be in condition for
some time to come to make its weekly pur.
chases OF bonds.
TIE REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS IN INDIANA.
John q. New, ex- United States Treasur.
er and proprietor Of the Indianapolis
Journal, also Chairman OF the Indiana
State Republican Committee, is here, and
expresses the greatest confidence in Re-
publican success in that State this fall.
He now expects that the campaign will
begin about August l. Comptroller Por-
ter, candidate for Governor, will leave
for Indiana about the middle OF July.
aARFIRLD's LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
The latest date fixed for the letter OF
acceptance OF General Garfield is July l2,
which is the date OF the meeting OF the Ma
tional Democratic Committee in New
York.
NOW, WHAT WAS WRONG WITH wATrERsoN!
1t is said that Henry Watterson lost or
forgot at Cincinnati the plank in the Dem.
ocratic platform which was to have so Wig
orously affirmed the Monroe doctrine.