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THE FARMER'S REGISTER. 





SU2VI1VIARY or ns'ws. 



Saturday, July 3, 1841. 



The Frederick County Bank. — We learn, from the 

 Baltimore Sun, that nearly the whole amount of mo- 

 ney of which the Frederick County Bank was robbed 

 during the month of May, has been recovered. The 

 account of the negotiation by which the money was 

 received, is a curious one. A correspondence, it is 

 stated, took place between an attorney of New York 

 and the officers of the bank. This correspondence 

 was commenced about two weeks since, the attorney 

 makinsj propositions in behalf of his client, the robber 

 of the bank, to which the officers were disposed to 

 accede if nothing; better could be done. Accordingly, 

 Dr. Tyler and Mr. Boll, of the Bank, went to New 

 York, and there concluded the negotiations with a 

 compromise which leaves the rogue in the possession 

 of the gold he carried off, some ,fl0,n00, for his night's 

 work, and the bank recovers all the rest, in value 

 something upwards of ;3,170,000. This is a pretty story 

 to tell the officers, permit the rogue to keep .$10,000 

 in specie, for the return of $170,000 in paper, after 

 they had, b)f the measures they immediately adopted, 

 succeeded in getting in all the issue that had been 

 honestly obtained, leaving the stolen mone}' in the 

 hands of the thief, and which would have been the 

 surest means of his detection. It seems very likely, 

 too, that a thief who had so long successfully eluded 

 detection, should expose himself by entering into a 

 negotiation to allow him to keep money that he actual- 

 ly had. Besides, it was exceedingly culpable in the 

 agents of the Bank to make any compromise with 

 a rogue which would go to reward his villany. The 

 story but confirms the suspicions that were created at 

 the time of the robbery, that nobody out of the bank 

 was the perpetrator of it." — Phila. Ledger. 



The Ledger of a later date says : — 



" It appears from more recent accounts, that instead 

 of $;10.000 the agents of the bank who effected the 

 negotiation, allowed the thief to keep twenty-eight 

 thousand dollars, or all the specie and notes of banks 

 other than the issues of the robbed institution, in his 

 possession, and which would not be likely to lead to 

 his detection. The lawyer, one Wyley, who managed 

 this corrupt and rascally piece of business, charged 

 only te7i thousand dollars for compounding the felony. 

 The cijcumstances as related bear upon their face 

 the evidence of a precious piece of knavery by some 

 of the actors, that needs some further investigation. 

 A curious feature in the case is, that when Wyley 

 was questioned as to who were the robbers, that in- 

 dividual answered, you have seen the principal of 

 them several times during your visit." 



The Journal of Commerce announces the arrival 

 of the brig Charles Carroll, from Tampico. with about 

 ^70,000 in specie. The brig Patsey B. Blount, from 

 Belize, Honduras, .$'11,397. The bark Ann Eliza, 

 from Vera Cruz, brings $100,000 in specie. 



The Rev. James Abercrombie, D. D., of the Epis- 

 copal Church, Philadelphia, died on Saturday night 

 last, aged 84 years. 



Canada. — A petition was presented in the provincial 

 legislature at Kmgston, recently, asking for an increase 

 of compensation. The speaker explained to the house, 

 that in presenting petitions asking for appropriations of 

 public money, it was necessary to obtain the governor- 

 generaVs permission to present such petitions ! The pe- 

 tition was withdrawn. Bills to abolish imprisonment 

 for debt, and to impose protective duties on foreign 

 produce, that is, on the produce of the United States, 

 are about to be brought before the united parliament 

 by Col. Prince. 



It is stated, in the Western (Tenn,) Review, that 



several of the gentlemen from the United States, em- 

 ployed by the British government to instruct the 

 natives of India in the cultivation of cotton, have re- 

 turned home. They complain of the climdte and its 

 diseases, and have no faith in the enterprise of cotton 

 growing in that region. 



The Ex-honorable C. F. Mitchell has had two bills 

 found against him, at the Sessions of New York city, 

 for forgery ; one was found by a former grand jury. 

 There are now tnree indictments against him for forge- 

 ry — and another complaint pending beside"*-, which 

 will probably be laid before the next grand jury. 



There have arrived in New York, during tiie past 

 week, from various foreign ports, 4889 passengers. 



The Vandalia (III.) Free Press states, "on uncpies- 

 tionable authority, that Gov. Carlin has caused to be 

 issued upwards of $1,000,000 of state bonds, which 

 have been sent eastward to be sold for whatever price 

 they may command." 



Major General Macomb, commander-in-chief of 

 the army of the United States, died suddenly on Fri- 

 day, the 2oth uit., at Washington City. 



There are no less than 346 applicants for the benefit 

 of the insolvent laws at the present teim of the Insol- 

 vent Court of Piiiladeiphia. 



The Spanish brig Frederick, of St. Johns, Porto 

 Rico, was capsized by a waterspout on the 3d ult- 

 The crew hud barely time to take to the boat, without 

 provisions or water, before she sank. They were 

 picked up by the Sylph, and landed at Bermuda. 



Parsimony vs. Vanity. — The Boston Mail thinks an 

 effectual remedy might be had against the long and 

 foolish partisan speeches of members of congress, by 

 their being obliged to have them published at their 

 own expense. 



Rain storm at Lynchburg. — A heavy and destructive 

 storm of rain was experienced at Lynchburg on the 

 21st. Several breaks were made in the James River 

 Canal, and dams, bridges, &c., were swept away by 

 the force of the torrent. 



A memorial for a United States Bank, measuring 

 two hundred feet in length, with double columns of 

 closely written signatures, was sent to Congress, from 

 New York, on Saturday, in charge of a committee 

 from the board of trade. 



The Montgomery county (Pa.) prison has not a 

 single inmate. 



By this morning^s mails, July 3. 



The Philadelphia Ledger of yesterday says : — 

 " The Frederick Examine, of Wednesday, has a 

 statement of the facts in relation to the recovery of the 

 money stolen from the bank of that county. The 

 Mr. Wiley who undertook to perform the business for 

 the thieves, is an associate justice of one of the infe- 

 rior courts of New York, and was engaged in the dis- 

 charge of the duties of that office when the agent of 

 the bank waited upon him. The Examiner says this 

 is not the first time that Mr. Wiley has acted as me- 

 diator in like cases. Some very few years ago, he 

 was, we understand, in the same way instrumental in 

 the restoration of the funds stolen from the Providence 

 Bank to the amount of $183,000. He would, in the 

 present instance, give no other information on the 

 subject of the Frederick County Bank robbery, than 

 that he was informed that ' the vaults were opened by 

 false keys, and that six persons were concerned.' 

 This account, if true, shows Mr. Wiley to be in 

 strange connexion with burglars and robbers. The 

 duties of his office are to detect and punish crime, with 

 a view to prevent it, but his practice, it would seem, 

 is to screen the criminal, apparently for his own bene- 

 fit. It is time that his acts were more particularly 

 scrutinized, lor he now appears to be implicated in as 

 great an operation of stool pigeoning as has happened." 



