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Show Coroiiterfiet Money. Colonel Finneg.isfi, of tlie secret crrvire bureau, hm been here and 01 jo away again. His object was to Givl out who the parties were that were "shoving" so imich of the "queer" on this city. Pie didn't siy anything to the public about his business busi-ness while here otherwise the boys might have been on their guard, but fts it was, the Colonel failed to see any counterfeits, except a few which he had in his own pocke t. A Chron-icle Chron-icle reporter interviewed Colonel F., on his return to San Francisco, on this subject and the story h published in that pnper in full. Colonel Finncgass arrived in this city on the 11th, having been sent out to head quarters to find the counterfeiters coun-terfeiters who were flooding the country coun-try with bogus currency. He was instructed in-structed to report to the Hon. W. Carey, U. S. District Attorney, which he did, and started at his work in dead earnest, by first sacrificing his noble mustache. Ho then stuck his pants in the tops of his huge cowhide boots, put on a blue woolen mining shirt, carried a pistol in a conspicuous conspicu-ous place, changed his name and swaggered through tho streets like ' any other rough. Judge Carey gave him all the information he had on the subject, which was that he thought that $-500 bills wore being manufactured man-ufactured here. The Colonel eooii made friends with a man who pretendedjto know something. Of this fellow Finnegass says in emphatic em-phatic terms that he believes him, to be one of tho most unmitigated scoundrels that has ever escaped hanging. We might say there are those here who are of the same opinion. opin-ion. The only thing this fellow did for the Col. was to introduce him to all of the hard cases in town, from whom he gained no information whatever about counterfeits, except that once a man had passed oil a spurious $10 note here, and the next day lie left for Montana. The result of Col. Finnegass' twelve days' search was nothing and he very sensibly caine to the conclusion that there wasn't a single counterfeit in circulation circu-lation in the city. lie thinks tlie story about this being the headquarters of a gang o counterfeiters originated in the imaginative imagi-native and fertile brain of a New York U'urh.f correspondent, in which cqiv , elusion we agree. If there has ever been any counterfeiting of currency notes done in this cily it has been on an exceedingly limited scale, and as for spurious money being in circulation circula-tion here it's a mistake, otherwise some of tiie banks or merchants would get hold of it occasionally. There .nay be a few bad bills which have drifted out here in (.hp general course of business, but if any, there is scarcely enough tc swear by. |