Show counterfeiting some of the most astounding developments are being made at the present time in relation to the counterfeiting of bills and money iu in new york and ohio nom hom which it would seem that in gome coma sections of the country it is becoming a regular branch of business ai a eagerly pursued and within certain limits almost as openly as any other oiher brai ch of speculA speculation tion lion iu in the north or as the lie lle tie foreign slaves trade in he file south or in cuba books are arc published giving full descriptions of chea cheap methods of imitating the precious met als ais arl ati ail all the tricks of counterfeit counterfeiters era ers for sweat splitting and filling coins colas are here detailed with great ex exactness letness and on payment of five dollars any one lias has been admitted into one ot of their circle circie in some sections quite lare iare bodies bodes or of men have gone into this busi buRi business fless fiess as the easiest and most moat leeral way of making mating money oily the other day a Cl evelana cleveland paper tells us thai that in that city a Meth methodia odit minister of high standing wa wak was preaching a funeral sermon to a crowded when the officers of justice arrived and ana at the tile close of the sen sert ice arrested him as a counterfeiter all the impe implements ments for carrying on a very extensive business of this kind were found in his hous houst finally he made a clean breast of it before the whole multitude and told them that having been brou brought ht apen upen dpn engraver bacome be had during the last two years become ecole connected with a gang of this sort hand and had been hard ac work manufacturing 0 false bank banic bills on oil a large arze arge scale seals the question naturally presents self belf what is going 11 to become of honest men ment what can those do who live by buying and selling the blossei of the retail storekeepers are becoming every year larger and longer notwithstanding counterfeit detectors and every other precaution in the east indie indies the kings and princes have cheated eo so in the coinage that in burmah every man who sells carrias his ills scale and weights and weighs all his silar as lie he receives i and they have become excellent kidzus of the quality of silver ani can tell how much it is adulterated but we seem about to have no security that our coins are what they seem ages Ageg before the birth of chemistry the alchee isag were occupied in seeking some mean means by which all metals might ie transmuted into god it never seemed to enter into their minds t bat but the effect of all this would if successful be to transmute gold down in point of value and importance to tiie tile average of other metals it is so in in all these modern attempt attempts a of a baser kind to counterfeit irstead of transmuting it 13 u ten times as a injurious iju noua to the community as so much money abstracted or stolen or BO so much lead openly m mixed axed with all our coins the uncertainty the tine time the risk of buying and sel sei seli sell log ug makes men avoid elchan exchanges 11 es except at much larger profit profits to pay for tor all till thil unless it can be broken tip up our whole currency will become ds d dieci cited incalculably bt bill there is a worse depreciation thair fall this indicated in the ex lention of counterfeiting operations it is is the depreciation af of moral character among men of sufficient mechanical ingenuity and intellectual entertainments to render them most dangerous to the community the social position of many of these thesa opera operator operators tors tort makes them thein doubly dangerous and doubly deleterious sometimes we build buld great hopes for the future of our country from the increased education of the masses but let us not be blind lo 10 the fact that mere intellectual progress without proper training in habits of moral and social virtue and conformity to law will only tend more rapidly to demoralize and destroy rend rendering eri erl alp air thoe those who possess posses thee thede advantage s a more dan dangerous erous race of pickpocket pick pockets and counterfeits who would wish to see a razor in the tho hand of every mad madman maul man map yet buchis such is knowledge and skill to the unprincipled there are times when virtue and religion seem to carry their triumphs into the he highest quarters of public as well as a private life so openly and powerfully that all ell begin to hop hope a a new era has dawned upon mankind but on oil the other hand band such glimpses of life public and private as ar are sometimes seen are not flattering to our progress in virtue the revival of the file slave elave trade in the south and the progress of frauds and counter felting at the north and west all in de devience fience of the laws equally of god and ard man chows hows that law as law has not that pomer power on the public conscience it ought to possess end must be bro brought to possess to insure the perpetuity of a free government unless children are Instruct instructed frit in the school house and at home homp that inus law and right riyu are to be respected that not ingel ingen ingenious ious ioui merely but honest and true wa ways 9 of making money are alone to be sought dunles unless specific instructions on theae these points enter into pulpit teaching the thelea ios los q a as rw so on n will have hare to be enforce en forced din in mothr arn er toe ote duca duda dion lont the fhe remedy to be thought oty of kilt lont the additional instructions of which we speak are loudly called jar or phil ledger |