Indiana State Sentinel

Important arrest of Counterfeiters in Canada.—On the 11th inst., High Constable Clark arrested, at Barnston, near Sherbrooke, in Canada, seven persons, and lodged them in Sherbrooke jail; having found on the premises of some of them a quantity of bad money and some tools for coining; a quantity of bank bills and a printing press, under a forge in a blacksmith's shop. Also some counterfeiting apparatus, and about one hundred counterfeit half eagles. About $20,000 in counterfeit bills, 120 half dollars, and 160 American quarter eagles, with a lot of half eagles made of copper for galvanizing, were secured. The bills are on the following banks: 1's 2's and 3's on the Marblehead Bank, Mass.; 1's and 3's Atlantic Bank, Boston; 2's Hartford Bank, Ct.; 10's Indiana Bank, (well executed, said to be from the original plate:) 2's Eastern Bank, Bangor; 1's Atlantic Bank, Boston; 10's Suffolk Bank, Boston; 2's Lebanon Bank, N. H; 2's Worcester Bank, Mass; 5's Lansingburgh Bank; 5's Danbury Bank 2's Derry Bank, N. H; 1's New England Bank, Boston; 2's Burlington Bank, Vt; 5's Dover bank; 1's Kingston Bank, N. Y; 2's Mechanics' Bank, Newburyport; 5's and 1's Chillicothe Bank, Ohio; 1's Vergennes Bank, Vt; 1's Washington Bank, Boston; 5's Nashua Bank, Mass. The plates secured are a $3 Hungerford Bank, Adams, Mass.; a $3 Bank of Chenango, N. Y.; a $2 Gloucester Bank, Mass.; and on the opposite side of the same plate a $5 Suffolk Bank, Boston.

The discovery which resulted in the seizure and arrests above mentioned is attributable to the energetic operations of the committee of the New England Association of Banks. Nearly all the banks in New England have associated themselves together for the purpose of putting a stop to the manufacturing of counterfeit money; they have extended their agencies over a large part of New England and elsewhere, and although they have been but about a year in operation, the result of their labors has been signally successful. The books of the Suffolk Bank show a wonderful falling off of the receipt of counterfeit bills.