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Dec. 25. Ther. 26°. This is Christmas day, and in Boston all the world is abroad enjoying the fine bright weather. Public worship is performed in the Catholic and Episcopalian churches, but not in the others. The stores belonging to members of these sects are closed, but the rest of the community who observe the day at all, dedicate it to feasting.
Frauds.—A fraud to the extent of a million of dollars has lately been exposed, perpetrated by the cashier of the Schuylkill bank in Philadelphia. He sold shares to that amount in the bank of Kentucky, and appropriated the proceeds to his own purposes, or to those of the bank over which he presided, which also has failed. On the 23d December, Judge Bouvier, sitting in the court of criminal sessions at Philadelphia, delivered the following charge to the grand jury:—
“Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,—Within a few days occurrences have transpired calculated to throw a gloom and dismay, not only in the commercial world, but also among the honest people in the middle and poorer ranks of society, which require from the court and the grand jury a full and impartial investigation. Men who have heretofore stood erect in society, and whose integrity never was doubted, have been publicly accused of committing the vilest frauds. Men who stood in high places have for a series of ten or fifteen years astonished the community by the boldness of their crimes. […]
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- Notes on the United States of North America during a Phrenological Visit in 1838–39–40 , pp. 208 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1841