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This gang, some eight or ten in number, carried on their frauds so skilfully that although the police suspected what was going on (some of the gang were old forgers), and watched the premises for more than a year, they were unable to find out who exe- cuted the forgeries, or to get sufficient evidence to justify the apprehension of the men ; till at last the bearer of a forged cheque was secured, and tho whole gang was captured. As an additional precaution, -'Batomanand Co.," when they had committed a successful forgery, used to change the notes for foreign inoney, which at another foreign banker's they would then change back again into English money. On one occasion a bullion dealer paid them by cheque, and this cheque was by them made the basis of further operations : the signature was carefully copied and laid by till a cheque on the required bank could be laid hold of. By some means or other a blank cLdque came into their hands, and tho signa- tiu'e was then used. This gang, luckily for the bankers, did not have a long existence ; it is that of which we said above that it was estimated to have de- frauded the London banks to the extent of 10,000?., or more. It came to grief in 1859, when "Wagner and Bateman, the principals, wore condemned to penal servitude for life, the " Co." escaping with ten and twenty years. The effect produced by the breaking-up of these two gangs has been so great, that since that time bankers — who are always being vic- timised more or less — have not suffered from the frauds of any extensive association — an immunity all the more grateful as succeeding the heavy losses of previous years. The har- vest, however, is large, and it may well be feared that tho absence of reapers is only temporary. Alfred Marks. A CATTLE-DEIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. A SHORT time after I arrived in British Columbia I went to tho " Dalles," having as company a Yankee whom C had known a little at Lytton, and, being a butcher, we gave him credit for knowing something about cattle driving ; but, as it turned out, he was not more up in it than I was. We wero at the *' Dalles " nearly three weeks looking out daily for cattle to suit us. It is a wonderful place. Every night tho steamer came in from Tortland with some 200 or ;J00 miners, this being the route to must of the mines, and a bigger set of blackguards I never came across. At the hotel whore i was, which is chielly patronised by minors, there were some 200 daily. Once or twice, when a Californian steamer came in, I saw iit least 500. We all went in to supper together, that is to say, as some finished others made a rush to fill their places ; and certainly I nevor saw beef-steaks and mutton-chops disappear quicker. Some of them were splendid-lookiug men, with long beards and mustaches. They mostly dress the same, in coloured flannel shu'ts, coats and waistcoats being few and far between, and have a six-shooter and bowie- knife stuck in their belt, of which they make pretty good use. Tho " Dalles" itself is an assemblage of wooden houses erected close to the Columbia river, and tho raihoad cars, with enormous puffing engines, are con- tinually running backwards and forwards through the main street. The citizens are all either hotel, store, gambling-house, or barkeepers, and conse- quently, in their endeavours to secure the miner's patronage, are continually ruimhig foul of one another. I had not been here two days before I had a sample of how they settle matters here. I heard two shots, and run- ning out of the hotel, found that a neighbour had disagreed with our landlord on account of his having nailed a board or two outside tho hotel to improve the light, and seeing hini and his wife in the first story window, thought the best way of remonstrating would be by letting off a brace of bullets at him and his better half. Fortunately for them, he was a bad shot. The next shot — he had another pistol — would probably have been more suc- cessful, but fortunately he was stopped. I afterwards heard that ho had been summoned, but the affair was amicably settled before tho case came on. A day or two afterwards one of the waiters at this same hotel, who had quarrelled the night before with a friend of his, was sweeping in front of the hotel, when his friend came behind him and deliberately shot him in the shoulder. For this offence a short term in the Penitentiary was tho punishment. The followingweek, a mar rather inebriated, was making a disturbance in the post-office, insisting there must be a letter for him, when the marshal of police walked in and requested him to walk out and be quiet; whereupon our friend pulled out his six-shooter, and telling the officer, with any amount of oaths, that he was not going to bo talked to by any of his kind, coolly took a shot at him; but somebody behind knocked his arm up, and I \ K 1'iit'»',JS&'r/,» '""."«''? |-*.i# . . _■!■ 40 ONCE A WEEK. [Once a Week, Jim. 12,1867. hi n tlio ball went through the coiling. When ho pulled his pistol out everybody " skedaddled" by tho door as fast as their legs would carry tlicui ; for my part, I " mailv irachs " behind tliO counter. Well, T went to this man's trial tho next morning, and they let him off with tlic absurd fincof twenty-five dollars (j/.). Tho best thing of tho sort I saw at tho " Dalles " was, when I was talking to a French stable- keeper about a horse ono day, a friend of his came in, and began harping on somo old quarrel, and eventually drawing his shooter ; but tho Frenchman was too quick fur him, and knocked him clean off his legs ; and several other like cases happened during tho short time I was there. Great excitement was caused by the news of Lincoln's death; and one unfortunate rascal having been heard to say that he was glad to hear it, was immediately strung up. The people take the law entirely in their own haiids about there, and form themselves into "Vigilance Committees," for the better ob- servance of their laws. When I was there a gang of horse and cattle thieves was disco^'crcd — about eighty altogether ; somo of them turned out to bo men who were looked upon in tho neighbourhood as respectable farmers, but who, it now ajipeared, had been for somo years past laying their hands on everybody's property but their own. A " N'igilanco Com- mittee " wasformcil, and the next day fourteen of tho gang wcro hung, the others managing to get off. I bought two horses at the " Dalles ; " and about tho third week in xipril W and I started off for Umatilla, a place 140 miles further up tho Columbia. "Wo wore three days riding it, keeping the same horses, with our blankets, &c., packed upon them. It was by no means a pleasant ride, and W soon began to show what ho was. I bought somo cattle at Umatilla — about 2.j() — and set to work, looking out for some horses ; and, in about a week, I secured seven, making in all nine. The next thing, and tho hardest of all, was to get men, and when you succeeded in doing so, you could not be by any means suro that they would not cut your throat on the road and appropriate the cattlo. I got two Yankees (ono a Missouri man, the other a Webfoot or Oregonian,) and a Spaniard ; and I hope I may never have tho company of such scoundrels on a like trip again. W was di-unk nearly every day whilo wo were at Umatilla, and I would much sooner have been without him. Well, we got off at last, with everything fixed, ;]()() lbs. of ilour, somo bacon, salt, tea, soap, and a few other things, and on tho 11th of May left Umatilla with a nice little trip before us of closo upon (\