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on your part as on my own. It is said that little gifts usually in- vigorate and give new force to friendship; and with the hope of pro- ducing similar effect, I must beg that you do -me the honor of accept- ing those which I send you. It is true that they have no intrinsic value; still it will give me the greatest pleasure if you accept them and take into consideration the donor. Notwithstanding the congrat- ulations and the protestations which are usually lavished so freely on similar occasions, they do not always flow from the heart, but more or less are only the merest compliments of the season, I pray that you will believe me when I assure :you that I am and always will be your faithful and devoted cousin.- Please accept in the right spirit the expression of my appreciation for the consideration which you have for me [MIRABEAU B. LAMAR l No. 2423. THE "J\IEONGO COMPANY OF COUNTERFEITERS." ANONYMOUS [184-?l Sometime in the year 34 or 35 the Meongo Company of Counter- feiters ware aprehended in St Louis l\iissoori, Some of them had been commited to Jail, and others held to bail, and it seems that James Garland was the leader of the gang, and braking custody ran to the Bois D Arc creek, and carried with him Charles Smith; Charles Quillin; two of the Cooks and one Spencer all supposed to belong to the party -sometime in the latter part of the year 35 Garland died on Bois D Arc, Spencer was compelld to move off and the 2 Cooks became alarmed and moved off Smith moved high up into the wilderness and Quillin only remaining at his settlement a few miles above Bois D Arc. The widow of Garland married Carter T Clifl't in a short time after the death of her husband and at the sale of the property of Garlands estate Quillin murderd Clifl't so that the lady was a widow again in a short time. Quillin ran off, and carried with him Charles Smith, and neither of them ever returned Spencer hearing that his sister Garland had been left alone came back, and some of the :Mr Dos.s's shot and killed him in his sisters house. the widow then married a man by the name of William Heath who it is said had ki-lled his father, and sometime after the marriage in the Sale of some negroes exhibited some of the counterfet money and requested a gentleman to ta.ke it, and pay it over, but the Gentleman refused to take it from him, and requested him to hand it over to a third person which he did and in 2 days afterwards the deputy sheriff the Chief justice, and about fifteen of Citizens were at Heaths, and on his promising to get all the money he had and all the means of counterfiting he was promised to be set at liberty, upon which he produced a bottle out of which was taken 10000 dollars of counterfit money he also produced a square piece of Iron in which was a square mortice in which he said they struck their coins. We could not prove that he had ever passed any of the counter- fit money and he was turned loose and left, and it is said he is now living in the County of Hempstead in Arkansas Since they left, we have not seen any of their currency-
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