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Col. W. has captured aiid confined hundreds of the worst men eugdp^ed in this calling we have ever had among us, and scores of the leaders in this sin — the manufacturers, en- gravers, capitalists, and thof^e who alone are able to supply the material for this business — have gone hopelessly under; while their companions, patrons, and confidants in tmde have been squarely pitted against these men, until they are so utterly checkmated and confounded by the defection or ruin of their "pals" and confederates, as to be totally at sea — not knowing who to trust, lest they be tripped, aud ^' sold out," as Joshua D. Miner has been!

It is ardently to be hoped that, with the determination of the President and his chief Cabinet advisers to see to it that this wicked work shall be utterly crushed out, the Chief of the Seci-et Service may continue in his creditable course to push these miscreants to the wall — until there shall not be a counterfeiter or a counterfeit to be found in all the land.

The originally prescribed limits of our present volume of " Memoirs" ai^e reached, and we close our labors here. Of the more than twelve hundred cases which have fallen und6r the management of Col. Whitley, of the U. S. Secret Ser- vice Division, in the past three years, we are able, in thU work, to give a synopsis of less than a single hundred in stances, among the many impoii;ant ones. At a future day wo shall issue another volume, in continuation of this sub- ject — so replete is it with absorbing interest — and the readers of tkese veritable annals of the Secret Service may rest assured that there is ample material left for such suc- ceeding volume, the contents of which will prove quite as entertaining, romantic and startling, as those here at an

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