The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1863, Page 8

oe rf HERRING & CO"S SAFES, BANKS AND BANKERS. 10 BANKS AND BANKERS. 0 BANKS AND BANKERS. BANKERS. BANKERS. TO BANKS AND BANKERS. 10 BANKS AND BANKERS. 70 BANK® AND 10 BANKS AND BANKERS. 10 BANKS AND BANKERS. 70 BANKS AND 0 BANKS AND THE NEW DISCOVERY. NEW DISCOVERY, NEW DISCOVERY. HE THE THE NEW DISCOVERY, THE NEW DISCOVERY. THE NEW DISCOVERY. THE NBW DISCOVERY. THE NEW DISCOVERY, THE NEW DISCOVERY, THE NEW DISCOVERY. : IRON, OR FRANH - NT CRYSTALLIZED PATENT LIZED PATENT CRYSTALLIZED IRON, OR FRANK- LINITE, ' PATENT CRYSTALLIZED IRON, OR FRANK,- LINITE, PATENT CRYSTALLIZED IRON, OR FRANK: LINITE, TRON, OR FRANKEI- TRON, VENT CRYSTALLIZED. ra LINITE, PATENT CRYSTALLIZED OR FRANK)- LINIT! PATENT CRYSTALLIZED TRON, OR FRANK? LINITE. | AND WHERE IT COMES FROM. Wuar iT 18 WHAT IT 18 AND WHERE IT COMBS FROM, WHAT If IS AND WERE IT COMBS FROM. WHAT IT 18 AND WHERE IT COMES PROM. AND WHERE IT COMES FROM, WHAT IT IS AND WHERK 17 COMES FHOM. WHAT IT 13 WHAT iT 18 AND WHERE Ir COMES FKOM, WuT IP 18 AND WHERE VY? COMES FROM. WHA? If IS AND WHEME JT COMES FROM. WHAT IT IS AND WHERE 37 COMES FROM. r ed Tron, or” PrankUnite,” ie the pro- Crystallized Tron, or ‘* Prank’ Tersey Zinc Com- dngtion of the mine of the New fers pany, ‘There is but one mine of Sie ore in the world. ‘The zinc being firstvextrac,ed from the Ore, the reside is the brilliant and sin,76ler metal which we have named “Crystallizeu® 2ow’ For many years no vse was made of this and it simply kept in small speci. in gentiemen’s cabinets as a curiosity, He ever, & use has at lust been found for it, and, since it has proved so superior in this instance, many other avenues for its introduction are now opening, and it bids fair to prove, not only one of the most remarkable, but one of the best metals the worid has ever known. As a preventive against drilling, when combined with wrought iron and steel, it is the best and most perfect ageinnt a burglar now known. Chillo ate im- 2 A rotection iron, by can ‘be. easily pr conns in hardening drills 2 red. Hardaped steel is not only so brittle as to | scter, 8PPE* ae ofthe famous spathic ores of | be almost uscless, but its temper can be drawn by {| lam fron aaa Ger mehastnce een] T hiow vine and then it is at the mercy of the Slegen and a “cast ite lamellar facets, pits “nthe crystalizeg’’ the case Durglar's teols. Way Anca Is different; it can be furs. whe i acaeated | )_efinnot 2° uot so brittle as any other hard ». ee affected by a blow pipe, and is the har vial to bore through ever yet produced. HISTORY OF THE FRANKLINIVE. HISTORY OF THE FRANKLINITE. HISYORY OF THE FRANKLINITE. HISTORY OF ¥ HISTORY OF 7, f 3 AN CINITR. FRANKLINITE. forges ten-inch stecl ¢ guns are used all over ell, the Englishman, whose cass senomepensons as copper, and re strain of iron ix 70,000. Plates of this stee! are ~ HERRING & CO.'S SAFES, ~ AAG Ne Nn AN bim for the purpose of working tue) bat the | attempt proved unsuccessful, ‘The com; failed? the. property passing iato % bamde ‘of | Messrs, Ames & Alger, of Boston. & quantity of © zinc and Franklinite ore was taken by them to | Mr. Alger’s foundry at South Beston, Where Mr. | Alexande: Osborne, the present metallargist of the Bares nm Point C Smelting Eetablish- ment, distilled the ‘m sinc from the red ore, after separating it by a magnet from ite Frank- linite, He also reduced Franklinite ina crucible, making iren and stee! of a superior quality. WHAT IT IS. {From Appleton’s New American Crelopati.} | FRANKLINITE, a mineral composed of peroxide of iron, oxide of zinc and oxide of manganese, in appearance much like the magnetic oxide of iron. 1t is found in considerable quantity ouly in Sussex, county, New Jersey, although it is also mentioned | as &Ccompanying ores of zinc in amorphous Masses at the mines of Altenburgh (Vielle Mon- tagne,) near Aix la Chapelle, ‘The composition of the Franklinite of New Jersey is:— Peroxide of iron 61.115 Sais of zine.. 21,771 xide of mangnne Bilica........: = Its hardness is 5.56.5: specific gravity, 5—5.09. lt occurs in large veins or beds at the m of the New Jersey Zinc Company, at Stirling Hill and Mine Hill, in Sussex: county, accompanied by the red oxide of zinc, lying between the crystalline limestone and the gneiasrocks. At Stirling Hill it constitutes the main substance of two beds of con- siderable magnitude. The upper of these beda, lying immediately under the crystalline limestone, NEW. YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, portion to its hardness; we consequently insist that the material which is to resist a drill must be laced inaide, or form the centre lining of the Burglar-lroof Sate, being protected ontnde wrought iron of eufficient thickness to withstan all applications of a heavy sledge, jack-screws, strong ls orsharp pointed crowbars. Our ordinary Duar Proc! Safe is made as follows :— Ist plate or LY in. wrought iron, 2d plate ol in, patent crystalized iron. $d plate of Am steel bars, : ‘ ith plage of 4 in, steel at right angles with No. 3, making a solid crossbar grat of steel bare; which re separated about 4% of an inch, place wo closely that no tile or saw can be used with any effect ween them, and atthe same time the slight sgparation renders the operation of a re- volving cutter (an effective tool for cutting solid plater, impossible, as the woutd ty: broken against the edges of the bars. iu burgter-proof safes we do not confine our- selves Bo thickness of metal, Jeaving that entirely the ssaount to be secured, the risk ran, or the price desired to By. SocoraNg to his judgment. In constructing Safe, the different plates or Dodges of metal are so arranged that no rivet, bolt or screw goes entirely through trom outside to inside. Consequently, in any a amps to drill or force out the bolts from the outside, they are only more strongly riveted, by being driven firmly against the solid body next within. The doors are secured by heavy round bolts, of polished metal, runing entirely acroas the Safe, and fastening on all sides (front, back, top and ‘Ddottom) simultaneously; these bolts being in turn fawvened by the lock, and not one can bemoved uy.til the lock is opened. ‘Thus it will be seen that ‘‘Herring’s Champion is composed chiefly of the red oxide of zinc, with the Franklinite interspersed in pain masses, often assuming the fe prbonies of imperfect crys- tals. It presents a thickness varying from three to eight feet, and is traced with great uniformity of structure. At times almost perfect crystals of Franklinite are found, particularly where the bed comes in contact with the superincumbent lime- stone. These crystals are of the regular octahe- dral form, with the edges replaced. The Franklin- ite constitutes about forty-five per cent of the f; mineral contents, the rest being mainly red oxide of zine; the residuam, after the oxide of zinc is driven off, being Franklinite, is smelted into iron. The underlying bed appears on the surface or out. crop to be almost a pure massive Franklinite, am hous in structure, although occasionally also ex- hibiting very large and nearly perfect crystals of the Franklinite. Jt contains no red oxide of zinc, which fact is the distinctive feature between this and the overlying bed, which ia generally known as the bed of red zinc. As the underlying bed of Franklinite descends it becomes less pure, the Franklinite being replaced by the crysta! ine lime- atone, with the Franklinite and willemite (anhy- drous sillicate of zinc) thiekly interspersed in grains and imperfect crystals. Jt preserves this charac- ter in its entire depth as faras explored, nearly 200 feet below its outcrop. This bed is about twelve feet in thickness, but is not worked. Seve- ral hundred feet westwardly of these main beds, and higher up on the hill, another bed of Franklin- ite, mixed with a little red oxide and a good deal of the sillicate of zine, is found running the entire Jength of Stirling Hill. Attempts had been made many years since by some of the iron works in the neighborhood to smelt the Franklinite ore, which appeared in such large masses and 80 easy to be mined; but none of thexe early operations proved successful, owing, | no doubt, to the great quantity of zinc in the are, which in its process of volatilization absorbs a | large amount of heat and thereby tends to chill the furnace. Early in 1853, Mr. K, Post, of Stan- pope: J., undertook to work the ore with | anthracite in blast furnaces at Stanhope, and succeeded in making some pig iron of excelient | quality, but these operations were soon discontin- ued. In the same year, Mr. C. E. Dentmold successfully and permanently established the manufacture of iron from the zine and Frenpklinite ores at the works of the New Jeraey Zinc Compa- wy by smelting the residuum, after the zinc had » driven off, for the purpose of making the exide. ‘This branch of industry is calculated Foe, me Of much importance, ae the iron pro- as | from this residuum not only yields a bar a. of 1 “Marbable purity, tiber and ‘strength, but on ocials, ¥ Suited to ‘the manufacture of steel. wig in .Vroiluced is almost identical in char- ar.Mice and structure, with the best ‘The pig jron large and brit. “w erystalized and so hard as to sometimes beantifun, “arg novattracted by the ent glace; thors urystiun 4 ~ magnet, \ STRENGTH OF THE FRANKLL ‘<~ yerom the New York Times] * 2 ae ia Krupp, the Prussian, who + there" “ininhiade, solid, and whose >. Andthere is How- ~*+ steel forgings are oaist @ tensile £ the best * “nnd to | iron plates w | NITE, 100,000 pounds, while that v. offer above twice the resistance « ey eS shot. Bat we need ni An Tare r HISTORY OF THE FRANKLINITE. vood metal fe similar ‘burg, and if ot tho Pranklinite ore to county, New HISLORY OF THE FRANKLINITE. Jers). prove to be y » represented, tne GEOLOGIST AND a cans jocated in Sussex county 2, an ore mique in its lithological L. cs, and is the only known locals where “vranklinite and red oxide of gine bax been 4” na, but by whom and at what era these mines were discovered is not authentically established. ‘They were known and extensive mining opera- tions were carried on before any permanent eet- | tlements were made by the whites in their imme- | diate neighborhood, #5 several ehatts and galle- ; ries stil remaining on Sterling Hill clearly prove. | These old works, from the fact that Lord Stirling | was ouce the owner of the landa upon | which they are situated, have been ut- | tributed to him. The time Lord Stirling became the owner has not been ascert san original #3 of the tract, made in 1749 tacribes “the been taken from tl t grown in one of the pits e the working was | abandoned, and it proves that Fees to have | been more than one hundred and twenty years | o. In 1775 an old mining pick was found in one rs the gaileries by a hunter, who subsequently gettled in the vicinity, and haa a on, now a very aged mau, living in the county. \ Lord Stirling caused @ large quastity of the | | \ | Franklin ore to be mined and tuken to the Char- ' Tottenburg furnace, of which he was » proprietor: Dat the atterapt to smelt itas an ore of iron proved ‘aneuccessful, and most of the ore, removed at a great expense over mountain roads pinety-five years ago, may now be seen at Charlottenburg. ‘The late Dr: Bruce, of New York, was the first | Who culled public attention to these mines, by publishing a seientitic account of them, embracing a0 analysis, and also furnishing @ list of the aasoci- wted minerals, He was followed in 1419 by Profs. Keating and Vannaxen, who fursished the Philo- #ophical Sovicty of Philadelphia with au interest- ing paper, bing the Jefersonite aesoviated with the zinc and Frawklinite. - The Inte Dr. Samuel Fowler, about forty-fve Yearasince, became the owuer of these mines, and, to eclentilic attair ng practical Dusiness talents of the highest appears to have really been the first one ppreeiate their vaine, and made several effor' ave them worked de liberal offers to induce others ‘to join hima in the enterpris tures of the competent oj pi withoo in his m nd the ultimate sue t attend future attem to work it. While he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress a law was passed directing the Secretary of tho Treasury to cause @ standard setof weight+ and measures to be pee pared for the uae o government iu the differ euticustom houses. I. h. Hasier, LL. D., theo Superintendent of the Coast Survey, was entrosted by the Secretary wilh the execution of this im. | aa ty duty, and Mr. Fowter # successful in having New Jersey Red Oxide of Zinc reduced to po Opper to form the brass ased for these {= Not succemdin bat the untri ities in obt ed na sue c of would be in enlisting capitalists to work Aon & large scale, be atrove to encour age individual Senterprise, % develop the commercial vals of Abese extensive repositories oF wine tale 1 by yQuent and liberal contributions jrom hia oea re ources; but want of scion nowle: of th haracter of the miner o rigid adherence we the plans w ‘king the stilphorets en \e.trbonates of os Practioed in Herne a “aNled the achievement of success. jt 1a yi, Pre de prenum case, the Doctor was H finpow.sd npon by charlatans and pretenders Zaid chNM to possessing the true Philos} Stone, w Nose mA, touch was to tray Ais of Stir.“We and Franklin into metallic z, Sion. ine and Dr. Powlor, & Sew years before his decease, eon. of these wryed a portion nines to the Franklin | frenpeny, ou incurs, WAN Wich Was vltaimed by | ‘ hal t ‘e, "? o of Greas Blyem Of Ure best | tron from diferent makers iv Katforanbire, Derby- | | i vore of the world ‘the material fo" the uetive of the most perfect steel in the world—, 1p Toor pesgession, * * * SS eee best fy From the Sclenygrs Kweriean. From the recent tri made by the Admiralty lish boiler plate shire ant Bhropsbive, the te: ‘aquare ingh wag fonnd to pounds. The fi Alger’s forge in write wtrength' upon a 19.6 tonsa or 44,000 — Low Moor b s texted at ston, wave an ultimate strength of 52,850 ro. ‘The New Jersey Franklinite bars, texted lute tenacity of the Franklinite. It hogan to strevth at 16,000 kilograms, and the charge under which it broke wes 25,000, absolute tenacity per millimetre, 40 kilograms 8 m. HOW WHE USE It. ‘The patent, or rather two hold, granted to James R. Floye reiasned May 27, 1862, vives'us the eole and ex- | clusive ownership of the Franklinite ore, or “Crys- talized fron,” applied in any way to an iron safe ; and while we can furnish it in any pattern or shape desired, cither east whole, or run between plates ina melted state, our experience has dictated and approved of the following as the host and most perfect plas The Franklinite or Crystatizod Iron forms the centre or middle portion of our Burglar Proof Sate. ‘The outside composed of h roughtiron, | wand the insid: in thie position the | Crystalized Iron is placed— pure and wnwixed— | being completely protected from violence or frac- j ture, and impervious to the borglar drill; no blow- Pipe con withdraw its “temper’’-—and, indeed, though it were heated to a melting siete, when cooled it ia as hard as ever, Here we have the great feutnre of superiority presented by the Pot- | ent Crystaliced Tron. In its natural state it is as | hard a4 a diamond; and, unlike other metale which | are artificially or taechanically made herd, not | only the outer surface or crast ia drill-resisting, bot | the texture of the metal is of the same consistency | all the way through. | ' AR-PHOOP BANK SAKES, , Ovt. 16, 1860, and | The tern burglar-proot? iy go often applied to | | Werk Wat bs unworthy of the name, ts It 4 adyi- | Swble. In these ti fobheries, for | bankers themselyt% i} ol | good sense, and inquire particularly NA wMaae * and manner in ch the safes are made “secure against thieves.” It is too frequently the case that banker« and others allow themselves to be imposed upon by representations of interested | Manufacturers, that thelr particular make cannot be drilled, broken or forced. This has an effect, | where such personal assurances are implicitly re- | lied upon; Lot we tell the banking community } that burglar-proof safety depends tirely upon | the price they pay, and it is for themselves only to | Mictate how much or how little aecurity they de- { sire to have. - We contend that nothing can be made which the | fue tools and the same opportunities that built it | cannot unmake, and any burglar-proof safe, mann. | factured cheaply or quickly, can be entered in the seme ratio of times It pon th ow he re price of nker then to #ay how | ires, end, where much is | Y rding thit protection just or least consideration, It has «1 that thieving and raseality have | ~~ the bank robber is posseased of fatellact, ingenuity and mech: | uan any other of hin plans" and bo arg? amounts is treasured up, itis there pay his particular attention: und a safe to put ut Fanit all the ingenuity now used. to. gether with the modern accessories of gun colte and powder, must be a good «ate inde i We believe we have made seme ay know we can make thei, bat th bot ‘ew in use, as many are Qowilling to pay the | Cost, and are roping - “ champer’ seaprit Ved iron * safes’ have had their day well understood that where phil © words, cast iron) forms the onter at sta wid | been we) | abil Hsafes. We are thus fur | od = park of | . Bth plate or outer bod ‘bars, ut right angles with No. 7. atents, which we | N | put itin the hands of one of our best mechanic, Y5urglar Proof Safe" combines all the best mate- rials for resisting the most perfect mechanical tools now known. First: The wronght iron out- aside gives us strength and malleability, and is com- plete protectidn against the sledge, the jack- serew, or heavy chisel. Second: The Patent Crys- talized Iron will resist any drill. Third: The cross- bar grating of steel bars is perfectly effective - against any revolving tool which would cut a smooth or even surface. BECURITY OF CROSS BARS. * [From the Wheeling (Va.) Intelligencer, Sept. 7.) A most daring attempt was made during Wednes- . day night and yesterday morning to rob the go- vernment vault of the Custom House, which con- tained at the time one million two hundred and fifty-thousand dollars. The vault is built of sbricks, cement and iron. The walls of the ‘Custom House form two sides of the vault which etands in the corner of the room occupied by the Collector of Customs. The vault is strongly con- structed. The walls are about fourteen inches thick and between every layer of bricks there is also a layer of orossed and rivetfd iron firmly imbedded in the cement. The vault contained al the money belonging to the Pay Department, as well as a large sum to be disbursed by Major Hill, who ie acting as a mustering officer here. The burglars, though amply provided with tools, could not open the heavy iron door of the vault, so they set to work with crowbar and chisel to dig a hole through the only exposed side. They succeeded in digging out the bricks and making a large aperture in the wall, but the iron stil! remained and could not be removed. The portion of the money not contained in small iron safes, but in packages and bags, was located at a point some four or five feet from the aperture in the vault, Not being able to get into the vault, the burglars improvised a hook, with whieh they attempted to drag the bags up to the aperture, but again.the iron bars interfered. They could see and feel the money, but could not get at it. The work accom- piinied by the rascals must have occupied several hours, and it ia thought that the early dawn must have sangnt them in the state of progress we have described, and thus they were compelled to abandon their work without taking away a single red cent. MODERN IMPROVEMEN'S. ‘The public must remember that while we are constently improving the strength, security and mechanism of our work, we have a no less active worker in the burglar himself; and with the mo- dern buteffective agents of gun-cotton and pow- der, jack-screws, eames: &e., the Burglar- Proof Safe of a few years ago is of but little pro- tection now. MO aemeniee An experience of more than twenty years fu the busiuess of making [ren Bates has given us ee advantages over all competition, and we belleve ortainty of procaring ion veainct ol attempts of the most bbers. We furnished, some time since, to the order of the Treasurer of Pickaway county, at Circleville, Ob a Burglar Proof Safe, made three inchea ck, of Kolid metal, ‘This sate iv composed of nine different bodies “thicknesses, as follows:— Ist rate or outer boay of sate, Yeinch wrought ~ Pyrat iron. 2d plate or “Ody of safe, 22 incl hard iron. 3d plate or body Of safe, % wrongs iron. { 4th plate or bady of zafe, 34 inch steel pais “th plate or boay of safe, 34 inch * ’ nA t TIGHY Seaguee ve aney 1 baye, | sia ee meng \ 6th Plate or body sate, 3% inch wrought iron. | qe plate or body of safe, “4 inch steel bars. | © — safe, *4 inch steel 9th plate or inner body of sale, 24 inch wrought ron. : This safe for a long time was considered the strongest aud most perfect “burglar proof! éxtant. It so remained until one was manufactured by us even more impregnable. The one we now refer to waa made for and is now used by the MANITATTAN BANE, NO. 40 WALL S7egBT, N. Y. and is nndoubtedly the best ond STRONGRAT SAVE IN THE WORLD. itis safe was made specially to order, and in constrneted as follows:— Ist plate, °, inch wrought iron. vd plate, 2 inched, patent crystalized iron. 3d plate, 24 inch steel ub plate, 4 inch steel 0. 3. th plate, #4 inch wrought fron. { Making entire thickness of body no less than four inches of solid drill resisting metal. The front will measure five inches from outside to inside. ‘The weight of the safe is about 25 tona, We wonld also refer to the new vault built by us tor the Importers and Traders’ Bank, of this cil which is both fire and burglar proof, and upon above plan, The vault is dre proof outside and burglar proof withiv. The entire weight is over forty-five tons. HERRING & bars. bars, at right angles with 00.8 PATENT ORYSTALLIZEB IRO HERRING. & s PATBN' erverassazen | HERRING & NT ORYSTALLIZED | HERRING & 00.'S PATENT ORYSTALLIZED IRON, HERRING & COS PATENT CRYSTALLIZED TRON, HERRING & 00.8 RageNt ORYSTALLIZED HEURING & Q a Beak nat: hs WRAP THRY SAY WHO HATH THIRD IP. Orrice or TAR Noverry Thos Words, New York, April 1s, 1862, COvS8 PATENT CRYSTALLIZED RON A ¥ on i ? i Messrs. fennine & € ~ Gunis-We yesterday undertook to drill the piece of iron left with us (Herring & Floyd's Pa- tent Crystalized Jron), and find we cannot do it. The iron resisted all the drills put upon it. Yours, &e., J, W, STRATTON, Treasnrer, ney TO ott e YORGAN IRON WORKS. New York, April 1%, isu2. Messrs. Hanno & Co., 251 Broadway { GENTLE I hi given your “Herring & | Floyd's Patent Oyrstalized Iron” a thorough teat, and find it a fect protection ageinst drijling. 1 and find it will resist any drill we can make, After long trial and using up all the drills tried, we are obliged to acknowledge our inability to penetrate , it, T consider it impossible for a burglar to put & hole through it by # drills ho can use, when laced as you use it in your Burglar Proof Safes, onre, respectfally, MIERS CORYELL, Saperintondont. | DELAMATER TRON Works, ew Your, April 21, 180% Messrs. Hanaixe & Co. sia Gayrs-—1 have attempted to drill the pigee of, ivon sent wa (Herring & Floyd's Patent ‘Crystal: lized Trou), and could not doit, Yours tr ©. B, DELAMATER, per Emerson. — | SOUTHWARK FOUNDRY, MERRICK & SONS, | PUILADELPAIA, Aug, 2, Ws62e i Mesera. Pants, Heraiva 4 Co. the safe, it exn easily be broken with a"po.m* Vo. 629 Chestmt | ¢ " a heap | Btredhs— { fee ie ‘her ge, and eae the ide rd steara— We Dave tested tho Herring t Mloed Pa- | De the vibration. Mame M8 the greater will | tong , wvstallige! Iron wirich you vanced us, and Qi hardened metal is foun bite in | fd it Hara,” Mean ome “Heel... We ere it a! fair : 5T0- atrial and cow) stacy, “Ye Ubud, fue your y Me, “Ne. % 200" trial and could y.. SW it, ° Ute tae! we ress, a >. points of the cutters | tothe wishes of our customer, to be governed by | HERRING & CO.’S SAFES. nw inside rit, erin nn ~ of a vurg!ar proof sale, it is in perfect aimee i . very truly, 7 gain @ CULLING LOOM. TRICK. & BONS. PASCAL IRON WORKS. Purapenrusa, Aug. 4, 1863, | Mesers, Fance., Hernine & Co. Gunrs—We have endeayored to drill a hele in the sample of iron sent us (Herring & Floyd's Pa- Yent Crystallized), but were only able to pene- trate somewhat lees than a quarter of au inch in | fifty minutes, by the use of drills as hard as steel can be made, and working under a pressure of over 1,000 pounds. We consider the iren impene- | trable under any circumstances that would be | within the contre! of a burglar. Yours truly, MORRIS, TASKER & Co. EAGLE IRON WORKS, Cxroago, Ill., July 26, 1862. | Mesers. Hernmc & Co., No. 40 State st. GentLewEN—-We would inform you that we have tested the specimen of Crystallized lron, which you left with us for the purpose of trying to drill, ‘and would say that, er hardening our drills to the utmost capacity for the purpose, we could not drill it, Itis our oS aera that it is impervious to drills, or any other boring instruments; in short, itis the hardest metal to drill or bore we ever saw. Respectfully yours, P. W. GATES. Orriog oy Davison, Dicxrxsox AND Co,,) Civil, Mining and Mechanical Engineers, 229 Broadway, | Naw Youk, April 21, 1862. Messrs. Hexnino & C es GanTLEMeN—The crystallized metal which you handed us to test. has been severely tried by dia- mond pointed drills, and every other method known to machinists in drilling the hardest kind of metal or tempered steel. The drills were tempered by one of the most experienced tool dressers in the city, and we found it impossible to make any impression. We take great pleasure in giving you our experience in attempting to drill your iron, and firmly believe you bave invented a metal that will successfully defy the mort experienced burglar. Yours, re- epectfully, DAVISON, DICKINSON & CO. 1 BANKS AND BANKERS. THE KIND OF ROGURS WANES HAVE TO DEAL WITH. [From the Hartford Times, Aug. 10, 1858.] BATTERS’ BANK OF BETHEL ROBBED—EIOHTY-SIX TROUSAND DOLLARS STOLEN. Between Saturday night and Sunday morning last, the Hatters’ Bank at Bethel was robbed of $86,000 in specie, and bills of that and other banks. The robbers are adepts at this business, as will be seen by the mauner in which they pro- ceeded to accomplish their task. ney entered ‘the main door of the bank in the night by means of a skeleton key, proceeded to the directors’ room in the rear, took up the carpet on one side of the room, and then sawed out a trap door under the large centre table, through which they entered to the vault below. Here they worked, evidently for s week, wights, until they succeeded in under- mining the vault and taking Uierefrom $86,000. After they had finished their night’s work fhey came up through the trap-door, replaced it, put down the carpet again and tacked it down, and Jeft the bank again precisely as they found it. For fear the tabie mixht be moved, and the trap-door get’ misplaced by being stepped on, they inserted sere Ws in the boara’é to keop them from moving. Thun they procecded each night until they securedheir plunder, and decamped unsuspected even. On Moiday morging the officers of the bank went to th.¢ Vault to nnlock it, and found that the bolt to the i*wer door would vot move, and, sup- posing that the\Jock was out of repair’ they worked at it until noom, when they suceceded in opening it, and found a ph in the ‘key-hole on Me inside, and the bottom of the vault dropped out This was the first intimation they had that the bank 4ad been molested. The whole capital of the bank was $100,000. ‘The rogues took $86,000 of if, $7,000 in specie and mh Oe in pila of other banks, the balance in bills of the bank, No. 2. ROBBERY OF -THE DELAWARE BANK OF 9 THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. The Delaware Bank, at Delhi, Delaware county, N.Y., Was entered and -robbed in a similar man- ner 4 year or two ago. The burglars effected their object by tunnelling under the building and attacking the bottom of the vault; this, although coverod hy heavy flag atone, was broken and forced upward by two powerful jack-serews, and thus the bank vaultevas relieved of its valuable contents. Althou, was evident thot the rogues mu have been days, an’ perhaps weeks, in making their underground excavations, so nicely wore their whole operations carried on that po Peclin were exciied until the cashier, one fine morning, fonnd himself unable to unlock his vault. The vogues had plugged or fastened the lock from the inride, after perpetrating the robbery, and the suthorities of the bank, naturally supposing that the Jock of the vault only was out of orders were some two days in trying'to effect an entrance be- fore entling info their doors; in thé teantime the fouhens Were far Bai with their booty, and, it ia hardly hoc es#ery tg ad trageg of them or their trenkure hay? Por overed, - ma tho New York Herald, Nov. 12, 1861. SHEAVY BANK ROPBERY IN CONNECTICUT—$59, TAKEN, The Winsted Bank, at West Winsted, Conn., was robbed betwecn Saturday evening, rants e, and Monday morning, November 11, of some fifty thonsand dollars, of which $8,000 was ip speci and the balance mostly in bills of their own ban . with three Treasury n ne of $100 and two of $0 coch. The building 3 probably entered by stairs on the outskle, communicating with a law: yer’s office directly over the bank vault. The floor was taken wp, and the vault, which was of heavy masonry, 0" with ssive stone slab, en- tered by spli the stone removing it. After the moncy was taken the pieces of slab were re- placed and the flooving serewed down, leaving searcely « trace upon the outside of the work ac- complished by the burglars, No. 4. Two years ago, the Windham County Bank was robbed of a Jarge amount by # more summary pro- cess. A clerk of the bank and a large dog slept within the bank. The dog was baited and poi- zoned. ‘The clerk was seized, tied and gagyed, the keys taken from him, the vaults entered and @ large sum taken. But the clerk, within about an hour after the departure of the robbers, man- aged to disongaye his hands and arouve the neigh- borhood. The result was, the capture of one of them the sate morning (or New Lon- don), where he was «hou for New Vork. If our racmory serves us, he has sinee died. ip the State prison at Wethersfield. NO, CHE OTE) . BOLD, VABEING AND INGRNIOUE ATTEMPT TO ROB THE NEW YORK BXCHAN@E BANK, If, in the estimation of the French people, Eng- lend has prodaced @ race of shopkeepers, in our eyes ake yet the more distinguished honor of having produced a race of Snvincible honsebreak- ers. If a robbery occurs of more then ordinary magnitude, the features ef which reveal extreme cunning, cool calculation and unusual skill, detec- tives at once pronounce it the work of English bur- glares, who alone have elevated thieving to a acience, and upon this supposition they commence their inquiries and rarely fail in hunting up the right party. The cool calculation displayed, the Tabor endured and the patience exhib in the vy we are about to detail, have rarely, xcecded, morning, the 26th ult., shortly after | thé opening of the New York Exchange Bank, one of thé porters reported to the officer of the besk that he could not open the vauit doors, An im: mediate examination was made, when it was found that the log been tampered with. A black- | smith was veft for, bar, before the doors could he opened, a portion of the Mi brickwork lad to be torn down—no eas} wk, Considering the substantial character of the building. wr entering the vault, the officer discovered a hole in the floor large enough to admit the body ofeman, The first impulse wae to look at the aafe, which was known to contain nearly four haudred thousand dollars in notes and specie, be- sides twenty thoesand dollars worth of railroad bonds belonging to die President of the bank. The sale wag ynopened, bat the burglars had tried its strength in Various ways, but had ultimately abandoned it in despair. Rei) ‘The next care wm to examine the hole, It was evidently a regular tunael, and extended @ consi- derable Metance 4 Toformation of the affair was immediately sent to the General Superintendent's office, when de- tective Lefferts ffid others were despatched to the | premises to mak quities, One of the officers, by way ment, entered the | frame building adjoining the bank, and without much trouble crawled through the subterranean passage ontil he ae 1 uudormeath, aud actually | entered the yault. te basement, npon being e amined, was found to be full of rag carpets, an Judging from the appearance of the place, it wes ident that og! eagpets werd manufactured | ye . Some fifty er six bales of the carpeting had been piled up at tis rear of the basement, with the view, ng dont: of poreoning the opera. tions of the borclers While they were engaged in Henweliag their way int sue unt quill, Beluud , fea | Watkins Exchange 1863, ’ « HERRING & CO.’S SAFES. = barrier was neared eee core drawn fom e excavation under the ; but, upon close idspection, it was evident that the great bulk of the rubbish must ‘have been removed to the street and carted off, The tunnel extended over seventy feet from the basement to the ‘vault, and-the labor in making it must have beea inumense, a8 on examination it peared that in tunneling to the vault the burglars ad to -pass through a heavy foundation wall of stone and also a lighter one of brick. The line of the tunnel waa by go means regular, It was crooked, arid at one point a detour of eight or ten feet wax made, although for what purpose we can- not imagine, ‘The way was cut through a mass of sand and made ground. The tunnel was found to be carpeted throughont and strewn with books and papers, which had been romoved from the daring and indefatigable robbers. a A vast amount of burglars’ tools were found in ‘the basement. ‘The police took poxsession of the different articles, and made the following iuven- tory of the same: One jack-screw, valued at fifty dollars; one small do., valued at twenty-five doftarss one large crowbar, one small do., one compound driver, two jimmies, one iron bar, one Inrge sledge hammer, three braces, one hatchet, one foreplane, one hand vice, three files, one claw- one pivot, fifty-six drills, two cold chitels, two oi cans, onelarge iron poker, two spades, two shovels, one carpenter’s square, a large number of wedges two Aira iwo pair of overalls, a demijohn of whiskey, and one mallet. The carpet manufactory was tenantless and ap- parently deserted. Harmon Roberts. proprietor of a drinking saloon over the carpet manufactory, on being questioned by the police, stated that tl basement had formerly been occupied by a man named John Alcock. About five weeks ago Alcock sold out to a man giving his name as Thomas Burke, receiving four hundred dollars for the stock, fixtures and good will of the concern. He says that Burke had a partner in the business; but he did not know his name nor could he give any deaseipion of his personal appearance. Burke rented the place from Roberts, and was prompt in all his payments. ‘The only loser by the affair was Mr. A. L. Peck, a broker, who had deposited $1,000 in uncurrent bills in a tin box, which had been placed in the vault on Saturday afternoon. ox was mis- sing, but its.contents by no means remunerated the robbers for their time, labor aud outlay in pur- chasing the stock of the carpet store, loss of burglarious instruments, &c, ‘The robbers evidently understood the ground plan of the bank building. How they got their informa- tion remains to be found out. But this fact is cer- tain, that their mining operations were carried on with military precision, and terminated in the very centre of the place they designed to reach, The locality of this dashing burglary~has been the scene of the greatest excitement during tho week, curious throngs hanging round the bank at all hours of the day. The prevailing sentiments of these loungers is, we regret to say, sympathy for the thieves, admiration for their boldness, and a half regret that they iad not got the money from the safe. Bank institutions are not popular among the people. Every exertion is being made to ferret out the perpetrators. John Alcock, the carpet weaver, who sold out to the burglars, voluntarily ap- eared before the Police Court, but as he knew nothing subsequent to the sale he was not detained. Detective Keefe, who has been detailed in connection with several others of Sergeant Lefferts’ aqua to ferret out the burglars, succeeded, on the 26th ult., in arresting one of the suspected parties. The prisoner, who is an Eng- lishman, is said to be a notorious burglar; but at present there is no evidence whatever to jmplicate im in the bank robbery. ‘The accused, whose name is Sheffield, was arrested some three months ago oy euspicion of burglary, and locked np in the Tontbs, in somieny with a companion named Richard Cotlard. Sheffield succeeded in effecting ‘is release by means ef a habeas corpus, but his con anion fit misery still remains incarcerated. The} ,oner danies “all enero of the aftair, but ‘the putice thought proper to lock him up for a few days, Xx VALUE OF A GOu Ni New ) a Lanes sarin & © sentlemen:-—-You have alreau. “~ throgh the columns of the "a. V2, Raper of the desperate attempt made upon ou. “ygde by 4 and the Fire and Burglar Proof Safe . for our bank 2 few years ago. All <a vault was very areas d built, and provide heavy doors and the best of locks, the atte upon the vault was succesefal. the rogues succeeded in undermining the vault , by diggiig a tunnel some seventy feet long under the adjoining building, and ter ting at the hase of the vault itself, Here commenced their operations upop a large scale, and after 1 moving the front part of the heavy s.oue fou tion, which was strongly laid in cemen reached the large fag stone which formed the of the Vault. This stone was broken by mean of a jackscrew of great power, and the ‘in of the vault thus reached, Your eafe-now became *h* 8S ape and bravely did i ~~ = &Teat point of #! cure a resist every effort, hotd -. «8 entire trust (property amounting to jae Heady against ell the tools ‘and ingenuity of the aS. ho first grdat aim seemed to be to drill into the Safe: but although some thirty holes were made im the outer casing, the hardened iron forming the centre lining turned the point of every tool. Dis- appointed here, they now attempted to dissect the safe, and attempted to force the strong frame work apart. After removing one bar and pestially entting off another they gave this up, and all fur- ther operations proved unavailing. Our confidence in your safe has been reassured, and we would further add, for the benefit of the public, and to your credit, that had they even succeeded in get- ting through the outer casing or shell of the safe, which they did not do, that three more thicknesses of metal still remained, and cach of these, in our inion, would have es them more trouble than : “: ae one by which they were so completely foiled. When the great resources of these burglars are considered, the opportunity to work from Saturday night to Monday morning, the great number of the best tools in their possession, and the skill and in- genuity displayed, we have reason to feel proud of your Safe. We wish you to send the large Safe, purchased us at your store, to our new benking house in nwich street, and as soon as we get moved you shall have the old one asa vor, DUZER, President N. Y. Exchange Bank. HERRING & 00.’ AD SAFE INSIDETHE VAULT. ~ York Excuance Bank, } » “age, Mareh 27,1861. No. 25) Broadway— 4y been well informed ai NEW VATENT CHAMPION BURGLAR PROOF SAFES HERRING & CO.'B BW PATENT CHAMPION BURGLAR PROOF BATES HERRING & CO.'S SEW PATENT CAMPION BURGLAR PROOF FarRs HERRING & CO.'S NEW PeTRENT CHAMPION BURGLAR PROOF SaPBs HERRING & CO0.’S NBW PATETT CHANPION BULGTAR PROOF SAVES | Are the only Safes which can he made with Her- | ring & Floyd's Patent Crystalilized iron, These Safes can be furnished at as low a priee'as those } lined with Hardened #tee!, or “Chilled Iron,”’ and are far better, a8 Lbs new patent Crystallized Iron is the only metal whieh cannot be drilled by a burglar, and is ay hard, any thickness desired, | at but little additional cost, The construction of Herring's New Patent Cham Borglar Proof Safes is peculiar, differin = from | and combining, as Gm | do, the use of | Wrov Tro®, patent crystalized Iron and bars of steel, may be coneidered the only safe which is equally protected egeiag) the sledge, the drill and the revolving guitef, *~ “# * a» Aithough it but x short time since the Patent Crystallized Iron has been introduced to public | notice, we take pleasure in referring to the follow- ing eminent banks, bankers, insorance companies and others, who, after a careful examination, have lately purchased Safes from us with Herring & Floyd's patent eryatallized iron lihin Importers’ and Trader Bank... . vew York. eet Hrookigd Savings Bank Rank ot North 4metica Palisade Bank od ¢ Bank Jamestown Bank... . 4 Chantangua County Bigk. « : Columbia Bank Chatham Fe Watkins, do. Jamestown, do, Jamestown, do, onr Corners an JA. Clark & Co." ae Pulaski, do | Syraense Savings Bank Seracn Al Walkill Bank. .... 04 Middletawn, | Yrank of Commerce... >. Carmal, do. | Sudlolle Coguty Dank... serger+ Sa Harbor, do, vault so #5 to facilitate the movements of the \ hammer, one screwdriver, one chisel, three Same | * Clark & Met: | Rev. 85 Gillespie, Pierce & C rcant ne Farmers’ & Merchants’ Bank of Ocean Count; Dine Savings Bank. Bank of Crawford County Delaware and Hudson Canal Co Bank of Commerce Bauk of Marion. . Bank of Madison. | Merchants’ Bank Bank of Beloit. Rock County B: | Bank of Kewanee. Siate Bank. Bank of the Cit | Department of Secretary of U Bank ‘Middletown Pt, ‘ ws +sTom's River, do.” Danville, Penn.« - Meadville, do.f .Carbondale, do.g Cleveland, Ohio. -Marion, ison, Wis. Milwaukee. * - Beloit, Wis. | fauesville, do. Kewanee, Il! -Davenport, Iowa , .... Peter : Washington, D. C. . Washington, do. Washington, do. ) Port Royal, 8. C. . 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Shay James Boyd P. Palmer . Rutter & Endicott. N. K. Fairbank r icago, Il. Chicago, Il. Chicago, I. Chicago, Il, Chicago, Ill. Chicago, Il. Chicago, Ill. Jerome Beecher. Chicago, E far on coat 0. A. Sandborn S. Statts Taylor. Willard, Scott & C A&I Rt W.& J. Fiddick W. P. Malburn ville, Ml. jalena, 3M, do., Os Waukegan, do. Hennepin, do. do., do. do., — do. Niles, Mich. Fentonville, do. Coldwater, do. do., do. Plymouth, Ind. ilwaukee, Wis. Portland, OF ortlal ogon. ‘A. Robe, Luiling & Co an, Coda Herrara Hermanos. . wr C. Hermann. -Hamburg, Germany HERRING & CO.'8 NEW Paves? CHAMPION BURGLAR rroor sarse HERRING & CO.'S NEW PATELT CHAMFTON BURGLAR PROOF Barbe HERRING & CO.’S NEW PATENT CHAMPION BURULAR PROOF SARS HERRING & CO.'S DEW PATENT CHAMPION BUROLAR PROOF SAFEE tare the only Safes made in-which the PATENT CRYSTALLIZED InoN, * can be used. The publi¢ are all others claiming to use it pure or “imixed state.’ They are in posters or intringers; and, if 80 not only make themselves, but all purchasers, Hable to vs for more than the cost of everp Kafe so purchased. (See Potent laws.) ‘ URNELNG'S NEW PATENT FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAUKE COMBINED, (One Safe within another.) WEIMEK's PATENT COMBINATION BANK LOCK, WITAOUT KEY Of KEYHOL PATENT ALVAADRT ICAL BANK KEY OB KEYHOLD MALL'S PAT LE pe ber th The only | key isarsed that has no yA garded the Prize Medal at the World + ee lo. | keyhole. | Awarded the Prize Park Bank ete sus do. | F ir, London, 4681, ad Crystal Palace, New York, Marine Bank “tT 0 | 1859, Also,“YAUB'S PATENT “TREASURY New York Exchange Banic jo. | AND “MONITOR LOCKS, and Locks of all the ‘ Third Avenue Savings Bank do. peprored mak son houd and furnigbed at ry on 7 plod Brockiyn, | Hanky, frokers, ‘Jowellern and others, wala i ante roy | cnlta oF Sates of any kind, and wishing additional as K. can be supplied with our (rete lar Proof Saies’ te nee, by of wuy size or suape de- security Champion Burg: sending as the measure, 0 HERRING & CO., No. 91 4 array street, opposite City | F MCW, Heehina & CO,, No. 629 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. 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