From the Philadelphia Dem. Press.
COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTES.
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1t will be recolected that some months since,
counterfeit .fue dollar notes of the Philadelphia
Bank appeared in circulation, Of which the public
was Immediately apprzed, and cautioned against
receiving them. At the time minute de-
scrpon of them was given, noting their defects,
and distinguishing marks, from the genuine note.
Ii was likewise stated that the Bank had not for
more than year issued any Of the impression or
sort that was counterteiteu.


Notwithstanding the above notice they continue
TO circulate.


There can be no doubt Of the fact that they are
now extensively afloat not only in Pennsylvania but
in the adjacent states.


We are glad that now have it in our power to
put our neighbors and fellow citizens in possession
Of such information as will be etectual remedy
against imposition by these counterfeit notes. 1t is
simply this, that with the exception of rery small
number, there are none Of the genuine FIVE dollar
notes OF the Philadelphia Bank, Of the stamp or
plate that is counterfeited, now in circulation; or
in other words, they have all been called in.


We have the best authority when we say there
are but about fifty of them still out, and OF those
considerable portion have no doubt been lost or de
stroyed, so that we risk in asserting that al
this time there not, in all probability, more than
half dozen of them in existence.


The new plate which The bank has used for the
last tco gears is e.eculed in the best style OF Fair
man. Draper & Co. and has the heads of Franklin
and Penn on the margins. The Old mole, that is