Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-12-19

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= sKoM THs HxsMINER
There isStuch truth in The following eemask,
and they are wristeniea language 70 plain, thai
he that runs may read aud underRand.
Mr. EXAMINER,
had the good fortune Il thought i,
goos, in rhef. hard times, to receive the
other day, ieveral bank notes from man
that owed me who had been at the fou;h.
ward. Finding thar no oank here would
take then, and being informed, at one oil
them that they took no notes of any bank
fourth Of N. brunfwick. wen, to fhop
which is called an Exchange Brokers
Office and thsre was told that | nigh,
receive for hundred dollar note of the
North Carolina State Bank, ninety two
dollars and fifty cents, in New Y ork bank
notes for my notes Of the bank of Co.
lumbia. in the Diilrict Of Wilmington,
and in which, if lam correctly Informed,
the bufnels of the general government
is done, ninety three dollars for hun
dyed and for my notes Of the State bank
of Virginia, ninety-four dollars. then
eoqui'ed how much fpecie I could obtain
for New, York bank notes if l fhould
take them /? To this received for an,
swer, that if bad fpecic, they would
give me one hundred and ten dollars Of
Net Y ork bank notes, for every hundred
dollars of tpecie or if I had bilk on
Bolton, they would take them juii as il
they were fpecie. From all which, it
feemed to me to refult, that a hundred
dollar note OF the North. Carolina State
Bapk, mutt be worth now a days no more
than eighty two dollars and tfty cents |;
q Columbia Dilfrict bank note of the
fame amount, no more than eighty three
dollars and one of the State Bank of
Virginia, only eighty four. was le.
TO enquire whether thcfe banks wre
broke, but was told g not more thss any
others" l fubmitted to have my ioush-
ern bank notes Jbaved, and wit away,
thinking to myfelf, that this union was
not doing the country mueA good, Jgf
now, whatever it had don, o,,Gs.
On my way up wat itleet ! met a
very large Wagon Nth fsveral horfes
before il. l had fsen feveral fuch before
was now LED to enquire in what buff
nefs it was employed and was told,
commercial byfnsG; that thefe we're the
machines row employed ia inland nap
ieatisn." And what is become OF all our
sefIels fa;d I, that ufvd to do all thefe
things (? was informed. that it | with
ed to fee them, might 60 to the wharves
where would End them difnanrled and
roting. Bet why do they not 60 to lea
(aid f-becaufe, laid my informer, the
Bri,ifh would take them. And why
would they take them becaule the yare
At war with US. And why are they 70 /?
because we made them 60 to war with
U.s. All, thinks l. I believe upon the
whole, this war had better been let alone.
A little boy at this moment pulled me
BY the coat. and I was inclined to be
angry, until he informed me that he had
not ate mouthful that day, nor his
mamma neither, pointing to forlorn
boxing woman featcd juit by, on the
cold itone lteps, with an infant itrugling
at her cold and fhrivclled brca(f in vain.
Indeed, for faid ihe, he tells you true.
You have child. fsid /, where is his
father ? Why does he not provide for you
O. Gv. faid fhc. he did az long as he
could find work, and when he could no
longer Go that, he gave into company,
and was peIfuaded to cnliit. lie gives
US nothing. Indeed we know not where
he is, nor whether he is dead or alive
It is no bodys bufineis what gave the
poor woman-but | could not help with.
ing that the authors of 70 much mitchell
might endure iome Of the miieries Of it,
inaead Of pro6ting by their crimes AZ
they do.