Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-10-16


Including the city of Savannah which only
have we heard from, there was majority of
from 90 to 40 for the Troup candidates, which
seemed hardly to have been expected, and is
called by the Savannah Republican Z" glori-
Gus triumph of principle"
At the same Election, the voice OF the peo-
pie has been taken on the expcdicncy of call
ing Convention to revise the constitution of
the state. In Chatham county, as above,
there were 551 votes i'm favor of Conven-
ton, and as against it. There is no doubt
how this question will be decded there APP
pearing to be something like general acqui
esccnce in the expediency of a revision of the
constitution of that state. Nd. Int.
Extract frun, The Steabenrais, (Ohio) Herald.
Let it be remembered, that of perhaps million
of dollars lost TO the government in the western coun-
Try by broken Banks, than half of that sum has
been deposited in those Banks since the establish
ent among OF branches of tile United States Bank
One OF the main objects for the establishment of those
branches was SAID TO he the receipt, safe Keeping,
and transmission of the United States funds, from
place TO anoiher-bat the directors Of tho United
States Bank have themselves furnished abundant evil
dencc that such not their motive for establishing
branches among us--ior, although they persist in
keeping a branch in Chillicothe, in opposition 10 the
wishes of the people of the state and of the legislature
the public money receivable the Land Office in that
town has for considerable time past becn and yet
continues 10 be, deposited in the Bank of Chllicothe ~
Upon this subject we are, in subsequent
part of the same editorial article, requested
10" throw some light" And willing to oblge,
after having made inquiry respecting such of
the facts connected with the case, as the pub
lie documents and public journals do not sup
ply, we submit the following observations:
AS yet, it is not known that any portion of
the public funds deposited in the Western
Banks since the resumption of specie pay
,nents, or in other words, since the establish
snent of the Bank of the United States, will
be lost TO the government The whole amount
of the moneys which have been thus deposit
ed in banks which have since suspended pay
ment, appears, by the statements laid before
Congress, TO fall considerably short of the sum
stated by this writer and, if the representations
and assurances of the persons who have the
management OF these banks are to be Gre
Clited, this whole amount will he eventually
paid. II is true that the money is, first, to be
collected by the banks from their debtors. But
10 assume, as the charge of this writer implies,
that neither the banks nor the people, are will
ling TO pay their ust debts, supposes want
of honor aud probity in the West, which we
will not allow To be imputed to them, and
which. il ishoped, will never be Justly charged
lpon any portion of this community.
But, whatever may be the amount or the
fate of the debts due by those banks, IT is GER
tainy not the government, nor yet the Bank
9fthe United States, that is to he reproached
with them Nor, would it be altogether lust
To make them the subject ofblame TO the peo-
pie OF the West inasmuch as they are the
result ola deranged state of currency, in which
the whole country participated, but which left
behind ii, in the Western Country, greater
evils, because it was, there, more aggravated
The wreiched condition of the circulating
medium of fine WpSfpru Statac af tho ti,,,. ~
the establishment of the Bank Of the United
States, is well known. Ii was found that it did
not possess the means of paying, in specie orn
notes of the Bank of the United States, the
heavy debts which were daily falling due for
Public Land. 1t WAS, therefore, for the go
Sernment-a government having sympathies
with ITS cltIzens-to endeavour to adopt some
means preserving the interests of the Urea
sury without sacrificing the welfare ofthe pub
lie debtors. Such an effort was due to the
people of the West. Accordingly, in ar
Management was made, by which the notes of
the specie-paying banks in the Western States
We're received at the land Offices, and deposit
ed IN some of the most respectable of the
State Banks, which agreed ia receive and to
account for them as cash, and, from time to
1ime to transfer 10 the Branches the Bank
ot the United States such sums as remained
tncxpended. In this manner several millions
have been received and paid over by the State
Banks.
But during the course of this arrangement
The banks of Kentucky, Nashville Huntsville
Vincennes, and Missouri-banls which en-
Ioyed the highest credit in their respective
'states-suspended specie payments; and it i.
the deposItes or notes of these banks which
constitute the debt, for the supposed loss of
"heh inns writer now repr0aches the govern
mcnt.
The Bank of Chillicothe was one of the
banks employed in Ohio under that arrange
ment. But unfortunately for this writer, some
modification having been made, in August
1871, IN The description of moneys TO be re-
ceiyed In the Land Offices, the Bank of the
United STATES, in compliance with the wishes
Oh the Treasury, and with a view To- the ac-
commodation of the public and of the govern
ment, instructed It's Branches at Chcothe
and Louisville 1.-THE only ones conveniently sit
Ihted torrecciying the moneys collected in the
land oiflces) to take as cash all the kinds Of
money which the Receivers were authorized
TO take and there being then no longer ans
motive Tor employing the Bank of Chcothe
that bank has, we understand, for about a year
past ceased to receive the public depositcs
In mentioning the Bank of ChIlicOthc
therefore, the Editor of the Herald has been
peculiarly unlucky. But this mshap will moi
he altogether without its usefulness, if it adj
monlshes writers in general to be careful that
what they assert as facts are true TO their owr
knowledge, especially if they are TO be made
the grounds of accusation against the motive!
and conduct of others. Nat Int.
From The Charlesson Patriot
COMMUNICATION-Fro an authentic source
The Question stated bettCeen General jackson
and Judge Fromentin.
Col. Calaya, an officer Of high respectable
standing in the Spanish service and whose