Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-01-24

OF Eli Montgomery was dangerously on FIRE,
and although the rosf has been reduced 70 a
clnder, the cxerlions Of the citizens succeeded
10 saving the body Oft the building.
IL is rumored, we are not certain with
what exactness of truth, that the Govern.
ment dePosite in the Bank Of the United
States, the safety of which has been .olemiy
doubted, amounted. on the first of this month
TO the enormous sum Of Siafeen thousand dol
lars. We copy from the last letter f"The
Spy in Washington" who corresponds with
the New York Courier and Enquirer the fol.
lowing:
IA director ofthe United States Bank has
written that they received from Europe near
ly a million Of dollars, of their three per cent,
and they expect an additional sum. The
nett surplus profit OF the bank for the last
SIX months, after paying their dividends, is
more than Hsrse hundred thousand dollars.
They have about nine millions of specie in
their vaults, and the government deposites
reduced to a n,e.e noihlng. Is it not supre-
mely ridiculous TO hear cane man talk a.
bout the, danger of the public money in the
bank? AT this moment the government has
nonen
The New York Enquirer of Saturday,
concludes an article respecting the Bank of
the United States, in these words:
1--WE are happy 10 have II in our power to
add. that the certificates OF the 8 per cent
United States Stock, held in Europe, and
which the Federal Government directed
should he paid off. have for the greater part
bern received here by the Bank, and thus
another Of the trumped up charges against
that substitution, disposed Of for ever.
''Stock cold yesterday at LOG dividend off,
being equalto 1904 three days since. Further
comment is unnecessary"
The following information, in the Charles
ton Courier, is confirmed beyond doubt from
other sources;
information; which can be relied on, has
been received in this CITY, that the snit pen
ding in the Supreme Court betweee Messrs,
Worcester and Butler, Imprisoned Missiona-
ries,) and the State of Georgia. will be dis
continued. Their councel Messsrs Hfrt
aad Sergeant, have been notified to that eff
feet" @--
The BANK MANIA is beginning virrlently to
manifest itself in anticipation of the prostra-
ton Of the Bank of the United States. The
Legislature Of Alabama have Incorporated
one with captai.of two millions; and in
Tennessee another has been hatched with a
capital Of three millions. In Kentucky and
Ohio the Governors have strongly recon
mended to the respective Legislatures the
creation uf banks. with enormous capitals.
In PeDns ylvanIa, too. we observe that app'i-
cations are making for srai banks: New
York and other States will no doubt follow
suit. Itrcqnres no prophet TO roretel, that
when the Bank If the Jaited States. which
has for many years been The faithful guardian
OF the business and prosperity Of the People,
shall be laid low, the country viii be overs
run with a flock Of cultures, in the shape OF
State banks, to hanqnit upon the spoils Of
that prosperity, aud demoral;ge the charac-
ter Of our people. Aud this pest we are to
incur to crafty blind and yindictiye hostili,
tyl Verify we are back sliding peoplel More
favored than the childlen OF Jacob, we are
equally addicted TO running after idols, and
the experience Of the past Dela,Uare Jour.
50 ,.1. :, ALABAMA, Decembcs 81. g.
81 perceive by the Presidents Message,
which has just reached me, that the meaning
of ",I,dicious Tariff has az length been re-
yealed II is TO be .'indespensibie to our
safety in war" God grant US the. gift of
tongues that we may understand that which
is thus translated, out of one unknown
tongue into another. Safety in time of warp
Ii is intended to limit protection TO the mum
tons Of WARP Or to extend IL TO all articles
of prime convenience and comfort in peace /.
and necessity in WARP Safety in time Of warp
This reminds me forcibly Of passage in an
old farce, in which the master comes 10 and
asks the maid pretty sharply about the visits
Of a certain gentleman in his absence: "The
maid red1ens. heeitates. and stammer3--
'.The gentenlan--and then my mistress
and then land then my mistress--and
then I-apd the gent.eman--and land and
that is full and true account OF the whole
matter" - 80
"Credit is given to serious charges against
the Bank, which call for an investigation OF
Bank and Branchesi" This is good idea:
suppose Congress, On the 4th of March, al,
journs TO meet in Committee OF the Whole
in the Mother Bank. and then take the Cir
uit of the Branches? 1t would not take
more than year or two, nor cost more than
our war debt? The mass light she'd upon
the subject by the examination Of all who
had a note discounted, and every one who
had not. would be of surprising importance
in showing how the exchanges were. equal
ICED and. currency. regulated, and will repay
the trouble and eypensei =.