Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-01-30


'S,sd Is other os q "sss nay s.f" ., Within
%sS il F'i''asIae'' has not
le sum ra,d 20 the Globe by The Post Once Depart.
meni Tor advertising during the last two years, appears
by the Blue Book. is SSit3 90; all Of which, except $751;
paid advertising the proposals for mail contracts In
year 1882, when congress established many new
o,es The Advertisements printed with small type
filed two Sheets the size Of the one upon which the
Globe was then published. Those sheets sent for
three months to the subscribers the Daily Semi Week
iy, and Weekly Globe, amounting to more than 5000;
printed in 1881, namely 500. Although the Depart
ment required the advertisement to be published on
ezra Sheets no more was charged per square Tor printing
them, than had before been paid TO the lntegencer and
Telegraph Tor publishing them on the outside oil their pa
pers.
Those acquainted with the prices paid for paper and
printing here will at once, that there was not the
usual profit OF these advertisements
Iii proper TO state, that the paid Ivy the Depart
for publishing the Post office Tor the
1883 IL not Included in the Blue Book because the
bill had not been paid when it was published. They
were printed and circulated in the same way as those
1917 except that the Extra sheets not to all
e Post Offices was deemed unnecessary TO send any
OF them to the Northern Post Offices but those which
ne Sione was sent as all the routes advertised la
The South and South The sum received for publish
ing them, is 81 562.
The sum piid to the Globe by the State Department,
including the Patent Office, during the last ears
advertising, $500 75; OF which, $500 paid pub
shng COZ pages OF the Laws OF the United States each
page containing about 1900 At the usual price for
advertsing-5O cents square Tor insertion sdver.
Using the Laws alone, would amount to 81 ABB so.
AHe Department. ludng the tive Auditors
the two Comprolers, the Solicitors, aud the General
Land Offices, has paid the Globe for advertising during
the last two years, $542 90.
The Navy Department, including the Navy Commits
Globe during The last two years.
The War Department. including the Commissary
"eneras the Quarter Master Generals the Chief Eugi-
neers and tho Pension Offices has paid Tor adv ersng in
Globe. -
The late run on the u States Branch Bank of mi.
min nj
ing upon the late the Branch here made by the
house Of Beers. ST. John CO., and the fair business
Transaction New York Courier Enquirer, speaking Of
it, says" For what honest purpose could any individual
demand specie Savannah, and transport it, al an expense
and risk to any given point when the OF the Bank
Tor which he had paid premium, would at that point
ana indeed throughout the Union, have answered all the
purposes OF specie"
This in full accordance with the reckless course pur
sued by the Bank Presses-they not whose
they assail, what fslsehoods they the
Bank the whole Bank, and nothing but the Bank" is
| their guiding motto.
In paper of the 18th ult contradcted, on the
best authority the ridiculous assumption, first put forth
by Noah in his Star, and reiterated by the u. g. Pha-
deIphia Gazette that the the Bank was made bv
the "Kchen Cabinet and stated that il was transact
on entirely between the Augusta and Savannah Branch
es oil the house OF "Beers, St. John Co." We now on
The same authority before, reerae that assertion The
specie was obtained TO fulfil contracts with the up-coUN-
TRY BANKS, and the arrival OF it in Augusta shortly af.
ter its being drawn here, subject public notice
in the Gazet,es of that city Saying that ''no,es of the
Bank would answer all the purposes of SPECIE" shows
in lis vaults, not notes. Specie the article wanted
aud accordingly specie was furnished. The house in
question took the contract for furnishing specie and
led it, IL all business Transactions were az
the reputation OF ndvduaIs would stand rather
higher than under present circumstances.
Under this editorial article the Courier and Enuu rer
publishes letter to the editor, dated Savannah Desem IN
Der 9Th, which contains several errors hch we
to be prejudcal the 81. of savannah
Dear Su;-Business is very duh, unusually so for
the season, in consequence, in measure of The low
ness OF our river and the recent withdrawal from the w.
Beers, st. John s. co..
We give the writer some credit for his ingenuity in
bringing together the lowness of the river the run on
the Bank As an evidence of the duness Of the season
we will merely state, that there have been shpped from
the port OF Savannah from the LIST OF October 1888 10 LIST
Of January, 1884, OF eco bales OF Cotton moro
same letter writer "Durng this run and Tor some
time alter, the Banks would do nothing
pressure great"
This is mistake, entire mistake We have ascer-
tanned from the best sources. that business was done at
M OF our Sa'e Banks, without any interruption during
the period alluded to.
We again repeat that deprecae any unfair partisan
attacks on the u s. Bank the State Banks. Let them
stand fall by their merits Our State Banks we be-
leve 10 be as solvent and well conducted any i'm the
Union.
The u. S. Bank-we speak of i, as a whoIe-undoubt.
edly has II in its power from the superior privileges en-
joyed from its charter produce pressure in the
market OF the Union, and consequently much distress.
Whether not ii will do so, remains 10 be seen From
the character OF the gentlemen The head of the Branch
here, we entertain hopes that such measures could
originatewIih then-Sdcdnndh Georgian.
New YoRX, January 25.
The excitement which tho friends Of the Bank have
been aboring TO get up in this city the subject OF the
pecunary embarrassment which prevails is likely TO ter.
minaty in manner to dsappoin the hopes OF the aga-
tors. There symptoms Of re-acfoD the people are
beginning 10 inquire how much of the present how
much OF the destruction OF confidence credit and the
consequent pecunary pressure is owing the fault of
the Bank and its creatures and how much is owing 10
causes merely commercial. The they inquire the
will their Indignation be excited They will see
that the whole array OF the bank party all s leaders and
all whom they Influence its orators its bribeJ Jour
aslsts, and all who be bought by benccions or in
huenced by fear TO do its bidding have been from
the moment the deposles were removed 10 produce an
alarm which should of that great resource of bust
Ress, commercial confidence. The bank has aided This
alarm far as it could by The curta,nent Of its dis.
counts; and il has been singuary favored in its de-
signs, by other causes which would, Of themselves
have produced some degree oil pecunary pressure
such the depression the price cotton abroad
the eKacon OF cash duties imported goods, and the
failure oil the sugar crops at the south The bank
ly chose its time well, and il has produced all the distress,
Intended. But will the people thank il Tor this Will
they lick, like spancls, the hand that scourges them Az
ter the power OF corruption has been tried in vain to win
them 10 its side they 10 suffer themselves TO be
coerced into granting its wishes! Are they TO allow an
enormous oveTsadowDg moDied monopoly to drive them
like cattle whittier IL pleases? Are the free citizens of
this widespread republic proud OF their liberty of their
origin, and oil the gores OF their history be cowed and
terrified by association OF brokers the adoption OF
such they may may dictate! Is the national
egdiion 10 he hereafter the submissive handmade of the
BSnkl There can be but answer to these questions
There Is true citizen who will repeI with scon the
idea OF submitting TO such radiation, aud hose
would not glow with shame and Indignation the very