Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-12-09

"he best currency fer scA nee had (soys the Inellipcn
ee nat nation "a The scord aay considerable elien
o. PoPniat'oa crcr possessed How melancholy the
thought That the spurious Bank checks of which there
are thousands ofcOuntcsics and which are an le@iti
mate issue atbcst should be thus thrown out of circIa
uoh-ahd that those employed by the Government in
the INTERIOR should have in their power 10 obtain scce
or the notes of such Banks suits their purposes at
mer own door, instead of knocking at the door Of
Branch some hundred miles distant to receive payment
OF nus treasury warrant i'm Branch checks payab. In spc
cic at another Bank, some six hundred miles distant
lie lntclhgcncer is Obliged to admit in effect that
the statement of the letter it paraded is false i'm SAVING
mat The Treasury Circular, 'aUhori-ed e checks of s
crS"g officers 10 DC recctred by any Opposite Bdak-
false in saying that they authorized to be taken ecu
heeeoerS, az payment Of public dues and false i'm say
ing mat II as authorized .'e creation IF usiiaied
e"rency u chechs 81 all denominations and amounts is
S"ed ty Subordinate GocerRIaent olccrsbut then Tho
honest lntelhgcncer says:
exactly s and lenealy confirms all tia, part the repre-
sSauo" Of the correspondent Of the rso which to tho
V. h nS Io'ernnenp not only puts down D,nk by
S9I as at as it goes, is clear confession utter failure of
mat The state anks eompecn, perform the duties for m"
9n % % Mieh have bee" SO adVanageouy discharged by the
How is "Me payment of ,ca,rants and eaSLing Of
dFGttS on tte GOccrRntoRt at Lind Offices conf.s
sion of the utter failure the Expcrmcn,5 lyhcn H.
BANK oil the United States Paymaster General Ior
o treasury IN the language of the last scsson NOTHING
was more common than to get Treasury warrants cnsbed
by the Receivers through the courtesy of these public G
hcers The present Secretary has done NOTHING NOR,
than to organize and establish as system nod ~.
making public payments which the Necessities of Tho
community had partially introduced while the Bank of
me United States acted fiscal agent of the Treasury
Ana Tie fact proves that the Bank of the United States
never did perform for the Government what is conem
Paicd by the charter, viz: transfer the public money
ana nave ready at every point where it was necessary
to pay public creditors '''y
How will the mtclligencer account to the pubc for
having failed to notice this usage during the period of
,he Bank fiscal agency And we would further ask
now can pretend that has Just ercted out the Sc
eretarys Circular authorizing this mode of pavmcnt
when 1t was published in the Globe in September or De-
tobcr p GioJc. F " W
ser rItE EFFECT or MY TrUNDER!'-The Bank
organ seNutltion, that had errecd ont the Treasury
circular OF Augustus intimation that its threat ~
bring the subject before Congress had caused lis nb
cation and brought its contents first to the public gt
when IN fact the Circular openly sent TO more tb,
nifty different Receivers last August-was published IN
some oil The Western papers with commendation-anJ
what Is more, was the I'd day of October oivcn NJ
iu length IN ihe Globe, under the very eve Of the In
tslligcncer-and did not draw from it word of comoo
uit now suits some Bank organ in Baltimore 10 make
announced assertions to its contens-reminds N.
strongly OF the thunder story of the celebrated Denn;s
= Alter all this-publshed and -publsled-s.\Ve have
ierreted 1t out, say Messrs. Gales X Seaton Tho,
have erreted out what has thus been public all over the
country Tor weeks and months ard commended hghl,,
IN that quarter where tappes. Hc-oc have done the
aeeu-the lntellgcncer modesty To CRY ont
see the effect of my thunder."-D. '