Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-03-17

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possession was four FOUNDER!
The Monroe Times classes the Mau-
NEE Express with the Columbus States
man and Painesville Republican, In CIV
ing encouragement to the Canadian Reb-
els.
Oh no; Mr.. Times: you are mista-
ken-very much. Ever since the ras-
Gals got SO terribly whipped at Fighting
Island, we have had no sympathy for
them. On the contrary, we have felt
ourselves exceedingly strengthened in
our feelings Of respect for existing gov
ernments, by that event.
A Coon OWLS this the Bank, sir
the Shi-wishy-washy?
Exactly, sir, this is the Bank. Walk
in, gentlemen.
The strangers entered. 1t was the
low second story Of a one. and-a-half sto-
ry wooden house. A large wooden chest
stood in the centre of the dreary apart
ment, which served the multifarious du-
ties of-frst, the uauAS of the Monster,
where, deeply incarcerated under lock
and key, was kept the metallic basis OF
the said monetary institution--second,
the counter, where all the various and
extensive concerns of the said institution
are carried on; where the bills, neatly
done, by first rate native artist, on a
cedar shingle, are first issued forth to an
admiring world, and again redeemed
third seat by day, and couch by night,
for the Cashier; he who presides like a
Griffin over the hidden treasures OF that
mysterious wooden chest, and Saturn
like, holds the destinies of that wonder
ful concernupon his brawny shoulders.
1t will be recollected, that the time had
arrived when, according to the laws Of
the Wild Cat country, the Bank Com
missioner was supposed to be making
his periodical round, TO examine into the
concerns of the Monsters throughout
the State and that, if there was man
in the world Of whom the Cashier ofour
Dooden chest Bank stood in mortal fear,
it was this same Bank Commissioner. 1t
is not to be wondered at, then, that when
the officer of the Bank saw the approach
of the aforesaid gentlemen, who, by the
way, were couple of New York mer-
chants, with about twelve hundred dol
lars of the said Cedar shingle bills, his
Imagination coDjured up direful figures
Of stern public functIonaries, who had
come 10 rummage his ,cooden safe,
ransack his cash account, and put his
memory under the torturing pressure of
a corporal oath, for the security Of the
public, and the satisfaction of the wood
cut bill-holders.
1t is not to be wondered at, that with
CLASSY eye, and dropping neither jaw, he
bade the gentlemen enter, while his limbs
trembled, and his words ratified in his
throat, his mind all the while on the rack
with pictures of sunken credit, newspa-
per paragraphs, the loss ofwooden chest,
ana worse than all, the loss Of Office
private property pledged and gone, bills
in Chancery, and cedar shingles blown
sky-high.
"We are not ready to make our Re-
port, gentemenp gasped the Cashier.
"Oh! ah Hard times, eh?" said the
New Workers, taking the hint: swell,
never mind--be pretty easy-new in
s,itution--growing country-want lit
tie accommodation ourselves" said the
spokesman, placing the thumb Of his
right hand against the side Of his nose,
and waving the fingers gracefully in the
circumambient atmosphere. You I'M
derstand, eh Z"
Thecountenance Of the Cashier brigh-
tened up, and he gave the imitation com
missioner a knowing wink out Of the cor
ner Of his left eye.
.AhI you getmy meaning. Well,
make Out your o,cn Report--you know