Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1839-04-13


for Congress. we understand made his first election
eering speech before the people at the Court House
I m this place on Tuesday last. We have been told
/ thatthe burden ofhs song was, National Bank
and public defalcations With all due respect To Mr.
DAVIS we must be permitted to say that he IS great
/ " mistaken, ifhe calculates upon riding into Con-
/ gresg upon two such hobbies.-They viii inlallbly
break down before he gets half over the course
/ The people understand the subject too well.
! CAUSES or Our PEcuSIARY DIsrREss.--The last
/ Argus in an article headed "The VicksbuIg Sent-
mel" assigns four causes as the secret of the difficult
/ ties we labor under in consequence of the banks
The two last causes we fully concur in-they are as
| olows
"The madness of the State Legislatures in gran
ting every charter for hank applied for, and
"Ihe culpabIe recklessness in our Legislature in
loosely framing charters, by which the government
of a Bank can do almost any thing not inconsistent
with the laws or constitution OF the State"
We are happy to agree with our neighbor on
these two heads. If honest in the expression of
these opinions, and cannot doubt that he s he is
bound to unite with us in the support of Gov. Nc
Mutt, who is pledged 10 bank reform and to use ev-
cry means which he constitutoualy can 10 check
the madness" of the Legislature in granting, and
their reckIessness" in loosely framing charters.
The first cause assigned may be partly true, but
the second is utterly destitute of even the shadow
OF foundation 80 far from being true, it is even
the reverse Of truth, because
lst The United States Bank did not prevent the
commission of excuses by the State Banks. 1t
rather stimulated them to excessive issues In 1885
the Bank, but a few months before the expiration of
its charter, increased its circulation within very
short space, some fourteen millions. This unprece-
dented expansion gave the first impulse TO the spr-
it Of speculation and over trading in 1885 and 36,
which has been the ruin Of thousands, and indeed
is the primary cause of all our present cmbarass-
ments.
and. Pecuniary difficulties occurred in every Sec
ton of our country, during the existence of Ma
tional Bank, as aggravated and ruinous in their
character as those which at present alct the people
OF Mississippi. These The Bank had no little hand
in creating, but it was powerless tic relieve them
And because
Sd. Trade is as brisk and there is as little pecuni-
airy embarrassment in many parts OF our country
now as there was during the period of the existence
of National Bank.
THE Bowie KNIFE-We noticed in our last. that
Messrs Need & Smith had issued proposals for pub
l'shlng paper under the above name, al Grenada
MI We have just received the first number, II is
got up in very creditabe manner, and for the
spirit and piquancy of its editorials, can well com
pare with any of its contemporaries in the south
wesi-that nimitabIe repository of wit and humor
the New Orleans Picuyune, not even excepted
The Bowie Knife is intended as an interesting ms
cellany--" to mark the manners Of The age, and Gu
at folly as il flies" II eschews politics alt wi
brandsh its bIade," say the editors in their prospec
tus, "not to cut, slash and tomahawk political re
putation; nor to flesh its maiden sword in N
besoms of the just and the generous; not TO ASA
the wise and The good, nor 10 modest the honest an
upright man in the peaceabe pursuits Of active life
on the contrary, far from assuming any other tina
an orderly, quiet, and law-oving demeanor, il wi
strike its blows where the public good requires, an
then only to advance the greatest good of III
: greatest number" Such is the design and char
ter of the Bowie knife, and if the editors come u
6 their promises, as the first number gives us 200
earnest that they will, it must needs be usefi
; weapon, and welded for the public good alone
We hope it will meet with liberal patronage
Copies Of this valuable publication may be seen q
the office of the Democrat where subscriptior
will be received.
i PHRENoLoGY.-W learn that Doct. Estes wi
deliver series of Lectures on this interesting SC
ence in the course Of the spring, at The Mississippi
E Female College lie has made the subject bis stud,
} and is one Of its most enthusiastic votaries.
Gj- We publish in another column, an interest
ing description of some ancient mounds, recent
examined by Or SPnLMAN, in Alabama. The a
tic'e is worthy the attention of all lovers of ant
1 guilty. The Doctor has few specimens in his mt
D scum from some of the most celebrated mounds an
/ caves in the United States.
, We shall endeavor to publish description Of II
Powell Cave, with drawings, in few weeks. It
named after the celebrated American Phrenoloeis
upon whose lands it is situated, near Tusculnba.
e The CIRcUIr CouRr commenced on Monda
r last, Judge Bennett presiding. There was ov,
1900 cases on the civil docket and near fifty on Il
criminal docket The Judge has been untiring
his exeriions TO dispose Of the business on hand.
ATTACHMENT NoTIoEs.-We have lost 50 mur
by publishing attachment notices, that we have CON
' 10 the conclusion TO publish no more unless som
. person viii become responsible for our ees.-.9rrI
We have come 10 the same conclusion Democro
0 The COMMERCIAL BANK has been remove
/ to the building formerly occupied by the Pc
+ Office,