Piney Woods planter., 1839-12-07

quested tomakc arrangements with tn
institution TO which the mony was due
to obtain an extension Of time. Mean
while three of the directors of the cw
ing bank met and appriatcd the Who'll,
SUN to themselves, giving their notes
payable in terms differing from one tc
| eight years! When the first years in
stalment became due, the notes were
renewed without curtailment, the in.
tercst merely being paid.
We would ask the seekfr after truth
whose lucubrations occasionally appc ar
in the Bee, whether thi. mode of Dor
rowing and repaying would have been
practised sowards small trader o. me-
chanic, whose necessities required a
loan of few hundred or few thou
sands of dollars? We would inquire
also whether it is in this manner that
the banks put their large and small
debtors on the same footing?
ANECDOT1 ,.
A director of one Of the banks Of.
fered a note of director Of another
bank for discount. The amuunt de.
manded was six thousand dollars, and
the note was made payable in twenty
days. When it fell due. it was renew
ed ats months without curtailmcntl
The drawer and borrower was at the
time when this transaction took place,
and is now indebted to different banks
some hundreds Of thousands. This
we presume, is another specimen of
the manner In which small debtors are
ru. on the same footing with large
ones. HODIES s tTtS. S.-Loui2'aaian.
VI reco.-private letters from Mcxi-
CO, state that Santa Anna, although
apparently at his case in the country,
had by no means abandoned his am.
bilious views. He was cndeavoring to
foment disaif- ction, to injurc the popu.
latity OF BustamenLc, to produce ano-
thcr domestic revolution, and hus once
more to ride into power. These let
ters, it is but fair to state. are from in
dividuals avowcdly hostile to the ''hero
OF Tampico." His friends still de-
scribe him as n patriot, as anxious on
ly for the permanent W flare of Mcxi-
co, and they point with triumph to his
address to his countrymcn after the
battle OF Vera Cruz, and when he sup
posed himself on a bed Of death. The
New Orleans Louisianian OF late date,
some letters from Mexico, said
to be from the pen Of distinguished
and unpreiudiced gentleman, which
possess considerable int est. The
writer describes the highways MS great.
y deterioated, the private and public
buildings mouldering in decay, the ar
ricultural and pecnniary resources of
the country rapidly diminishing, the
officers Of the government more venal
than ever, and the number Of robbcr-
les and assassinations rapidly increas-
ing. The deficit in the public treasu
~ this year, is said 10 amount already
% fifteen millions dollars. The pro.
iuct of the customhouses 1T Vera
Fruz and Tampico, is reduced to 10l
Der ccnt-the balance being nortgag
ID 10 old creditors Of the nation. Sew
raj Of the courts have been closed for ,
want Of the necessary funds to pay the /
ldgcs. Many Of the cities are desti.
ute Of the means of lighting up the a
trcets. The police officers arc either !
npaid or are compensated by their
onnivancc with robbers. All schools, Il
is added, are closed. except in few Il
{ the chiettowns. where private found {,
tions afford miserable support to in G
itulions that are called colleges, where f
ley teach the ancient languages with W
ut instruments, chemistry without la ir
oratories, botany without plants, anat-
ny without dead bodies, medicine =.
ithout living cases, and Legislation =
ithout codes. l.