Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-06-15

wortb-uot one cent for the last five
In looking over the Weekly Vicks-
h,rc Sentinel of June 4th, we have read
with no little amusement, the editorials
Of that number.
The suferings of the editor, or his
sympathies for the community, who have
been cheated and defrauded by portion
of the banks of the State, that would
have disgraced any country or civilized
community, seem 10 have jostled his rea-
son. and invested him with a kind OF
prating mona mania of all banks.
DR.. Hagan cuts and slashes at the
banks with as much fury as Characters
ed the efforts of Don Quixote, when the
Don was up to his knees in the wine OF
his host, imagining that he was staying
giants, and wading in heir blood. Though
we have used this as an illustration, It Is
not perfect, in this, that the Don's cutting
and slashing was the cause ofconsiderable
loss to his host, in the way Of wine,
while the Doctors may be considered OF
some benefit to the people.
About seven eighths of the editorial
of the number of the Doctors paper be
fore US, is taken up with his denuncIa-
tions of the banks, and to show his trane
of thought, we have selected the follow
ing scraps, cut at random from its col
umns.
UNION BANK Posi- NoTEs.-Last win
ter, when this fayorite scheme of the
spectators to get relief was first start
ed, we predicted that these shin plasters
would be at a discount of 1 5 10 90 per
cent, and all can recollect the abuse
heaped on US by the wing press and the
clamorers for relief. They confidently
asserted, on the dictum of "pious Harry"
that capitalists would make investments
in them at par.
This is the evidence of Gov Runnel's
financial capacity Had the bank issued
six millions of her shin-plasters, they
would not have been worth sixty cents IN
the dollar
Some of the members of the last le-
gisIature have obtained seyenty-fve
thousand dollars from that bank. Loans
of from ten thousand to one hundred
thousand will be made freely, to enable
the present corrupt dynasty to rule and
ruin the country by means of the Union
Bank; and when the desperate gambler
gets his pockets well lined and flies to
Texas, what cares he for the impreca-
tons Of a betrayed and outraged people?
We very much fear there IS no RENE
dy for the monstrous evils which now
affiict the State but revolution-but vio-
lence and the blood of her plunderers-
Mr.. Biddle will lose 90 per cent. on
the Bonds. Besides, he runs a fair
chance of losing all that he lent 10 our
banks. He has still a large portion of
the Union Bank bonds on hand, and if he
keeps them until he gets par for them,
we think they will get mouldy.
A NEW MODE OF PAPERING A HOUSE
An old gentleman in the interior, who
had been induced to mortgage his pro-
perty to the Union Bank, was asked BY
a friend what induced a man in his easy
to do so simple an act
Why, says the old planter, | am building
a large new house, and | intend to have
it papered with Union Bank shin-plas-
-ers. He might paper his house much |
cheaper with Brandon red backs, almost |
as good as new.
We have received post notes of the /
Commercial Bank of Natchez, and ina
yined that we had real specie paying pa
per, but when we went to pay II away, a /
more careful examination proved It to /
be of the ''twelve months after" species. /
The Philadelphia North American
says the New York free bankers are run
ping up the price of real estate, with
heir shinplasters, in the city of broth
erly love. Let them go ahead.
The assassin and the bravo, black and /
Tanned as they are, will stand as angels +
IF light when compared with the sly /
md smooth-sPoken thief, who stands at
| bank desk with pen behind his ear,
md robs thousands of the fruits of their
abor. In connection with these infa-
nous swindIers, we not unfrequently /
ind the ermine ofiustice, the sheriff who
has sworn to execute the laws, and other
public functionaries, united in one COM
non plumber.
We have understood that one of our
banks has bought four humid
ed tons of ice, and intends retailing it
1t five cents a pound. We're it not for
he gallon law, they would make a pun
,heon of sugar and otard, and 60 into
he ''doggery" business on an extensive
'cale. Last year they tried the pork and
1our business.
The COMMERCIAL AND Rail Roam BANK
IF VICKSBURG.-We saw notice in the
,apers some time ago, stating that Reu-
zen VI. Whitney, was about to be sent on
~ the Northern stockholders 10 preside
'ver this institution.
We have reason to believe, however,
hat it was no joke, and that such move
S actually in contemplation. Nay, It
vas reported last evening that he had
rived in town and put up at Childres's
Iotel.