Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-02-24

two desks at the nearest the wall, sits the
clerk, coarse, homey looking man, who says no.
thing at the desk, sits the cashier he is
small Insignificant, dirty looking man. badly dress
ed with dirty shirt, and his hair uncombed, and
takes six-penny cut of beef every day, al Sweenys;
he does all the talking and, if he would not be ac-
cessory to cheating the community his looks most
shamefully belle him. He, evidently tremblcs every
time the door opens fearing the application of cow
hide for refusal to pay specie. Ask him when the
bank will pay their post notes, he will tell you the
week after next, or some other time"
Whether in this he lies or not remains to be SEEN
but he is very moral swcars, and pays for his
sixpenny dinner in specie. In this bank, as in all
the Others we saw trace Of money, but all looked
dreary and dull and not unlike den where the devil
might occasionally do business. The president of
this bank was -four dealer, and his check fer $35
applied for dozen times, and never paid after
ALL The cashier was his -four clerk. The poor
devil of carpenter who fitted up the banking room,
was paid in post notes, believing them to be good
money; and when he asked them to change them
for good bills at large discount they refused and
laughed at him.
Such are some Of the beauties of free banking,
and we the public all over the country, to be
on their guard against the allurng tricks of these
beauties. They may all be very honest and moral
men, but their conduct is so suspicious that we
cannot place any confidence in them. Our duty to
the public requires that we should paint these por-
traitsat full length, AID shall do The only
man of wealth amongst them, that we know Of, is Mr.
Schermerhorn, and he is aman of property, as the
following will show -
He IL 600 Of land IN Monroel sa.o ooo M
Mills, houses use pa and other property, in.
GLIDING shares in churches, for aughtwe 10000 90
KNOW
S5oOOos 90
r siS1' Eu uue ue No''" american 10000
$3.50 900 90
He is therefore just such a as the free
booting, free banking fellows like to get hold
of and if he does not mind, they will strip him
of every dollar of his property before they leave
him. And the example of like him, in issuing
post notes, is most perncious; ten scoundrels will
connect themselves with an honest man, and his
reputation will be capital sufficient to enable them
to ruin half the country. The public, therefore,
have deep interest in all he does in the way of free
banking and manufacturing money. How far he de-
the character of Spectator leave the public
to Judge. He was president of the Monroe
Bank, we believe and at the time president of
the Georgia Lumber Company this firm owned
100000 of land in Georgia. had banking house
f0rtlanu, Ntainc, got saw
ed lumber built steamboats,, did saving, and grind
ing, and seamng, and the devil knows what besides,
valued themselves at million, ten millions,
100 900 600 for aught know but when their bills
put out in the wester npar of the state,
could get dinner with bushel of them, and so they
were ground up or used up or redeemed in deal
boards or in some way or other. Finally the Geor-
gia Lumber Company bought or borrowed the name
pnd fame of the Western Bank of New York; and
this and the Lumber Company, and Rochester, and
Portland, and Maine, and Georgia. and New York and
the North River Company, and the dust and
lumber, ,nd the post notes. and the steam boats, and
the beef and four and pork, and things the earth
and things under the earth, and hopes of here and
hopes of hereafter, all mixed up in what appears
TO us admired disorder" As Hamlet said to his
fathers ghost there may be no speculation in the
eyes Of any of them, but it certainly more
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