Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-10-19
THE PAPER MILL.

TThe following article, written in Eng |
land thirty years ago, wa copy from the
Vicksburg. Sentinel. The respectable
Banking establishment therein described
of "Messrs. Smoke, Shadow, Air-bubble
Hop.the-twig and Co." will be recognised
all over the country, as very familiar
friends, as they have established branch
es all over the United States, l-IPWI.
Led.
As Mr. Steady aRd Mr. Fox we're pas
sing through the town of Gullgudgeou,
they found an mmonse crowd assembled
in a state OF extreme confusion, exhibit
ing every symptom OF hurry, anxiety, as
constituent, and dismay. They stopped
to inquire the cause of this tumult; and
found it 70 proceed from the explosion of
a Paper Mill; in other words, tho stop
page of the bank Oi Messrs. Smoke, Sha-
dow, Air-bubble, Hop.ths -twig g. Co.
Farmers, pumpkins, artisans, mechanics,
the inkeeper, the lawyer, the doctor and
the parson, soldiers from the adjoining
barracks, and fishermen from the neigh
boring coast, with their shrllIng voiced
wives, rolling in en- mGSSe, like a stormy
wave, around little shop of which the
shutters we're closed, with the word
BANK in golden letters over the door,
and large board on the central shutter
notifying that "Messrs, Smoke, Shadow,
Air-bubble, Hop the.twig &Co. had found
themselves under the disagrceable neces-
sity Of suspending their payments" in
plain English they had found it expedi-
ent to fly by night, leaving all the machin-
cry ofthe mill, aud all the treasures of
their mine, that is 10 say, several reams
Of paper, half dozen account books,
Joint stool, an inksand, a bunch Of quills,
and copper plate, to satisfy the claims
Of tho distracted multitude, who were
shoalng in from all quarters with prom
ises to pay, Of the SAID Smoke, Shadow,
Air-bubble, Hop-the-twig g. Co., To
the amount of one hundred thousand
pounds.
Mt. Fox addressed himself for an ex.
planaton Of the particulars TO plump and
portlp divine, who was standing at a lit
lie distance from the rest Of the crowd
and whose conntenance exhibited mono of
the symptoms Of tho rage, grief and des-
pair wAich were depicted in the physiog-
Monies of his dearly beloved brethren of
the town of Gulgudgeon. "You seem
sir" said Mr.. Fox, 40 bear the general
calamity with Christian resignation" 81
do, sir" said the reverend gentleman,
sand very orthodox reason; ! have none
Of their notes---not |. was obliged to
take them now and then against my will
butI always sent them of to town and got
cash for them directly"
"You mean to say" said Mr.. Steady,
"you got a bank Of England note for
them"
"To be sure" said the divine, "and that
10 the same as cash. There Isl Jacobin
Tascsl in this town, who says it il a bad
sign when the children die before the
parent, and that day of reckoning must
come sooner or later, for the old lady as
we'll as her daughters; but myself and my
brother magistrates have taken measures
for him, and shall soon make The town of
Gulgudgeon too hot TO hold him, as sure
aS my Aame Is Tythes."
"You seriously think" said Mr.. Fox,
"that bis opinion is false"
"Sir," said the reversed gentleman,
somewhat nettled, "I do not know what
right any one con have TO ask man of my
cloth what he seriously thinks, when ali ,
that the world has 10 do with Is what he
seriously says"
"Then you seriously say it, sri" said ,
Mr. Fox.
Fl do, sir" said the diviuss'apd for this
very orthodox reason, that the system Of
paper moneyis inseparably inierwoven
with the present order Of things, and
the present order Of things have made
up my mind 10 stick by precisely as lone
aSit lasts.n
aAnd no lOngeri" said Mr.. Fox.
q ammo foil, sir," said the divine.
HBut, sir" said Mr.. Fox, "as you seem
TO have perceived the instability Of what
was called (like lacus non luceRdO, )the
firm Of Smoke, Shadow, Air-bubble, I4cp1
the-twig & Co, why did you not
warn your foeklOf the impending dan.