Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-10-29
BLOOMINGTON, IOWA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 49, 1s4l.

CORN. highly respectable lawyer. and for
ner representative Of Warren county, inform.
ne that there is safficiency Of water in thi
iyer to float the largest class Of STEAMBOATS,
L is in This river where those fish without eye.
lave been found. II was the opinion of Pro.
essor Davidson, Of Pennsylvania University,
(who wrote pamphlet respecting the cave. }
that those fish had eyes, and were blinded BY
light; in other words, that the apparent want
Of eyes arose from the sudden contraction Of
that organ occasioned BY the stimulous oflight.
This is not the case; Professor of the Lou
isvlle Institute anatomical the head Of this fish
aud says there is no indication Of there being
| soch an organ. The lake Of the cave has new
er been explored some have attempted it, but
| they have become alarmed and abandoned The
va,,,,...d "a .her on it than any other person.
| He passed, while on it, am told, the mouths
Of four rivers or caves filled with water. Ii is
Of great depth, and it is supposed Of great
| width. This, however, ! conceive doubtful,
as cannot conceive Of the existence OF an arc
of sufficient expansion to admit Of lake Of
great dimensions. In descending the river to
the lake, the mouths Of great many caves
were seen, all Of which are to be explored"
Grin these days Of political excitement there
are hundreds-may we not say thousands who
turn deaf ear to the plain and substanated truths
pu. forth by the opposite party in exposition Of their
men and measures affecting to believe the statements
to be iabcations, concocted for political effect In
proof of this we need only refer to the history of
parties few months back When, on the death Of
Gen. Harrison, Mr.. Tyler took the Office upon him
self, the Democratic papers made copious extracts
from letters speeches, &c. embodyins the sentiments
of Mr.. Tyler on the subject Of National Bank
which showed him to be opposed to one because be
conceived that the Constitution granted Congress no
such power. These extracts were extensively CO.
Pied and frequently referred to. The friends Of the
administration, up to the passage Of the Grst bank
bill, appeared to he full Of confidence in the Pres
dent, and until their friends at Washington began
to exhibit signs Of despair, they thought, as mat
Ter Of course, he would sign the bill with pleasure
When therefore, his veto message was received, he
was branded as a 1raitor,' a crime which thieves
and robbers are seldom guilty a. Had the organs
of their party and the friends of the measure given
a warning that he was opposed to one, they would
have believed it, and their minds prepared for the re-
ception of his veto. As they are thus increduous
as to what their opponents say, and listen TO their
political friends VIC COPY the follewino article rom
a'ew oIk Journal Ut Commerce. paper ~hici
has uniformly supported the wing cause. The tale
it tells is melancholy one but DER true. Read it,
honest whigs and if il does not shake your faith
in banking institutions We have no better prccc-
dent than it gives US.
THE UNITED ST.7TES RANK.
Mos, lamen,abIe is the catastrophe Of this
once great and powerful intuition. And yet
we are glad that the end which has so long
been certain, has come. and that the struggle
is over We have had a hard battle with the
Bank, and now that the truth is out and known
TO the public, we think no one will say that
we have ever brought any charges against it
which have not proved to be true, nor prophe-
ced evil against it which has not como to pass.
Ia fact, the management Of the Bank has been
mach worse and more wicked than we ever
represented, and its ruin is moro dreadful than
we ever predicted. Of this We have been we'll
satisfied ,lnroughout; for we have always been
careful, in bringing out facts which We know
would be received with great incredibly, TO
keep ourselves within safe limits. As TO the
end, we have said for year past that the in
sti,uton was bankrupt-broke. The price OF
the bills in the street is proof that the opinion
is now universal.
What a subject for contemplation is this
Bank! How powerful in it, integrity-how
weak in its wickedness! While i, was con-
Quoted with ,olerabIe propriety, its credit was
undonb,ed, its word uuquestioned, its power
undisputed. and its usefulness generally adj
United. But when it departed from i,s mer-
camille sphere, it fell from ali that was wor-
thy. There has been, within the ten last years
of the Bank, an amount Of iniquty which
ought 10 consign it to the lowest iufamy. lis
character at last became 90 bad, that It was a.
mos, ruin 10 the reputation Of any man to De
in any way connected with il. How much has
it diminished the mercantile responsibility OF
the place where j, was located How few
men are there in that city who have not been
drawn in by ils influence 10 advocate, II not
endorse its w.ckedness! What stain has It
inflicted, in truth, upon the mercantile charac-
Ter Of our whole nation! What dishonor has
it brought upon our statesmen and our press
We are all humbled by it.
The pecuniary losses sustained by the down.
fall Of the Bank, counting from its price hve
years ago, cannot be less than fifty millions Of
dollars. 1t has swallowed up i've hundred
fortunes of a hundred thousand dollars each,
or five thousand Of ten thousand dollars each.
The su ffering caused by this, is silent, bst not
less deep. II is sad t. contemplate the res
pectable females, who were provided with