Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1842-11-24

Vyg MA and Formers Balls These
institutions have each handed in TO the
acting Governor report of their cohdi-
ton (inclnding their branches) on the LIST
inst, with a comparative state o. their
condition the year Immediately preced-
ing. 1t appears that, for the year ending
LIST November, lS42, the Virginia Bank
has calie! in of its outstanding debt
$o4S.171 %, and decreased its circula-
ton $3.50, 562, Dabney's debt $685.
ga AZ being CHARGED to profit and loss.
| the profit Expenses ,!educted] ~ lS42
was only s57,915 "a. while in the pteyi-
Gus year it was $526.575 81: and it has
paid its ,leposties to the amount ct $l03.-
OILS. The present debt due the bank is
S4.49l. e77; its specie s862,lS6; stut Ks
S. las; real estate 1857, 1871; its ca
pitai 1854, leo; circulation S2,217,739;
'eposltes $541 ,S2S. The Farmers Bank
has called in of its outstanding debt the
past year 1857 54, and decreased its
circulation $747 600: paid of its depo-
sites $685. CSC. The present debt due
the bank is $4,S72,Oo8; its specie $685.
SIS; stecks $l18.477; State loan $780,
| 0Go: real estate $217.679; its capital
! So, 609,S circulation Sl.959. 902; de-
posites $3.50 .s7a.-Nortolk Herald.
Nh. Dickens Vuyege 10 the United
| States.-The account given by MIR. Die
kens of the state to which his feelings and
faculties were reduced by bis voyage to
our shores, is an adnr ra'.le preface to his
book. It is certainly very much ike the
production of long pretracted travail of
sea- sickness. The poor man according
to his own account) was unable, from his
arrangement, fully to recognisethe most
familiar objects around him. The pilot
the captaa-were a sort of spectral
people to him and all his perceptions
we're rendered monstreus by the night,
mare OF the sea, that overwhelmed his.
senses. This was the preparation under
which the disordered imagination of the
reporter of the polio courts-the delinea-
tor OF the poofhouses and bedlams of
England-viewed the features of this
country. That we find everything the
least disagreeable exaggerated by the lior-
rors of the morbid imaginations Of this
writer of hctions, familiar with the most
depraved, disgusting. and shocking aspect
of society in England, and made painful
ly sensitive by the lons-endured nausea
which attended him to our shores, is not
at all surprising. That he did not see
in every man he met a Sykes, and in eve
ny female .Nance, is more TO be won
dered at.
There is another excuse for the un-
founded disparageme Of our country,
| which Mr.. Dickens has heaped together
with such extravaganza ia his IS Notes for
Circulation" No Enslishman ever vi.
sits our vast continent Of young States,
without bringing with him distressing re-
collections of their past history, anu ap-
prehenslons of their future destiny-ail
bearing upon old England. 'Theiittle is
land of Great Brtain-g great in renown
waning in the triumphs of a young rival
still INDUCES pride of superiority.
which is sadly rebuked by everything
that an Englishman sees in this country.
he sees nation growing in population
so miraculously as almost to countenance
| the oldfable Of men springing from the
teeming earth, perfect aud armed, skill
ed IN all the arts of peace or war. He
sees science, agriculture, commerce, the
mechanic and fine arts everything that
belongs TO the perfection of civilization 60
ing forward with steady and rapid adj
vance. He sees in our popular organlza
ton of government, an element which, in
old times. gave. to the little peninsnlas of
Italy and Greece the mastery of tie world;
and then rushes upon his mind the dam
yer which now threatens the widespread
dominion of England, from the newborn
energy inspired by the free principles of
this Continent lie recollects that, In the
very first encounter. with this Hercules.
in the cradle of our Revolution, the pow
err of Great Britain was humbled in the
dust. He remembers the surrender at
Saratoga, aud the surrender and final
submission at Yorktown. lie remembers
the latest attempt of England to crush the
young giant, when she came out of the
contest with Napoleon, flushed with vic
tories and when her veterans, glorying
in their ngth-their tried and trained
valor- sought new scenes of triumph to
follow up the impulse of Waterloo. The
English tourist Of the United States sees:
these invincibes rode over and supnica-
ting quarter on the Thames name
which brings his home to his heart; and
he sees them before New Orleans, with
the near hinsman sent by Wellington to
lead them again to conquest, numbering
the wh lie plain with their bloody corses.
Even in crossing the sea to our country,
the Enslishman feels his naughty spirit
oppressed with every Jealousy and hate
at the thought of the land he is about to
visit. While he naturally apprapriates