The Arkansas banner., 1843-09-23

Slit Ol llt IcoI'lC dt ldlSC dliu Pdi tCula1E rs to speak of his opposition to Western mea, sures, and his heartless denunciations against I, the honest and hardy pre-emptioners on the { public lands. A
 COL. NOLAND, AND HIS CARD. af
 MR. EDIroR-On rising, on yesterday, from IIo sick bed, where had been confined, for week, bH an attack of bilious fever, was honored by peru o sal of the continuation of the Batesvile News; hH which found myself pompously carded, by &Ie Jockey of Batesville. This sensitive individual s publishing his grievances, has stated several pos tive falsehoods, concerning his $ cardee," which "a propose, in the first place, to notice.
 The first is, that I was allowed, by the bank, Al, selling the bonds of the bank, the sum of fre hop saad dollars. According to the report of the ba 2 committee, and according to the fact too, that d. S lowance was tlno Thousand doLiars, and no more z
 The second is, that I received this compensatmk ( while was receiving. besides mileage, eight dolln
 per day. for negIectiag Me peoples business Thh services performed for the bank, (and for whd !! compensation was aowed) were performed in s E recess of Congress, qticr the close of the summg session of 1885, and before the next meeting of ta
 body, in December following. In company viii Mr Bertrand, and others, 1 went to New York; Oi \ my mission, carly in the month of July. 1858; and it was in the month of November, following, befop had completed my trust, and reached home. Thea were the four or five months services, for the bank alluded to by me, and for which compensation, for services and for disbursements made, was allowed by the bank. During these months, there vas no sitting of Congress. was at my post, in Washing ton, not negleciiag but attending 10 He business o
 my constituents. until Congress adjourned. It k true that before going to New York in July lS3s mad been carrying on an extensive corresponden~,
 in the different cities of the east upon the subiecdY our stock, but neglected no public duty, and lost " role, by such correspondence.
 The third is, that I labored hard, at BatesVie, b' show that the compensation. allowed me by th' bank, was a sspoor allowance" have never, oI any occasion, performed such labor. On the con trary. in one of my earlier communications, upo the subject of the H6el admitted, distinctly, thai the allowance made me by the bank, was a HbcrG one And in my last address, published in hd Times and Advocate, l stated that 1 was Satigfcl with the allowance referred to,
 The fourth and last falsehood which deem o1 sufficient importance to notice, is contained in th last three lines of the card, viz ''ttat but nine hun
 ded doilorS eere paid ooer 10 the ban by tEe attor aeys of He 5aahc." made no such statement, ani protest against the idol of the BatesyIe unto putt ting words into my mouth, that he may have tb pleasure of marking them with his displeasure- What did say, in substance, was, that the bank all toneys had collected for the bank, the sum of nin hundred dollars, and had retained the whole of it. l part pay of fees due them, and were now suing th| bank, for the balance of their claim amounting hI upwards of four thousand dollars; and the beauty the joke was, they were demanding specie for a'-I that here, we had a practical commentary upon thai text, which holds that no specie should be taken b bank officers or agents, from the banll because the specie IS her cqptal and also an illustration of th
 text, which holds it to be sinful to get dollar, due from bank, without the intervention of board directors.
 The above were the substance of my remarks Col Noland admits the pendency of his suit agains the Bank at Baiesville for t+- sum of four thousand seven hundred dollars for specie due him for fees and the above sum, he states, has been admitted the Directors of the Bank to be due to him and hfs partner, under a contract, which, as he states, al { lowed them per cent upon all sums placed in then hands for collection Placed n their hands for col lection! 5per cent. upon all sums placed in then hands for collections would have yielded the lawyen the sum of S4,700, they must have had placed their hands for collection, by the Bank at Batesyll the sum of about $9i0O0-a large amount, truly And of this large amount, how much did those law yers coect' As the gentleman has gone into ' voluntarily, the public, no doubt will be gratifiedN know little more about it. How many suits da they bring on those claims' The dockets of the courts will show and I hope he will furnish us list of those suits and further what portion of 'hr large amount, for which they have charged live Pel cent, is yet uncoieeted' and what portion oi It ms been returned to the Bank or turned over to thei successor, to colect' And lastly, the public "oup be glad to know how it happens that this iafs' amount for fees has been SO long deferred in ee5 liqudated? Is it t9at these Bank attorneys wer indebted to the Bank, and still owe the Bank, gnu are now trying to collect specie of the Bank, ll' with that specie they may buy up Arkansas paP' at discount, and pay off that debt, and make aiu, ther profit on the sums placed in their hands for COT lection? Will the Colonel answer these interTo5e tories, will he say it is no business of mine, ma, much as the Directory have settled his accounts WIZ him and his partner' Whatever others might do, should not nterpose such shield to an nvestlsauu' Williamson and settled our Bank matters to U" 2 satisfaction of the Bank Directory, four or five ye% ago; but that settlement has been no shield ior ' against the gentleman, or his idolizcd leglslau bank committee. Thcre Is beauty in eonslstea', which, did I not suppose from his history t N0"