The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-11-01
BEAUTIES OF BANKING-swiNpLfNd
~. OF THE LABORER T


oosers by theiI failure. The reason why this 10
so, is obvious. Banks are created for the conye.
nience of men in large business, spectators, bank.
eIs, &c. Handling in the course OF 3 month,
great many notes--receiving and paying them out
in the course Of their business they are careful TO
watch the institution and upon the first sight OF
alarm TO pass them off. Passing rapidly from hand
to hand, they soon find lodgment in the hands of
farmers, mechanics aud aborers of small means,
who unconscious Of the danger are caught with
the broken trash, not unfrequently their all, upon
| their hands. Forced by their necessities to take
but few cents upon the dollar for these promises
! they are bought up by the agents of the bank, who
thus redeem their cmculaton if they wish again to
engage IN the business OF banking and in wear
or two, are ready again 10 issue their promises TO
pay. 1T they do not wish Immediately TO re.engage
in the business, their notes are not bought UP, but
remain as waste paper upon the hands of the hol.
der at the time of the burst up. II is for reasons
such as these, that the democracy advocate the abb
clifton of small bills, holding as they do, that the
vacuum will be filled with gold and silver With
the circulation of bank composed exclusively OF
large bills, lis failure would not bring that distress
upon the community which is now seen and felt at
bank explosions. Then the notes being large,
would necessarily be in the hands Of men oflarger
means-they for whose benefit banks were created,
and the loss to such men of Ss25 or $50 would not
be so great as the loss of one two dollars TO the
poor laborer who relied upon them alone to buy
provisions for his family, y,-DetrOt Free Press.
| THE DRowN1NG OF Two HUNDRED SoLpI-
ERs.--The Nouvellste of Marseilles gives the fol-
lowing particulars of the frightful accident which
happened in Italy, by the giving way of bridge
ga letter from Venice, dated the 4th ofSeptem-
Der informs US that dreadful event had taken
place on the proceeding day, between Beluno and
Felire. Two hundred Italian soldiers were exc
cutting some maneevres at that point, under the
command OF an Austrian officer, who without any
plausible motive, was obstinate in wishing them
TO cross bridge, which menaced to fall with the
slightest shock, and of which the local authorizes,
with praiseworthy caution, had for some time for.
bidden the passage.
ltwas in vain that several OF the soldiers repre-.
sented to their officer the danger there would be
in marching over the bridge; the Austrian captain
reiterated his orders, which the unhappy men had
the folly to obey. They marched on to the bridge,
and the expected catastrophe immediately took
place. The bridge totered, cracked, and fell into
the stream, and the whole of the two hundred SOL
diers perished in the deep and rapid river across
which the bridge had been erected The officer
who was marching at the head, had prudently taken
some steps in advance, and succeeded in reaching
the opposite bank in safety. ,n H5a
THE DEATH LAMA person writing from
France mentions the following curious scene.
which presented itself on his first visit to the vaults
of the church of St. Denis in which the French
Kings are entombed:
"But the most singular of all other things is
lamp, which is kept burning the coffin Of Louis
XVIII, and which, il is said, is to be continued
burning until Louis Philippe dies; he being the
next king, on the throne, to whom the lamp will
pass, until his successor dies. Napoleon did not
die ON the throne, neither did Charles X, conss.
auently Louis XVIII has not been buried. neither
has the lamp ever been allowed to go out It looks
dreary and dark as midght IN the vault, and in
voluntarily shuddered as looked through the iron
grating into the chamber of death, and viewed the
dark pail upon the tomb. The light of the lamp
was more like star Pickering through dark
cloud. 1t was indeed the chamber of death. !"
The recent Improvement in the manufacture OF
salt. discovered at Syracuse is attracting much at
tenton among scientific men, well as others
The process is simple that all wonder why it has
not been thought OF before. AS it may lead to
other useful applications of the principle, and 40