The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-11-16

GERS, who had expected his coming, were all
smiles and afabllity, and cracked therjokes,
and smoked ragalias, and drank their chant
pagne, with an air that but few, except
bankers, can assume.
The commissioner found the entire specie
capital OF the bank in gold, and as he was
what believer in the gold bill of Mr..
Benton, he gloated his eyes considerably ever
the yellow boys. Among the coin wero
some pieces of an old date, and these, from
their antiquity, excited considerable atien,
tion. At bank No. l, all things were found
right--tho coin was there, and the books
showed that the issue ofno,es was but three
dollars to one. ., .
AT bank No. 2, as at No. /, the sspSeci6
capital was also in gold, and, strange as may
appear, the amount lacked but few dollars
of being the same; and what was stranger
still, a number of gold pieces, of similar an
tiqulty, we there found. The commissioner,
anxious to see if the curious coincidence
would hold out, quietly took memorandum
OF the number of pieces, and of their dats.--
AT bais No. 3, the gold pieces were there,
and no where else, and the number and dates
corresponded. The commissioner drew
down his ectacles--chuckled little, I'd
think how The bankers had entraped them
selves, in attempting to outwt him; but he
kept his own counsel; and went on his way.
AT the other banks, making in all some
twenty or thirty, the same quantity of gold
the same number of ancient coins, with
dates corresponding with the memorandum,
were found. and of course the commissioner
had to pass on. Inquiries were always made
as to the next bank 10 be examined, and Mr..
Commissioners Felch, proverbial for polite-
ness, could not refuse to answer. 80
The commissioner was about closing his
inspection of a bank in remote county. and
there remained but one moreto visit Il
was late at night, and he was anxious 10 Get
home. but the las. bank being distant and
the roads bad, he concluded 10 wait un,;I
morning. The Cashier thought this much
the best plan, and volunteered to take him
over in his buggy. In the morning, aboat
the time Tho buggy was brought out, the Com.
missioner stepped into the bank and told The
Cashier, then behind the counter, that he
would like to have peep at "that gold
again. The Cashier colored red. and tbA
Teller and the Directors presen, looked blue
while ihe President of the bank looked as
though no expected Sunday to GENE moro
than one way. They tried to laugh it off as
good joke. The "principes" and the gre.
gasias" were again produced, and a new
champagne bottle was uncorked. The Com
missioner said that he had smoked their nro.
cesdngs, and he wouldn't smoke any tbino
else; and as for champagne, he didn't use
the article, and if he did, he felt too
much real pain at the exhibition of rascality
he had witnessed, to make him want any 9th
er kind The bankers grew indignant--out.
rageously 50. Did Mr.. Felch come there IA
insult them? They would'not put ID with such
base lnsnuations--that they wouldn't:-
President blowed out his cheeks and looked
ferce--the Cashier cooked his hat I'm ,ne
side, and looked fiercer than the President.
1.-The Directors and the Teller, and depend.
ents, looked like little dogs when two biz
ones going TO fight, ten times fiercer than
the combatants. r 37
The commissioner was resolute He had
seen bankers mad before, and he knew that
they were a kind Of dogs that never Injured
body, unless body gotinto their clutches.
he had taken strange fancy to look at Met
gstd again, and look al it he would, or else
ne would stop the machine from grindRS
out more promises. The gold had zone Of
the previous night, and was then in another
bank, and ii could not be shown; and despite
the threats of the President and the Cashier
and the big looks of the lesser fiy of bank.
ers, the concern was closed, and the assets
paid, as usual, nothing on the dollar.
The speed with which the warning torch
81 Roderlck's henchman, traversed clan All.
pine, was scarce circumstance TO the speed
of the bank commissioner as he trayersed the
-oad back again, in search of that LOST gold
tie went,to all the banks he had preyiousl1
but like the flea that the Irisbman
thought ne had got, when his hand was up.
on it, it wasn't there. The vaults Of tba
banks were filled with premises, and " moth.
ing else" The gold was then in the last
bank, waiting to be counted, for the twentl
eth or thirtieth time, by the bank commits.
'ioner, while that functionary was hunting
tor it in the vaults of the banks that never
owned penny oft.
Readers, Gf of the masculine gender,) YOU
have often, when boys, amused yourselves Z
BY setting up bricks on end some inches
part, and then kicking down the first, which
lalis against the second, and upsets its grav. e
ty, and in like rnanneTit it keels over third.
NC. In just the same manner, you might
have seen the Michigan banks tepple and
fall, while the commissioner was in pursuit
OF atgosd. Every one he entered blew up
in short order, and in the course of two or
threa days axerp hank in fhat L. Il. l:~.-.-. -