The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1847-11-05

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brought out, the Commissioner stepped
into the bank and told the Cashier, then
behind the counter, that he would like TO
have peep at uhat gold again. The
Cashier colored red, and the Teller and
the Directors present looked blue. while
the President Of the bank looked as though
he expected Sunday to come more than
one way. They tried to laugh it off as
good joke. The 'principes' and the 'rega-
lias' were again produced, and new
champagne bottle was uncorked. The
Commissioner said that he had smoked
theirprace edings, and he wouldn't smoke
any thing else; and as for champagne, he
didn'l use the article, and if he did, he
felt too much real pain at the exhibition
Of rascsiliy he had witnessed, TO make him
want any other kind. The bankers grew
indigeant--on,rageoasly so. Did Mr.,
Felch come there to insult them! They
would not put up with such base insinua-
tions-that they wouljn 't:--and the Presi.
blow ed out his cheeks and looked ferce--
the Cashier cooked his hat on one side,
and looked fercer than the Presid ent -
the Directors and the Teller, and depen.
dents, looked like little dogs when two
big ones are going to fight, ten times fer
Ger than the combatants.
The commissioner was resolute. lie
had seen bankers mad before, and he knew
r that they were kind OF dogs that never
Injured body, unless body got into
, their clutches. lie had taken a strange
fancy to look a, that gold again, and look
at il he would, or else he would stop the
machine from grinding out more promises.
The gold had gone off the previous night,
and as then in mother bank, and il could
not be showp; and despite the threats of
the President and the Cashier, and the big
looks of the lesser fry of bankers, the con.
cern was closed, and the assets paid, as
a., usual, not ms on the dollar.
I. The speed with which the warning
d, torch OR derick's henchman, traversed
clan lpIne, vas scarce a circumstance
to the speed of The bank commissioner, as
he traversed the road back again, iu
4 search of that lost gold lie went to al
a. the banks he had previously examined
10 but like flea that the lrshman thought
he had got, " hen his hand vas upon it il
WASH there. The vaults Of the bank.
were filled with promises, and nothing
else The gold was then IN the las,
q bank, waiting TO be counted, for the
twentieth or thirteth time, by the bank
=, commissioner, while that funotionary as
hunting for it in the vaults Of banks tha
q never owned penny oft.
:. Readers, If OF the masculine gender, )
you have often, when boys, amused your
selves by setting up br cks on end some
Il inches apart, and then kicking down the
4 first, which falls against the second, and
upsets its gravity, and in like manner II
q keels over third, &c. ln just the same
p manner, you might have seen the Mlchi-
gan banks iopple and fall. while he com'
missioner was in pursuit of that gold
! Every one he entered blew up in hort Or
4, der, and in the course Of two or three
!, days, every bank ii that bank district
was numbered among lhe'things that used
). 10 tcas The gold, however, was found
-, AT iasl. In The first bank examined, there
II IT was, safe and sound. Word was con-
veted 10 the iast bahk Of the trick play ed
q off By The bank commits ssioner, anl an ex.
:. press was sent of with the gold, which AR
a rived at the bank 10 Detroit, some fifteen
IS ,hat bank saved its life for a lew days
c longer
Fierce and bitter were the threats let
e off agains, Mr.. Commissioner Felct, for
II playing bankers so scurvy and ungentle.
" manly trick, and there is no doubt that
s the bank ers would have redeemed these
sri promises, had not the object of their hate
e been soon after transferred TO the supreme
i. bench Of the State, where he aided il
f, pronouncing the whole law an infringe
: ment OF the constitution, and therefore
}. null and void. While yet on the bench
e he was nominated for Governor, and be
, fore his time W as out, was elected by an
II overwhelming majority 10 the Unitet
/, States Senate.
/, 1t was the race after that gold, and The
g decision of the Supreme Court against til,
is law, which gave the finishing touch e
II Michigan banking, and preVented hei
T, 6nanciers from placing the John Laws
!. | Nicholas Biddies, and the whole tribe ol
). Mississippi bankers in the shade. She
entered the race for immortal fame Id
: banking, and lost it by accident. y
A man has started paper in the State
of Maine, TO be issued occasionally"
which is a great deal oftener, the editor
says, than be will be able TO get his pay
far