Indiana State sentinel., 1849-11-08
A new Fiscal Agcncy---Vail Street and
BuncOube in the field.

new Fiscal Agency---yau Street and
BuncOnbe i'm the field.
Who does not recollect The glorious times of the
old United States Bank, when Wall street was but
s,ipindary of Nick Bddle and iobbers editors cur
rency. commerce. aud the elections, ruled and
directed by this m nsierl Who does not remember
the fierce, savage aud protruced war which IL made
against Old Hickory and the people, and the unver-
sal panic, ruin and distress which followed ills igno-
mnious defeat! What became then of the pension
ers! They crept into holes and corners-they denied
their master bunilv ST. Peter, and admitted that
bank ''ohsnleie idea," and a nuisance. But
with the election of Harrison, the leeches of the old
bank were on the ground-he dried skeleton of the
monster was galvanized, and wanted but the scrapc
of pen return its full vigor. But they could
mot head Captain Tyler and bank, whigs pension
ers. aid hucksters, all fell together.
This time the monster was believed 10 be dead and
damned. soul and body, forever and ever. And so Il
is But as half loaf Is better than bread sub
stuie has heen proposed. Wall lstreet and BuncDmbe
in The field. The Hon. Thomas l.. Clingman of
North Carolina, in letter first published in puper
without circulation. proposes "scheme of a
national currency" Reduced to its simplest form,
he proposes 10 establish free system of banking
throughout the United States, the faith of the pub
lie stocks. Mr.. Clingman is from the Buncombe dis
trct, famous for rocks Of the secondary formation
its mineral springs, pine shingles and buckwheat
cakes. Having secured his reelection to the House,
and having the leisure OF this upon his hands,
Mr.. Clngman, emerging from the woods of Bun
combe, has been for some months engaged in the in
spection of factories of cotton and politics in the
North. He has been initiated into the mysteries of
the Albany iunio-lhe secrets of the money changers
the science of stock-jobbing-and Buncombe is in
the field. Mr. Draper. chief of the forlorn hope in
behalf of COL Webb at Washington. has found his
man; and the topic of conversation over bottle of
wine has become great national measure. Every
body is wondering that the wiseacresOf Congress did
not think of il before. But the scheme of Mr.. Cling
looks suspicious II has the sulphurous odor of
Wall street all it, The hDofs of the old monster
stick out, though his tail is coled up his breeches
FeastiDg. feiing and lionizing juicy dinner at the
AsiOr House, and the tour of public institutions
in an Aldtrman's carriage to the Peniteniary, are
hard to be resisted. though all for BuDcombe.
There is something of plot at the bottom. The
pensioners of the old bank who after betraying and
numbering their master and benefactor, have pined
away to skin and bone, cannot stand it any lnnger.
Twelve years fast is long enough. 1t was the aher
of our present Secretary Of the Treasury, who was
President of the Schnylkill Bank when broke down;
ii MIR. Merediths collector at Philadephia who
broke up with the Girard concern this last ap-
poiutment and others like it, that contributed to the
late whig defeat in that city. But still this does not
prevent the conspiracy. We may expect all these
men, and all those who fattened the old Bank--al
who bought sold, whether for fve ten or
twenty thousand or for $50. .765 37s-io go for the
scheme. Mr.. Cliugman only lifts the curtain
The scene-shifers are behind The Treasury is an
old cow, whose milk is too rick to be lost. The
scheme of Mr.. Clngman is but the first movement
Pass it, and a bank comes next in order. Somehow
other the stockiobbing brotherhood must get into
the Treasury. Let US have, then, the bill of Bun
combe. Then the purlieus of Wall street will become
the valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin; the
very sidewalks will be richer in gold than the mines
of the desert; bank paper will increase by millions;
everything will go up. up until the explosion. when
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INDIAN CvRN GROWING IN ENGLAND-By permis-
sion Of the Commissioner of Woods and Forests, an
experiment has been made in ST. James's Park Lon
don-and the Times will have it, successfuy-to
ascertain whether Indian corn may not be advanta-
geously cultivated in England. The Times gives
very atiering account of the experiment, and very
curious description of the plant, moreover, it will
doubtless appear to American readers:
notwithstanding all drawbacks, (says the Times, }
the little maize crop has fully realized oil that
anticipated. II was sown the latter end of Nav and
in tho beginning Of September it is ripe for
ting. The appearance of the plant is peculiarly
graceful,-far more so indeed, than that of any ord-
nary corn-6eld. The stems, which up perfectly
straight, are generally from four 10 five feet high,
and ale much thicker than the larger wheat straw.
They throw out from the root upwards succession
of ag-like leaves, the stem terminating in little
tufi, from which spring the of corn, somewhat
irregularly clustered; and, in this nssnce, apparent
ly not heavily laden.
"Amongst those who are about to experiment on a
larger scale year. his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, who proposes sowing piece of land at Flem-
ish Farm-his race the Duke of Richmond al Good
wood.-end the Duke Of Norfolk. at Arundel"
6TW our whg farmers think we should have
protective tariff on corn 10 check English competition
in our marketsi
The SCUBA Hunt" is at last explained by Ser
gennt Major of the expedition II to establish
republican government, the money supplied by plant
ers OH the Island. General Lopez was the general
manager If the management is a fair specimen of
his military capacity, the Round Islsnders should
thank their stars that the Government interfered to
ihwar their plans for by this time they would in all
probability be tasting the delights of Spanish pris-
on These attempts on the part Of adventurers from
this country revolutonize Spanish governments
have always proved abortons. The people generally
have been too pusanimous to carry them into
cessful accomplishment, and they would not be able
to enjoy the benefits long even if achieved.
POPULATION OF MINNEsorA.-The birth places Of
the members of the Minnesota Legislature may give
an idea of the places whence the population is de-
rived. We find the following record:
From New England. 8; Canada, a; New York.
3 Pennsylvania, 2; Michigan. 2; Ohio, {; New
Jersey, i Virginia, L; Missouri, L.
We may presume from this that the population
will be drawn, almost entirely, from the extreme
North, corresponding in climate with that Of Mime
sofa. Emigration, in the United States, with few
exceptions, on lines of latitude.
TIE NICARAGUA QUEsTIoS.-A Washington cor
respondent of the New York Herald says. the
of the Union with respect to the Nicaragua and Mos
la tod sfrop