Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1854-11-29
MISCELLAN Y.
From the Cincinnati Columbian, NoU IL.
EightS and Shadows Of the Bank
Panic Im Ohio.

Eights and Shadows Of the Bank
Panic In Ohio.
A merchant at the foot of Walnut street,
being taken with slight sickness yester-
day, sent his negro porter with bottle to
fetch him some brandy. Hours went by
before Sam came back, minus the bottle
and the money, and looking very sleepy
and tired "Where have yon been you
rascal ?n shouted the merchant, "and
where's the brandy? p II had the brandy
put in the bottle, sir" ''De fac am, mas'r
called at the bank where | had some busi-
ness, and de banks are breaking ebryting
now, as you knows, and dis bank broke de
bottle, and de brandy all gone"
Amongst the crowd that filled Third
street on Wednesday we observed an l.
rishman, who stood with claSped hands and
sorrowful look he feared his little all, saw
ed to send home to the 'ould country"
for his wife to Join him, was gone. AS we
were trying to explain to him that things
were not so bad as he expected, another
Hibernian, evidently from the country, in
fact we learned he was from Kentucky, ac-
costed hum, and after the first sslutation III
quired, '.And begad Michael, but yer look
as solid as a chawed tullet-what'S the mat
ter ?"' The misfortune was explained 10
hun with the assurance that the whole was
not lost, when the querist exclaimed, ''Oh
bother, put all that in a pipe and smoke it,
and its but little worse yen be. I'll tell
YOU how the bank served me, divil burn it.
When | got me last years wages, Pat o
Brien tould me that if put it in an Ohio
bank, 'ud increase By six cents on the dol
lar every year, so one day | knocked Oft
work, aud crossed to this SIDE; then
crossed u2 the river above Fulton, till |
found high bank. cut deep hole, aud
put the money in, wrapped sp in an ould
newspaper and after making all look
straight again, went back. One day last
spring | crossed again, aud went up to the
bank to see whether any OF tie six cent
pieces had got into the newSpaper-and
what do We think | saw? Faith the bark
hadn't failed, as ye ssy yours has done, but
in the winter the water had washed it so
bad that it had caved in, and my money
was fairly gone, bad cuss to it,
Times of calamity like the present give
rise to many incidents that arrest attention.
We heard of the following, which we
thought worthy of relation. The day after
Manchester's failure, very decent looking
woman, comfortably dressed in black, came
up to the bank and inquired if the bank had
really failed. On beng assured that such
was the fact. she tottered to the stairway
below the banking house, and sitting on the
stairs, burst into tears. A gentleman who
was passing, seeing her anguish, approach
ed her with words Of compassion that soon
won from her narration of her mi>fortunes
She had kept the house of widower, who
on dying, left her handsome legacy as
reward for her faithful services. This, with
her saved earnings, was put into Manches-
tcr's bank. The interest, added to her la
Dor with the needle, suAiced to keep her.
aud the principal was dependence in sick
nes and age. Her only earthly hope and
friend was gone. The compassionate gen
tleman then said II have Just lost my
who has got married if you
will take her place, your work shall be light
er than making shop goods, and your wa
geS shall be as much as you received in
interest from the bank, and you will be
boarded besides. make the offer without
because | am sure that one who
was honored with such generous legacy
Is was left to you, must be just such per-
son as require" We need not say how
oyfully the offer was accepted.
Villany often comes to light in strange
manner, and the recent failures, in the fol- |
owing Instances at least, have proved that
lepoStors as we'll as absconding bankers,
are frequently rogues. A young German
who came TO this country several wears a.
20, IN consequence OF being in difficulties
through belonging to one of the liberty
,lubs that preceded the outbreak of 1S48,
eceved information, through newly ar
lived dfellow-countrymen, of the death of |
lis father. This bearer of evil news was
cen about one of the recently suspended
,anlnng houses on its closing, evidently O.
-erwhelmed with trouble; and, in his dis
reSS, he let it out that he had lost con-
idera5le deposit which he had made there.
Like many others, at the first instant,
e thought all was lost, and under the in
uence Of despair went to his young ac-
ualntance, and acknowledged that the mon
V thu, deposited was legacy entrusted
} him by the dying father, for his son in
America. Looking upon the supposed loss
5 just retribulion, he confessed ALL and i
'ansterrcd his certificate of Iepo>lte to the
gh, owner, who will not lose dollar.
One Of the above cases was not the only
'stance in which a strange misunderstand-
~ OF the word ''bank" led to trouble
n the uight OF MaucheSter's failure, while 5