Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-01-06

! So coz, I'm happy when can, fAfE-
| And merry while may.
! From the Cincinnati Columbian.
Lights and Shadows Of The Bank Panic in Ohio.
A merchant at the foot Of Walnut street.
being taken with q. slight sickness yesterday
sent his negro porter with bottle to fetch
him some brandy. Hours went By before
Sam came back, minus tie bottle and the
money, and looking very sleepy and tired.
"Where have yon been you rascal?" shouted
the merchant, s'and where's the brandy?o ssI
had the brandy put in the bottle, SIR" Where
is the bottle them" De fac am, mas'r, |
called at the bank where had some business
and de banks are breaking ebbryting now.
rs you knows, and dis bank broke de bottle.
and the brsHaay Mi gone" sa f:AIS
Amongst the crowd that filled Third street
on Wednesday we observed an Irishman who
stood with clasped hands and sorrowful
look; he feared his little all, saved to send
home to the sold counthry," 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, accosted him, and after the
first salutations inquired, "And BEL dad Mich
ael, but yer look as solid as chawed bullet
what's the matter?'' The misfortune was
explained to him without assurance that the
whole was not lost, when the querist ex
laimed. ooh brother, put all that in a pine
and smoke it. and its but little worse ven
be. I'll tell von how the bank served me.
dlvil burn it. When | got me last years
wages, Pat O'Brien tould me that if nut it
m hon - 5,,l L..
On the dollar every year, SO one day knock
ed Off work and crossed to this siee; then |
crossed up the river above Fulton, till found
high bank cut deep hole and put the
money in wrapped up in ould newspaper; and
after making all look straight again | went
back. One day last sprirg crossed again
and went up to the bank to see whether anv
of the sixpences had got into the Newspaper
and what do you think saw? Faith the
bank hadn't failed, as We say yours has done,
but in the winter the water had washed it so
bad that 1t had caved in, and my money was
fairly gone, bad cess to it,"
Times of calamity like the present give
rise to many incidents that attract attention.
We heard Of the following which we thought
worthy of relation. The day after Manches-
ter's failure, a very decent looking woman
dressed in black, came up to the bank and
inquired if the bank had really failed. On
being assured that such was the fact, she
to tered to the stairway below the banking
house, and sitting on the stairs burst into
tears. A gentleman who was passing seeing
her anguish, approache! her with words Of
compassion that soon won from her the mar
ration of her misfortuncs. She had kept
the house of a widower, who on diving, left
her a handsome legacy as reward for her
faithful services. This with her saved earn
ings, was put into Manchester's bank. The
interest added to her labor with the nee lie
sulhced to keep her, and the principal was
dependence in sickness and age. Her onk
earthly friend was gone. The compassion
ate gentleman then said: 81 have Just lost
my housekeeper, who has got married. if YOU
will take her place, your work shall be light
er than making slop goods, and yo.r wages
shall De as much as you received in interest |
from the bank, and you will be boarded be- |
sides. | make the offer without hesitation
because am sure that one who was honored
with such generous legacy as was left to
you must be just such a person as REQUIRE, ,,
We need not say how jeyfully the offer was
accepted.
Villainy often comes to light in strange
manner, and the recent failures, in the fol-
owing instances at least, have proved that
iepositor as well as ASCENDING bankers. are
frequently rogues. A yourg German who
came to this country several years ago. in
consequence OF being in difficulties through
belonging to one of the liberty clubs that
'receded the outbreak Of l848, received in
ormation, through newly arrived fellow
ountryman, of the death of his father. This
carer OF evil news was seen about one Of the ,
eecently suspended banking houses on its
losing evidently overwhelmed with trouble:
nd IN his distress, he let it out that he hal
'st considerable deposit which he had
laas there,
Like many others, at the first instant. he
fought all was lost, and under the influence
despair went to his young acquaintance.
no acknowledged that the money thus de- J
oslted was legacy entrusted to him by the y
Ving father,for his son in America. Looking y
BON the supposed loss as a Just retribution. | >
confessed all, and transferred his certi6- =
re OF deposit to the right owner who will .
1t lose a dollar. g
One of the above cases was not the onlv !,
stance in which strange misunderstood. CO
OF the word "bank'' led to trouble. On tie
9 night of Manchester's failure, while vet v
Few persons fingered at the banking house r.
or, very decent looking Irish woman :.
shed up, and with tears streaming from her
es, asked 'sif the bank wor bruk.n On
ing assured that such was the melancholy Y
th, in voice full Of anguish she asked =
o was killed? Before the astonished by ~
nders could answer, she raved, rather than
cred, "Me Larry and the two boys are
70; know they are. Oh! wirra, wirra @