Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-01


ocnusndstioa, 1psgius Our surprise, thersioTs
in looking owe, the January report Of she Cssh sr
OF that instituioO to fad II t VIVA, t3a Isgisa-.
tpss refused to do for It, its of6ssrs hare de,
teFmined to DO fer it t!smsslgss; and iastssd OK
resFicting the aroaot Of bills rlnti lg to maturiy,
to the amount Of notes urder discount, hey haze
permitted their bills to exceed their noes BIZ up.
yards Of a half uillen Of. dollars Their II
business, according to their own showing, berg
$205I. 468 Y, While heir notes discounted amount
to only 81 t92 728 Is
Now are we to remsin Int in this matter be-
cause the democratic party is N power and respon.
sible for the management this institution Ga
the contrary, is it net The greater reason why we
should speak cut on a subject of such vital i'm.
portanos to the people,
1t is not our purpose to depreciat the financial
skill and ability Of its indefstgabs President His
character as public cfices is too well established
in Tennessee. Upon his idea that the bank can
net be regarded, at this time, in hry other light
than financial proieet to aid the Treasury Of the
State" be has achieved grelter success than any
CT bis predecessors. But we differ with him IS to
the object of government Chat it is not to make
money! and as to the character and design of that
Institution. In this honest difference of opinion we
accord to him as much purity of motive as we
claim for Ourselves.
From the summary we have given, the people
cannot fail to see that Il ere is philosophy, as well
as truth, in the femsrk of the worthy Cashier
that we know but little about banking; and they
viii further see that there is prs-determination
with the managers of all these institutions that
neither we nor the people shall grow tse wiser on
the subject, as ar as they can prevent it, and it re-
mains for the people to say low far that shall be.
WAsHEsroN LIB2ARY-A good portion of the
Library which once grsced Mount Vernon was pur-
chased in Georgetown few years since by Mr..
STEYEHs, who intended to dispose of it to the
British Museum, but was persuaded to sell it, st
an almost fabulous price, to certain solid men Of
Boston. They presented the books to the "Bos.
ton Athermum," where they are preserved with
such precautions as defy those spolstors who have
recently committed daring depredstionS. The fol-
lowing account of thess work5 is well worth
Psrussl:
OF exceeding interest are these volumes and
chieesg those associated with his earliest yesrs
| The Illustrate the grave, firm, decent practical
boy-the coming man. They tell of the torming
purposes of the wise, calm steadiast true hearted
| republican. 1t was only by special efJrt that
| this library was preserved to America Some gen.
tlemen in Boston heard of the extraordinary fact
| that the books were about being purchased for
| the British Museum, and they reused to their &C.
QUESTION for their own city. II was like Boston to
| do n deed 40 worthy of beiup done.
At one of them we looked long and earnestly
Il is curious book and one which ought to merit
q reprint Its title is Snort Discusses Upon the
| Whols Common Prayer; abridged to inform the
judgment and excite devotion OF such az daily see
| the same"
Our Appletons aud Hsrpers, and D ,rbys, aud
their entecprisipg associates, tad then but few and
feeble representatives in America, and our fathers
looked to England alone for their literature This
volume is published at tie Middle Temple Gate,
in Fleet street, l7l2, and is commended to tue
pervsding loyalty OF that day ION both sides of the
] wster) by its dedication to the "most noble AMI
high born Princess Ann of Denmark"
It has better and lofier dedication to us -
Upon its cover leaves Washington esssyed bis SKILL
and it is characteristic CT the Difference and flia
respect OF his years, that it is the name Of his
father, Augustine, has himself written the name
in q tils-page, and it is very Indifferent, common
psc5 chirOgrBph, utterly different from that strong
neat, elaborate signature which is so appropriately
that Of his il!ustrOus child Bat the Boy George
| experimental largely on his fatf er's name and
the book OF common prayer could not have gone
far ssusy so long as these leaves remained.
The very writing the boy made contained q
prophecy Of which he did net dream:
"Builded better than he knew"
In bold and handsome inscription, be has writ
ten the August WASH gton. Ii was in bis &C.
the abbre7iatIon of his fathers u3ms but the voice
of worlis judgment declares il the appestion be.
longing to himself
There is another book which il is interesting to
examine 1t is the watchwO,d to another move
ment il bis eventful life. Its title is,
INQUIRY INTO THE ART OF WAR,
and it receives its dedication to man at whose
name less than hundred years since the very
stones Of Boston street called out mui0y- john
Earl of Butte. Il is the compilation of Charles de
VALERIE. Was he kinired to the lovely woman
who we are told took the step, the beautiful OF the
spleadid Court of France SO seldom took, from
"eVil to good"
It's opening sentence is q curious one, and ore
which Washington never believed:
'HOnOl is vague expression"
Other volumes upon husbsndry indicate that
the farm at Mount Vernon found the brave soldier,
the unsuled statesman, prepared for the arts Of
peace as well as of couf ct of camp ard cabinet
In one Of the pages Washington has written the
name OF his mother The resemblance of even
his own signature to the quaint, complicated, or
Dsmented style in which old deeds of conveyance
were written is remarkable.
From the Columbia Herald