New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-02
FROM CONNECTICUT.
From An Occasional Correspondent

From An Occasional Correspondent
SuFFIELD, Conn Nov. y, 1851.
IwoI der whether snybody has noticed th.t for
Fix weeks or mere, there has appeared no letter in
THE TRIBUNE from your Occasional Correspon-
den" in Com ecticut. To all worthy people who
msy have remarked this omission beg leave TO ssy
there 10 good excuse for it, namely, that for the
month last past the said Occasional Correspondent
has been INN ured within the walls of sick room,
watched by visi snt nurses and guarded By stern
si.agsd ctors cut off from all communication with
the world and the rest of mankind, aud deprived of
ters, ink and paper. Even books and newspapers
have teen declsred cOutrabsnd and vigorously inter-
dicted For nearly fortnight was not permitted
a. lo,k at a TRIBUNE For week after the cleo
tons in your State remained in ignorance OF the
results. | doubt whether would have been told
the news il Mr.. Buchanan had effected coup
d'ft0t and declared himself Lord Dictator Under
these circumstances it was announcement to write
letters to the newspapers.
Ismnow mending slowly, though it will be a long
time before my recovery will be complete. | am
told that must make it my chief business to get
well. am sentenced to one years exercise IN the
open air, without mental labor. Possibly may
avail myself of the abundant leisure which is pre-
scribed for Lie to become II good correspondent,
gathering bits of rews here and there, aud sending
$500
But the contents of this lett-r fear The Times
VIII turn up its nose at | propose to mention
events that happened at least three weeks sgo; for
pera6yenture in regions where Hartford papers are
seldom seen, there live emgrants from Connecticut
who will be well pleased TO read in the columns OF
The TRIBUNE, Il brief epitome OF what has hap
lened in their Iative State in the month before
Thanksgiving
in the first place there has been another Hart
ford Convention This time 1t was meeting OF the
officers Of Divers banks in different sections of the
State, who came together for the purpose OF taking
measures to establish Clearing House for the Con-
nectcut banks, 10 be located somewhere WITHIN the
State thereby 10 afford Means OF relieving them
from the Sufolk-stiDg restraint imposed upon tnem
BY the existing system Of redeeming their bills at
Boston Now 1t is clear that the banks in this State
need home Clearing House of their own, located
perhaps at the pleasant village OF New-fiayen just
aboul us much as The worthy gentlemen who com
posed tie Convention want water in their boots.
But isn't often that body of men will assemble
and agree that it is best TO do nothing But this
Bank Convention was wise enough to content ITSELF
With non action, thereby setting an example most
worthy Of imitation. If Congresses and Leeisla'
lures Line years out of ten, would content them.
selves with converting, organizing, sitting the usuai
period without doing anything, and gong homo
sgain without having passed either law or resolve,
the Union and the States would be better OIL
honor the memory OF that King of France who, with
an army of
"TKenty thousand men,
Marched up hill aud then marched down again.
Inasmuch as this famous campaign vi the Gallo
poentate 10 have been irultess OF results, 1t
has ever since been a byword aud proverb IN the
mouths of an uhthipkiDg public. But who sh,ll say
that his Majesty did not display the highest wisdom
and the Lost sbillful generalsbip in deciding upon
ard effectipg his retreat down the decivityl who
krows how many thousands of the enemy were en-
II, d CT ed upon the summit of the emInt nee Who
can tell but that if the King had s,ad upon this ee
walton he would have been routed, horse snd foot,
whereas, as it was be brought off every man with
whole skn. 1t 10 far wiser many times, Not 10 Do
1t than to Do 1t, requiring far more contag. ana
self denial SO all honor to the said King OF France
and to the Hartft I'd Convention Of 1851.
Another Convention Of some Importance was
held on The Sd instant, at Charter Oak Hall, com
posed Of the tobacco planters of the Connecticut
River Valley Gen. James I. Pratt presided.
Resolutions were adopted highly laudatOry of the
warehousiDg system" and declaring that 1T IS
"the duty of One and all to unite In sustaining IL.
Those no take interest enough In this photographic
read IT, will need no explanation OF what tho ware
housing system" is. 1t was estimated st the Con.
yeIton that the value of the tobacco crop, raised
this year in the Valley of the Connecticut, exceeds
100000.
remember informing you, in the day and time OF
IT, that among the batch of bank charters which our
wa. one for the " Granite Bank" to be located at
VoluptCwn was somewhat surprised a! hearing
that there was to be bank at VoluatOwn, the
dwellers in which town, supposed stood as much
in meek Of local bank facilities as the denlzens Oh
Barkhsms.ed or UniCn in this State or those Oh
Browns Tact 10 yours. The principal business car
ried on in VOluntOwn is the manufacture OF char
coal The Bank Commissioners, also, about month
since, were greatly surprised to learn that though
but $40 GOO of the capital of the Pequot BANK In
Norwich had been subscribed for, the whole OIL the
stock Of the Granite Bank bad been TAKEN and
that the Bank last named had been organized ana
was proceeding to do business. They commenced
some investigations, which specify iesueoe III
sn application TO the Superior Court tor an plunc-
ton. 1t appeared in evidence, ON the hearing be-
fore JUDGE Butler that there had been an eabo-
rat,ly cor triyed plot to cheat the public on an ex
ten,ive scale One Roswell G. Peck, q notorious
f,arci,r. whose Dame figured consplcuou'ly IN the
"Msttstuck Bank" Gaze, was the prime mover hnd
leading spirit in this notable enterprise ne secured
the services Of eminent LOBBY members !" heiR niu,
yet his charter through the Legislature. These
Gentlemen could not have been ignorant OF the
character Of their client, whose accomplices tae
public could not fail 10 consider them. Peck iur'
n,,hed all or a principal portion Of the funds
which were paid in as Dstalmenss OF the capital
stock his money consisted Of bills on broken and
b. gus banks. Lindley the President OF the con-
ceiD held about S3OOO oil the stoch' iotVei, VIC
Cashier. about SlO,O and Peek furnished them
beth with the money TO pay fer their shares Of the
ipsisIments. He himself paid in, on the 2eth Of
October, about $4,000, in the kind Of money
above de scrbed and in worthless checks. The farce
Of organizing was goIe through With, depoel.
made at the Suffolk Bank to secure the Endorsement
of that institution for brief space and then feeS'
giving receipt for the bogus money PAD 3D. W.
draws all the capital" Of the bank, ell. Dis PoeAs
| kia of the Granite Dhuh,