Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-01
Here's the Counsellor coming, and a bag of
oold on his hack

Here's the Counsellor coming, and a bag Of
gold on his back
All looked in the direction the last speak
er pointed to, and there, sure enough, [
could see approaching the burly figure of
O'Connell, who was one of the directors of
the bank, and had just arrived from Dublin.
He had not exactly a bag on his lack, but
he carried parcel in his hand.
Let me pass, my good friends said he,
'and you shall all be served And he
pushed shoulder foremost through the crowd,
who made way for him, and gave three
cheers for the counselor as he passed.
The Liberator, as he was called, might
have been twenty minutes in the bank, when
hurrah was raised from those who stood
nearest the bank door, Didn't I tell you,'
cried a fellow, crushing his way out, and
blowing with his breath to cool FIVE hot
sovereigns which he held with difficulty in
his hand; Didu't tell you the Counsellor
would settle it? There they are at it, hard
and fast, as tallow chambers on melting
day, making sovereigns like winky, and
they're shovclling them out upon the coun-
ter as hot as boiled praties from pot, and
he blew again upon the sovereigns, and held
them up to be touched. Seeing and feeling
was believing, and there, sure enough, was
the gold, warm, as if from the crucible
'Glory to you, Dan = shouted out the
crowd, who now really believed that the
Counsellor was making sovereigns in the
back parlor to meet the run. WHATS the
use of crushing; you can't break bank
when they're melting out money like that
My curiosity was at its height, so, with
one tremendous effort, I gained admission,
and there, sute enough, were the clerks la
ding out burning hot sovereigns from copper
scoops to the people, who crowded to the
counter, and who, swapping and blowing their
fingers, were picking up the coins as you
might roasted chestnuts.
They say the rinse was not new one, and
that O'Connell only revived it, in the case Of
the - Bank, but it was not the less meri
torious and successful on that account. The
clerks were really engaged in the back'parlor
heating the sovereigns on fire shovels over
large FIRE; and rushing out with red faces
and in furious hurry they, threw them 'hot,
all hot to the cashiers, who counted them
out with iron curling tougs to the customers,
who believed that the work of coming was
going on over innumerable crucbles in the
back -parlor.
The plan had double advantage-it in
spired confidence, aud made the process Of
money-taking so slow on the part of the pub.
lie, who were perpetually burning their fn-
gers, that the bank, with very limited sup
ply, was able to meet a demand which, un-
der the circumstances, was necessarily slow.
The clerks could serve the people as fast as
the people could count the hot sovereigns.
The rusc which had almost instantaneous
effect in allaying alarm, O'Counell maintain
ed was perfectly justifable. From ignorance,
a panic, which might have proved fatal to
the bank, rose, and he thought he had Alright
to allay it by playing on this same popular
ignorance. A bank that could serve sover-
eigns at will from an oven could never, of
course, want gold in the imagination of
simple people.