Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-07

go across, learn to work, live WE'LL save
money, and return wealthy and com bara
lively civilized nah. and would become t,
means Of oiiilizng bis countrymen at home
He would bring back to Africa not only tn,
money, bat the industry and nrts of his Ell
ployers; and nc would retain at home th,
new wants he had acquired in Ills period o
service The benefits to the West Indies
are too obvious to enlarge upon, and all W.
have to observe is, that we don't think oul
countrymen and our Possessions IN that par
of the ~ge'd utterly undeserving Of consid
Grafton, What we have described MAY MOI
be lofty principle, but it is something bet
ter and safer it is the right course Of ma.
ture, and the way n which mankind has
hitherto been civilized. But it is prevent
ed by the effort to which national pride has
committed US. We interpose our wooden
| walls between the vast reservoir Of African
+ labor and the channels Of industry and civ
ilization into which it is ready to run. OF
! course, we are prepared to find any number
Of English politicians ready to maintain this
or any other national hypocrisy. Such dis
eases must run their course, even if the eli
mar should happen to bea severe enc.
THE BANK DEFICIENCY IN GEOR-
GIA.
The Georgia papers publish a proclama-
ton by the Governor Of the State, gazeting
as delinquents majority Of our ba nks, be-
cause they have not, in making their late
|semi-annual returns, complied as deman-
ded in his proclamation calling for these
returns, with that provision of the bank act
OF The last session, which required that ''the
afhdavits Of hank officers to annual and
semi-annual reports, shall in all cases state
that the bank of which they are officers, has
not, by itself, its officers, or agents, in any
particular, violated the provisions Of this
act.0 The Augusta ConstitutionaIist says
Many of the banks whose bills, under
this proclamation. will be rejected By the
Treasurer. 1T Milldegeville. are as strong
and as solvent as any institutions in the
State and some o.. them, We have reason to
know, have not violated the provisions Of
the act Of 1857. They declined, through
their officers, to make the additional oath
to their returns, required by the Governor,
for variety Of considerations Some of
them had never suspended, and they did
not consider it necessary to swear that they
had not violated the provisions ofan act
which the State had no right to impose up
on them-others did not desire, by comply
ing with one, to be adjudged as accepting
all the provisions Of the act, and there were
others still anxious to comply with the re-
quirements Of the Governors proclamation,
whose officers were unable, from the differ
ent and conflicting Constructions given to
the act Of 1857, 70 swear that they have not
violated it in any particular.
The following Banks have, complied
with the law, and their bills Wills therefore
be received in payment Of any dues to the
State
TIE Central Railroad and Banking Co.:
the Georgia Railroad ands.Banking Co.; the
Bank of Savannah the Bank Of Augusta );
the Bank Of Fulton the Bank of Athens
the Manufacturer's Bank at Macon; The
North Western Bank at Ringgold.