Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-03-10

parent in certain sections of the South, an
attempt will be made before long, to obtain
another slice Of Mexico.
O'Connell and the Irish Bank Crisis.
A correspondent, who has written
for us the following sketch, says: ",It
may be usefnl knowledge for some es-
Establishments in the present monetary
conjecture" He further adds, the
ruse was one of O'Connell's best hits,
and of which he was very fond of
boasting.-English Paper.
A run was being made for gold by
the peasantry Of the surrounding coun-
ties; and crowds of clamorous friez
coats might be seen pushing and fight
ing at the doors of all the banks in
l.. The - Bank, however
which has since proved itself to be as
solvent as any establishment in Ireland
enjoyed, at that time, the least con-
fidcnce, and was of course, the more set
upon. | had few one pound notes,
and though | believed they were very
good, if people would only have faith in
them, still, as feared the panic itself
would bring about the catastrophe it
apprchendcd, and it was sauve qui peut
everywhere, thoughtit would not only
be prudent in me to save myself; so l
mounted my nag, and trotted with my
bundle of notes into L..
On arriving at the bank door, the
babel of mixed Irish and English was
terrific. Men and women tugged and
struggled together for precedence, and
could hear the exclamation, a" There,
you have torn the coat off my back,
making as much fuss about your dirty
thirty shilling note as thought it were
pack load Of ep-pounders you had"
Arrah, yell be served" cried out
droll fellow on the verge ofthe crowd;
" here's the Chancellor coming, and a
bag of gold ON his back"
All looked in the direction the last
speaker pointed to, and there sure
enough, l could see the hurley figure
Of O'Connell, who was one of the d.
rectors of the bank, and had just arri-
we'd from Dublin. lie had not exact
ly bag on his back, but he carried a
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
"the Chancellor" as he passed.
The Liberator, as he was called,
might have been twenty minutes in
the bank, when burrah was raised
from those who stood nearest the Bank
door. Didn't l tell you," cried a
fellow, crushing his way out, and blow
ing with his breath to cool five hot
soverigns which he had held with diff
ficulty in his hand: didn't l tell you
the chancellor would settle it! There
they are at it hard and fast as tallow
chambers on melting day, making
sovereigns like winky. and they are
shovelling them out upon the counter
as hot as boiled praties from POI" "
and he blew again upon the soverlgns,
and he held them up again to be touch
cd. 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 Chancellor was making SOW
creigns in the back parlor to meet the
run. whats the use of crushing
you can't break bank when they are
melting out money like that"
My curiosity was at its height, SO
with one tremendous effort 1 gained
admission, and there, sure enough,
were the clerks ladling out hot soyer-
eigns 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
pick up roast chestnuts.
They say the ruse was not new
one, and that O'Connell only revived
it in the case of the Bank; but
it was not the least meritorious on that
account. The clerks were really enga-
ged in the back parlor heating the SOW
ereigns on .fire-shovels over . large
fire /; and rushing out, with red faces,
end in : hurry, they threw them .hot
al hot" 70 the caahisEa Who counted