New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-25
a FINE RANKING SYSTEM.

10 grid at our slayehodirg brethren and 70 90 less
than Justice 70 their various eIcellencies We teink
that sucb an mputstion can hardly be sustained by
q careful exam in alton Of our columns, in when We
are sure we shall be found doing all our bands nnd
70 do for the Illustration Of their institutions aho
the kind Of men they foster Have We not been
liberal of our space to set forth tie Gospel accord
ing 70 De Bow, the Epistles Of Wise the Elder and
the Acts Of Wise the Younger Have not our
pages smelt Of the guhpowder, though not been
marked BY the bullets Of the hlis champion Of the
potential paterpsl President Have we been chary
of our COUNSEL Or spariDg of our concentrations
Did we not hail the advent OF that Boanerges
of the Southern Zion, Parson Brownlow' have
not our travellers traversed that country and we
believed their report Did We not send down
A epecisl messenger TO witness and record the
dispersion of the Heecy aocks of the patriarch But
Ter. On bis reluctant relinqushment Of the pafri-
archaic and has not his account OF the same been
read with edifcaton in all the wide domain OF the
Enplish topgue7 We might exhaust all the notes OF
interrogation in our Office (aud they are many and
vet leave the half unasked. Let these safi:e
It is not often that We have been called to ad-
mre the strictly financial aspects Of that favored
portion of our country. Financiering has not per-
haps, fourished there as prosperously as on the
hither side of the line of Mason aud Dixon. But
we have never attributed that lack to any want of
will or ability but mainly to the absence Of finances.
In the hand to mouth way in which the most sue
cessfu planting business is DONE there are not often
large amounts of capital laid aside, which usually
form the material on which the ingenuity Of the
fnancieripg race expends its energies But when
it has settled itself into the dispensing reservoirs
known 90 banks, our Southern brethren appear to
have a method all their own for keeping 1t from
escaping and which it might be well for Wall
street to copy The State Of Missouri has state
Bank, it seems, with branches ramifed into the
various qnarters of the Commonwealth. Or these,
Chillicothe, the shire town Of Livingston County,
has one, at the counter of which the Bank prori-
ises TO pay its notes. To this commercial center
did gentleman from the town of Hannibal, on the
18th inst, repair with S1 900 in the notes OF the
said Bank, which he most nefariously proposed to
have exchanged for current money OF the merchant,
pale silver or glowing gold. He had faith in the
honesty of the concern and he came near sealing
bis filth with his blood. He did not understand
the sound principles Of Missouri banking and so he
got lesson which will probably serve him for his
lifetime.
He presented himself at the counter and pre-
scented bis bills for redemption at the same time
The bank did not refuse to pay them. Not at ALL
The teller began to pay the bills in slver-whether
1.Iia Ia fall -hut
fore he had doIed out $500 in exchange for the
paper promises, patriotic band, yariously reck-
oned at from fifty to hundred, entered the bank.
ing. ROOM The people had ri'en in their might
and their majesty to prevent, or to aveDge the out
rage. A company of Pistols they were, who cried,
"Base is the slave that pays!" Baser yet, of
course, the catif that receives. Ard they were
not only company Of Pistols, but they were a
company ,rith pistols, which was more to the pur-
pose, and with bowie knives, which was very much
more to the point. They ordered him to take his
departure, to leave, to decamp, to mizze, TO a5-
squatulate Some were for giving him fire minutes
for this purpose. Nicer economists of time thought
tpo more than enough. The sterner sort of this
new school of political economists cried out, hang
L" him hang him !" The involuntary confeSsor
did rot aspire to the crown of martyrdom, though
it would have been one of gold. He thought that
man with SlI 600 in his pockets could not be too
coon out of such company, He yielded to the gen.
tie solicitation of the sovereign people, and went
his way back to bis Carthasenian habitation,
dolorous and malcontent Whether there be one
of these fruitful branches at Hannibal, we know
not. If yea, he might solve the question raised BY
the Roman satiIist, "EIpende Hannicatem quot
Hbras inrenies ?" and find how many dollars he
could get out Of Hannibal.
Now observe the beauty Of the poetica justice
meted to this miscreant. He thought to make
run upon the bank, and he had to make run away
from it. He thought to make the specie reserve OF
the bank less, and he bad to make himself scarce.
He thought to diminish the funds Of the bank, and
he found himself nowhere. But while we admire
the beautiful equity which changed his cOuntenance
instead of bis bills, and sent him away empty OF
hard cash, we cannot withhold our NEED OF praise
from the Banking System into which it Is evidently
organized. From the prompt attendance OF tho
indignant citizens it is clear that they were used to
the work. part, doubtless, of the machinery of
the institution as essential ss the President or Di.
rectOrs, and much more essential than the scales.
A wink from one of the officers was sufficient TO
summon them to the rescue, to put to flight any
varet that should insult the bank by asking tito pay
its debts Now, what beneficial change the gen.
eral adoption Of the Missouri system would work
in our Banking System Is it not obvious that
failure is impossible under it Suspension of
bank could not occur, for the suspension of the