Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-11-17

falls into their clutches. TOR mercy y .
word with shieA tksy re anas9oa:ntsd.
Gold is they vs6, and cd IL the
only thin they seeiH A msa Dithout it
is worse Jeaaa [otteototS Between
the hours of ~ and l o'clock, the rotun-
da Of the Exohangs IL filled With spscu-
lative and FESTIVE spirits, watching the
bids that the suctieneer 10 crying - fast
AS bis tongue can fly; that he i receiv-
ing for lot Of ground, the dwelling Of
some unfortunate family whom the
sharks Of Wall street have wrested nom
them, or, perhaps, railroad or bank stock
which these di.interested patriots Of gold
are irving to reduce in price. One hour
later and this crowd Of sharpers, not .
whit better than the other Peter Funks
of the city, have left this resort, and oil
is silent. Three or four hundred persons
are seen with their brooms sweeping out
the fifth and pollution lett there, the
only marks Of the restless spirits just
left: In the upper part of this building
there are at work some two hundred
men, under the auspices Of the '.Ameri-
can Bank Note Company" engraving
bank notes and preparing those little
prem SEES to pay for the signatures Of
bank officers, which it becomes necessary
for every man to flourish to obtain .
foothold in the lower story Of the build
ing;
This Company, which il an associa-
ton Of all the firms engaged in bank
note engraving in the United States,
was incorporated in 1863, for the pur-
pose Of placing the bank note currency
of the country upon ; basis of greater
security and by combining the united
skill and experience Of former firms,
uniting the large capital required for the
business with artistic talents of tho high
est order, employing all the improve
nents i'll machinery, atfording protection
to plates and impressions against fire,
and preventing those contingencies which
arise from the dissolution of . firm
Most effectually has this object been &C.
complained, and the work of counter
feiting ON = large scale rendered almost
impossible.
When it is remembered that every
different feature of bill is engraved by
q different artist, devoted to that partic-
ular style OF work-as for instance, faces
by one, ships by another, architecture
by another, and 90 on-and that one OF
these new bank notes has to pass
through the hands of fifteen or twenty
individuals before it is complete, some
idea may be had of the immense amount
Of labor bestowed, and the impossibility
of any one man 90 initiating its excel
lence and elaborateness as to deceive
even an Impractical observer. In view
of the advantages OF this combination Of
capital, experience and skill, many Of
the banks of this city have availed
themselves Of the opportunity to renew
their plates.
As / looked upon q pile Of notes, q
few days aimee, which only required the
signatures of two persons to make them
worth millions, l could not help recall
ling aud applying to the mammon-w
shipping crowd that throng Wall street,
the words Of Shakespeare -
"Thus much Of this will make black, white; foul
wrsng, right bare, noble; old. young; coward
Vile kind and break religion, b,.s. the aecursed
Place thieves and give them title, knee and ap.
probation
With Senators on the bench"
MANHATTAN.