Locomotive, Volume 45, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1858 — Page 1

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From Harper's Magazine for August RATHER GHOSTLY. We were four travelers of different, round a fire on a stormy February evening in dear, I ""lu jjiouuu. j.ne party consisted ot six, but two of its members had gone to a soiree at the English Embassador's ; the others, quite wearied with sfghtr seeing and deterred by the storm, remained atlhe inn to repose for the labors of the next day. We were two Americans, one English, and one Russian. The slight fatigue, the monotonous dripping of the rain on the stone terrace just outside of our windows, and the moaning of the wind, disposed us to rather melancholy topics. We talked of home, and the deep longing for beloved absent faces ; of great trials, of dangers by sea and land ; but when we heard the watch-dogs begin their sad nightly howlings, the conversation naturally fell upon ghosts. "When I was traveling in England last summer," said the Russian gentleman, "I fell in with a very amiable-looking old lady, short, stout, good-tempered, and comfortable ; she had with her a vinegar-looking maid named Davis, who tyrannized over the old ladv, and snubbed her within an inch of her life. It was m my power to render her some little attentions, and, on parting, she told me her name. This pleasant old lady was no other than Mrs. Crowe, author of the NightSight of Nature. I gave her some ghost stories which I know to be true, and which you will probably see in the next edition of her book." "But why should we wait for her book ?" exclaimed an American lady. "This is just the evening for a ghost story ; and since you know them to be true, we promise to believe them implicitly." After a little persuasion, the Russian began his true ghost story : "You have heard of Count Pahlen, of course ; and when I say that this story was related by him to me, you will understand how I know it to be true, though it did not happen to myself. He was not an imaginative man, not of a speculative turn, and had little patience with the superstitious and over-credulous. He ridiculed the idea of ghosts, and often wished one of those intangible gentry might come within his scope. "Well, he had been hunting in Transylvania ; in the ardor of the chase night came on, and he discovered that he had lost his way. After some wandering he came upon a ruinous chateau, where he knocked till an old peasant made his appearance. The Count explained his state, and asked for a night's shelter. " 'The castle is scarcely habitable,' replied the old man ; 'the owners never live here now ; my wife and I are left in charge ; but the rains have destroyed all the rooms excepting one, and that one would scarcely suit your Excellency.' '"Why not?' ' ; '"It is too large and chilly.' ! 7 " , r "! " 'Is there a fire-place in it ?' " 'Oh yes, it is the picture-gallery ; but your Excellency would do much better to proceed half a league further, where ' ' ' " 'I am exhausted,' interrupted the Count, piqued by the old man's evident reluctance, 'and insist upon having a fire built in the picture-gallery, and sleeping there to-night.' ; : " 'I pra your Excellency not to insist, because because in short, the gallery is haunted !' " 'Is that all, my good old friend ?' laughed the Count, 'raison de plus. I have often desired to meet a ghost, and consider myself quite in luck ; so let your wile cook me a comfortable supper, and do you build me a roaring fire.' "The old man was forced to obey, though sorely against his will, and he did so muttering his fears and regrets. , In a short time all was ready. The gallery had been originally a very handsome apartment ; but the pictures had all been removed, and the discolored, denuded walls, with here and there an empty tarnished frame, made it dreary enough. A large old-fashioned India screen, relic of former magnificence, was drawn round the fire ; and there, within charmed circle of light and warmth, were placed the Count's bed and the table with his supper. I have forgotten to say that he was not entirely alone, being accompanied by a large and exceedingly ferocious English bullterrier, named Bob, whom he considered more than a match for any German ghost, and on whom, to tell the truth, he rather relied for discovering what he believed would prove an imDOsition. . "The supper was good, and the cheerful warmth of the fare, together with the fatigues of the day, disposed him to fall asleep at the table. He was fast becoming unconscious when the gro wling of his dog suddenly roused him. He started from his chair and looked around ; nothing was to be seen, but the fire had sunk to embers, and the room was rapidly becoming cold. He raked the coals together, put on some more logs, and settled himself to another easy doze. Again the dog gave token of uneasiness, again he rallied his senses, and peered into the Ions, gloomy room. ' This time he saw something, t At the very end of the gal lery he perceived a whitish mist or cloud without shape; he watched it, and after a few moments saw that this gauzy mist seemed slowly advancing up the room. He called out, 'Who is there r JNo answer was returned, while the mist slowlv. steadily advanced, and a sensation of intense cold, like a sharp wind, appeared to precede the progress of the cloud. 'You do not answer,' said he; 'then I will set my dog on you. 'At him, Bob 1' ' Bob rushed at the' cloud, but had no sooner reached it than he suddenly retreated to his master, his tail between liis legs and whining with fear. - - ' '; "' ' "The Count thought this curious, but was not alarm ed. Ihe cloud advanced, tbe cold increased, and a second time he made the don dash at the unknown adversary, though with manifest reluctance on the part ot the animal to leave his masters side. Again hod ran whining back, his hair standing erect with fear, and his tail between his less. ' : :' 'And still the white cloud elided toward him, and the sensation of cold became intense. The dog would not stir, so the Count took him by the neck and threw him at the appearance. Ihe third time he ru?nea back, shaking with the vehemence of his terror, and crouched under the furthest side of the bed. The Count was now fairly frightened ; so he jumped in to bed all dressed, and pulled the cover over his head, while the last thing he saw was this cloud close upon him, and he. was conscious of a deadly cold that chilled him to the very bone. :' -. " 'Well,' said the American lady, 'is that all ?, what else did he do.'. ' : " 'My dear young lady,' said the Russian, 'that is all; and, in the Count's place, you would probably have considered it amply sufficient to give what you Americans call a realizing sense of a srhost.' He-lay still till the morning, and confessed to me that he never before or since had passed so uncomfortable a night. The terror came npon him suddenly, and was overpowering; Ms reputation for bravery was well established enough to allow him' frankly to confess that he bad been horribly tngbtened. , , i t "I don't attempt to account for any thinj in the story, but simply relate it as my friend told it to me. If you feel so disposed, I will give you another, which a friend assured me was a personal experience of his own." .' ; - We were unanimous in requesting another dose of horrors, as we were beginning to feel the wthodox shivering that makes a ghost story so effective, and half induces one to believe that a phantom is standing by one's side, invisible. "This story is not terrible," he said, "but is curious, as being a sort of warning. - "' "Captain R off was a cay Russian officer, who had no particular religion, but went to the Greek

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Church, because in St. Petersburg certain observances are expected of the army. He was intimate with Captain K , who, though by no means a religious man, was more strict, and occasionally endeavored to persuade Captain R off to pay more attention to the rules of the Church. Some quarrel in a cafe over a game of cards with an Austrian officer, led to a duel on K 's part, and R -off was one of his seconds. K fell, mortally wounded, and expired on the field. As he was d v ine, he save his watch to his friend. saying, 'This is my last gift to you, dear R off, and 1 beg you to keep it with extreme care, not only for my sake, but for your own. Let nothing persuade vou either to sell or to give it away, and if you should be so unfortunate as to lose it, you must watch your actions with fear and trembling for the wenty-four hours immediately following the discovery of the loss. Let no temptation induce you to pommit the slightest sin during that time, and W careful not to run into any danger, because " Here the blood bubbled up into poor K 'a mouth, and in a few moments all was over. .. . "B, off took the watch, and, for the sake of his friend, kept it with much care, though he did not attach any importance to the talismanic character given it in his dying injunctions. It was a good time-piece, handsomely set with jewels, but there was nothing in its appearance to remind him of the solemn warning attached to its possession, or, I should more properly say, its loss, and so as time slipped away the circumstances had nearly faded from his memory. "Years passed on either in the light frivolities of a St. Petersburg winter, or the sterner realities of a campaign in Circassia; but no incident of interest brought serious thought to his mind. After some time of active service he obtained a conge and permission to travel, which carried him, after some wandering, to Milan, where ho staid at a friend's chateau near the city. One morning he started as usual to ride into town, intending to pass the day there, dine, and attend in the evening a Jewish wedding, to which he had been invited. "The sound of a horse's hoofs close to his side made him turn his head to see who was the rider; but he found himself entirely alone in the centre of a broad road, with nobody within sight. He went on; but still the tramp continued, and in some mysterious way his mind was impressed with the conviction that this invisible companion was his friend K , who rode by his side, but always on the side opposite to that on which he turned. "This persuasion, by a very natural succession of ideas, induced him to feel for his watch : to bis dismay, it was gone 1 He instantly rode back to the chateau and instituted a thorough search for it, but it could nowhere be found. Durinc the excitement and con fusion incident to the search for the missing watch, Captain R off was led to speak of the curious and painful circumstances under which it came into his possession, and the earnest injunction to abstain from sin for twenty-four hours after discovering its loss. The mistress of the chateau, to whom he related this strange story, exclaimed at this point, 'Then you must not go to the Jewish wedding this evening 1 Absurd 1 rejoined the Captain ; 'I shall most assuredly go.' ' The lady, however, was very earnest in pleading that as, according to the rules of his Church, it was not lawful for him to attend the religious ceremonies of another faith, he was committing a sin in going to this wedding that it was a slight sacrifice to make and great or sniall, she, as his hostess, begged him to give up his intention. Overpowered, though scarcely convinced, he ceded the point and refrained from going. You may guess his feelings when he heard the next morning that the floor had given way (the marriage was celebrated on the third story of a large house), the guests had been violently precipitated one on the other, and out of the one hundred and twenty people present, eighty were killed outright, and all the others were seriously injured not a single one escaped unhurt. . This is a historical fact, and, as such easily verified." The adventure of the watch in connection with it, was also generally known in Milan," . : , "You believe it, then ?" . Baid the same American lady who had before spoken. . ri "I certainly can not disbelieve it," replied the Rus sian ; "the story was told me by Captain R off himseii, who was entirely persuaded ot its truth, and , who was greatly changed after his remarkable preservation ; for it is natural to conclude that, had he been present at the wedding, he would at least have been seriously injured if he had not been killed outright." "It you care to hear another story ot ghosts, said the English lady, "I will tell you something that really took place in my husband's family, and was related to me by my mother-in-law, herself the heroine of the tale. As it occurred in America, it may be rather interesting to you. Like Oliver Twist, we were anxious for more ; and the lady was begged to make no delay in giving us her story, which was as follows : "My husband's father was a British officer, and took part against America in your war of independence. When the English army evacuated New York he was among the officers withdrawn. During his stay in New York, however, he had fallen in love with a pretty American girl, married her, and had two children. Family circumstances, not bearing on this story, made him leave her behind, while he returned alone to Eng land, keeping his marriage a secret from his relations, who would have bitterly opposed such a connection, He was of a strict Catholic family, and while the chil dren were still very young, almost babies, he wrote her a command that she was to take them to Montreal, where the boy was to be placed with some priests, and the girl in the Ursuline convent, where the Lady Su perior, who was his relation, would train her according to her father's belief. This was very hard for the forsaken Protestant wife; but in those days husbands held to the strict letter of the law, which enabled them to claim obedience as their due, and she did not dare to withhold compliance. And if there were moral impediments to her journey, the physical ones were just as great, -inere were no railways wen, ana even very few beaten roads through the State of New York. Passengers who went from New York to Montreal could not start at their own pleasure, but were forced to wait till a certain number should be made up, when they hired a conveyance and engaged an Indian to guide them through the great forests that lay between them and their destination. In this way my mother-in-law started. A very severe winter had set m, and after some days' travel a blinding snow-storm came on; so that, after a few hours, the Indian was forced to confess that he could no longer distinguish the track or the marks on the trees, and they must wait till the morning to continue their route. The thought of pass ing the night exposed to this wild storm, m a strange nlace, was, naturally, terrible to this younp; mother, who feared that her little children niisrht perish with cold. After some agonized uncertainty the hearts of the travelers were rejoiced by heannn the bark ot a dnc: they eajerly bent their- steps toward the sound. and found themselves at a comfortable farm-house belonging to substantial farmers, who readily acceded to their request for food and shelter. The farmer's wife was much taken with the children and their sweet youn" mother, to whom she said : 'We do not keep an inn ; 'but we often are called upon to accommodate stray travelers in this way, so I have always some plain empty rooms to give ; but you shall not fare like the rest I will put you in a large spare chamber that we Ven fnr our own relations when they visit us.' . The room was indeed as comfortable as possible, and justified the housewife's praises. She put her children tr Vwrl and. weary and thankful, lay down herself for the she so much needed. Her bed was a large four"i

poster, with white dimity curtains, running with brass rings on an iron rod. Here she lay quietly for a little whde, when the sound of the curtain slipping on the rod made her open her eyes. At the foot of the bed, between the half-opened curtains, stood an old man in a long white flannel gown, with gray hair streaming over his shoulders. He immediately spoke to her, saying that if she would obey his directions she would be rich and independent for life. On the left hand of the fire-place, in the second row of stones, she would find one that had the corner broken oil', this she must raise, and keep what she found beneath. Here he ceased,

and passed out of sight, closing the curtains. She was half dead with fright, and shut her eyes in dread to see him again. After tome time she succeeded in persuading herself that she had been asleep, and this was only a dream at which it was very silly to be alarmed ; so she reasoned herself into calmness and unbelief, and was just sinking cmietly to sleep when the noise of the brass rings roused her to new terror. She opened her eyes, and there was the old man again, this time with a reproachful expression. He upbraided her for not following his directions, which he repeated with great minuteness ; adding, that if she neglected them, she would repent it all her life. This time she could not reason herself into composure. She shut her eyes tightly, drew the cover over her face, and lay there till the farmer's wife came to rouse her for the early starting of the travelers. It was only four o'clock, they dressed rapidly by a single candle, but before she left the room she took the light toward the fire-place, and there on the left side, in the second row, was a stone with the corner broken offl This sight quite upset her, and she hurried from the room, but said not a word of her strange visitant to the hostess. " The remainder of her journey was prosperous and without incident. She reached Montreal in safety, placed the children according to her husband's orders, and returned alone to New York. " On her way home she stopped, according to promise, at the farm-house where she had her strange adventure. The farmer's wife, delighted to see her, said she should again have the best room. ' Not for worlds 1' was the exclamation that broke from her, and naturally provoked an explanation. When it was made the hostess was quite overcome, saying more than once, ' Why did you not tell us ? Oh, if we had only known 1 But now it is too late.' On being pressed for the meaning of her evident distress, she said that, a few nights alter the departure of my mother-in-law, a large number of belated travelers had asked for sholtor, which was given them. They were no sooner in bed than a gentleman rode up, and begged to be allowed to remain till the next day, when he would pursue his journey. . What was to be done ? The house was already full, except what I must call the haunted chamber, and ii i. j . . i .i . i - - inougn ims was reserved ior special occasions me nospitable fanners determined to give it to him. Accordingly he retired to rest there, saying he was so exhausted that he did not wish to be called in the morning, but desired to sleep off his weariness. ' " At four, or about daybreak, the travelers departed, leaving the solitary horseman asleep, as it was supposed. Hours passed on, and the day was now so far advanced that the farmer feared some evil might have. betallen him, and determined to knock at the door. No answer was returned. At last they forced the door open, and found the room empty. The bed had evidently been slept in ; but what excited their wonder was that the stones of the fare-place had been removed, a great hole was visible under the hearth, and just in front of it stood a huge earthen pot with the cover lying beside it ; It was empty, and there was nothing to in dicate where it had come from or what had been its The mystery of the displaced hearth-stones was great, but there was none to solve it. On going to the stable his horse had disappeared, and a farm-servant, who slept there, said the traveler had come down about three o'clock, had saddled his horse in silence, and rode rapidly away. " It was now evident that this horseman had seen the vision, and, not being overpowered by terror, had prohted by the kuowledge ot so large a fortune. At any rate he was a practical man, and thought nothing would be lost by looking if there were really money under the stones. ; The farmer and his wife were loud in their expressions of distress and disappointment, and my mother-in-law fulfilled the old man's prophecy by never ceasing to regret that her fears had got the bet ter of her curiosity. Nothing further was ever heard of the horseman." . " A strange thing happened to a cousin of my fath er s, said the Hussian, " and, since we have entered upon family revelations, you shall have it, madam, as a companion to your story. This gentleman was at an Opera ball in Paris. Toward the close of the ball he went into a saloon almost deserted, and was standing alone in the centre ot it when ho felt a heavy blow on his shoulder. Not having heard any one approach, he turned suddenly, half in wonder, half in displeasure, to see if the blow came from friend or foe. There was no one near he stood absolutely alone, and an uncomfortable feeling crept over him. When he went home his valet asked him how he had been hurt, pointing out on his domino the mark of a bloodv hand lust where he had felt the mysterious blow. A few weeks later that arm was car ried away at the shoulder at the battle of Borodino.' " I have no ghost story to tell, said the elder American lady ; " but a circumstance that happened to my mother-in-law is worth hearing. Living in Moaador, where her husband was Consul-General, she was attacked with the African fever, and, to all ap pearances, died. Ihe Christian cemetery is outside the walls, and she was wrapped in linen, according to the custom of the country, and carried by Arabs to the grave ; arrived there, her husband, who was deTotedly attached to her, bade the bearers set down their precious burden that ho might once more gaze on those beloved features. They obeyed him ; the wrappings were removed, and the linen lifted from her face. It was so life-like, the faint color still lingering in her cheeks, that a sudden conviction smote him, and he de- . ... . .,, it i clared she was not dead, but should De camea DacK to Moerador. ' The Arabs and Christian by-standers re monstrated, and had almost succeeded in persuading him that his fond fancy deluded him, when she opened her eyes and softly sighed. This, of course, put an end to all discussion; she was earned back to her bed, where, for many weeks, she seemed to hang between life and death. On her recovery it was found that she had no remembrance of being borne to the cemetery, but rerarded it as one of her fever fancies. Ihe phys icians ordered this view of the matter to be studiously presented to her, and it was not till years had passed that she knew what a fearful fate had been averted by her husband's love. She had a recollection of the measured pace of the bearers and the playing of the wind as it raised the linen coverings over her face, but beyond that all was vague and confused. She never liked to refer to the subject, and I have seen her turn pale when it was alluded to in her heanng. " The mention of grave-clothes," said the Russian, " reminds mo of a story devoutly believed in a village near Moscow. A rich farmer took for his second wife a woman who treated very badly the children of the first marriage. They were bruised and beaten, their clotches were in rags, and they crept at night supperless to bed, glad to escape from the tyranny of the step-mother. The mother was not so dead that her children's tears could fail to wake her; they wept her out of her grave, and everv night, when the step-moth er had gone to bed, the mother would rise to comfort her little ones. The Russian villages are generally composed of one long street, with the cemetery at one end. The fanner's house was at the opposite end, and every night, at the same hour, she was seen passin;

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her grave-clothes. The peasants knew when she was coming by the howling ol their dogs, and closed their shutters to avoid seeing the shrouded mother. The children had no fear of her, and she would carass them, tend them, feed them, wash them, and care for them as in her life. During these ghostly visits the stepmother invariably remained plunged in a heavy sleep, from which nothing could rouse her; the husband, on the contrary, continued awake, watching her maternal ministerings with mingled dread and love. She never spoke to him, and he never could summon the necessary courage to address her, but ho watthed for her nightly appearance with a feeling half dread, half satisfaction. " And now, ladies, it is twelve o'clock, just the proper time to see spirits; it is, also, full time for us all to go to bed : but before we separate for the night, by way of warning against too credulous fancies,! will tell you the story of the ' Dutch Brothers,' as it was related to me by a friend of the principal actor. " These Dutch brothers were two young officei-s of a very distinguished family in Friesland, passionately attached to each other, handsome, accomplished, anil high-principled. They were idolized in their regiment, perhaps particularly so on account of almost their only fault, a certain rash valor, rather different from the quiet prudence usually ascribed to their nation. Like my fnend Count Pahlen, these young officers were exceedingly anxious to see a ghost, and took a great deal of pains to plunge into all sorts of poker places, in the hope of finding them tenanted by beings from the other world. At last they seemed to find the orthodox old castle with its haunted room ; everybody bore witness to the horrible sights and sounds nightly to be seen and heard therein, and these young gentlemen determined to pass the night there. They provided themselves with a good supper, a fire, lights, and loaded pistols. The hours wore on ; no ghost was seen, no ghostly sounds were heard ; the younger brother laid his head on the table and deliberately resigned himself to a comfortably sleep. The elder brother, though exceedingly weary, determined to remain awake and await the issue of events. After a while a noise roused him from a reverie into which he had fallen ; he raised his eyes, and beheld the wall opening in front of his seat. Through the opening glided a tall figure, in white, who signed to him to follow. He rose, and fol-' lowed the figure through long, damp, dark passages till they reached a large, brilliantlv-lighted room,wbee a ball was going on. Above the strains of music and the din ot voices pierced a strange, sharp, clicking 6fiund like the noise of castanets. . Bewildered ana dazzled by the sudden transition from darkness and silence to this gay festive scene, it was some moments before he could collect his senses ; but he was shocked into sobriety by perceiving that these gayly-dressed ladies and their richly-uniformed cavaliers were skeletons, and the curious sound that had impressed him so strangely was the clicking of their fleshless jaws ! The figure at his side ordered him to take a partner from this hideous throng, which he refused to do. Irritated at this refusal the figure raised his arm to strike, but the officer instantly leveled at him the pistol he had continued to grasp and discharged it full m his face. " With the shock and report he started to his feet. The white figure, the ball-room, the fearful ghastly dancers, all had vanished, and he was in the room, where he supped, but his brother lay dying at her side. He had shot him in his dream, and awakened only to receive his last breath. From that night he was an altered man all the gayety had gone out of his life, all the sunshine had faded from his days, and after a tew years ot unavailing anguish ot remorse, he found himself unable to bear the burden of his regrets, and put an end to his life. " And now, good-mght ! PENNSYLVANIA BOGUS BANKS AND NEW YORK STATE FINANCIERS IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES.: i From the North American, July 21. , We publish to-day a long but but very interesting report just made by a committee appointed by the last Legislature ot this commonwealth, to investigate the affairs of sundiy new banking corporations of the interior. The expose is calculated to be very useful, as showing how the speculators of New York State are in ' the habit of dabbling in financial matters in Pennsylvania, with a view to swindling the community as thoroughly as they do their own folks at home. A similar investigation in JNew Jersey lately, by the liovernor and other officials, developed a state of things even worse. The first of these Pennsylvania banks, all of which were chartered at the Legislative sesrion of 1857, is the Tioga County Bank. The letters patent state that the subscription amounted to 1,069 shares, and the committee found that 1,040 of these had been subscrib ed, and the first instalment paid in a single day, by certain Buffalo financiers, of whom Wells D. Wal-.

bndge, for himself and various females, took 640 Bhares, while Ed. E. Thayer, of Buffalo, took 200 more, and J. W. Brawley took the remaining 200. Thayer be-, longs to a nest of financiers of that name in Buffalo,' one of whom opened the bank, and at once entered discounts to the amount of $20,655, all to Buffalo par-' ties. G. P. Steers, of Buffalo, who was elected teller of the bank, says that, upon taking charge of it, there, was a deficit of $6,373. The discounts now amount to $89,066 38, nearly all of which has been to Buffalo parties, and all, except one note of $1,100, in sums of from $5,000 to $8,500. The Thayers and Walbridge' figure either as drawers or endorsers in nearly all of these. It is clear that the bank was purely speculative, , the subscription notes having been immediately discounted. . The same parties appear to have been the operators in the new bank of Crawford county. To this concern 1,534 shares of stock were subscribed, of which 1,210 were held by the Buffalo gang, and the rest by J.' Porter Brawley, as one of the same party, except about forty-four shares. This subscription was paid in Tioga County Bank notes, being chiefly the $20,155 discounted at the organization of that concern, except about $500 paid in specie. ' The bank has a circulation of of $34,055 against $2J96 84 in gold and silver, and its discounts reach $127,917 52, of which $63,800 has been to parties out of the State. The tel-,. ler states that he and the President ordered at the same time the engraving of the plates for both this and the ' Tioga County Bank. . , . ' ' The Thayers again figure as the parties taking the stock of the new Shamokin Bank, of which the whole subscription was 1,640 shares, while they and their associates took 1,520 shares. One of the Thayers settled , for all the stock subscribed by persons not residing in Shamokin, and paid no money except $7,000 in gold and $28,000 in notesof the Tioga and Crawford counties banks. Immediately upon the organization of the bank, the books show that $41,015 50 of discount were granted to J. Jackson, of New York city, and Underbill & Lockhart, $38,000 being in one item to, Jackson. The endorsers of these notes are J. W. Un derhill and R. R Underbill, while the teller of the bank is Robert Underbill. The circulation amounts to $25,450, and the cash to $2,372 05. The cashier, David A. Robinson, formerly of Buffalo, explains, that the money paid in as capital stock of the ' bank, was discounted to the parties named, and the notes were left as the capital of the bank. A person , named Street, on pretence of Jaeing a man of means, who intended subscribing $40,000 to the stock of the bank, was entrusted with $20,000 to arrange a system of exchange with the banks of Western Pennsyl vania," instead of which he appropriated the money to his own uses, but was afterwards arrested and obliged to die--, gore. J. Jackson, who figures as a rrncipal opera-