Vincennes Gazette, Volume 10, Number 26, Vincennes, Knox County, 5 December 1840 — Page 1

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SArnivnz.'3 vish. I ant to innrrv vcs I do I vnnt r little vjf,, To comb my 'aii and va.h my mvk. An J be my all my lif.. A.iam lived in l'aiaili-,.. He ihJ'nt live content, Till from his sine a rib vos ta,k. And int. vo;nan Sent. Just think how A Jam must have sarel. Von first he got avake,AnJ founJ himself a married man, ithout eVn veJJing rake. I vih that I couU do the same lust c to sleep some night, And rake up in the mornm vith, A 'ife to bless inv sight. "m werry baht"ul ye. I nm "Tvvould save !ae lot-; of trouble. To co to bed a single man. A n! vaw un as - couMe. Frii:i t'.e National inteiiiencer. "Quoi'LIBt: cuiitttini.i..;- i,otne annuls thereof, icilh an authentic nccon it of the origin and grate:. 'i ' the borough, and the sayings and dcdniri nf sundry of the fnirniproplr; intercrcd with sketches of the mot remarkable and distinguished characters rf thai place and it vicinity. Edited hy So..,.-.a ..' 'N.; U'V;,;hts, Schoolmaster, from original JISS. inditfd by him, and ;??" ma le public at the n u"if and tin the patronage, of t 'if grcaf .fw Ligit Democratic Lcn tr u Committee of '.'." the rV: -vie ".mew-hat quaint !u uii-cirno votun, t "jro puges. r-"--rt:! i !.;aie'i-t U" iiublishi'd 1 Mossr". fvi i-n I nas -tain--.! an 1 instructed, though it Ii?-what ti'O-. iM-rt'U, tin.' re.-tlinu 1 V ii)Ii'-." Ah '!t a d '. "A pre'iminary pi-ire- ar- occupied h an account of intoriocc.'or". a-'tors. and o :, r. 3 n rcd in this liistor -" wh:c!i rr:i'r'!; w-W have be'Ui "pa.r"! i; tu )' which uirt". !". -v -..f tii-'o- tasres ti-.ere i- tK-thin in tiie veiume w Inch wecan oarc. It is a irraphi, and witty hitorv of Van Iiurenism. written by :ii-d.") 1 v w!io know-all about it, a great rifiiiv other ?!iin besides. We have heard of f!ie authorhip of the b ok aserih-'d to ral individuals, ononcr whom is a '. niiiiinrr vvliom is .1 dlS;i'ltruihe. ?:,..t T1i ' of ptuHvlvania: but, as inn nvr w a apolitical t'riend of Mr. Va.n Bur"n. and a 3 t;ire is internal evidence in the work" fending to show that flv wrii'-r nra iuive been once dep in the secrets, of the Lo - ifoco party, the upp"sifion does no; seem very probable; though, in a merely literary aspect, the work is fully worthy of the imp;, fed paternity. The most plausible guess which we have heard points to an eminent individual, whoso defection from Van B.irenism is of t recent date, an 1 nf vet generally known. The cause of it is aid to b' the President's letter to Ken'ucky. charging (General Washington. Mr. Ma iion, and others v.-'tu corruption, wlrcli s un' of t'n ( hi tn" nncip;e3 on .Junius discover e-r shave pr,.cr..,lod, t'i - absence of any illusion in 'Qron:j;;i;T" to the Kentucky letter is a circumstance in favor of the conjecture, supposing the author to be, for any reason, desirous of concealment. A leading object of the book is to expose, the proves- bv which Mr. Van Buren jt-w his partisans have sought to acquire the nam" of democrats, and bv means of xhat name to carry whatever measures appeared necessary to keep themselves in power. Th" chief implement of the policy is. of cours", ft party drill which converts men into machines, manufactures 'public sentiment" at a moment's warning, and makes popular elections the mere formal ratifications of proceedings previously arranged between th" President and his agents. A village called "Quodbbet"is selected as the theatre of their operations, and the ct-oe of the year 1S33, wh'-n it was Mr. Van Huron's cue fmnultiph banks, as the period of their commeirenicn'.. Theodore Fog. a drunken pettifogger, and Xicademus Ilan-ly. a broken lottery frent. nut their heads together and deter mined to establish a bank with a capital of half a million of dollars, "the rtock S100 a share, of which SI was to be paid in, and 'the remainder to be teenred fn promts'soyy note payable on demand. 1 conic nicnt." The plan was open.-J, m a speecn from l og, at a meeting nem at tavern called "d'he Her. crons being pre sent, counting Ferret, the proprietor. Tim Porter, the bar-keeper. an' "Through the lihi Ol log. die nef thrco eossarv cah was suppoeu out hundred dollars, the remains d a trust fund in his ban Is belonging to a family of orphans in th - lvdghborhood of Jumbledown who 1 not yet had occasion to know from ::r attorney, thn said Theodore Fog. himself of their success in a cans relating to this fund which had been -amed some month- before. As Nicodo-

mus managed the subscriptions, which in

deed he did with wonderful .skill, these three hundred dollars went a great wav in Linking up the payment on considerablv more than the majority of the stock: an. this being adjusted, h- undertook a visit to the Legislature, where, through the disintererted exertions of some staunch dem- . ocratic friend.?, he procured a moot unexceptionable charter for t'ae bank, full of :all sort? ot provision, conditions and clauses necessary to enable it to accom modate the pubiic with as much paper money as tue said imbue could no-!sibk- p . - 1 1 - Isire.' j Fog wanted to be President of the Bank, ; but his habits being deemed objectionable. the Hon. Middleton Fiam. the represent tative of the Congressional district to which Quodlibet belonged, wan chosen: Fog w as ! made a Director, with the law business of the Hank as his perquisites, and Handv wns made Cashier. It being particularly desirable to propitiate Michael Cram, a Whig of "substance and consideration.' as Mr. Butler says, to the project. Handv labored the point with him at length. "He argued, with amazing cogency, that Ceneral Jackson had removed the deponites for the express purpose of destroying the Bank of the I'nited States, and giving the State Banks a fair field; that the H'M Hero was an enthusiastic friend to jStato Mights, and especially to State Banks. which it was t!i' desire ot his heart to see increased and multiplied all over the country; that lie was actually as it were, making pets out ot tnese banks and was determine a to moneys, the laud 1 teo and a 5 1 the 11 up with the public give them such a credit m would forever shut out all hope to the friends of a Xatioiia! Bank to succeed with their purpose; an 1 hna!iy md the Whigs were ' the tiene ral in his iblish New Banks in 1st a nee wa - ad ready It was with a visible that although Clav endeavoring to rest determination to ;. the States, that re considered boneless. air of triumph that Mr. Handy, in confirmation of this opinion, read from the (ilobe of the 1st of December previous, these words: "The intelligent people of the West know how ti maintaui their rights and independenoo and to repeal oppression. Although foiled in the beginning, every western state is about to establish a State Bank institution.- They are re -.Ived to avail themselves of their ownStatecredit, as well ," of the .National credit, to maintain a currency independent of foreign control. Mr. ( 'lay's presses in Kentucky begin now to feel how vain are all their efforts to resist th" determination of the people in the West. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kentucky are resolved to take care of themselves, and no longer depend on the kind guardianship of Biddle, Clay ,V Co.' " Having laid this fact before Mr. (Jrant by way of clinching the argument, Mr. Handy pulled out of his pocket a letter which he had just received from the Secretary of the Treasury. It contained a communication of the. deepest import to the future fortunes of our Borough; which communication, as 1 have been favored by Mr. Handy with a copy, I feel happy to transcribe here for the edification of my reader. It is a circular, and came to our cashier printed on gilt-edged letter paper, having the title of the Bank, the date and some other items filled up in writing: "Treasury Department, April 1, 1810. " 'Siu. The Patriotic Copperplate Jiatik of Quadbbet has been selected by this department as the depository of the public money collected in Quodlibet and its vicinity; and the Marshal will hand you the form of a contract proposed to be executed, with a cony of his instructions from this department. In selecting your institution as one of the fiscal agents of the Government, I not only relv on it solidity and established character, asallbrding a -ulFicient guaranty for the safety of the public money entrusted to its keeping, but I confide also in its disposition to adopt the most liberal course which circumstances will admit toward other moneyed institutions generally, and particularly those in your vicinity. The deposites of the public money will enable von to afford increased facilities to commerce, and to extend your accommodations to individuals; and as the duties which are payable to the Government arise from the business and enterprise of the merchants engaged in foreign trade.it is but reasonable that they should be preferred in the additional accommodations which the public deposites will enable your institution to give, whenever it can bo done without injustice t the claims of ofher classes of the community. " I am. eVe. U. B. TANKV. " 4 Secretary of the Treasury. '7a th: President of the Patriotic Coerplatc Bank of Quodlioei." ' Mr. Grant remained inexorable; but the bank w ent on swimmingly. "And. truly, the bank did a great busi-nes-! Mr. 1 laney who is acknowledged to be a man of taste, procured one of the handsomest plates, it is supposed, that Murray. Draper and Fairmand ever executed, and with about six bales of pinkish silk paper, and a very superior cylinder press, created an amount of capital which soon put to rest old Mr. Grant's grumbling about the want of solidity in the bank, and fully justified the Secretary's declaration of his confidence in its established character as affording a sufficient guaranty for the

safety of the hublie, money entrusted to its keeping.' "It was in the course of this year, and

pretty soon after the bank got tfie depos ues, mat :lr. Handv began hi row of lour storv brie! wart? nouses on has in. which now goes ly the name of Nic.cx.lemus's Row. He also laid the foundation ol his mansion on the hill, fronting upon Handy Place; and w hich edifice he subsequently finished, so much to the- adornment of our borough, with a Grecian portico in front, and an Italian verando looking to-wards the garden. As his improve ments advanced in this and the next reRr, bo auccessively reared a temple of Minerva on the top of the ice-house, a statue of Apollo in the centre of the carriage circle, a sun dial on a marble pillar where the garden walls intersect, and a gilded dragon weathercock 011 the cupalo of the stables. The new banking-house was commenced early in the summer, and has been finish ed o very heaiifitn irmmip. nonur in us front, if I am rightly informed bv Mr. Handv, an exact miniature copy of the imb of Osymandias: it is situated on Flam street, the first after you leave the basin, going northward. All the director, ex cept rog, tolloweu the footsteps of their illustrious predecessor, Mr. Handy, and went to work to build themselves villas on the eeafed ground 'pack of the. trough. now known hv the nam? f CorvKvphite Bidge which villas wen duly coni;iet' m aii manner ot ( iro''!;. Lomaii. and 1 uscan l-aslnons. "The bank did a sw. 'epin b:i this time; and nothing more beautiful than tin it was conducted. It 1 can b the. ry ha" run IK1 ill COIl-: civet out ot my of pink memory how many nov.siik paper were turne 1 off amount would .caree!y be were to set it down; and t'n t ion principle was carried o.i bale bv it but the believed if I acc-oiiiiu- dato an extent must nave ii'"1 b tru: v gratifying to the secretary. Stm even mis mot exemplary .1 . institution did not escape the malevolence of the Whigs. That ever complaining party. a3 the lion. Middleton Flam a- sured us by letter, were making a great ado in Congress about all the banks, but particularly alxmt ours alleging, in their usual factious manner, that the Government would lost; money by us, as well as by the others. "Deeming this charge as one of peculiar atrocity, we at once determined f take it up in our New Light Clu! md stamp upon it the most conclusive refutation. We accordingly fixed an evening lor thn discussion, during Christmas week, w hen we knew that our member would be at home to visit his family; and he was of course invited to attend and give bis views upon thh very interesting question. The meeting was in the Town Hall, upstairs. alove the Female Lyceum. All Q11''!'1bet was present. I shall be long thankful to Providence for the dignified station which it fell to my lot to Jill on that menio. a b!e occasion. Bv a most unexpected but most felicitious chance. I was honored that night with a call to the chair the worthy Mr. SnutTers, our President, not being able to attend in consequence of the interesting condition of Mrs. Snuffers. As the subject of discussion was one of thrilling interest, the most intense anxiety prevailed to hear the speech of our eloquent Representative. He came fully prepared, bringing with him a load of documents. Our Vice, Mr. Doubledav. w ho is a solid thinking shrewd person, of that maturity of judgment which if is impossible to impose qon. ami himself, by the by. . a first-rate debater, told me, after we broke up. that Mr. Flam's discourse that evening on the banking system at large, and on the safety of the banks in particular, was one of the closest pieces of reasoning he had ever listened to in his life. I regret that I have. preserved so imperfect an outline of this speech, but such as it is I offer it to my reader. "The orator commenced very appropriately by remarking how impossible it was. iii the nature of things to satisfy the Whin-son any point. Ho said there were three parties in Congress: First, the Whigs 1 .'11 I . .1 .. 1 . . " '. H 1 1-? Q ,1 fWHO Still CrOaivOU aOOUl l ivunimu x.tm.v and his description of their croaking was to the last degree humorous: it produced peals of laughter. Second, the through-going Qaodlibitarian Whole Hogs, who were stead! ', t and immovable for the State Banks; and a Third party, small in numbers, 'attenuated' as he remarked with irrisistiblv comic effect 'and gaunt: feeble, shrill ami like crickets who might scarcely bo sen in day-time; and who. when the bill to Regulate the Depositee was up, presented w ba t. in his opinion, was the most alarming, if it had not been the. most ridiculous scheme, in relation fo the public monev. that had ever been h;i!ohed in the hot-be'd of faction. These men.be raid, called themselves Conservative.-. And what think you, Mr. President.' he asked. 'was their project? It was. sir, to separate the Government from the Banks. Here Mr. Flam w as interrupted by a loud lauo-h. A Mr. Gordon. he said. 'was at thehead of this little troop. He proposed a bill, two sessions ago, to place the revenue and public, moneys in the hands of Keceivers the moneys were to bo paio to these Receiver in gold and silveti! and no bank va to be entrusted with a dollar!! And this,' exclaimed Mr. Flem. with a t,-,ro of 'nimitflh'.c irony, 'was tn be done for the safety of the public Trra-urr

Your money not cafe in the hands of the Banks, but perfectly secure in the keeping of these honest Receivers w ho were to be furnished with vaults and iron chests to lock

it up in!!! Oh. rare Conservatives! Oh, wuse Conservatives!! Oh, honest Conservatives!!! "Well all thought the ceiling of the Town Hall would have toppled down on our heads from the laughter occasioned by this sally. In this admirable strain he continued for several minutes- At length taking himself up, and falling into a tone of grave expostulation, he pulled out n copy of the Globe from his jocket, and proceeded: 'Admirably, sir, has this paper which rii- 1., 1 noiu m mv hand, descanted on this most wicked project. These well-timed re marks I beg leave to read. Hear the in comparable, Blair.' 'Had such a sugges tion,' says he, come from General Jack' son, it would have been rung through the Old Dominion as conclusive proof of all the aspirations which may have been charged to the Hero of New Orleans. See, here, they would say, he wirhes to put the public money directly into the palms of his friends and partisans, instead of keeping it on deposite in Banks, w hence it cannot bo drawn for other than for public purpo-ies, without certain detection. In .such a case, we should feel that the peo ple dad just cause for alarm, and ought to give their mo -t w atchful attention, to such an ed irt i 1 enlarge Ivxecufive power, and put in ill hands the means of corruption.' Most admirably again' continued Mr. Flam. has this same incomparable Blair raid. The scheme is disorganizing and revolution-try, subser nv e of the fundamental principles of our Government, and of its practice from 1?N! down to this day.', 'Will vfu. fr emeu of Ouodlihef, g'mtle-! men of the New- Light,' exclaimed Fiam. 'if faction should g no far as t Mr. o put t'us odious, disorganizing and revolutionary yoke upon the country, will you, freemen of Quodiibef. submit 1 1 it ?' '.No!' shouted the. readv resjHinse of sixty-four voices. " "Gentlemen listen to the words of the Old Hero, continued Mr. Flam, with a gratnlatory smile playing on his face, presenting at the same time a printed document, which he carefully unfolded, 'listen io this 'old man eloquent.' whoso month r.rr "or opened bm to breathe the precepts of w isdom and patriotism. I read you from his last message. In remarking upon this absurb project, the President, in this able paper, holds the following language: 'To retain the Public Revenue in the Treasury unemployed in any wav is impracticable. It is considered agtiinst the genius of our free institutions to lxdc up in vaults the treasure of the Nation. Such a treasure would doubtless be employed at some time, as it has in other countries, when opportunity tempted ambition.' Now, are you w illing. Men of Quodlibet. again ejaculated our eloquent representative, as he slapped the dixtument upon the table, 'ate you willing, or can vou consent to tolerate a proposition which is against the genius' "'No!' thundered forth sixty-four New Lights afrain. before our orator had finished the sentence." Mr. Flam illustrates the safety of the deposites by reading the following extract from Mr. Secretary Woodbury's report of December 12. 1831. "It is gratifying to reflect, however, that the credit given bv the Government, w hether to hank paper or to bank agents, has been accompanied b smaller losses in the experience under the system of State Banks in this country, at their worst periods, and under their severest calamities, than any other kind of credit the Government has ever given in relation to its pecuniary transactions." "Again," he continued' turning to another page, "It is a singular fact, in praise of this description of public debtors the selected banks that there is not now due. on deposite, in the whole of them which have ever stop ped payment, from the establishment of the Constitution to the present moment, a sum much bevond w hat is now due to the United States from one mercantile firm. that stopped payment in 1825 or 18i(). and of whom ample security was required, and supixjsed to be taken under the responsi bility of an oath. If we include the whole present dues to the Government from discredited banks, at all times, and of all kinds, whether as depositories or not. and embrace even counterfeit bills, and every other species of unavailable funds in the Treasury, they- will not exceed what is due from two such firms. Of almost one hundred banks, not depositories, which, during all our wars and commercial em barrassments, have heretofore failed, in any part of the Cnion. in debt to the OovernmenUon their bills or otherwise, it will be seen bv the alxwe table (to which Mr. Flam referred as annexed to the report) that the whole ot them, except seventeen, have adjusted every thing which they owed, and that the balance due from them, without interet. is less than "i?3!,000." "There, gentlemen New Lights of Quodlibet," said Mr. Flam, when he had finished reading these extracts, "what can be added bevond this certificate from the Secretary of the value of our State Banks." Even the lips of Whigism are sealed bofore it; and nothing is left but the confession that, in all their senseie-ss clamor

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been but the ebullition of disappointed ambition and peevish discontent. Are you willing. I ask, to see this glorious system prostrated to the earth?" "No!" was again the general crv. "Are you confenr to see your cherished banks stripped of the confidence, of the Government?" "No never, never!" shouted the New Lights, to a man. "Then, gentlemen Quadlibutarians, radii of the New Lights, you have justified all my hopes. Your applause rewards all my toils your support and confidence

enlist all mv gratitude. With emotions of heart-felt satisfaction, I bid you each good night!" Witli these words, this remarkable man gathered up his documents, and, with a countenance full of smiles, retired from the midst of this circle of his devoted yes, I may say, his idolizing friends. It 15 found necessary to have a Government "official" at Quodlibet. and Mr. Han dy recommends, at a public meetingtjf the 'democratic party,' Mr. Kliphalct Fox as a suitable editor. "Fpo.n this a stranger, who had been seated in a back part of the room, w rapped up in a green Camlet cloak with plaid lining, which I may add had apparently seen much service, stepped forward, and disrobing himself of this outer garment, stood full before the President. I le was a thin, faded little fellow, whose clothes eemed to be somewhat too large for him. His eve was grav. and rather dull, his physiognomy melancholy, bis cheek sunken, his complexion freckled, his coat blue, the buttons dingy, his hair sandy and like untw isted ropes. I ho lirst glaneo at the person ot this new comer gave, every man ot the ciubtiie assurance that here was an editor indeed. A whisper of approbation ran through the crowd, and from that moment, ;n Mr. Doubledav afterwards said to me. we felt assured that we had the man we wanted. " "Mr. President, raid he, in a feeble and sickly voice, 'my name is Fox. I am in want of employment. Sir,' he added, gritting his teeth and taking an attitude, if the rancor of my soul, accumulated by maltreatment, set on edge by disappoint-, ment. indurated by time, entitle me to claim your confidence, then, sir, my chum stands number one. If a thorough know 1edge, sir. of fhecharacjerisfie traits of federalism, long acquaint;' nee with its designs, persecution, sir. from its votaries, a deep experience, of its black ingratitude; if days of toil spent in its service, nights of feverish anxiety protracted in ruminating over its purposes; if promises violated, hopes blasted, labors unrewarded, may be deemed a stimulus to hatred then. sir. am I richlv endowed with the qualifications to expose, the enemies of Quodlibetarian democracy. 1 am a child, sir. of sorrow: the milk of my nature has been curdled bv ne'dect. Mine is a history of talents underrated, sensibilities derided, patriofism rpurncd.alHucn.ee. nay. competence, withheld. The world has turned me aside. I have no resting place on the bosom f my mother. Society like a demon, pursues me. Writs in the hands of the sheriff, judgments on the docket, Ji. fas. ca. sas. track mv footsteps. No limitation runs in my favor: the scire facias, ever ready, revives the inhuman judgment; and my second shirt my first is in rags is stripped from my body to glut the avarice of my relentless pursuers. Thank God. I have at last found a friend in that distinguished man who has been so ruthlessly, so recently assailed, by that fledgling of the aristocracy, Augustus Postlethw aite Tompkinson. " Yes. sir. in the, honorable Middleton Flam I have found a friend. He has given me letters to this benevolent gentleman, Mr. Handv; he has recommended my establishment here; he promises toco-operate with this respectable club in giving me a foothold amongst you. With her Flams and her Handys. Quodlibet is destined to an enviable influence in this great republic.' (Here he was interrupted by loud cheers.) 'Mv scheme is, Mr. President, with the aid of "this club, and that of the benefactors 1 have named, forthwith to start the Qcoplibet Whole Hou. It shall take a decidei nnd iiricomuromisihir stand airamst I he ...... 1 r- cr Tho3ot'ghblue Whole Team, (here ho was again arrested) by that vile prmt. fcheers:1 to traduce and bring down its editor by the most systematic disparage ment, (cheers;) to disprove all Whig as sertions; unfailingly to tr.ke the opiposite side on all nuestioas; industriously to low er the standing of the members of the Whig party, (imnien.se cheers;) through thick and thin, go'l rejort and evil report, for be tter and for worse, to d fend and sustain the administration of the new President, who is about to take his seat, that incomparable democrat of the genuine Quodiibetarion stamp. Martin an Buren. at tins . 1 piint the cheering continued 1 r some n men'-, with such violence that, the speak m - er had to . suspend bis remarks: and finally, sir. to commend, exalt. nI iduln:fe tfie character and pretensions of our mirivalle.l friend Mr. Flam. immense cheering. giving utrerrnce to hi sentiments, preponderance to his opinion', authority '" b:s advice on all proper and suitable occasions, loud cheering for a long tim-. In short, sir, the Whole Hog shall ! what its name imports, a faithful m;.rr-rof the democracy of Quodlibet. lis publication snail be weekly; its iie twenty-s.ix by twenty, navthe advantage over the " hole ream J .IV J Ul I 1 w o 111' il'-i ci-.v 11 "oj. in-. i- .

is an outline of my sentiments and proposed paper.' Mr". Fox concluded this address in the midst of a congratulatory uproar altogether unprecedented in the club.' In the course of events, "The Patriotic Copperplate Bank of Quodlibet" fails We must give the scene in full: It falls to my lot at this stage of my story, to be constrained to record an event the most astounding, the most awful, the most unexpected, the most treacherous, tho most ungrateful, the most flagitious yea, the most supcreo,;iu;nly tlagitiT.s tlmt thn history of mankind it fiords. Notwithstanding that lauditory and political ejaculation w hich the hero and sage breathed out in the Hveningof his brilliant career, like the last notes of the swan, (I leave this great Peopie prosperous and happy' notwithstanding that flatteringcanzr.net, w ith w hich ho who pledges himself to walk in the hero

and sage's footsteps began his illustrious course, singing, as if were, the morning carol of the lark, "we present an aggregate of human prosperity surely not "elsewhere to be found" the echo of thesa sweet sound had not died a w ay ujon tho tympana of our ravished ears, before thesr banks these gentle pet banks these fos tered, favored, sugar-plum and candy-fed pet banks, with all their troop of curtailed, combed, and pampered par; gon sister bankc. one and a without r.rc pang of w anting, see. on remorse, without one word of without even, as far as we could tui'd t ressed and struggling blush, mcon'inently suspended specie payments! ( curas iiominum! Quantum e? in rebus inane! S ial! I tell it? F.ven o, Patriotic Copperplate Bank of Quo M"t w j:s compelled 10 t.iiow m mis la. th, ess p.tth. Xot at once. 1 confess not o,T hand, and with such malice prepense as the others for Nicodemus Handy had a soul above such black ingratitude bufafVra pause, and let the truth be told in extenuation, because he cou'd not help if. The Hon. Middleton Flam wrs sent for ujK.n the first tidings of this extraordinary kicking in the traces by these high-mettled institution tidings which reached Quodlibef. n ia the canal. aVnit eleven o. clock one morning in May. Th directors were summoned info council. What was to be done? was the yeneral question. Anthony I lanibott',e. of he firm of Barndollar iV Hardbottle a grave man and thoughtful a man without Hash, who seldom smiles a lean man. hard favored and simple in his outgoings and incomings a man who has never sported, as long as 1 have knownhim. any other coat than that snutT brown with covered buttons, and who does not wear out alxve one pair of shoes in the year a man who could never be pursuaded to give so far in to the fime as to put on a black cravat, but has alwnv stuck to the w hite such a man, it may bo easily imagined, was not to be carried awav bv new-fangled notions he w there at the board, m putce of I heodor Fog. who was compelled two years beforo to withdraw his name as a candidate for reelection. This same Anthony Hardlxttle. speaking under the dictates of that cautious wisdom natural to him as a merchant, answered this question of Whnt w as to be done? by another equally laconic and pregnant w ith meaning "How much cash have we on hand!" 'One hundred and seven dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents in silver," replied Nichodpmus, "and fi?e half eagles in gold, which were brought here by our honorable President and placed on deposite after he had used them in the last election for the pinpose of showing the people what an admirable currency we were to have, as soon as Mr. Benton should succeed in making it float up the stream of the Mississippi." Again asked Anthony Hardbottle, "What circulation have y ou abroad?" "Six hundred thousand dollars," replied Nicodemus, "and .1 trifle over." "Then." said Anthony, "I think we had better suspend with the rest." "Never," said the honorable Middleton Flam, rising from his seat and thumping the table violently with his hand. "Never, sir, whilst I am President of this bank, and there is a shot in the locker." "Bravo well said, admirably said, spoke as a Quodlibetaiian ought to speak!" shouted Dr Thomas G. Winkleman, th keeper of the soda pavillion; "I have fifteen dollars in five-penny bits; they are at the service cf the Board, and while I hold a piece of coin, the Patriotic Copperplate Bank shall never be subjected to the reproach of being unable to meel it obliga ions. Anthony Hardbottle, as a democrat I am surprised at you-" I can't help it," replied Antohny; "in mv opinion, our issues are larger than our means." "How, larger, sir?" demanded Mr. Snuffers, the President of the New Light, wiih some asperity of tone. "Ilavrn't we a batch cf bran new notes, just signed and ready for delivery? Redeem the old notes with the new. V hy should we suspend?" "Gentlemen, I will put the question to the board," interposed Mr. Flam, fearful lest a quarrel might arise, if th debate , continued. "Shall this Bank suspend specie payments? Those in faror of this iniquitous proposition will say Ay." No one answered- Anthony Hardbot-