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A. H. BUCKNER, Epitor and Phopkietor.
"power is ever stealing from the MANr to the few.
G. B. PRICE, Pdblisher.
VOL. 8 N UMBELS. 16.
BOWLING-GREEN, MO. SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1841.
WHOLE NUMBER 3 80.
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in of tiik (Juekn's Accouchement, j are under the board of directors very good;
Unco clock. Her majesty's left eye blinks. I thirdly and lastly, the directors are under
t we mmutcs after one. Sir James Clarke ! the stockholders. And this is the end of the
has taken a pinch of snuir. (chapter. Are the olfieersof this Bank cho-
i en minutes. Prince Albert has twisted se" hy the people? No. Are the directors
His mustaches twice. j elected by the people? So. Are the stock-
r tl teen minutes. Her royal highness, the , holders appo nted by the people or in any
Imehess of Kent, has just trod upon the ; tval' just representatives -of the people?
tOm cats tail. Xo. TI.A word Sol. in:or,i;v.l.le ;;
l in-n I ij minutes. Her
a cup of water gruel
majesty has taken not ,n the nature of a National Bank to be
TwrutiJirc minutes.
lhilj fast one. Her majesty's puis
'1 irmly five minutes of two. Princ
took a gin toddy, "
majesty is in a mon-
SHSCELLAXEOUS.
THE BA it BE irs uiiusr.
The following story is old but a precious
good one. We laughed heartily over it "long
time ago," and presuming many of our rea-
of
it, we serve U up for
ders never heard
their edification
'A gentleman travelling sums years since
in the upper part of this State, called at a
tavern and requested entertainment for the
night. Tiie Ian llord informed him that it
was out of his power to accommodate him.
as his house was already full. He persisted J tiiw.rc CHiprr.
in stopping as lie as well as his horse were !
almost exhausted with travelling. ! A nov in a
J ire It til initiates. Her limiestv l.-nnn,1
fi. :..,. :.c ..... . --,
i.it 1! one oi me deputy nurses.
m ijievn minutes. Her
str.ms bad htimor.
Tierlrc minutes. Her majesty has sneezed
again.
Ten minute.. prince- !
Fire minutes. Prince Albert, in his joy,
has kissed one of the sub-assistant deputy
nurses.
Tiro o'. liek. The principal nurse has up
upset a cup of ponmh.
Ten miii n 'rs a fter two. Her little royal
highness has a soprano voice.
Fifteen minutes. Sir James Clark and Dr.
Laeock have each taken snulf.
Twenty mi miles. Her majestv's health
continues in a most satisfactory state. ltnl
I subject to an v authority bt the dictates of
Hermajestv sneezed. I 'ts nvn interests; it is under no power but
sc heavy. : u,e divinity ol gain. 1 lie word fcuper, how-
rince Albert ever, may be properly used in this case the
Super United States Ba k or the Above
United States Bank that is the bank which
at once towers, like Diana jmong her atten
dant nymphs, supercminent above Congress
and at'ovc the people.
BxiB. A man of busi-
".fter much solicitation the lanJlord con- n(s advertised in a Piiiiadelphi.t paper, ' A
HARD TIMES IN 13 w AND 1319.
But few of our citizens who are now en
gaged in the active business of life, have for
gotten the grievous distresses tinder which
the whole country labored in 131 3 and on up
to 1 820, and even later.
It needs but a slight examination into the
history of those times to convince even those
who have no recollection of them, that all
the embarrassments of the people were
brought about directly by the United States
Bank, which went into artive operation a
bout the begining of 1817, and the eighteen
branches which were established in vaiious
(portions of the country the same year.
.ur. idieves, me l'resident ol the .Monster
the Sun or a patent lever watch keep the
best timer Unp ol the darkies contended
that the watch was decidedly the best chro
nometer, for1 simply by winding it up, it went
night and day, w hereas the sun was not to
be seen at all at night, and no one could tell
how it went or whether it went at all. The
other argued that the reason why it was not
seen was very evident; the world, he said,
put the sun in its fob at night, to prevent its
works from getting rusted with the dew.
At this logic his opponent gave a loud ya! ha!
whouth! "Ah, d.it ar gammon may do for
white folks," he said, ".ut 'tclligcnt colored
men won't believe it; you can't git dis child
to s waller it no howl"
lings; Cervantes died of hunger, Milton en
ded his life in obscurity; Bacon lived a
life of meanness; Spenser died of want;
Dryden lived a life of poverty and died in
Eatress; Otaway died of hunger; Lee in the
streets; Cpldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield was
sold for a trifle to save him from prison; Fiel
ding lies in the burying ground of an En
glish factory; Savage "died in prison; Chat
terton destroyed him self; and John Keats
died of a broken heart.'
Curious causv. op Alarm. 'John, go and
bring in an armful of wood.' said an office
seeking whig to his son, a few evenings since.
l lie boy shook his head, but evinced no dis
position to obey the order.
'Come, move along continued the whig.
'I'll be darn "d if Pin going, out into that
U K wood house, blubbered John.
sented to his stopping provided he would
sleep in a certain room that had not been
occupied for a longtime, in consequence of a
belief that it had b-en haunted by the ghost
of a barber who was reported to have been
murdered in that room some years before.
"Very well," says the man, "I'm not afraid
of ghosts."
Bank in 1810, made an exposition of the ! VlcMY? iinJ in funeral circulation
RKMKMMKR TIIK PLKPKE:
BiV Wanted."' The next niorniii" lie found !
at his door a Ic.ititihd and smiling specimen ' conducted from the first ol" its disrounting. in I 1"al w"liMl should demand one dollar and a
porK six
ricultural
Pledge. During the canvass for Presi
dency, the Harrison ites promised much re
form in the administration of the national af
fairs, if the people would entrust lh?m; they ' Yeyou w ill go too, there's nothing there
't nui v yon. "
4 1 cs there is something there too "in the
dark!'
What in the name of common conscience
ails the boy! what is it that frightens you
what's in the wood house?'
'The 1-De--'
'The Devil, eh? Yon f.xjlisli '
X! no!" interrupted John 'it aint him
its something worse r than he is!
The boy is crazy! What is in the wood
house that frightens you sof
'Why. it's them dam "d 'democratic whigs
what you said was come this winter I heard
Vm scratching round there last night them's
the critters!'
Go to bed this minute, or I'll whip your
skin oil I'll get the wood myself!'
nave succeeded, and vvc a.e now t witness
in what manner they redeem their promises.
That they may not escape recollection, we
give a sample of them:
The expenses of the Government, being
extravagant, should be brought down to 13
millions of dollars, which the y all sav is e-
tiough.
KF.".ii:xr.nrt tiik pi.f.pc.e:
That no man should be turned out of office
for opinion's sake, to give place to a political
friend.
RFW.VIiKR TIIK PLErniF.:
That within six mondis after it was known
that Harrison w;is elected, money should be
f the article desired, snugly deposited in a which he s-ivs th:it tln
omul 1:T.
Mor.T;.: ox Jkri'salfu. It is now well
the most prodigal
b l.nkco.nu.encedbvT,:,1teral',,,,I;PO,I, My, CCnts; I,ork
issues the Weston i'l"l!ar?' . an'1 ,,hcr article ol agricult
i- - i srowth in proportion.
authenticated that the Rothehilds iio!da'al
moitL;ai;e ol the MolvCitv. a rircumstance
Alter having reireshed himself, he inquired that gives exlraonlmary mtrest to the move-: turns, it was obliged ti
un.. ..I ,1... I - 1 - .. .. .1 II . I
'"r"" i'i u;t- jes a:i,i ui i.ic m "us oi me : ;uio neavv curiai.iuciii o
times. iritiices."
lie snvs:
ii.m l.iTriiKi.-.i:-. e never could, fori 'Curtaihiieiits were ordered, from trine to
the lile of us. pen-five why o'd m:;ids shouM tiaie,
oiuiinesi sur-ii a mortal antiprtuiv to oia tne amount oi srven imiuons o
branches discounted without limit, and their ! "r,nvt" ,n proportion.
notes were received in Philadelphia nearly kkmkmrkr tiik pi.kwf.:
ar, and the result was that -in eighteen: ,at ,,,p ":,l;ir"'s ol memhers ol Congress, and
of the landlord how and in what manner the
room in wh'ch he was to io ige was haunted.
Tiie landlord replied. t!i it diori'v after
thev retired t n't, a:i im!t'i'.vu voice was
n.l ;
-ti. to :
e man.
s'l ;
to n
! I-.I.
r -
s ,o .v:i
to v.; i
I' 'o:il.
:ncs lie
1o tiie
he
where
s :it a
i-rli al
hear.l every
i
Heard in a .re.n'i.mz
sayin-j, D yon w-a
'Well.' re;.!i-I t
may shave me.v
lie then re.j iei'.
hautitd ap irtment : ia
was cn.l-; :lr J l':r ;:'i
were seated a great iiu.it
gaming tame. I' e'.'.u
most every one posse-- ait
ghost stories, he ci cla.iy
corner ol his r :u. but co-al.i
ing but the usu i! lmuimre o ti:
He laid down, but di I u.it close
sleep i..rndi it dv. an I in a le.v
inagiae lhe h. a:d a voice s ty in.', 'lhi lent
wa-a nl to b: s'i-a a-vl. lie ,aa-c from his
bed, and searched every put of tir- room,
but could discover not'. ing. lie :i''aia went
to bed, but no sooner had he Pegan to .-mu.-pose
himself to slevp. than the qiiesu..n was
a?ain repeated. He ajaia rose and went to
the window, the sound appearing to proceed
months after the institution be-an its opera-!a:l "i-:crs ii me i.overnment limng ex-
cnn.mence a rapi.l . IraV!.-:"t'y '"c"' corrupting to the spirit
f the Banks and its ","cracy. snouiu ne yreately reduced;
j and ttiat sliouid be one ol their first leforms
j in coming into power.
rkmkviikr Tiir. pr.F.w;i::
.-': ,p, , II" , , ...
at the Southern and We,tern offices, to i ' ":n ,e P'"P'e e'Z ,f,n" ''"n by lngl,
:nt ot srvfii mi sons o . o .rs. ' , " iiu'iiui to l.e
bat 'helors. Tb.ere is no reason in tlieir wrath.
'Tis spiteful, eru. I. mi l uiP a'Ied for th'?
traa.pliil on a reed all .-a.i v bro'-.eu. It is
IlXe
hoe;
li..
lts
io! s of t
e?t ail-:
ofhis his
:'nz a rripp'e with I. is o.!i ( i iitclies
b? is la:!in. Few men are baii-h"-lieir
own free will. t the veri-r.thr-.pe
amongst them, nn la-k him
Morv, and he will tell you of the un-
at the parent Bank to the amour.t of two u il
lions, though nt the latter they wa re made to
the amount of .sS.CO0.O3f) and upvvatds I.e
twern t!.. ?,ih of J ii!y. 181". and the 1st
ol Apiil. 1 813. .. curtailments were or
dered at the offices of Xcw York and B st.n,
because there was no rooru for lliem. vet ne
i.i
borne would as soon as the 'people elected
Harrison, remove tne weight ol oppression,
and unshackle our prosperity !
kkmk.vm.r tiik i'i.km;!::
That geneial prosjierity should smile upon
the! in. 1; distress should b' a stranger to the
people; wars should be ended; general peace
for ever established.
t -rjoitcn hours ofhis earliest atlections; and
. . .... i
i-elv o!.'i"a I!irm In ri.I;ii-A thiir itiivtno
vrrv miirii." Tiie curtailments at all points' 'f"i,c If! will lievor fvrr?t tliossc ple.lires
-cover nor .- Ins eve wt:; li.'iit uo Hiram with its wonted wiimn tne n ;ove mentioned ates. i tne .iiixieiy aneauy evinced hy those
i rpartuient. eneryv, as he relates the stu v ofhis love, for lei-'ht month, were Si Millions Five linn. ' w'" confided in the promises, and the at
t his eyes to1 ""C who proved faithless, of who-e atli-c- dred and Thirty Thousand Ope HntlPll ! ,p"l't f those who inade them avoid the res
iiiiuiites lie lions were repressed i-v t!ie nn!e nan. o ar- and ! ill v-me I.i rs orlvnuie e. r.t ' ! r,,,;""""' n inn- i.m, mi r.o ucsi oi me
itiarv.-imhoiity. or who had "one down to ! At tiiis period the Bank was so utterlv ' u""1" :,n'1 ,lie "''grace that I
.arch-yard i beautiful bud plucked ' prostrated that those who were most inti- i . Administration coming into power
heifi". to ooen and evi.:in.l . oinl. w nl. o -.ir.i. ..;. I.r...l it :.,..., ; l'' SUCll inlafllotlS means,
ki Aokfk m.K. 'Cousin W"illiam,'says
a merrr mischievous girl, the other day, in
our hearing, 'what do you think a pretty
young lady says of youf William blushed,
and looked as grave as the circumstance that
a 'pretty young lady' had said something of
him would allow.
! don't know something good, I hope.
Who was it Cozf
Shan't tell you? but it's the truth, a very
pretty girl n: say something about you.'
'Well tell me what it was.'
I shan't unless you will give me that An
nual that I wanted.'
'Well, agreed you shall have it. tell meP
Well, now don't blush so she said you
were the ugliest lnrLi:i"- nuin she ever laid
eyes on" and oil' ran tiie little wretch, with
a merry laugh, that made the house riiir
again.
the
from the tree ol
i a.
in a in ig.r.er :;rM iiolie
worm could gu i w at
lug deceud upon it ;
expand .mate with itsr.ifiirs, considered it impossible i
r sunstnrie, where no tor it to keep open doors iiui.-li longer. .Ir.
-o-
boen. and no blirli
Talk not to us of the sorrows of old maids!
Thev are light as air in comparison to those
from that quarter, and stood awhile silent i ol bachelors the natter of the small rain to
after a few moments of anxious suspense, be 'he overwhelming of the deluge. Old maids
again heard the sound distinctly, and con- j can commune together, and mingle in the
vinced that it was without, he opened the i charities anil kindly offices and sympathies
window, when the question was repeated 'd existence. It is not so with the batche
full in his ear, which s'artled him not a little, lor. He has no home he has no happy
Upon a minuta examination, however, he j fireside no child to ask his blessing no
observed that the limb of a large oak tree, j beautiful creature of smiles and geutle tones
which stood under the w indow, proitctcd so to welcome Ins coming, and melt away the
near the house, that every breath of wind I sternness of care with the warm kiss of af-
to a lively imagination, made a noise resem- j lection no patient watcher at bis couch ol
bling the interrogation, 'Do vou w-a-nt to be ' sickness, stealing with a bushed and gentle
sh-aa-ved! step around hiai, like the visitation of a spirit.
Having satisfied himself that theghoj was: 1 ue Ins sorrows are some whatol a neg-
nothing more or less than the limb of a tree 'alive character. But what is it save posi-
coming in contact with the house, be again i tive agonv, for bun to ga.e all his lite Ion
went to bed and attempted to get to sleep; j upon the Paradise of Matrimony, like a half
but he was now interrupted by peals of 1 starved school boy upon tne garden whose
laughter, and an occasional volley of oaths! enclosure he cannot scale? nrlford lie-
and curses from the room where the nambiers i new,
were assembled. Thinking that he could
CI
ieeves was astonished at this situation of.
TuHK AMI CoMVnill K OK THE CoUXTRT.
its atuirs, and savsthatin Philadelphia th , Jae u,e. m,"st ,r.'.!n ol
suspension of the Bank was generally expect-! M nl. veai.istiie diminished imports,
cd.
In April, 1819, the Directors agreed upon
the following plan to raise the Bank ti sol
vency again:
"I To continue thccurtailmcnts previous
ly ordered
the prc-
Anollier
is, the increase ofexports, and the fact that
i the exports exceed the imports.
j The imports this year are only .s; 1 01,805.-
i83I. I. ist year they were .si 02.032,1 3 2,
land in 1 G.lo. the great year of in flalion, .$ 183,-
inatl.OJj. lheexporlsduring lSlOare corn-
turn the late discovery to his own advantage,
he took a sheet from the bed, and wrapped it
round him, and taking the wash basin in his 'difference between a National Bank and
SUBTBEASUIIY vs. BANK.
We have not seen a happier hit nt
hand, and throw ing a towel over his arm, j Independent Treasury than this,
suddenly opened the door, stalked in, exclai
ming in a tremulous voice, 'Do you w-a-nt
to be sh a ved?' Terrified at the sudden ap
pearance of the ghost the gamblers were
thrown into the greatest confusion in at
tempting to escape it; some jumped through
the windows, and some tumbled head over
heels down stairs. Our ghost taking advan
tage of a cTear room, deliberately swept a
large amount of money from the table into
the basin, and retired unseen to his own
room.
The next morning he found the house in
the utmost confusion. He was immediately
asked if he rested well; to which he replied
in the affirmative.
"Well, no wonder," replied the landlord,
'for the ghost, instead of going to his own
room, made a mistake and came to ours,
frightened us all out of the room, and took
away every dollar of our money."
The guest, without being the least supect
ed, quietly ate his breakfast and departed,
many hundred dollars richer by the adventure.
the
the
A writer
mat irginia paper, when alluding to the in
comparable horror manifested by the Whigs
w henever they hear the word Sub-Treasury,
says: 'The word Treasury in itself carries
no terrors with it, but that portentous prefix
Sub, conjurs up gloomy phantoms of danger.
A Gorgon's head is unveiled and "a thousand
ghots shriek together in the hollow wind."
( ur schoolboys can tell that the preposition
'Sub' means 'under.' Sub-Treasury there
fore means under the treasury; and every
body knows that the treasury is under the
Secretary of the same the Secretary is un
der the President, and the President under
the people who elected him, and whose ser
vant he is. This is a republican subordina
tion. By thisrugular graduation, we trace
power back to its true source, the people
in America, the fountain head of all political
power. But suppose instead of putting this
alarming preposition 'Sub' before the word
treasury, we place it before the word United
States Bank, so as to make it the Sub-United
States Bank, and then see how it works.
Frist, the Sub-United States Bank is under
its officers, well secondly, these officers
To forbid the offiep : rxi il.o S.iotl. nn,l : I'1111'" :,t -S i I .o 1 ,:).u. List year thev
W-ct i., ic....... ii.irn,.tc ,vi...i. I were SI 21.0 2.VI IB; and in 1 8.3C, Si 27.CC3.-
ges were against them. 1 04?' 1 ,,e Secretary of the 1 rcasury states,
eolle.-t ihp halbmeen .hie l.v loe.il l.nnt. i 111 '"3 annual report, that such a circum-
to the offices. j s,:,l":e as the report, at all exceeding the im
t T.. el.-.;.., of tlx. llnrnrm,.! .!., ti.-.o ports has happened only six times since the
necessary to transfer funds from the offices ' adoption of the constitution, and then never
where money was collected to those where1 an TsU',lt ,,e.v"l about $8,000,000.
it was to be disbursed. ,'w' "owe ver, (says the report) without any
: . .. i . . . . .-
" C. To obtain a loan in Europe for a ! ''" some important articles tin
sum not exceeding 2,500.000, for a period
not exceeding three years,
In seventy days, by this means, the Bank
was raised from the gulf of insolvency to
comparative safety.
A country curtailed of its circulating medi
um by barely oxk institution, in the very
short period of eiht months, to ihe amount
of .$0,530,153 49 must be made to suffer in
its common prosperity. 1 his was the case
in 1819. What is the situation of the coun
try now, in this particular? Ijok at our
own State. By the special report of the
Bank Commissioners, of I cbiuary last,
der contraction of prices the excess of ex
ports is not only more than ever known be
fore, but ijuite three-fold greater, being
computed to eijual .S2C,?CC,053.
n
A SCEXE IX COUNT.
"I call upon you,' said the councellor, "to
state distinctly upon what authority you are
prepared to swear to the mare's ane ?" '-Upon
what authority?' said the ostler, inter
rogatively, " ou are to reply, and not re
peat the question put to you,
consider a man s hound i. answer a question
we afore he's time to turn it in his mind."
learn that the Ohio Banks contracted their ".othing can be more simple, sir, than the
question nit. I again repeat it. Upon
what authority do you swear to the animal's
age?" "The "best authority," reirvnded the
witness, grullly. 'Then why such evasion?
Why not state it at onee3v "Well, then, if
you must have it " AIust! I will have it,"
vociferated the counsellor, interrupting the
witness. "Well, then, if you must and will
have it," rejoined the ostler, with unpertura
ble grtvity,"Vhy, then, 1 had it myself, from
th mare's own mouth." A simultaneous
durst of laughter rang through the Court.
The judge on the bench could with difficulty
confine hi rioible muscles to judicial decorum.
SEXSIBLE TU TIIIS VERY LAST.
The tilling passion strong in death. We
have somewhere read of a hard case whom
his friends had tried every way to break of
bis confirmed habit of drinking. Asa last
experiment, they took him one nighl while
dead drunk, and placed him nicely away in
a coffin. In order to convince him still stron
ger that he was dead and gone, a friend con
sented to disguise and stow himself away in
another coffin close by, in order to watch
the ellects and carry out, according to cir
cumstances, the serious joke. Having got
over his drunken nap, the hero of the story
raised himself slowly in his coffin the next
morning and iooked around with no little
wonder. Seeing the other man in the same
bad fix. he shook his muddy head and robbed
his eves, and said:
'Hallo, strji uer, can t vou
item ?
ou? why, you're dead and buried.'
'You don't sav so!'
give me an
'Yes, but you are.'
'Well, you're in the same bad snap, aint
vou '
'Yes, I'm gone too.
"Poor fellow ! Well, I must have died
very suddenly, any how, 1 was out on a
reg'lar spree last night.'
On no, you are mistaken. ou have
been dead and buried three years.'
'1 he devil, I have? Well, it don't seem
long to me.'
How long have you been here. I'd like t
know.'
'Five years.'
Five, eh? Well, as you have been here
"1 doesn't hmger than I have, and know the place bet-
ter.just ten me where J can get a good gim
cock-tail. .V. O. Times.
loans up to the 31st December, 3,330,370;
their circulation was reduced in the samo
period ,3,634.693! Added to this the vari
ous devices they have resorted to for the pur
pose of speculation, without the least benefit
to the community, and it will not be wonder
ed at that money is scarce and that the times
are hard.
The evils of the present period are ol the
same character of those under winch the peo
ple labored in 1816. '20. '21, Vc. The only
difference is, that the war of the Banks has
not been yet so distructive to our prosper"
as then, for they have not the same power to
exercise. What they can do llj are J"
ing and it is not to their spit of mercy that
we must attribute our not being reduced to
that extreme of necessity which others have
tad to experience.
Dark D.w. The qucstbn was "does
Talent. We copy the following from the
lady's Amaranth:
'Homer was a beggar; Plautus turned a
mill; T erenee was a slave; Boe tines died in
jail: Tasso was often distressed for five sliil-
There is an old maid up in Sullivan street
who can look so all fired sour that she 'coes-
out' by the day to make pickles. It saves 9
heap of vinegar.
o
Rather Sevf.hk. A young buck of the
soap look order, w ho wore an unshaven
face, because, as he said, it looked "breirn,"
lately accosted a Yankee at one of ourho
tels as follows:
'I say, fel'ow, some individuals think-1 am
a Frenchman, and some take me for an Ela
lyenc, now what do you think I am?"
"I think you are a darned fool," replied
Johnathan. I'ennant.
A school boy being asked by his teacher
how he should flog him, replied, uIf vou
please, sir, I should like to have it upon tha
Italian system of penmanship. th hmrv
strokes upwards and the down strokes IHu.