The Montrose Democrat. (Montrose, Pa.) 1849-1876, February 23, 1860, Image 1
GEORITSOM PUBLISHEq. . _ . ; . P. LINES, . - VABI - 110',NABLE TAILOR, Montrone, P. X Shop in the Brick Block, over Read & Co's Store. All work warranted, as to fit and 'Anish. • v ALFRED HAND, A TTORNEY and COUNSELLOR at LAW, •111ontrose, Pa., will attend to all business entrusted to him, with fidelity and detipaidli: May be round at the office of W. & W. H. Jessup, Eggs.. S. H. - Sayre &Brother 1 AN UFACTU RERS of Mill Castings, and 17 Castings of all kinds, Stoves,'•Tin i and Sheet Iron Ware, Agricultural Implemel4 . and Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, C.rockery, &c. Montrose, Pa, November, 16th, 1859.4ra. Guttenberg, itosenbiium dc DEALERS in Ready-madeLlothing, Ladies' Dress Q2pds, Furaishlog Goods, etti . :, etc. Storei , ai No 1 1 5 i Dey-at, New-Yotk,City, and in Towandgr, Montrose; and Susq'a Depot, Pi.- L. 13 , ISBELL, EPAIRS Clocks, Watches. and- Jewelry, at R short notice, and on reasonable tem* All work warranted.. Shop in Chandler& Jehstip's store, Montrose, Pa. (045tf. DR. E. W. WELLS' HAVING permanently located in Durulaff 11 offera his professional services to all who may require them,' Also, kedps constint4 on hand a full titnek of Drugs and illedieines, Pure Wines and Liquors for Medical purposes. [sP7-6m. Drs. Blakeslee,* Brash,l HAVE . asiSciated themselves for-the:prose cutioii pf the duties of their professiop, and respectfully'offer their professional serviges to the Invalid" Public. • Office at the residence of Dr. Blakeslee, midway between the villigeSof Dinuock and Springville. - ap2Oy, I. BLA KESLEE ..... E. BUSH: HAYDEN BROTHERS, THOLESALEpeaIers in Buttons, Chnitis, Suspenders, Threads, Fancy' Goods, Watches, Jewelry, Silver and Plated-WareiCut lery, Fishing Tackle; Cigars, &e. &c., ford, Pa. Merchants add Pedlar% suppliCd on liberal terms. : wkit _HENRY B. McKE.IN, ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR at LIAW. Office in the Union Week —Towanda, Arad- . , DR. - H. SMITH, - i - Q URGEON DENTIST. Residence and of t.ifice opposite the Batist Church (north hide) Montrose. .Particiflar attentioh will ,be given to inserting, teeth on geld and silver plate; and to filling decaying teeth. ' ABEL TURRELL, I)EALER in Drugs, 111cdicines, Chen4eals nyeStuffs,plass-ware,Paints,Oils,Varnish. Wineloic Glass, Groc'erfes, Faney etry, Perfothery, da:.—And Agent. for all, the most popuiai Patent Modieines:Montrose,:Pa. DR. E. F. WILMOT, ji GRADUATE of theAllopatit:e and•Hoinceo pathic CoHeges of Medicine, Gt. Bend, Pa. Office. corner of Main and Elizaheth.sts., nitarly opposite the Methodist church. .L 1 . Wm H. Cooper *Co., j) ANK ERS, Successors to POST, COOPER L.l & CO., Montrose, Pa: . Office Lathrop's new building„ Turnpike Street. tVIS IirSTTMG' COOPED ' DECRY DANICETt. C. 0. FORMIAM, • %FA NUFA&PUR:Mt OF BOOTS dz. SHOES. .1.11 Montrose, Pa./ Shop' over Tyler's Store, All of work made-to- order and repairing • dn. neatly. . j. 'WM. W. SMITH, riABINET and Chair ManufaCturers, fpotro Main street. MontroSe, Pa. anOtf DR. G. Z. DIMOCK OVSICIAN and Surgeon. Office over Mil ' eons' store ; Lodgings: at Soarle's Hot4l. DR. JOHN . W. HYSICIAN and Surgeon: Office on Pilblie Bvenue, opposite Searle's Hotel, Alontiose. DR. R. TH.AYER,' 6 pHYSICIAN and Strrge(m Montrose Office inthe Farmer's Store. - JOHN. GROVES, ' ' MIASHFONAPLE Tailor. Shop neati, the Baptist Meeting House, on Turnpike street, Montrose,Pa. '• NEWS OFFICE. THE New York City Illustrated NewsliSilers Magazines, etc. etc., for sale at the Moritrose Book LS tore, - by A. N. B pLLARP. P. REYNOLDS, L FASHIONABLE TAILOR. Shop'fa tlikse. mOt of Searle's Hotel, Montrose, Pa;1; I C. D. • VTRGIL,- RESIDENT DENTIST, Moiltroise. Office at the Franklin Rouse, 400 m No. 3. Ing,arid Inserting teeth on Gold and Silver Mate done in the most approved modern style.i! My Plate! ate absolutely vvateritight,—no interitices .wkeri, food Can lodge. .; I - nov24. . CHARLES• MORRISi-. - RBER, and Hair_Dressiir. Shop Noa in asenaent of Searle's Hotel, Montrose., • * . MEAT_ MARKET. :',-• On ; public Avenue, near - Searles .galel. 1110 - EEP constantl on band, a good • supply of I): MEATS of nil kind. CASH paid., for Beet Cattle,Calres,Sheepond Lainles. Also for Hides of all kinds. - HENSTOCK & HAWLE 8. T. EIENSTOCE. N. MoUtrose, March 30th, 1859:—tf: F • H. GARRATT WHDLESALE AND RETAIL DEA4ER IN FLOUR,GRAIN, SALT, itt HEW ituxotn, PA.-e-Ele Rolm, PlKlT'B " fitftlie. li fr iTlL i L tic t s ee o p f ;ons r t i antly by li t n he b t a s n ac d k th o ; he nn at dreeilarrels--at the lowest market - prices.` Mao, SALT—by the Single Barrel or Load. All Orders from Merchants ,and Dealers vill be prrimptly attended to.- * * *Cash paid for ,Grsin, Wool, Pelts, Ht es, and al Farmers' Prodime in their season: BILLINGS •STBOW), E and LIFE INSURANCE AGENT;4—, Montrose, 1!#. . TESTI3I.OIII.IAtiS. NV., the undersigned, certify 'that we i.Were insurOd in Fire Insurance Companies repreatilited; by Mii. Billings Stroud.. of Minntrose, and;-that,!having suffered loos by fire while so insured; ' , l , iel, were geverally p.a ./ id by said aonipaniee to the,-(-01 extent of our ciaime• rind'Ave bare COrifide*in him al, a good-inli directive agent.. .F... ' 1 .3 5..11. DEWifi'.. .. Zir:nom CODE, ATDROP & DrAVITT. B. L wEBB, ~,:'' i B. CHANDLER ' , J;,. :Crass & SOK', B NJ. GLIDDEN, LEONARD E. 611.1. t. iffo trose, At. November 196, 1859: ~': I - Patronise those that advertise. 44, " v 721 ,00ln augonti, 'To no 2111,141 t 'pay DOM nov litEitt NoATI an ID EMP WV 46 VIM OT vaim onuitympa SIISQUE : ANNA COITNre CLASSICAL:.- NORMAL SCHOOL • liontr se, Pa., 1860. . . ,/r HE Trustee would present the following .1 circumstanc a, in regaid to this Institution, in confirmation if its claims upon the flyer of• the public: , It is not a literary institution of doubtful• rep utation, but, has long enjoyed the moat favora ble patronage of the public! It is situated, not• amid the distractions and dissipations of a city, nor is lit yet removed from the influences, of refined sobiety, but is located at the County Seat, Montrose, than• which few places are more fully supplied with wholesome and Christian influences for, youth. The Institution is now tinder the direction of PEW. R. 1111011111EAD, B. A, a gentleman in wh l ose ahilit , teaming, and char acter the utmost eonfiden is warranted by the accompanying testimonials from It literary source than which there is none hi her-.-the President and Professore ofNale Col ege, of which Insti tution Prof. %Longest, is leo an alumnus. Provisions will lae made n the ensuing term, not merely for one class of tudente, but for all the departments cif a com on or classical edu cation; for Normal whole . in a separate chums; for children in a Primary epartment ; and for any who desire to pursue the study of Music, French, German, Greek, Latin, or Higher Math ematics. I We therefor*. f-' e therefore filly recommend the Susque hanna Classical and Norma School to the pa rents and Youths of our St to and att. who - take . i . an interest in the advance o education. - WM. JESSUP, Prue% Board of Trustees. C.F. REAO, • Sectetsry. 1 Tlie next. Term of this Itistituthm will begin TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4th, ;860,:t i t which * time it is expected t thnt all the students will ,be present. We are prepared to fit students for. any plass in any AmericatuCollege, and WILL 'OPEN /I:SPECIAL CLASS FOR 'NAME RS. Lectures on scienti6B- subje'cts will be given each week during half the Term. Th 4 bills must be paip at the end of tlie . eigtith weekl of the Term. Text Books unchanged.. 1 -, PRICE OF. TUITION, per Teratof 11 weeks: Normal Department, •-, - !. %. - . -.118.90 Primary do., 1 ... •., 3,80 In English Branches,sad Latin or Greek, 9,00 Greek or Latin, each , 1- ' •;• -'. - '. '-- 4,00 French - or Gbrman,; '-- , - - . - 3,00 Music on Piano, • i- .: •.7 I - ' . - - 8,00 . - Students, wishing to pro:milk rooms, or board, can be.accornmodated by wting to the Puma: PAL; end' those wishing, to b ard themselves can obtain stoves and fUrnitureom Messrs. Sayre Brothers, on reasonable for ''s. Price of Boar d " from 82,00 .to 82,50 per We k. .. - HI BRODI LAD, Principal. Montrose, Feb. lit, 1860.--tt. • . I .s. • - , -.--- . i . TESTIMONI .At EL7OL LEG • .Mr. Harry Brodh, d, a En' lately kraduitted at Yale a high *rank in the class , as a I acquainted-wit it, his habits, are irreproac able . • Trixonon D. WooLstv, President. Mr. IL Brodhead. who belongs to'the gratin atihg class of 135', has - .l.hown himself du ring the two years . f his connection 'with -, the college, a capable and-success'ful scholar: Sho'd he apply hinvelf to Ithe work of instruction, I have no doubt of hi 'ability to justify the confi dence and. satisfy - tlie expectations - of any who may avail-themselves of his services. JAs.lllsta.-v, Prof. of Greek. . Mr. H. Brodhead if the class of 1859, in Yale College, is a good scholar, and hes a Superior min& I have little loubt he-will make an. effi cient and suscessfullteaaer, Find can-recominend him with great confidence that he will' not appoint his pations.f ' 144AT1 PORTER, : Prof. ot-Phifosophr and Metaphysics. Mr. H. Brodhead has just, finished his course of • collegiate education and •recieved the de gree of Bachelor .of Ptits at the annual com mencement: :As beproposes to be engaged 'for a time in the businesS of teaching,he is che'e dully recoil:l - mei:l3M by the. -underiigned as a person . well qualified by his scholarship and attainments', by his chriStian charieter and deportment-to be successful iA the instruction ;and ani•ernment of a school. ITriow..4 A. THACITER, VIEW GOOD! NEW GOODS! . HINE t !I BENCH STORES dF Sattelibitg, o:seniaant, Montrose, 4 THE undersigned with 'a SPLENDID FA AND ..•- - which they HANDSOMES in this section of co. They also flatter the hest facilities of Cods grail and. are determined firm.this side ur N. READY MADE CLOTHING we would say that being in this hi:wines largely at ley Street; New York City we can offer the - publie'bargains not surpassed by any retail , dealers in this section, as we can sell here at retail prictoriis cheap as those who go to, NeW York and r pnrchaie at wholeiale and then bring them hereand brae to make a profit over that which they] have - afready paid them selves. Call and see-us and' we .'ill prove _ - the. facts. . 6ntttithergAlstnt?um, , Montrose, Pa,October 27t , 1859. • • .STOVE9I,BTOVES!- • AT • REMIT 0 PRICES! MC. Mil? . -PLITT Ts jail receiving a large stock of-NEW stoves including a full asSortioent of'- - -! • ' • Conking, Parlor, dke, aid Shop Stoves:, . for Wood or Coal. Also, Stove Ripe r •Zir s ir, Stove Tuttle, His asiorisfient will inclnde . the mostielect and desirable stocei in market, and.will be sold at 'Rai-teed Prices for Kash or-Prompt Pay. New Milford, November Ist, 1859. BOOK BINDING. Patiphle(a, Mdg short , Juno 34,1859, ,eraher.of the - class College, has, held scholar. So far as oral character, and Prof. 'of Latin itsq'aDepot,Pa• havoi . pro i videdttheroselves SORTEENT OF INTER GOODS ,Onst of beink,the AND CHEAPEST tbh,eatzl;es t* they h ave b from lite Barkit, :ot to be tiottersold by any 1. City. •In segard to • Id Books, Newspapers, es, etc,, bound ap,on J.Z. dr, BON. (snprtne eiiitti of Vtonsgthaitia. For the Easierii District, .111nrch Tenet 1800. I ' . , 1 In SusquebanaCominon Pleas, LATIUM GARDNEA ' 1 I NO, 169, Nov. Term, 185'5. . vs. • ":' 1 _SUM - mons in Trespaas on the case. 'Wm. t. Post, Leonard; Setirle, Damages 860,000, issued Oct Mille! Searle, P. B. Chandler, 26th, 1855. Returned served on L :Charles Avery,-C.'.o. Ilalley, all the Defendants except the St. Ansel St: John, T. T.P. St. John, Johns, Goddard, and C. L. Ward. C. GOlldard, and C. L. Ward. I Jury were.swory as to the other g. .) six Defendant's, ; Mara was fit tir Oct; 24, 185 q. See Appendix. Defendants plead not guilty.. The °tweet was tried at jannary Term, 1860, and on the day or, that Month, the ,Tory, as directed-by the Court, render a verdict for 'the Defetidante. - • And Judgment thereon. . • • HISTORY ot' THE CASEs •. ' , The tank ofSusiiiellanna County was incorporated by Act_ of AsseMbly of April 3i 1017; by the 7tii section of which no notes should be issued until itb whole stock, 8100 ; 090, was actually paid in.' This capital stdclq was divided into 2,000 shares, of each. The Think went ititonperation on the 17th December; 1838, and continued to do busktiesa until January, 1843; when it suspen ded. It was resuscitated bowPver, on the 9th of April, 1845, by the introduction of T. P. St. john into its affairs; and it finally failed 27th Oct:, 1849, without, any means to pay aloner of its circular tion. J.C.lliddle acted as President from its start - until April, 1841, when Wm. L. Post was elected, who- acted ..ss its President until it • failure in 1849. LS: Kellute :was cashier until 2lit June, 1843 , ~ T. P. St. John succeeded !him April 9th; 184'5, and acted as cashier until 4th . August, 1849 when C. P. Delarnater, (a total stranger,) was introduced into that 6ffice, where he remained until the failure. These Defendants were aotiagraa Diientota most or all of the time of .the Bank's existence. No ball NEW ever given by either St. John or Delamater; and the .Directors had. personal.know ledge that the former declined to give . - • A stock coMpapy — waS formed for the purpose of absorbing what what was called the surpOs sTek :,Protti*ry notes were given by the - members of that company payable, to and deposited with Allen & Faxon; N. y., one for too,o' r oo, and the other for 815,000. Aild a formal credit therefor.was.eatered by them in' favor of the Bank about the time of its orginization. Shortly afterwards these stock notes were returned to the and on the Ist Nov. 1830, two new notes, as renewals, were payable td the Bank, and signed by the members or the Stock; ^ o among whort wore Wm. L. Post atd Daniel Searle; two' 0f.,. the ,Present Defendants. One note for . 848,344 68,—.—and the otir t ivfor $15,000. On the 27th Nov. 1848, the Directors resolved 11; assignment of the surplus stock - to the - Bank, and that the notes giver! therefor be cancelled. - The transfer was then made, and it stated .he amount to be 1880 shares, (equal -to $81,800,) and that no . Ortificates had seen . Ostia therefor. The evidence shows.that that aceouut had never been . paid into the . Bank;—that the notes representing it, were held pro forma fora time, and then cancelled by ttle Directors; without payment., This &grant violation of the,litry,-Lthis want of basis, was the - ultimate • • . cause of all ,subsequent disasters.• On the trial the offered to. prove that their annual reports to the Auditor General, 'published by authority of law -it •the Senate Jour- nals, represinted theiractital caffital at 8100,000; and so misled the public. The rejection of thiW offer fortes one of the Etrors in the • r case. : • We also wished to show I the comparative worthlessness of its Notes during the period or the.suspension dip rejection of which by the Court, is anotber.ErroL r. • With so little capital ;ii-loSs of but $12,000 produced the sus pension in'Januaryi 18431 _ltl was galvanized from a torpor. of two years, by- St. John purchasing $6,000 of its' stock, and paying in therefor, the new capital of $3,000 i This fact appears in Resolution of 9th April, 1845. Theie De,fen . dante• were 'party to that arrange ment.l ' • i [ 1 . • 0 The Bank -seemed to stand on this fragmenta ry.leg, until 1849, when it fellin titter ruin; i havi ng , as the Discount Bo,ok shows, a circulation of sBs,B64 ,— Besid es what was cut on' the special loans, amounting, under the evidence, to about $lOO,OOO. . . These loans w A .were called ' A.' St. John, the Mann,' and the Thompson:loans. Those `contracts ct were not produced, but two Resolutions show :that cireulai i ing notes of the Bank, were furnished, in incredible amounts, toltrose persons, 'to bb used by them, Chat those persons resided ''a broad, were unknown, gave no security, and, with the exception of A. qt. liihri, were insolvent ! • , ' • It is needless to add•tlfat if the Direotom had purpOsed ruin and' disaster to the Bank, and;; the holders of its notes; a more-direct course to that result, could not have been devised.. .• . - . November 3d; 1849, the M l entor? Resolved to bring suit vs. T. P. St. Jo "' for fraudulentl4abs ranting liiiiii the Bank, its circulat ing Notes . to a large ammint.' 'On the triat we produced the Re- . cord, shoeing that they bi•ou ' ht Lini in COnrt, on bail of $40,000, and yet allowed the ,suit to d ap. . The rejection of that record by .•. • I the Court, is Another of WC Errors committed on-the trial. - 1 We also assigned - errors for rejecting entry on die let page of J I Misruvii Boos,—on 24th a nd 9th pages" of STOCK LEDGER,r-and of the Additional Count. i• - '. The present Plaintiff ias Urge sufferer iii thiesweeping ruin. Be possessed four tbouseiad ix - hundred and eighty dollars W . V.. Notesadmitted to ,be genui e: These he offered in evidence; but they were rejected; making t e 7th Error- in the. cause. Not ex pecting the failure, and stuns d.byits consequences, neither reasob nor laW would require himi o ill in and - preserve proof of the ex act -gam:nerd:that he receif the money. He did however preie that he bad soma quantity. o hand, perhaps sr,ooo, endplay be, if in large bills, the wholei'aiU ant offered, a day or two before the tailtire. ..And also that it!)ras bought and sold afterwards at from '45 to 50 per. gent.; end then i enewed the offer of his money. This tho Court again rejected ; ',ltodl that is the flnal'Error; whose redress ft .1 is Soughtin this - H onorable Court. . „ This . suit is brought upon the principle that the improper and illegal management of th§ Bank by the Defendants, 'together. with their suppression of facts, Which, - if known, would bah? hindered its circulation; having prOuced in Plaintiff misplaced eonklence; and ultimite loss, they Ali) personally bound, in honesty-'and law, to repair it. . ifS.ION t tIENT OF ERROR. . . - . . 1. - The Court prredinFrejecting Plaintiff's offer: to. 'read froM thelet page of the Miaur Burin. : The Meeting. of tbo'Board' of Directors, including Post-find Searle'; ; and their Resolution -to open the Bank on the 12 DeceMber; 1838. i•,. " • . , -, , 2. The C ourt - erred - in rejecting our offer read from pages it,• ; •.' ' _ - MONTROSE, PA, FEBRUARY 23,.186 _ .. T ..- Ithe en t ries following, viz: rtiu4auiirCoMuy. _ 1841. - • ! Nqv. 23, by H. Drinker . 4 $2OO • 1848. • 1 Nov.o, W...Jessup . & Co. 3 - $l5O 1843. N4:v.27,J.C.8idd1e&Ce.1633514,659 1844. • • , • Aug. 19, A. Lathrop 2 sloo' 1845. ' 9, J. C, Jiddie & Co. 2' $lOO 1845. May 10, J.C. Brock &Co. 3 $l5O Also the entries showing 60 . - sharCs to St. John & Goddird,l and 645 shares to St. John. - . • 3. • The Court erred in• refusing peirciission to - file the addi Kunst Count, as the Amendment to the Nair. • (See last page.) ', • 4. The-Court erred in rejecting the Plaintiff's offer to read from the Sztrarz JOURNIV3, for _the : years '42,45,.'48, '47,'48 and' '49, the itatentenlatheniin of We capital stock of thepank being $lOO,OOO, and of its condition, as made by St. John; Kellum and and sworn to before Chitties Avery, and sent to the.Aiiiiitor General, , cording to law. la . ; 29i.on.tbo' STOCK LEDGE t , Dr. . The Bank otSus Ap'l 9, t; A. SL John 12cr es,ooo Ma yl5, 10 - I)Vm.L.Pog Soo $25,000 May 15,toT.P.Stiolitr 500 $25,000 July %10, to T.F. Si John 66: $3,30. 5. The Court erred in rejecting 'our offer to prove that the Notes of the Bank were at ,a large discount during the auspe4ion 0. The Court erred:in. rejecting' the Recoid of the suit broil& by the Bank vs, T.- P. St. John, Nov:l3d,, 1849. The ball given of $40,000, its continuance until Nov. l Term, 1853, when it:waS al. lowed to fall from the List, • • I ' I t: The Court erred in rejectin g our offer in evidence of Notes of the SusqueiraunkCOunty Bank, to: the amount of four thousand six'hundred and-eighty dollars. . . .„; . - • ._ • .8. The Cloud stoe in rejecting our second offer to give the said i • 84,680 of the Notes of said Bank in evidence.. ARGUMENT FOR PLAINTIFF; fIY.R. B. LITTLE • First."- , Tbia - Error is in the rejection of entry on, the first prige of the MINUTE Boo; which shows whirl the Bank 'started, land tiyho Were then its Directors. We *yea thrißook to be their own proper Record ; and we had a- right to refer to; any- part of it that shed light upon the history and:doing's of Elie' Bank. The subsequent :pages that we did read,, wait but confirmations of their first action'," and it is difficult to see why one part w'as anymore evidence than the other.. I suppose two of the present defendents were then Di •rectors7 Even if they we r ie not, , their subsequent action in cantieffing . the unpaid stack - `notes, And in all other respects, was in adoption, and continuance of the first illegal' proceeding 7 • There is undisputed a'u'thority for a much strenger position than is nebessary to be taken in support:of. this offer. • • " A "subsequent. Board of Directors' of a Bank is to be considered "as knowing all the circumstances communicated or known to a -"previous Board."—Afechanid Bank' of Alexandria ye.- fieton, Pet., 309. _ - • Sceond.—The STOCK raSi)GER, authenticated as it Was, by the testimony of Wm. J. 'Terrell and .1:L. Post was clearly ovldenee. It Showee. the Etheli arrangement, both before* and after 'the Pre tended " re-instatementl 4 -. of the Bank, under St..Jolin ;4also : the atoek-note affair. With the other evidence, proved that $BO,- 000 dollars of stock was never paid in,=was never intended. to be paid in,—and was finally cancelled,—they, all the while, even down to:the failure, bolding out to the public, that the law which commandedl $lOO,OOO actual and bona fide capital, was literally obeyed. The testimony of the witness who acted- in that affair, confused and indistinct as it Was, furnished no apology, or disguise to the fact, that t 1 stock- represented by Cosi) notes was never actually sold; that:ono certificates were ever issued therefor,--'and that it: formed no part of actual Banking capital. This - arnaiing wrong went down to the very, bottom of the Bank; and„made every Note -they ever issued, a false representative of values' they never possessed: _• ' . • Third.—This Error was in rejecting the Count proposed-to be added to .the • Narr., and- now printed on the last. page. .Ari an Amendment, it was clearly a matter of right. It was designed to meet their denial that they ever were an actually chartered Bi*. It was the Same Bank in both cases, and the only object was to meet- them ; , charter or . ao,charter. There - can be no pretence t.hat sio.songht to introduce into the case apy -other_transactions than those upon which we originally declared. It adhered to the same subject matter, and only varied - the form of stating oar Com'phrint. It is -hard to conceive a oak) of,Amendment, more allowable than this. Cox vs. Ti/gAincia r 1 Wharf. 282. • Ins. Co. vs. Seitz, 4 W.' and S., 277. - - . Candle vs. Cook, Et S. and B.; 287, Duncan J_ ', •Fourth.—The SENATE SOURItiALS aruvolumes printed I)y,authority of law; and distributed for the very purpise of .furniahing •the peo ple with authentic copies, that miglrti be as much dependad.upon, u exemplifications by an officer. They are evidence in all the Courts. - Greenleaf's I;•Sec. 480-482.1 - Ream Mug; 7_ Cotven, 613-636. • , " this country, in all 'public matters, the Journals of congiesi,, "and of thu'State Legislatures, ate evidence; and also the Reports " which have been sanctioned and published by authority.. Tee pub lication does not make, that evideuce which intrinsically is not so; " but it gives us in apost authenti'c form, certain papers and &ion " ments. -Miles vs. Stevens, 3-Barr. '42. . • - • - Watkins vs. Holentan, 16 Pit R. 25-55.! This evidence was important, as - showin g that these parties !in the most public and solemn manner possible,m4e statements of an actual capital of ?.100,000 ; and this down to 1840,—long after the cencelhilion of theforma Stock notes ; and when;-by all the evi -1 dance id - the:cauge; their actual capital was only nominal. One of these defts..was the Justice; before whom their cashier swore to the Reports; and all of. them knew so obvious an amine! act, that the 4th Sec. - of the Law . of their being required.. This case, in all its aspects, startles:one. - • "Fifth.-This Error was in nee permitting us to show the nem partitive worthlessness et their Notm, during the pried of suspen sion.) Why not show it It wiper': of the history of the .Bank, and necessary to a full understanding of its subsequent' operatiOns.- It might raise a presumption, or ant ofcapital,er of mismanagertie - nt; at any rate ; it was one in the series . of its disasters, and proper to 'go to the Jury. Certainly it, Was strange, as Judge Tylefswears, that •an alleged lOss of Only $12,000, should wind ep a !sell-managed in• atitution, that, bad a capitalef $100,000,1* r • `- . . 4 : Sixth.—These delta., by way of excuse, lilippose,for the declared in their Resolution, that St.qohn, (or, whoM they took l i no bail,) had fraudulently abstracted circulating : PTote - s of the bank 'to a large amount." * They issued a caples,i and procured $40;000 bail • —all they asked. Now if the resolution was true, it. was. their chitty • to see that the suit was prosecuted to Judgmeiii.. ••Tben they Wo Id tivehaff some means for redemption of their iiotes. If was . ot• true, then they lose even that trifling mitigation.: 'Any wayit was • proper for Abe Jury. • I . It was another step taken by the defts: in their m anagement !of the affairs of the Bank. .411 their ateps•were roper be_ltnoWn. Where fraud. is alleged, some latitude is iillowed to [fe proof; and" alj the acts ortbe parties; in reference to i ttie stibject in dispute, are open to investigation.. _ flisent/g•-;This error is io the first rejection by.the conrt,"Of the $4680, of Susquii. Bank Notes,, we offered in evidence. We rim this on two 'grounds; First, the legs presumption that we'werei bona:fidiholders, and for full value, would stand in our faVor, until repelledi by them. • It is enough, in the first instance, that we' appear as the."heai.ers" of their enrreuct; and they must show, if they can, that we ritit af ter the failure.- The onus is on !heti, and . :not upon us. - Tit!) abcortis with ail thelanalogi'es of the lasi. The presumptions always stand' with the holder of negotiable paper; and the reasons for that rule apply with increased forpe to a-species of paper thatis prepared for a more rapid circulation,—and that is, indeed, money itself. , • - A contrary rule would defeat the. very purposes and design of such paper.,..bien do not call witnesses when they receive negotia; ble notes, or Bank bills. -To require this, would be to defeat-its uses as a currency. , - 2 : * Without one circumstance of suspicion,' we are. emit:fan - 1y required to ahow what the la* presumea, - -wbat i in most- cases, is unsoseep- Ole of proof,--and this too, in case of the authors of they mischief, and at the expense of their innocent and iunsuspecting victims; , But Seconcl,we now - go furthtii than this, and \that, it makes no manner of difference whether tve received this currency before, 'or after the failure of the Bank. : We havo a right to assume, in this braich of the argument, pos itive fraud, because the evidence" . alreadY given , would, oblige the Court to submit that question to the Jury. Thim„by reason of their own wrongs, the law lays upon them .the; debts of'the Bank. They shall do, as persons, *bat, is Corporator;e, their own misdeeds put, it out of their power todo. •If the Bank, hohesil; managed, would have paid. the "bearer," so shall they, Tba damage - they occasioned by their want of good faith, was•equal,.iri amount, to the whole of the irrideerCable circulation they floated out ; and the'only practi 'cable Ward repairing this damage, is to 1) . a) , the Notes to° tips bear .er, as they respectively, appear to demand it.. • _ r Against this, it is argued that' the wrong was:done a t some.par ticular instant, on the 27th Oct., 1849, an d only upon those persons who happenrd, at that precise moment ; to hold their fugitive paper, and that none others can . They likSn it to individaal eases* of fraud.putpd l sed, and done by one man, upon another. • . . • But between that case and ibis there.is 'no featUre of likeness. Here the wrong ivas aimed at no one person. It was done to • the public. itas in the sending abroad winged proiniscs, which they r! falsely arse d would be paid to any bearer. It is not an inilividn alScause of action that could not be assigned, bUt it was ; in its very nature, a purrent...wrong,.thrown into the - living channels of circula tion, and 6aing,(perhaps not the only,) but the 'greatest 'damage 'upon the last receiver. Besides, it might well be that in many re mote places; i the failure was not known for days or weeks after it oc curred. . - • ! There is no magic in the Precise moment, on that day. when they i• pron,cunced the word "failure,"—as if that instant should freeze the money in the exact hands that then held it, on pain_of.re/ease - and exemption to the very men who created t i bia complex and erisbarras sing evil. 4.. point of time would auk' be nice, is in a case of 'rival executions delivered to a Sheriff., • • Still more, - the wrong of which We complain, was not done at the' magical moment on the 29th Oct.' - Our complaint lies ag s ainst all the previous wrongs that led to that moment. The Bank was a sham, and a'"failure" from the beginning. The currency - was never redeemable, and had no value, as such. .Theonly differeficil is, that the puhlicahen first learned, what the delta. knew from. the be-. ginning. And the,deception did not atop even here. They directed XI. Hempstead to publish•in his Peen that the notes were still toocr,— "not to part with them at iksacrifice." 'Noir they say they. will got pay to any one,-If they changed hinds after a certain hour,- in a cer tain day. Nay, the sufferer must make the, impoisitile proof that they did not so change, or he must suffer-still ! For instance, during the suspension; their Notes passed through many hands, at a large discount; and the idea that every.Success 7 ivo loser. should maintain his action, would not be thought of. • In every view, this peculiar and curient wrong., that is inherent in, and runs with The tainted Notes of the tank - must be redressed to - the "bearer," cl . f any date, or it cannot be redressed at all. Then indeed Re have the anomalous drab of a flagrant wrong , that is remediless. • . , Eighth:—This Error is in the seconchejection of our 'Notes. Pre. paratory to this offer, we proved that Phil. had _been - de:ding in cat tle that season, and would be likely, therefore to have large amounts of money; at its, close; that his son' knew of from 8700 to $lOOO of S-usqua.. money being in his:desk just befiire and at the time of, the, failure; that Babcock saw in his possession' about the ,same alarge - amou,nt-of money; and they prov'edin their crosa-examine tion - of Stevens, that plaintiff said he received all ofitin Payment for cattle. Now here was some evidence of prior possession of the moo-' ey,—enough to entitle it alit? go in evidence. "Where there-is "spark of evidence, a question of fact- Must be left to the Jury, as ".the legitimate triers of it."—Bank of I'ittsbury vs. Whitehead. 10 Watts, 89,7., ' Delaney vs. Robinson, 2, Wharf., ,503. The stren g th of- that evidence. need not now be argued ;It is enoagh that there was some. The Court had no right, to take it wholly from the Jul.. • • ' Yet again ; in assigning - reasons for the rejection of our first offer of the money, the Court say we did !rot show when, or on what terms svo got it. Here we did shoW at what price it was selling af . ter the failure; so that if it was then obtained, this Jury haa a mea sure'of its' c i ost. Under every possible view, the whole money sho'd have gone n evidence. - Getting out a Newspaper alone. -The Knickerbocker Magazine gets off,a good story of an editor and proprietoi of a paper who was hurriedly called, away, and left the establishment in the -care,of Jones, to whoa he addressed the following note; Form,tviLLE, dot. 2, 1852.- - "DEAR JONES;Can't come home till .morning.-_ Get out the bee( paper you can. ; Write short articles, and stir up the party fur . not their organs more assistanie. .. 11. E." • • s.—By the editor-,--Be emphatic; - Jones; touch 'eto on - the raw i A. J. L." " "The Genius" was a Republican paper, of the broadest "stripe," and, that Jones did not exactly like t "nor never • for•bes was a strong Democrat, and had' on several oCoasion reasoned with the publisher upon the propriety and policy - of changing the politics of the paper.. No proposition of this "sort, however, could be elite*. tamed. .41* Genius" creed its existence to the Republican party Its politics was its lifeblood. Nevertheless, a vary great privilege NM here extended to Ames'. He wee instructed to "stir 'em to be "emphatic" and to "touch 'em on the raw;" be bad "lull powers." ' . At length the ", deed was done;" "The Genius" ripperried 'with the, following editorial : • - "Tun Nroona:—We edmire him,..W,a like him. , Walove him. We . go in for him. We have but one idea, and - that is nigger.! We have but one dream and that Witte. We preach from bet one text, and that is ditto. We play hut-One tune, and that is ditto. We go our-fell length on Nigger. We are all: over ditto. We are - ditto in the morning. We • Are ditto at noon! We are ditto at night. We are ditto-all the time.: We livean 3'Vra sleep on.ditto. We'll die on ditto. ..strut yet,niould you believe' it, reader, i The. &flied don't liciylP • . : ' While the writer of this "stirring" editorial was enjoying, next morning, a pleasing reverie at.his success in editing, tlya office door . was thrown violently open by the exasperated proprietor: --- "You infernal scoundrel I" he' fairly roared,. rushing towards Jones fibut-before he could finish his sentence, the latter had made his escape. 'The editor, however, arrived Jun in time, to catch•him it the street door. ' • . • "J -o-a-a-ii" be 'kilted at tbe same time shaking st•oop7 of the VOLUME XVII,.,NUMBER 'paper in -his face, " L9ok here! What have you done I' - • "I.reckon I have touched' tent on- the raw, ll said the , bewi!der ; a Jones: . - - , By-this time e the pre. - prietor,boilitig-over, with rage; had --joined= the equally eieited editor. • "You have killed th e paperl" . , eilaimed' the proprietor. "You haveroined me!" follovied the editor. "Ilpw did yait come to write such a savage article !!) asked the prit prietor. To ' stir' 'em iittk,". mildly answered Jones.- . "The thing is out rageonsrsaid the editor: • "It' is a little 'em phatic,' " :i replied Jones. this point there was • a "'lively time," consequient upon- a rush of Republicans and Democrats .to the-office. Of . " The Genius." Tne former were -full of in dignation;-and stamped and rated; the Demo; crats, on the contrary, wereju-bilant. Each car ried a copy of tlae papers conducing Jones' fatal editorial; lauded it to the skies, and promised all Corte of assistance: The old friends of the paper swore eternal enmity, and commenced their onslaught by ordering their ad vertiiemen ts. out and their names erased froth the subscription books. . At length after the greatest din and.:conftb sion, the regular editor was permitted to explain. lie told the whole story ; 'disavowed the author .ship of the Obnoxious ed itorial ; condemned• the sentiments therein ex pressed -promised_ to make apology in a suc ceeding issue ; and as eared the , patrons' of `The Genies that he would g ive up the prac tice of the last, lay Blackstone.ou the shelf, mid remain permanently at his post. According ly the next 4y the mat— ter was.set Poor Jones came in for:some heary.shots for the trou ble he had ca:lmed-; :and what was, still .. Wor.4e, nothing but his retno7al from the cm:Meru would satisfy the o u t raged patron a. The Democrats of the ,town, hoWevei t came' to Jones' _rescue: They started a paperof- their own made , Jones its 'regular'. editor, and to thi4 day his business with. his 4- ponents is, to stir 'em and touch 'coil 'on the raw. -:0:- TJrren SERMON.-- The following admirable •prod action, delivered be fore a company of vol. untetr" soldiers during the revolutionary strug gle, uponlhe eve of their going to "glorious war," was calculated to inspire them with more. than. Herculean courage : MINE FILIEIcIB virst you cowed bite; you vatfpoor 'and lousy, and bolt!, "mine frients ; you is proud and,gassy, and yous gotten orLyour unicorns,' and dein vii you' like dongs upon a 'bog's pack; now, /nine frients, lot me tell_ you -ditto' man ish a man if he ish no pigger.as -thy ducal,. Yea Tavil vent out to rite mit Goliab, he took nothing mit him . but °nailing; now don't mistsken rne, icing (dents: it was not a rum sling ; no, itor a giti sling . ; no, nor a mint rat - ektling; no,it was a sling nSade wit one hick ory schtick. 'Now van. ' dish Ooliith sees -'avid coming, he says, "You von little scoundrel; doe, you come to rite we ?-- I vill give you--- to - the birds of the &It, acd de - beasts of de air." Tavid 'says, "Golfgh,'Golish,dir - .race not always wit de ehWift, nor, is do bat itle.mit de strong, and a man' ish a man if lavish no pigier as my Tavid be 'fixed ish eldone . in,:bia riling, and droves it at Goliah, and inocks him rite in do forehead, And Tavid" takes Goliab's sword and - cuts off hie heat—den all de putty gals of de - . shitty comes out and atlieriwd flowers .it his way and sung; Saul ish . a great man for tie has kilt isk thonsiude; but Tavid ish greater as he, for he has . kilt Wird). • . _ • The ills of ' •lift arts Mew really but myths. •