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 # ALBERT PIKE,

 THE WIRE FULLER.

 s singular fact, that among the many RI attributes of all Banks, we never find Nith private stockholders, but that it er or Iaten becomes a political insru- |in the hands of a few ambitious men; Bank where the Goperameat holds the |.that il is not Aeeced and ruined in the 8So 1t is in our State. Both are ruined, h .leek of enc is converted now into HeR instrument. All admit the first, fl 50 who to not admit the last, may as T believe 1t IS clear. At any rate, Il ely state the facts, as 1 have them, faey are not capable of being explained sit tciH De clear.

 le Real Estate Bank is a separate princi- s having run the gauntlet through all sF and become independent in the shape

 It has gone beyond the |pf law. IL has bid open and exulting Re to the law of the last legislature; ; Zen the Executive, and Attorney Gene lpm to have given it up, It would seem Ia work of folly to oppose 1t farther, 1hlther eaactments. It has heretofore heId by dozen Of fifteen men, as as- sS, feW of aebom haUe ka0va any Miag V; if the Branches stand in the same 'ament with the mother Bank.

 little of the original capital of this Avlll live to redeem the bonds. Indeed, poks and assets of the Chicot Branch bot been, and, it Is openly stated, acili surrended, even as provided in the |nent. There are no morals in Bank E; and aH is tajr in break upl

 al will be the consequence of this ; nswer is plain. If the Chicot Branch lsialn itself, in this refusal, against the lnye assignees, for a short time, as 1t al- certainly will do, the whole indebted b that Branch will be barred by the ol limitations, and lost to the State Jus will the State be saddled with, and Opay, that amount to the Bond-holders! DIV will the State pay it? The answer ally plain. It can only be by taring 'ople of Me State at large! Thus

 few men, who have been favorites of lnk, at that Branch, have had all the ',and those people who have had none will have it all to payl Is this 10 be ted to! People of 1 usas, will you t And if you will bear it, how ou help yourselves

 , you may ask, how will the Chicot sustain itself in its refusal to surrender oks and assets This question has al- been answered by the public avowals neral understanding, which have reach city, that rather than they shall be dered, the books and assets shall be up, or thrown into the river. Now, rom a mere peeuniary consideration matter, what is its moral aspect' Is man in our community who will have fdlhood to avow, that he will join i'll, prove of, any plan which goes to de-

 9y force and fraud, the evidences of indebtedness to the Bank3 Is there an who will seek, in this way, to avoid Nate debts, even in this age of bank :, and cast his burden progressively on

 7 Who Is 1t that wants to plead the ol limitations? ? who, to shake off his

 eo' on others; Let him give up his to public execration, for his course is lorable.

 'ofdlng to the provisions of the assign

 t ele affairs of the Bank, which have, pore, been managed byffleen assignees, l lo" been concentrated to fre individu- ,,nomlnated erecutioc assigaecs. But is oaoie a that these fire will know any aoout Its complicated affairs, or manage

 better than the former fifteen? All oi are gentlemen for whom have the respect; but the matter is trouble 9eyohd conception, and losing busi- 'ilen when conducted honestly. Sc ,o hot, and will not, trouble themselv o,a soout 1t than absolutely compelled e'ner there be fifteen, or whether thcrl : = rdssignees, 1t is alf the same; the A Il holds his office for the life of the , mat IS the assignment; or I should |, "'e end of He funds. That end, SC , ,Ie specie IS concerned, is, amagine 'o "a4a' a The Attorney, S2,250 a year le ', N oiarial Secretary S1,20O, in COLT rrLs5R, grand total S3,400 annually

 aiaed by another joint trip to New anu an excursion to Canada, or per :; hondon' very soon closes the chapter ,e ,e.l, possible the Washington Branch vii ;eln ;,.1 another supply of specie, to las .'"e while. l wonder if that incorrigi 