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Mob In Cincinnati

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
January
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

There has buen a Bank mob in this city of which the Detroit Advertiser gives thg follüwiüg account: The Bank Mob in Cincinnati was extensive and disastroas. It comtnenced on llie morning of the llth, and deatroyed the fix tures, boolts ond papers of the Cincinnati Bank, the Miami -Exporting Bank, the Eschange Bank, and Louger's Brokerage. The Cincinnati .Bank opened in the morning, bul llie '"run" upon it compelled it to post up a card labeled "suspended for 20 days." Wheu this vvas done, the mob rushed inlo the Bank, and in a few minutes ils papers svere scallered through the streete, and the forcin of lts vuults aitempted. The Miami Exporting Co's doora were then torced - its Windows battered down - vaulls forced - its contenta ucattered, and about S 1,200 in specie taken off.By this limo, the mob numbered several ;housand and thero were n. few military out, ittempting to quell it - aided by a squad f rom ;he fire department. The commandant, )eing driven back by the inob, ordered his tnen ;o fire, by which pne man was severely wounied, and two or three othrsslighily. The iiremen were, at the same time, driven to alows; but tlieir small force was obliged to retreat. The Exchange Bank kept offtlie mob for i few hours, by paying specie; but because it would not redeem the bilis of the Uoion bank (which had been in some way connected with'this) the mob altacked it, as it had the others. The mob then passed over to Louger's broker office, who liad long been obnoxious, and Boon 6cattered his papers to the winds. The Mechanic9 and Traders Bank was surrounded and threatened; but its officers kept open doors: and continucd to redeem bo freely as to escape. Several other brokers were ihreatened, but escaped, and at 6 o'clock the mob had dispersed. Four or five persons, having been Ibund with some of the eftects of the Bank, were arrested during the day, but none of the leaders of the mob. The Microscope states that after the military fiïed upon the people, the mob with a great ehout forced the guards to the sanctuary of the Mayor'e office, when the riot act was read, but produced little or no efftict, other than to increase the exciteinent1"The correspondent oí the "Tocsin" writes f rom Washington: - "Wedncsday, this week, while our legislators were debating the effect oí the lariffon free and slave labor, a man was sold at auction, "for no fault, to close a concern," close by my boarding place. One of the most refined ladies 1 have met with, the same day, told me of the sale uf her maid to a New Orleans trader,to punish her for a pcrt reply, and commended her husband for his prompi ness and affection in doing it! {iShe coulc not bear to have a black person mpcrtinentj" The poor girl, named "Mary Upshur," belonged to the family from which one of the Cabinet comes, if not to the Judirehim3elir