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VOLUME IX--NUMBR 15 NORTHERN BANK OF MISSISSIPPI. r Reports prejudicial to the solvency of the Northern Bank of Mississippi, at pi Holly Springs, have been current for some weeks past. So generally had these rumors obtained in Tennessee and the upper part of this state, that a run was made upon the Bank, and also upon its agencies at Vicksburg and Yazoo City. We are glad to know, however, that the Bank, as well as its agencies, promptly met all demands, and that the institution still stands firm to its integrity-challenging combined assaults of friends and foes. Our readers are aware that the North ern Bank is the only Bank doing busi. ness in Mississippi; and amid all the ex pansions and revolutions which have marked our career within the past twelve years, this in visution lief-an oasis in the desert-amonument to the capacity and honesty of those who have cherished and protected it. It is a Mississippi institution-wholly a Mississippi institution-and, for one, we feel willing to stand by it until death,so long as prudence marks its career, and wisdom and honesty prevail in its couacils. The institution never has presumed to occupy much space in the public mind, but has vettodeceive in a single instant, those who have reposed confidence in it. Notwithstanding its modesty and timidity, it has met with one unall abated tide of opposition from the Tense nessee, "mountain money" bankers of gMemphis, To that class of speculators (who fatten on expansions, contractions and explosions,) is to be attributed the spreading of false and injurious reports in regard to the Northern Bank. Wedd not speak unadvisedly-uc speak by the book, being fully posted up in regard td the recent run as well as to the solvency and general conduct of the institution. The Memphis mountain money' bankers, as we have stated, created this late panic-and by continuing their fixed policy towards the institution, (which consists in drawing coin, refusing the paper, and endeavoring to influence other, to reject it.) may again produce a similar state of feeling. We are assured, however, from the very best authority, that the Bank is pursuing a cautious and strictly legitimate business. The paper is grad ually gaining favor, and those immediately interested in the institution are determined that itshal down all falsehood and prejudice. It is, doubtless, the des ign of the stockholders to gradually bring up the business of the Bank to its ultimatum viz-one million capital and two on million circulation. So far its business xehas been quite limited. not exceeding the of capital actualy paid in But, when the prej nNiceagainst a ississippi bank shallhave been overcome-when our own people shall begin to believe that Mississippi con mtains upright and honest men as well as of other states--the Northern Bank may at safely enlarge its capital paid in, and do hat a business commensurate with its charter. ved The institution is in the hands of prudent an and we feel free to assure the public les that they know too well what prejudice of exists against a Mississippi bank, to risk throwing out a circulation larger than ous they can redeem at any and at all times her Hinds Gazectte. a