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be present. Quarterly meeting at the same time and place. The way they do things in Ohio, We have been furnished by a friend with the account of an adventure Gen. E. B. Tyler had with the Iron Bank of Ironton, about the 1st ultimo. It seems the General had some $9000 in the notes of that institution which he wished to convert into more available funds, (we suppose, to expend in this country, this winter, for furs and skins,) and consequently called upon its officers for eastern currency or the specie. They very generously declared a preference to pay the coin, and commenced counting out quarter-dollars, one at a time. In the mean time it was circulated about that a broker was robbing the bank of $30,000 in specie, and a mob gathered about, headed by an operator for the Bank, who attempted to frighten off the Gen. But he has been in the woods of Western Virginia too often to be scared in that way, and he boldly set them at defiance. The mob then seized upon the officers of the Bank, to their great indignation, of course, and forced them out the back way and over the fence, locking the vault and safe after them. The crowd, then, by a system called hustling," got the Gen. out of the Bank, but, our correspondent says, the persons composing it took care to keep at a respectful distance from his indignant wrath. We will let our correspondent tell the balance of the story himself : About 2 o'clock the Bank officers found the key to the outer door, and opened that. As soon as Gen. Tyler learned that fact, he again went to the Bank through the mob, and again demanded his money. The teller expressed great anxiety about not being able to find his vault keys, and said that as soon as they were found he would count him out his money-continually proclaiming his entire innocence of the transaction.— Things passed on until about dusk, when they learned that the Gen. had been informed of the fact that a continual correspondence had been kept up between the mob and the Bank officers up to the time of the assault, through the coal hole in the fence, and the better part of the peos ple began to denounce their conduct.— The teller then went to him and proposed to him to go up to Ashland, Ky., on the first boat, and he would bring him the coin early Monday morning-that he should be able to find his keys as soon as Gen. Tyler left, and he would attend to that if everything beside failed. After consulting with his friends, Gen. Tyler consented to do so; but the Bank official forfeited his contract, and has not been seen since, although the Gen. spent the following two days at Ironton. " The above are the main facts in the case. It is morlifying to me to say such things are done in Ohio; but while I am compelled to acknowledge the fact, I have the consolation of knowing that it was gotten up and led on by men who belong to a party which justifies the stealing of the personal property of those living in in a neighboring State, while they will head a mob of loafers to prevent one of their own citizens from obtaining his just and lawful dues. The man who led off in this disgraceful outrage prides himself on his adroitness in running off negroes from Kentucky and Virginia; and the fact of his heading this outrage against law and order, showed his disregard for all legal or moral obligation. The whole thing was gotten up and put through by the blackest of Black Republicans, and they deserve to be shown up by every Democratic paper in the Union. These men are now fawning around to keep it from a legal investigation, and are lavt ishing upon Gen. Tyler thousands of compliments for his determined courage. He tells them that one Democrat can drive a regiment of negro stealers like them."