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A Carp et-Bag Man. Great Excitement: :-Ar attempt to residibute the Word C5. Bank-Way frustrated! Last Friday as the above mentioned onition was opened for business in the afternoon, it spruce, band-boxy, fogrish sapling, presented at its counter bill to the amount of some three-thous 08 I dollars, including some two huni ed dollars on the Wood Co. Bank. The rest being on the Banks of "North America," and 'St. Croix River,' make ing a demand for the gold on the Wood County Bank bills Mr. Botkin, the cashier, was out, but on coming in, at once "proceeded hastily to redeem the Wood County money, as the gentleman had not yet demanded the gold on the bills of the other banks. It soon became noised about town, that a "carpet-bag man" was in town, premeditating it "run" on "our bank." A crowd collected and swore that no such individual should quash our monied institution, as they all deemed it safe, and knew his purpose was to get the gold which was worth a premium of 5 per cent. at least. A line was handed him requesting him to leave town, forthwith. He paid no attention to it, when our citizens rather anceremoniously took him out of doors, and advised him to leave at once. After some parleying he took the gold on the Wood County Bank money, and left in a hurry. He represented himself as belonging to Watertown. Hei is the pimp of the Bank of Watertown, and calls his name Balm, "some people call it Bam, or Baum, or Bum," but it don't make any difference what you call it, he is engaged in very small business, regular pimping business, probably at a salary of forty dollars per month, and thought perhaps he would astonish our traftsmen by parading a few dollars before their eyes. They treated him just right, and we trust our citizens will hold themselves in readiness to ride all such pups out of town on a rail, whenever they come among us on so disreputable a business. Our citizens repose confidence in the Wood Co. Bank, and there do their business.They respect its Cashier as a man o integrity and a citizen of worth, and "by the Eternal" they will protect hin and the Bank from the assaults o carpet-bag men, come from what quar ter they may. The Bank of Water town probably desires to crush al Banks not on the line of the Rail-road