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'Carpet-Bag" Gentry in Town. Our city was visited one day last week by a couple of delectable specimens of humanity, J. W. Foster, a broker of Racine, and John Fitzgerald, a broker of Oshkosh, having a large quantity of bills on the Columbia County Bank and the Bank of Portage, which were presented at their counters for the specie. This is the first time during the present panic that men have been found mean enough to pursue such a course, and this one is the more aggravated from the fact that Mr. Fitzgerald, himself a banker, and making professions of high honesty, was found engaged in it. We do not believe the operation will be repeated by Mr. F., at least, for he received satisfactory assurances that our citizens generally did not approve of the course he was pursuing, and he so far respected their fe lings as to leave town by the first train. -Portage City Record. We want no better testimony of unsoundness in a bank than is offered above. Any bank that appeals for sympaty or allows the press to do so on its behalf, may be suspected. When the list of unsound banks of Wisconsin is made out, the Columbia County Bank will appear as one of them. Messrs. Foster and Fitzgerald had a right to demand a fulfillment of the terms, of contract between the bank and people, as expressed on the face of Columbia County Bank notes-promising to pay Bearer, &c. If brokers and Carpet Bag" men were an exception to the contract, why not so express it on the notes. We'd like to know how deep the Columbia County Bank is in towards flooding Wisconsin with Illinois money and then charging three per cent. for exchange on Illinois.