Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-16
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
From the A,.eeiated Pres. As..,



NV YORK, Oct. l5-Business Affairs are look.
I"e more cheerful to-day. The banks are going
o;s a. usual excepting TINT they pay ont spe-
IL Is said that a special agent Of RothschiIds
S e passenger in the Vanderbilt with orders 10
".l securities to large amount
per cent " '""As Ouye"
eleasing- house to-day agreed that all bal
~ may ne settled IN current fund, tas,e.d az
tagetber s ne , ssnhs are WORKING hamonIou
s ,,., eha Things are tending gr~.tly toward
restoration of confidence and revival of easi.ess
boston, Oct. 5.-Money continues stri,y~,s
.I nem az much 80 AZ AZ any former period
NJ .,e ui ~ a. rah River have suspended and
ment. NAS"AP'O1-
An adjourned meeting Of the bank nre,,a.,,.
was hela tc-aay 70 arrange plan for facilitating
posed course 10 discount undoub,ed paper will
furnish great relief TO our business men. who are
beginning to bend beneath the pressure
MeSsrs Little, Alden, d Co. have not suxp>nd
ed but ask an extension only in behalf Of several
mills for which they are agents
At Concord, y. IL, the banks have not sus-
pended AT Manchester, N. IL, the banks have
suspended.
LAWRENCE, Mass Oct 1.-THE banks Of thi.
day
The Pacific corporation was unable to pay OF
their hands
SYRACUSE, n. Y. Oct IA large meeting Of
the business mel and other citizens of this City
was held here this evening Resolutions were
passed approving the suspension Of specie nav.
Inents by the banks pledging themselves 10 re
ceive and to give currency 20 the bills of sound
state banks for the sake Of the business interests
oil the country, and joining in the request 10 the
Toyernor to convene the Legislature. All the
banks in the city, with the exec ption of the Man
ufacturers and Traders, have suspended specie
payments.
Pratt & Co, large hardware house. tempora-
rilv suspended to-day
BANGOR, Me, Oct. H.-At a meeting of hank
directors, held here this afternoon. il was voted
10 suspend specie payment during the present
crisis. Resolutions were also passed expressing
confidence in the Suffolk Bank system and re-
fusing to take bills not redeemed in Boston
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. H.-There was consider
able excitement here to-day, and three banks
The , 00pru 10 suspend specie payments
panic, but no material run on the other banks
followed, except on the Citizens, which expert
enced heavy drain during the balance Of the
day, but paid everything promptly.
BoUrsvILLE, Oct. I5.-The Kentucky hanks
await the action OF the New Orleans banks IL
the latter suspend the Kentucky banks viii do
the same.
The feeling in money matters in generally n uite
cheerful
PETERSBURG, Oct. I5-The branches of the
Virginia and Exchange Banks here suspended
to-day.
RICHMOND, Oct. 15.-The Bank Of virpini.
here suspended this morning.
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NEW ORLEANS, Oct. Is The Union and the
Mechanics and Traders banks, and the Bank OF
New Orleans, suspended yesterday.
Sales Of cotton at 9KaI0c.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. l6.-There has been a heavy
run on the Bank Of the State Of Missouri The
ability OF the banks TO hold out is doubted by
some.
NASHVILLE, Oct. 16-The Bank Of Tennessee
has suspended. The Legislature is considering
bill for legalizing the suspension.
NORFOLK, Oct. 16.-The banks here have sus-
pended specie payments this morning.