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the 24th, the authorities had been disappointed at the renewal of the financial trouble in New York on that day. It was reported that the Secretary of the Treasury had telegraphed to the President that, in his judgment, the purchase of bonds should cease whenever the amount of currency used should reach $12,000,000. The President had not replied to this dispatch. An application had been made to the Secretary by leading financial men to anticipate the redemption of the $20,000,000 of five per cent. gold bonds falling due in January next. A Milwaukee (Wis.) dispatch of the 24th says the Chamber of Commerce of that city had suspended operations, and that there would be no trading in grain until further notice. A telegram from Wilkesbarre, Pa., of the 24th announced that Brown & Gary, bankers of that city, had suspended. A Baltimore dispatch of the 24th announced that all the banks of the city had stopped currency payment. Brown, Lancaster & Cowell, agents of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, having houses in Baltimore, New York and Richmond, had also suspended. Little Rock, Ark., dispatches of the 24th say the money panic in that city continued, caused not so much by Eastern financial complications as by the refusal of the city banks to take the shinplasters that have been current there. According to a dispatch from Richmond, Va., the Richmond Dollar Savings Bank had suspended, and Taylor & Williams, bankers, had failed. A dispatch to the Associated Press, from Brownsville, Texas, of September 24, says that a series of butcheries and robberies had recently been committed in Mexico, the victims in every case being Americans. The perpetrators of these crimes were arrested, and their guilt fully established, yet not one of them had been punished, the authorities being either indifferent or powerless. The facts had been reported by the Consuls to Washington, in the hopes that redress would be demanded. Information had been received at Washington, on the 24th, that Collector Weidner, of the Second District of Alabama, was a defaulter to the amount of $20,000. Orders had been issued for his arrest. The wheat crop, according to the returns to the statistical division of the Agricultural Department, published on the 24th, presented an average of 95, which is about the same as the September report of 1872. The area of cultivation had been much larger this year than last. The Chicago Journal of the 25th says that it had become necessary to say that the banks of Chicago had not suspended payment or closed their places of business. The action of the preceding night was not in consequence of a panic but to prevent a panic. They had not ceased business, were continuing to receive deposits and pay out such sums as might be needed for ordinary business transactions, but where sums were demanded to hoard or withdrawn from business operations they had resolved to delay the payment of these until the financial storm had passed. The currency stringency in that city had had the effect to bring the extensive hog and cattle trade to a stand still, it being impossible to make cash sales. The Union Live Stock Yards contained 30,000 hogs and 10,000 head of cattle, all that the yards could possibly accommodate, and the live stock commission merchants had notified the railroads and country shippers that no more live stock would be received until further notice. According to a dispatch to the Associated Press the Cincinnati Clearing-House Association had adopted on the 25th a resolution substantially the same as that adopted on the 24th by the banks of Chicago. A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo., of the 25th, says that the banks of that city had suspended. A Memphis dispatch of the 25th says that the First National and De Soto banks, of that city, had closed their doors. There was great excitement in that city in consequence. A New York dispatch of the 25th says the day has been a comparatively quiet one in Wall street. The means of relief adopted by the banks in effecting bank clearances by loan certificates had eased the pressure on themselves but had not materially aided others. The extreme caution of those institutions, and their anxiety to protect themselves, had added largely to the actual scarcity of money, and there were grievous complaints from the great commercial world and the Produce Exchange in particular. Earnest appeals had been made to the Government for relief, and resolutions had been adopted by the Produce Exchange suggesting to the Treasurer the issue of currency to the banks and bankers on evidence that gold had been deposited in the Bank of England to the credit of the United States to be used only in buying exchange. The breadstuffs market was still under the influence of the block in exchange. A Washington dispatch of the 25th says that the President had returned to that city permanently. At a consultation held between the President, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-General, the latter officer held that the bonds of 1874 could not be redeemed legally before maturity. It was therefore decided that the Treasury could take no further steps to relieve the New York market, except as it was affected by the regular transactions of the department. Dr. Linderman, the Director of the Bureau of the Mint, had predicted that the effect of the stock panic would be to hasten the resumption of specie payments. He said that within a month, it was his belief, that silver and gold coin would be a medium of circulation at currency rates. In anticipation of this result, he had ordered the mints to largely increase the coinage, and stated that more bullion would be coined during the next three months than at any previous time in the same period. Secretary Richardson had stated that it would be a good policy for all the banks to suspend further currency payments. It was rumored, in Washington, on the 25th, that the President had been advised to call an extra session of Congress. A dispatch from St. Louis, of the 25th, says that the banks of that city had held a meeting on the evening of that day and resolved to