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00 Larayett Dath, The demand for Foreign Exchange was limited, and the rates declining. For Southern unendorsed bills the rate is 81 it 9, although a sale has been made as low as 81 Drawn bills we quote 9/2 a 92 Francs 525 a 5.273. Cot. ton bills are now appearing in considerable quantities. In consequence of this decline in Exchange, Specie is dull and premiums low, as the demand for shipment has nearly ceased. Mexican Dollars are worth & per cent. Spanish 4, Five Franc pieces 91, American Halves and Gold, par. In Domestic Exchange there is no material change Philadelphia 5 a 54, Baltimore 31 a 33. NOrleans 43 is 5 Michigan 91. Charleston 11 a 15. Savannah 21 u 21. The Merchants' Bank has-declared a dividend of four per cent. Either from the want of money or from want of centidance, or probably from the conjunction of both, there was considerable disinclination on Saturday, on the part of the uncurrent money brokers, to buy the notes of several Banks of this State which have heretofore been in good credit. We refrain from particularizing the Banks, as in the present state of distrust, which 18 almost a panic, we might do injustice to some perfectly sound Banks. We shall endeavor to keep our readers advised of all actual stoppages. The U.S. Circuit Court at Philadelphia has confirmed the verdict recently obtained by the United States against the U.S. Bank, in the case of the damages on the protested bill on Paris. An order has been issued for the appointment of a Receiver for the Bank of Buffalo. An order has also been issued to the Comptroller to pay the notes of that Bank out of the funds belonging to the Safety Fund. The Canal Fund Commissioners advertise for proposals for a loan of $200,000 at six per cent. reimbarrable in 1860; the bids to be for not less than $5,000, and receivable until the 14th proximo. I Notes of the Globe Bank of Providence, altered from ones to fives, are in circulation at Buffalo. In anticipation of the action of the Ohio Legislature, i the stockholders of the Columbiana Bank, New Lisbon. have been called to consider the expediency of winding up the affairs of that institution. The Merchants' Insurance and Trust Co. at Nashville were drawing on New-York at 11 per cent. premium. The U.S. Gazette states that on Friday some of the City Banks refused the notes of several of the Interior Banks. They were bought by the brokers at 1 per cent. discount. ! The arrangement in relation to the Railroad bonds at Baltimore does not seem to have succeeded 30 well as was I anticipated. The discount on them has materially increased.
