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MONKY M A R K E T. Wednesday, Oct. 16-6, P. M. Wall street has resumed its accustomed appearance. Confidence in our banks remains firm. At the stock exchange, a fair amount of business has been done, and prices have generally improved. U. S. Bank rose If per cent; North American Trust and Banking Co. 2 per cent; Farmers' Trust, 1; Kentucky, 14; Harlem, 1; Delaware and Hudson, 1; Mohawk. 4 The Franklin Bank of Baitimore has declared a dividend of three per cent for the last half year. The Bank of New York has declared a dividend of four per cent for the last six months, payable on the 1st November. The Merchant's Insurance Company in Boston have made a dividend of ten per cent for six months-seven per cent of this sum is understood to have been derived from interest of the capital, and three per cent from the profit of insurance. The Bank of Chelsea has finally stopped payment. and another of the new banks-the Weel Growers, with a circulation of $16,000. has also suspended. It pays the depositor, how. ever, in full. It is stated in a New Haven paper, that the banks of that city have a surplus of specie; and a trea. ury draft in favor of the Manhattan Bank of this city. was drawn in specie-dra and bills being refused. This is the operation of the government, in concentrating specie in New York. A few days SINCE, the Collector Mr. Hoyt, loaned to the North Amer. Trust & Banking Co. $175,000, for which they gave ample security in State Stocks, while the President was in the city, and probably with his advice. The institution then paid out of this money, to one of the smaller banks $45,000 and $5000 to another, making $125,000, which she keeps on deposite. These and other movements are indicative of the deturmination of both the general and State Government to sustain our banks and one of the first results has been to enable the N. A. Trust & Banking Co. to resume the redemption of the bills of the following banks at the rates annexed. BILLS REDEEMED AT THE N Am. TRUST AND BANKING COMPANY. Farmers' Bank. Hudson, par " Orange Bank, New Jersey, " Farmers & Drovers, Somers, " Commercial Bank. Troy, Farmers and Mechanics, Genessee pr c't dis't Delaware Bank, Delhi, " James' Bank, " Bank of Syracuse. " " of Central New York, Utica, " Merchants & Farmers, Ithica, Genesee County Bank, An arrangement has been made with the agency of the Bank of Western New York, at No. 3 Wall street, by which the bills of the following banks, under the new law, will be redeemed at three per cent discount: Delaware Bank, at Delhi. Canal Bank, at Lockport. Syracuse, at Syracuse. Bank of Central New York, Utica. Mohawk Valley Bank. Genessee Co'. Bank. Merchants' and Farmers' Bank, at Ithica. Farmers' Bank. Geneva. Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, Rochester. Commercial Bank, do. Bank of Western New York, do. Farmers' Bank of Orleans, at Gaines. Bank of Dansville. at Dansville. St. Lawrence, at Ogdensburgh The post notes " the U.S. Bank were sold today at 3 per cent per month. The great desideratum of supplying the demand for some means of remittance shroal, which shall obviate the necessity or shipping specie, is now obtained. There will no doubt, be more bille than will and buyers, and the rate will be so. far reduced, as to provone, is all probability, much spocio from going. The departumer the Liverpool has rightly been con.
