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1838, and no answer for one month made to a positive call from the Auditor for the returns, although the Char- expressly requires monthly Reports? Who can for- comments and suspicions under such a state of things? The U. States Bank post notes falling due in New York are now regularly redeemed with specie by the Branch in that city So far as it goes, this is a good sign - The N Y E. Post of Tuesday says: "Stocks ge- nerally were firm to day, although our quotations are reduced for several of the leading stocks Bank of the United States, Delaware and Hudson, North American Trust, Harlem and Bank of Kentucky were stationery. The Whigs attribute the advance in stocks yesterday to their hopes of perpetuating a little longer their ephemeral paper system; but the revulsion in prices is steadily going on, and the speculative system of credit, with which we have so long been afflicted, does not find favor with all the substantial men of their own party." The Philadelphia Sentinel understands, "that in conformity with the provisions of their charters, and with what appeared to be the public sentiment on the subject, the Banks of the City and County of Philadelphia, with two exceptions, have declined declaring a dividend for the last six months: and we learn that a number of the Banks in the interior of the State have taken the same course. This determination, whilst it evinces a disposition on the part of the Banks to obey the laws of the land, as far as practicable, will ope- rate, we apprehend, with great severity on many widows and orphans and charitable institutions, whose funds have been invested in bank stock. The Commonwealth, also, which is a large stockholder in several of the banks, and which has heretofore derived a considerable revenue from the tax on bank dividends, will suffer no little inconvenience from its withdrawal, and be obliged to resort to further taxation or to a loan, to meet the deficiency. According to the report of the State Treasurer to the legislature in December last, the Commonwealth received in 1838, from dividends on Bank stock $158,230; and from the tax on Bank dividends, $113,826 89; making together $272 056 89. In estimating the probable receipts in the State Treasury for the present year, these two items are put down at $270,000." The Huntsville Democrat of the 2d inst. says, that the Banks of Alabama "continue to redeem their notes with specie, and there is no probability of their suspending- their resources being ample to sustain them." Ohio-"Of the 33 banks in this State, we (the Chili- cothe Advertiser of the 9th) learn that the Cincinnati banks, with the exception of the Commercial, the Hamil- ton Bank, Urbana, Dayton, Granville, the two Wooster Banks, and the Commercial Bank of Scioto, at Ports- mouth, have all refused to redeem their notes. The re- mainder of the banks in this State, we believe, are still paying specie "-The Fayette and Franklin Banks of Cincinnati resumed specie payments on the 7th. The Cincinnati Gazette states, that the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company of that city resumed specie payments on the 6th inst. Under the law of Ohio, if any bank sus- pends specie payments more than thitty days, its charter becomes forfeited. The Ohio Statesman thinks, that the banks of that State, which have stopped, will resume specie payments within the thirty days required by the law, rather than allow their affairs to go into the hands of the commis- sioners. # MOVEMENTS OF THE WHIGS. No sooner is the Election over, in the State of New York, than the Whigs begin to move in the Presidential Election. A meeting of the Whigs was called in their respective wards on Tuesday Evening, to choose Delegates to a Convention which is to appoint Delegates to the Harrisburg Convention. Symptoms of division are beginning to break out. The Evening Star (Citizen Noah) warmly advocates the nomination of Mr Clay, in preference to Gen Harrison or Scott. He sets aside the name of Gen. S.; says, that his nomination is confined to "a very select circle in (that) State, and nowhere else;" admires Gen S. as a gentleman and a soldier, but denies his "pretensions to the character of a statesman."-He contends, that "Mr. Clay and Gen. H, having a certain strength, will be the two leading names before that Convention. That the powerful talents, eminent services, and great experience of Mr. Clay, entitle him to the preference, no one can deny. Let his friends, therefore, among the Whigs, rally to his standard in the several Wards to night and sustain him in a manly, open, honest, fearless manner, by sending members to the Convention who will vote for Clay delegates "-He declares, that "no true friend of the great statesman will desert him for newly named candidates and fresh adventurers. If we have have to sink (says the Star) let us go down with the Clay flag flying in preference to a time serving, fickle, dishonest policy, which must inevitably bring defeat and disaster with it." The Rochester Democrat supports Gen Scott, as the favorite of the country-and the N. York Herald stands by him, and declares at once, that "if the Whigs of N York do not put up the name of SCOTT, they have not the slightest chance carry the State next year, or to present any serious obstacle to the re-election of Mr. Van Buren The friends of Gen. Harrison, again, are buckling on their armor in his behalf, and calling meetings in Ohio for selecting Delegates in their Congressional Districts. to attend the Harrisburg Convention. "The Honorable Elisha Whittlesey has been appointed a (State) Delegate to the Harrisburg Convention from Ohio, in the place of Judge Calvin Pease, dec'd" The Philadelphia Sentinel states, that "the hostile feeling which has frequently exhibited itself within the last year between the friends of Harrison and Clay, is now openly expressed in some sections of Pennsylvania; and threatens an entire separation of the Whig and anti-Masonic parties - We still think that Mr. Clay has too much political tact and experience to be a candidate under such unfavorable circumstances, and that when the proper time arrives, his name will be withdrawn from the canvass. Referring to the bickerings among the sup- porters of Messts. Clay and Harrison, the National Gazette of Tuesday remarks, that "the divisions which now exist in the party will be fatal to its prospects, if they continue but a few months longer." The Columbus (Ohio) Journal deprecates the attempt to run Gen. Scott, as calculated "to increase the probabilities of Whig disunion!" For our own parts, we do not fear any of them, or all together Be it a military chieftain or a civilian; be he who he may that comes forth under the Whig auspices, in the latitudinous school of that party, the free People of the U S, will not support him. The little Magician, as the true Exponent of the States' Right principles of the Constitution, will distance them all The N. Y Times (Conservative.) and the N. Y. Gazette (Whig.) have taken umbrage at the manner in which we speak of Mr. Van Buren's claims upon New York We have no room this morning for any remarks upon this subject-but we ask those gentlemen Editors how can they reconcile it to themselves, to garble our expressions? We take it for granted, that the Times first set the example, and that the Gazette unwittingly followed it Our words were: "We can never believe, after the noble example which almost every other State in the Union has exhibited, that New York, Mr. Van Buren's own State, will shrink from her duty to him, as well as to the great Principles of the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson"-The N York commentators have omit- ted the words in Italics. # Agricultural Fair-PREMIUMS. The Albemarle Agricultural Society held its annual meeting the week before last. The Charlottesville Advocate says, that they received a beautiful Address from Professor Rodgers of the University. "His principal theme was agricultural chemistry, and the peculiar nature and properties of soils and plants, and their appropriate stimulants. He refuted many of the erroneous theories on the subject, and urged with peculiar eloquence the propriety of improving lands by the use of lime, which abounds in the lower section of this county. The conclusion of his address touched upon the mania for emigration, that is desolating many of the fairest regions of Virginia-and was unsurpassed in beauty and pathos by any thing of the kind we have ever heard. The startling tear in the eyes of the most sturdy of his hearers, fully testified that an indelible impression was wrought upon their feelings We can easily conceive the eloquence which enchained the attention of his audience
