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THE EAST. THE grave of Saniuel Meredith, the first treasurer of the United States, at Mount Pleasant, Pa., was visited on the afternoon of the 4th, by a party of gentlemen, who cleaned and cleared the grounds, and organized a monumental association. It is proposed to erect a plain, but substantial shaft. MARTIN & JOHNSON, tobacco commission merchants, Front street, New York, have suspended. Liabilities, $60,000; assets stated to be $100,000. THE loss in valuation of real and personal property in Boston, compared with last year, will reach $60,000,000. PURSER OWEN, of the steamship England, and a dock clerk named Edgar P. Andrews, have been arrested at New York for complicity in smuggling silks andlaces. Owen, in a voluntary statement, says that during the four years of his connection with smugglers, the silks and laces brought into port by him would amount in value to about $120,000. He got 20 per cent. commission. From books and papers in the possession of authorities, it is estimated that in the last eight years goods to the amount of $1,000,000 had been brought to this country from England without paying duty. THE Clinton Savings Bank, New York, has suspended, owing to a gradual reduction in deposits and lethargy in business. The June statement showed $73,668 assets, and $73,495 liabilities. DR. E. H. CHAPIN, it is said, has resigned the pastorate of the Church of the Divine Paternity, New York, in consequence of a proposition, made by one of the members to reduce his salary. THE steamship Anchoria took our 5,000 packages of butter from New York for Great Britain, on the 30th-the largest shipment of the kind ever made. AEOUT 170 employes have been discharged from the New York custom house.