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BANK SUSPENSIONS AT THE SOUTH. VIRGINIA.-The "Bank of Virginia" suspended specie payments yesterday. It was the last to yield in the present crisis, though holding out only about twenty-four hours longer than the other banks of this city. We may now say that all the banks in Virginia have suspended specie payments.-Richmone Enquirer of Thursday. NORTH CAROLINA.-The confirmation of the deplorable financial affairs in New York, where the main resources of the banks and merchants of this place are located and now locked up, has been the means of driving three of the banks of the town of Wilmington into a suspension of specie payments. The branch of the Bank of the State, located here, yet stands unsuspended, awaiting advices, we presume, from the mother bank at Raleigh. All the rest-the Bank of Wilmington, the Bank of Cape Fear, and the Commercial Bank of Wilmington-suspended this morning. We have a report that the Bank of Clarendon, at Fayetteville, suspended yesterday. We do not give this information as reliable. But we think, from the present appearance of things, that there will be a general suspension of the banks throughout the State.- Wilmington Journal of Thursday.
