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MONEY MARK ET. Friday, Jan. 10-5 P. M. There was a general decline in the stock market today, and a slight panic spread through the street. Nearly every stock in this list fell off Pennsylvania 5'8 declined 1} per cent.; Farmers' Loan 1; Illinois 1; Ohio 6's 3; Erie Railroad }; Stonington 1; Norwich and Worcester 1; Morris Canal Canton 1; Long Island 11; United States Bank 1; Kentucky 6's closed at yesterday's prices, and Mohawk Railroad advanced 1. There is very little doing in the street in stocks or any thing else. Money is very scarce, and loans are made out of doors at rates varying from seven to twelve per cent. The banks are not discounting a dollar, but, on the contrary, are calling in loans as fast as they become due. Stocks cannot improve until things undergo some alteration for the better. The city circulation of the Plainfield Bank of New Jer. sey has been, within the past few days, very much re. duced. The brok rs in Wall street inform us, that there is not one dollar offered now for redemption, where there were ten last week. The public have got their yesopen, and so long as they remain so the issues of the Plainfield Bank will have . very limited circulation. We trust the efforts we have m de to put the public on their guard against shinplaster paper of all descriptions, will have a very salutary effect on those financiers, who have heretofore been 80 successful in palming off upon the poorer classes a worthless paper currency. The time has gone by when it can be done with impunity. The object is too palpable, and must meet with the fate it deserves. We have laws upon our statute books, providing for the punishment of those who put into circulation paper money the issue of foreign or fictitious banks and when the public have such a deep interest in the matter, why should these laws remain dead and useless. The Bank for Savings and the Bowery Savings Bank have declared a dividend of 5 per cent per annuin on sums of $500 and less, and 4 pericent on sums of $500 and over, payable on the 20th instant The Seaman's Bank for Savings 5 per cent on all sums over $1000, and 6 per cent on lesser sums, payable on demand. The two Banks of Middletown, Ct, the Middletown and the Middlesex County, have declared semi-annual dividends of 3 per cent The Bank of Virginia 31 per cent, subject to a deduction of I per cent, payable to the State. The Neptune Insurance Cempany of Boston has declared a semi-annual dividend of 15 per cent. The Massachusetts Mills Manufacturing Company a semi-annual dividend of 8 per cent The Boston Merchants' Exchange Company makes the usual dividend of 2f per cent for six months. Atarecent city meeting at Norwich, Ct, it was voted o accept the offer of $25,000 made by the Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company, in payment of the same amount of bonds issued by the city, and loaned to the Railroad Company, and apply it to the extinguishing of the city debt. The bill which passed the House of Commons of North Carolina, foreclosing the mortgage on the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, has passed its second and third reading