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ANOTHER AND ANOTHER. The register of non-specie paying banks is daily in. creasing. The Petersburg Intelligencer says, that ou Tuesday last the State Bank of 1:b Carolina resolved upon the entire suspension of speele payments; that several days previous the bank had been thronged with visitors, each waiting his turn to demand specie or Northern funds for his notes: that a gentleman of Pe tersburg having been refused pay ment, had a large amount protested on Tuesday, with a determination to bring sull ummediately We understand CTOIM another quarter, that 2:a officer of the Petersburg blauch of the Virginia Bank, had presented a considerable sum. per. haps forty or only thousand dollars. for exchange in specie, which the N. C. Bank refused ; and that " was perhaps these notes which proximately red to the sns. pension of payment. The officer had subsequently ex. prienced soure difficulty in obtaining the assistance of legal coursel in bringing suit against the Bank 1 the Banks of Milton of Washington, and of the Sil. ver Lake (iii) in Pennsylvania) have also suspended speelé payments. The law of that state, which took effect on the 1st of August, and promises a suspension by a dissolution of the charter, or by an exaction of in terest on the rejected notes. will bring many of the banks in the imeriorto a dead pause. They will the under the necessity o: winding up their business The Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Cineingati, though favored with the U 8.' deposits, has again suspended its specie payments. Keitucky has also her threes and troubles-and the suspensionists seem 10 be gaining ground
