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THE ORASH AMONG BANKS AND BANKERS. Since our last issue, JOHN THOMPSON, a noted Wall Street Broker, and Editor of Thompson's Reporter, has failed. ATWOOD & Co., one of the largest moneyed concerns in New York, have failed with several millions of Western acceptances in their hands. The Reciprocity Bank, Buffalo, suspended on Saturday. The Banking House of Franklin & Sons, Newark, Ohio; The Hollister Bank, Buffalo; and The Warren Bank, Pa., stopped on Monday. Also, on yesterday, departed this life The Clinton Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.; and the Sackets Harbor Bank, N. Y. Also, have recently gone up" the following: Rhode Island Central Bank, R. I. Tiverton Bank, Fall River, R. I. Farmers' Bank, Wickford, R. I. Bank of Kanawha, Maldon, Va. Warren Co. Bank, Warren, Pa. The entire system is rotten, and we know not what a day or an hour may bring forth. The National Sub-Treasury and the California mine products have postponed the evil day; but the paper money system must perform its allotted cycle. Twenty years ago, a financial storm swept over the country, which brought bankruptcy to the Federal Treasury, notwithstanding it had thirty odd millions of paper money at its commanddrove States to repudiation, and made the passage of a Bankrupt law for the benefit of debtors, a matter of necessity. That storm gave birth to the National Sub-Treasury. If the present calamities will evolve a Sub-Treasury for Ohio, by which a complete divorce from Banks, Bankers and Fund-mongers can be obtained, the people of our State will eventually be compensated for their recent losses; and when the next Rag Money crisis comes, her Treasury will be as unaffected by it as that of the Federal Government is by the existing panic.