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Suit. The Fulton Bank. The run upon this institu- thing tion yesterday was prodigious," but every We ras promptly met, and to-day all is quiet. passed the Bank since 12 o'clock, and there was nobody at the foors. Franklin Bank There are so many comthe most excellent name such as the Franklin Bank, of Jersey, panies The bearing of the Franklin, Franklin Franklin Company, and the that the Old Franklin Bank, in lin next on the way, they Company, Manufacturing Square being surrounded Frank- not it-but the crowd was composed of persons of one in ten of whom had a dollar of the paper before that Bank. However, an alarm spread, and the closed, something like 25,000 dollars had been in specie. But the friends made their deposites in specie, rallied, Bank drawn of and the thous- when bank there was actually many ands of specie than when the run it was renewed for a ced. doors more This closed; morning commen- found time; but when the holders of bills came in, they boxes such lots of specie upon the counters, and hour, opening, that most of them, after the first returned, and preferred keeping the paper.- there At 12 o'clock, there were no persons It the extra clerks were standing idle. of and quite amusing to sit and watch the holders they bills was -to see their long frightened visages as in, relax into a smile as they looked upon and came piles of specie, pocketed their bills again, the marched the out. So much for our rambles among banks and brokers to-day. From the New-York Statesman of Tuesday Evening Banks, Bonds, and Bills. - With feeling an- of sincere and deep regret, we are compelled to havthe failure of another public institution, form ing nounce afloat an unknown amount of paper in Company the The Life and Fire Insurance of payment this morning, and with is with a mass of people, exsuspended again bonds. thronged Wall filled street anxiety, fear, and hope. We trust that some shortplanation of the affairs of this Institution will and ly appear, that will serve to allay public feeling restore confidence in its securities. Franklin It is but justice to mention, that the Company, and the Franklin Manufacturing Com- divalthough similar in name. are two very pany, tinct institutions, although both for manufacturing and not bonds. purposes. The former manufacture es flannels The Jersey Bank has announced its intention to at its payments on the 1st of October next, resume the rate of 20 per cent. monthly, until its present circulation is all redeemed. From the National Advocate, July 13. There never was a time of greater alarm than present in banking institutions, nor ever a The pethe when there was less occasion for it. public riod mind has been agitated without sufficient and The holders of bills should look to it, for cause. themselves no unnecessary uneasiness, state by of that give very uneasiness will they bring about a affairs which they are so anxious to avoid. Tradesman Bank. Yesterday the crowd in Chatham-square was immense, and the press upon Bank considerable. The outer doors ere that the but the inner doors shut. We understand not pen, has been the alarm, that the Bank dares $200.such paying their bills with less than alcommence but that, in consequence of the panic, 000 they have $750.00 of unquestionable raise pa- the nece-sary per, though they cannot at the present moment Franklin sum. Bank. - Yesterday there was moment. a slight run upon this institution, but nothing of any Its stability is unquestionable. Bank. - We were mistaken yesterday Bank. in City that any run had been made on this of excitement. stating Every thing wasquiet, and not the slightest appearance United States Lomburd.-It is stated in and the papers that by the Charter, the extablishment. Mayor evening ex-officio directors of the Reader The Life are and Fire Insurance Company suspended payment York, yesterday. July 19.- The Ohio Canal contracted Loan New One Million of Dollars, has been for Mr. J. J. Astor, of this city, who understand gave for by for Six per cent Stock. We Commispremium amount of money offered to the half Milthat sioners the for Stock, exceeded Two and a lions of Dollars. Life and Fire Insurance Company in The another incorporated institution, stopped of this this city, yesterday. The capital tran-actions have stock payment was $600,000, and its ascertainCompany, We have no means of Compsbeen extensive. amount of the engagements of estimate the them ing the can only say that the public million ny, and half a million to upwards of a are, of at from The present officers of the institution dollars. Eckford, President, Joseph G. Swift, Secretary, AsHenry sistant President, Matthew L. Davis, Nathaniel Blossom, Assis't. [Mer.Adv. agitation and alarm which appears MAT- to perThe New York, in relation to MONEY comfort, vade is pitiable. There can be no daily TERS, tranquility, in a city where fearful there ravages. are hardly " which threaten that explosions and Fire Insurance Company in the The Life stopped on Monday. There is, says a great city, Advertiser of last evening, The Commercial Wall and William Streets. same crowd in speaking of the Tradesmen's Bank, says, and paper, " in Chatham Square, is immense, the crowd upon the Bank great. The outer The " the press open, but the inner doors shut. " doors are the Fulton Bank, says the Commercial, was run upon was prodigious, but every On thing Monpromptly on Tuesday morning, yesterday and even met, and now all is quiet." there promptly was day, Franklin Bank, which was the run on The the Mayor of New York, has addressed The met. and assisted to allay the panic. crowds the Greene County Bank are not whether taken Notes of but it is not ascertained Directors in Wall Street, " has failed outright." The three the Bank Bank attribute their failure to their of the Jers and y the difficulty of collecting monthdebts. heavy runs, hope to pay off 20 per cent. National They at a distance, says the It ly " No one can realize the excitement here. a Advocate, be improper to say much about the means " would in producing such a crisis at circulating, present. employed this detail and many rumors strenuFrom Banks in New Jersey, we would small as to some recommend to our citizens, this city. to take no only Bank Notes, but those of [Phil. Press. tion of dame Fortune A good thing well applied.- favors, our In town the distribu- has not
