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many 168 firms staggied, cannot be known for anibady after such min matters Lien But If David, when his bai had died, rise up and was comforted, 50 di people, when they NEW bottom, shork hands 27 locked cibertul out ad their missary. The mus being out any, the slip was eased. Peag generally are their breakfasts in tranquility F' terday morting, and registed to their places business, as men de in the cholera Retist thankful that if the plagne is DIE stred, is DIE much aggrarated. And so things west till about 10) o'clock-inlf an hour befo landa time, -when the first peal of thand muttured in the distance. The Ocean Bar chened its doors, and placarded the following notice: This bank las citaed and suspended A great many people, who had = funds in th bank, and possibly no funds in any bank are ted a Ettle excitement by blocking up the sid walk in front of the building, and monderia what was to cume text. The buy with his in bet of applies stopped; the girl with ber back of peasures stopped; the sosp-fet man stopped in short, there THE ROOD a large crowd collects and people who lad deposits in the had bills on the tank, or bad in some expectancy 00 the bank, came au went away. And that made tounder. the Half an hour later, Grander closed its doors. The er. All the people and Greenwich bill themselves of the stey checks, stem front and met your institution liters The porter, wit had The bill-holder positors said, with empha is Fourth Commandment, it 10°1 not go way, And 50 the crow shame, the thunder kept coming near and growing louder and londer. Just at this time the Merchants' Exchang Bank followed suit. Then went the Irving Bani then the Marine Bank, then the New York E: change Bank, then the Citizens Bank, then th Bull's Head, and then the Merchants Exchang Everybody could hear the thunder now. was full upon the City, presaging tornados, earth quakes, volcanox, universal destruction, Th pante was immense. A rush was made on a the Banks by holders. In quick successio went the Butchers' and Drovers' Bank, th Chatham Bank, the St. Nicholas Bank, th Tradesmen's Bank, the People's Bank, the Bai of New York, the Market Bank, the Broadwa Bank, and the Leather Manufacturers' Bank These succumbed to the storm, but other though Bereely tried by the whirlwind, resisted The American Exchange, the Nassan, the Part the St. Nicholas, the Mercantile, the Metropol tan, the Phenix, the Bank of Commerce an the Continental, were severely run upon, be had specie left in their coffers at the hour ( closing. They were shaken by the storm, be did not fall. But long before the closing hour the way th Banks were going got abroad, and set everybod agog through the City, Business was suspend ed, almost to the cases, civil and criminal, be fore the law Courts-the Judges on the Benef and the lawyers engaged in argument havin got wind of the thing, and sending out specia messengers to bring in extra news every te minutes. The American Exchange Bank, a tracted, perhaps, more direct notice than an other. The crowd on Wallstreet was very grea The President of the American Exchange Ban appeared on the steps and made a speech, assui everybody interested, or otherwise that ti Bank would pay everybody in specie. Th crowd, especially that portion who had nothin to expect from the Bink's solvency, vociferous) cheered, but every moinent the throng kept in creasing. The Bank, however, came well or of the difficulty, up to the hour of closing. Before the doors of every Bank, and with every Bank in the City, yesterday, the crow was immense. As a rule, nothing but good hi mor prevailed. Men even smiled when their to were trodden on. There is a feeling of cont dence and security when all suffer alike. such cases there is a mirth in misery which shared in common. And didn't those who got and force their way out, chuckle at their eager frien who were forcing their way in, especially with a few minutes of the closing hour? "Eve Bank shuts off specie to-morrow." they wou say, "No get in as soon as you can." Never d n double eagle look more gølden,-never was more the representative of the wealth "of o muz and of Ind" than yesterday afternoon. f Even the thieves had n respect for the man W had his pocket full of them, and only dared follow him for the space of a block and a half. But we noticed a sad background to yeste day's rush upon the banks. The men who ma the rush were moneyed men, least in all ses, comparatively so, Bnt standing, not wit out interest, but without object, in crowds 1 yond these who werestriving to pass in and of were hundreds of discharged workmen,-m who had no hope in the future of the terril Winter that is before us. It seemed to us ti they looked on with n melancholy pleasure; perhaps we did them injustice; let us say th regarded the scene with blank despair. WI the coming Winter will bring to many the sand of our fellow-creatnres in this city, i contingency too disagreeable to contemplate. d There is a great rush of the unemploye the Intelligence Offices. Quantities of servi girls out of work, and unable to obtain it, go these places in the hope of getting something do, but even here, as a general thing. they unsuccessful. At one of these establishme in the Bowery we were told yesterday that re many as 250 girls presented themselver dai offering their fifty cents a piece for a situati Most of these were turned away, for the app cations for servants are by no means proporti
