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For Sales at the Stock Exchange, see Last Page. TUESDAY P. M. The Stock Market was rather heavy to-day, and the fancies lower, the consequence of a somewhat tightened money market. Exchanges are steady at 81 a 81 for Sterling; Francs are 5 2814 a 5 273 The decline in Cotton has caused the failure of Messrs. Buck & Co. of this city, to-day. It is feared that the heavy losses to be suffered by those who have been holding will cause more disasters of this kind. The Comptroller has given notice that the Bonds and Certificates issued in 1842, and made payable July 1. 1844, will be paid on that day, at the Manhattan Company, and that Do interest will be paid after that day. Thompson in his Bank Note Reporter of to day says: We doubt whether there ever has been a time when the merthants from distant cities procured funds for this city, more to their satisfaction than they have done this spring. Those who come through Chicago, bring drafts made by Geo. Smith & Co. The Michigan merchants bring drafts from the Michigan Insurance Company. Northern Ohio merchants procure it large portion of their exchange from Williams " Dow. Cleveland, and the Southern from Ellis & Vallette, of Cincinnati. Most of the Missouri exchange is furnished by E. W. Clark & Brothers, of St. Louis. The exchanges et Nashville, and the im. mense amounts from w-Orleans and Mobile, are also furnish. al by individual houses. A bank draft is quite a rarity. The rates of exchange, too, are lower and more uniform than at any former period. From no point IS more than one per cent premium charged on sight drafts: which 18 less than the expense and risk of transporting specie (in silver) to this city, The Legislature of this State will adjourn on the 7th of May. Holders of broken Safety Fund bank money. whose hopes were raised by the just recommendations of the Governor and Comp. troller, will be doomed to whit yet seven years for the redemption of that money. unless they bring an influence to bear on the Senate. without delay. The House is all right, and only wait10g for the action of the Senate, where the bill originated. An act has been passed. authorising receivers of insolvent banks to use the funds in their hands in payment of the liabiliLies of the banks. It is expected that the receiver of the Bank Oswego will now redeem the circulating notes of that bank, full. The receiver of the Commercial Bank of Oswego informs us. that he will make it dividend. in May, on such claims as shall be presented. Other receivers will, probably, do the same. Mr. Austin, receiver of the Commercial Bank of Buffilo, is very anxious to have the Legislature net on the recommendation of the Governor, and pass the act for the payment of the broken Safety Fund money. Bicknell's Reporter for to-day says:-Money may be quoted in Philadelphia, at from 5 to 6 per cent per anrum. The ordinary rate of the banks is six. Country money is not so good. The rates of discount on most of the interior Banks of Pennsylvania is 14 per cent. Relief Notes 134 to 2 per cent. The deposits in our Banks are not quite so large as they were a few weeks since. Alabama notes could not be sold to the Brokers on Saturday. except at very high rates of discount. viz: from 12 1/2 to 15 per cent. The rate for Virginia notes, yesterday. was 1 per cent. The Miners' Bank of Dubuque is to be galvanized into existence again-under whose auspices we are not told. A late Burlington paper says that the Cashier passed up the rivere Monday. with plenty of specie to resume. and that a branch is looked for at that place. (St. Louis paper. $20s counterfeit of the Northern Bank of Kentucky are in circulation. The signatures are written with a pen, and admirably done. The engraving is done well as a whole, but is darker. leas distinct. and coarser. Sis, purporting to be issued by the Bank of Louisville, signed John S. Snead, President, dated in 1843, the centre vignette, a train of railroad cars. are in circulation. The Bank never issued any notes at all resembling this. Above the railroad cars. in this spurious note, the steamer Henry Clay is represented. The quantity of shipping in Mobile at the last accounts, was very large. On the 10th there were in that port 81 ships: 30 of which were British: 25 barques, 17 of which were British, and 20 brigs, one of them Spanish, one Swedish and one Italian-making in all 126 square tigged vessels. There is also an unusually large number of vesseis now lying at New Orleans, extending for miles, and being three and four abreast. The old Post Notes of the Tenth Ward Bank, altered to the Moyamensing Bank, Philadelphia, are in circulation. The receipts over the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad for the week ending April were near $6,755.06 since with Nov. last $71,933.23 gentleman near Oupelousas, in Louisiana, has succeeded in extracting oil from the pistache, or ground nut.
