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The propellers of the Parker Vein Co. were sold at auction to-day by the receiver, at the following prices: 448 17 95 tuns $9,000 Piedmont 452 10 tuns 12,500 Mount Savage 460 50 95 tuns 12,500 Parker Vein 13 500 462 90. tuns Thomas Swana 462 90-95 tune 14,000 Locust Point 448 6-95 tuus 14,000 George's Creek 17,500 454 60 95 tuns Jakson 13,000 453 60 tuns Westernport 459 19-95 tuns 13,000 Caledonia $119,000 Total The sale of the Totten was postponed to Friday. The propeliers cost from $30,000 to $95,000 each. They were all bought by Mr. A. C. Hall, the Baltimore agent of the line, supposed for a new Company. The Exchanges at the Clearing-House were $17,594,000. The receipts at the Sub-Treasury were $100,589; paid, $184,805; balance, $7,060,320 The street was a good deal excited by rumors of a fresh money panic in Cincinnati to-day, and a general run on the banking-houses there. The suspension of Messrs. Ellis & Sturgis was early announced, followed by that of Sturgis & Ellis of this City. Messrs. Smead & Co.'s Bank also closed, and late in the afternoon a telegraphic dispatch announced that T.S. Goodman & Co., and Morton & Co., had also closed. Our previous advices led us to hope that the two latter houses would be able to sustain the run, and we still think that their closing was a temporary one, as a prudential measure. All the above concerns, although not corporations, have been acting as Banks, with the exception of issuing notes. There is no Bank in Cincinnati, excepting the Ohio Life and Trust Co., and these concerns have been receiving large amounts of deposits, allowing interest on them, and keeping up a large line of discounts for their dealers. A panic of course induces an immediate demand for deposits, and in this instance to an extent which could not be met, The immediate occasion of the run of to-day is said to be the failure of the Circleville Bauk, one of the oldest banks in Ohio; but more probably the dealers of Cincinnati havenot entirely recovered confidence in their bankers since the explosion of Messrs. Outcalt & Co., Mancdester, &c., &c, some weeks since. Messrs. Eltis & Morton, and Messrs. Ellis & Sturgis, succeeding them, have filled & very important position in the financial world of Cincinnati, and have done an immense business, having had, on some occasions, two-and-a-half millions of deposits, and two millions of discount paper. It is understood that the profits of Mesers. E. & S., for the year ending 30th June, were $600,000. This concern has previously gone through several severe runs, paying every dollar demanced, promptly. Their liabilities are supposed to be $1,000,000 to $1,100,000, including about $100,000 of exchangerunning on the New-York house, and their assets are set down at $1,400,000. A party well informed in regard to the matter, speaks of their assets as first-class, and is confident that the house will pay everything. We regret to learn that the senior member of the firm, Mr. Ellis, who has been an invalid for some time, was unable to sustain the excitement of mind which his failure induced, and died about noon. Messre. Goodman & Co., and Morton & Co., have been considered very strong, and have occupied a highly respectable position, and their suspension, if true, cannot probably be disastrous. The Treasurer of Ohlo has not yet provided the funds to take up the protested draft on the State Agent, Mr. Egerton, for $30,000. Such trifling with State credit deserves the severest reprehension. About $400,000 has been subscribed to the capital of the new Merchant Bank at Cincinnati. The capital is fixed at $500,000. The Bank of Circleville, Ohio, which is announced as suspended, was one of the few old charters remain. ing in that State. It is supposed to have been wrecked in the maelstrom of Indiana banking, in whic's its principal owners were engaged. The Miami Valley Bank of Dayton, of which Mr. Beckel, before announced failed, was owner, is also report to have suspended.»
