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ment during any of these panics or at any time since its organization A. Our bank has versuspended payment since it commenced business. During the war, after the fall of Fort Donelson, it was closed and the assets principally removed to a safe place, but in the interim the Cashier was at home with means at all times to. redeem outstanding notes, and paid our depositors on the streets or when he could find them-that is, all who would consent to receive payment. Many preferred to let their accounts stand. Q. Can you give me any idea of the method of doing business by which the Northern Bank kept afloat while so many others went under A. In general terms, cautionand vigilance saved us, especially in keeping a watch over the business transactions of those who dealt with us, and closing accounts with such as did not appear safe to us before trouble came. Q. That means what is expressed in the vernacul r as "keeping your eye skinned," does it not ? A. That comes as near the truth as can be stated without the details. The above conversation will be interesting to our readers as giving some insight into the history of what is now the oldest bank in the State. We will add, however, that some things told us by Mr. Kennedy were much more interesting than what is here published. They relate to the history of the bank during the war, when it had no local habitation and scarcely a name; when its assets were carted about over mountains and by-roads, and its customers dealt with on street corners and in private chambers. If we can ever prevail upon our friend to give this history to the public (and we hope to do so, spite of his sensitive shrinking from anything that looks like egotism), our columns will be invested with all the interest that attaches to a combination of romance and reality.