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[Fron the St. Louis Republican. 1 The demand for money in the Eastern Cities-particularly in Philadelphia and N. York--instead of being lessened, is on the increase. Some heavy failures have happened in the first named city--among them Mark Richards, Esq., merchant and banker, for $400,000. Many of the manufacturers and mechanics had been discharged from employment. On the 19th uit., there was a general meeting of the Presidents of the Philadelphia Banks, and the result of their deliberations was an agreement to present to their respective boards of Directors, a memorial to Congress asking that the Deposites be restored to the United States' Bank! A rumor having got abroad of the unsoundness of the Mechanics' Bank, recently chartered, in that city, a run was made upon it for specie. Ai this moment, the Bank of the United Statesthe "monster" and the "tyrant"--stepped forward to its assistance with the offer of a loan of bity thousand dollars in specie. A resolution is before the Legislature of North Carolina--of the passage of which, strong hopes are entertained-proposing to instruct the Senators and Representatives of that State in Congress, to use their endeavors to procure a re-charter of the Bank of the United States.