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days The Bank of Sandusky, Ohio, has declined to accept its surrendered charter. The notes of the Philadelphia Bank' are no longer redeemed by the Merchants' Bank of this city. From certain indications, we are led to believe, says Thompson's Bank Note Reporter. and Thompson has the happy faculty of hitting the truth in his guesses oftener than most men in the financial world, that the State Bank of Illinoi3' will be resuscitated; its notes are selling a 70 cents, and the stock at 20 cents per dollar. The notes of the Bank of Illinois, at Shawneetown, have also very much improved; they can be sold at 65 cents on the dollar. The notes of the United Siates Bank are worse. Wequote them at 26 discount. RATES OF DISCOUNT ON BANK NOTE8 AT 52 WALL-ST. Broken Bank Money. Uncurrent Money. 15 Bank of Oswego Eastern. Bkble in Boston 20 Commercial, Oswego Albany, Troy, Schenec. &c. 20 Clinton County Jersey 20 Watervliet Philadelphia 26 SEA United States Baltimore : Housatonic Railroad par Safety Fund and Red Back 1 50 Phonex, Charlestown Virginia 60 2 Newburyport Bank Ohio 20 2 Bank of Lyons Indiana 90 3 Bank of Bennington Michigan 1: Girard Bank, Philadelphia .12 North Carolina 18 1 Commercial, Buffalo South Carolina The increase this year of freight and travel over the various railroads in our neighborhood is very marked, and shows a large improvement in the business of the country and in the means for traveling. The stocks of these roads, many of which have been much depressed, giving the stockholders no return for his investment, are dow rapidly rising, and the receipts appear to afford a good prospect for a fair remuneration of the capitalist in the future. Over the Reading Railroad the increase has been unusually large, a3 is seen by the following report: 1814. 1813. $28,371 18 $10,060 34 February 19,254 tons. 1,930 tons. Coal Tonnage Here is an excess of upwards of eighteen thousand dollars. or nearly 200 per cent. in one month. The Norwich and Wor cester Railroad exhibits also a large improvement: Receipts of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company for February, 1841: $11,729 28 passengers, freight and mails 5,526 41 Received for same period in 1813 Excess in the receipts of February, 1844, over the 6,202 87 month of February, 1843 Here the gain has been about 115 per cent., the excess above being more than the whole receipts last year. On the Western Railroad, the increase of business is encouraging, as will be seen: Through freight, from Boston to Albany, over the Western 1244 1843. Railroad: 375 Tons. 90 Tous January 280 94 February Freights received at Boston, and sent from Boston, tbe first 1844. 1843. six weeks: 4.891 Tour 7,688 Tons. The receipts of the Western Railroad for nine weeks compared with the same period of 1843 are as follows: 1843 1844. $26,893 $30,055 Passengers 25116 40,956 Freight, 3.752 3.753 Mail, &c $55,762 $74,764 Total Showing increased receipts in nine weeks of $20,000, equal to nearly $150,000 per annum Nearer home, the travel over the Harlem Road shows a very large gain this year over last. We have not the figures at hand, but We are credibly informed that the receipts of the first ten days of March have been within $1000 as much as during the whole month last year. This is an enormous in crease, and gives the stockholders a chance to seeland. The notes of the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie are at par in Cleveland, and received by the different brokers in that city. The Receivers are paying in full all bills presented for dividends with interest to the 1st of March Mr. Darsie, from the Committee on Internal Improvemint in the Pennsylvania Legislature, reported a bill incorporating the Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad Company for the purchase of the main line, and fixed the price at twenty millions of dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each-the shares to be sold at auction at not less than the par value, payable in State loans. Specie arrived at New-Orleans from September 1, $4,421,150 At St. Louis, February 29, the favorable weather had freed the upper rivers from ice, and the arrivals and departures of boats were onite numerous, imparting much activity