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BANKABLE FUNDS. -The leading bank ing houses in Cincinnati now take at par the notes of Kentucky, Ohio, Louisiana, Missouri banks, State Bank and Branch es of the State of Indiana, all currency bankable in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston and Pittsburgh. In New York city the notes of all the banks are received except the following Niagara River Bank, Tonawanda; Agricultural Bank, Herkimer county; Dairyman's Bank, Newport; Hollister Bank, Buffalo; Ontario Bank, Utica; O. Lee & Co.'s Bank, Buffalo; Bank of Orleans, Albion; Reciprocity Bank, Bufialo; Sackett's Harbor Bank, Buffalo; Yates County Bank, Pen Yan; Tompkins County Bank, Ithaca; Hugenot Bank, New Paltz; Medina Bank, Medina; Troy City Bank, Troy; Central Bank of New York, Utica; Hamilton Exchange Bank, Greene. All Pennsylvania notes are received except those not solvent before. the suspension, and the Anthracite Bank of Tamaqua, and the Farmer's Bank of Lancaster. All the notes of solvent Maryland Banks. The notes of the old banks of Virginia are looked upon with more favor, as are also the Indiana Stock Banks, and the indications are that the former and perhaps the latter will be bankable in a few days in Cincinnati. The same currency is now received by the private Banks in St. Louis, and in Louisville the private bankers are taking the notes of the Indiana and Ohio State Banks, New Orleans, and most of the New York, New England, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, old Tennessee, and some of the South Carolina Banks on deposit, returnable in the same money. Why cannot the same course be adoptted by the three Banks in Evansville ? It would give us at once a currency for business in which every one would have confidence.
