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Total nine mos... $25,358,790 05 $3,076,816 15 $24.715.667 62 The Receiver of the Rhode Island Exchange Bank, John T. Knowles of East Greenwich, has given notice that a dividend of 50 cent will be paid on the circulating notes of the Bank presented to him on or before the 22d inst. A Free Banking law has passed the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania. The capital of any Bank organized under the law shall not be less than $50,000 nor more than $1,000,000. The cirenlation is to be protected by deposit of United States and Pennsylvania stocks, and no notes of less denomination than $5 are to be used. The Chicago Tribune of Monday says: The general price of uncurrent is 75 cents on the dollar. Doubtless discrimination will be made in a few days. Again we advise our readers not to sell at the ruinous shave unless forced to do so. The Detroit Daily Advertiser states that the last Legislature of Michigan not only passed a law extending the time for compleing the Land Grant Railroads to the full time allowed by the act of Congress making the grant, but also one giving them 240 sections as soon as they shall complete twenty continuous miles of road, provided that the Lansing, Amboy, and Traverse Bay Road shall be completed to Lansing City from Owo-so before being entitled to the additional 120 sections. This last law, it is confidently asserted, will enable the Companies to make such negotiations as are alone required to finish these important reads. The Philadelphia Ledger says: A correspondent, who is interested, informs us that the Virgioia banks, whose circulation has heretofore been secured by the pledge of State stock, have, by a late voluntary act of the Legislature of that State, been relieved from the necessity of pledging such security, and may now issue ther notes ad lwrtum, bringing down the system as nearly as possible to that of free banking!