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RHODE ISLAND AFFAIRS.-The Providence Post speaks discouragingly of the efficiency of the "Maine Law" in that city and the State at large. It says dram-shops are largely multiplied, and that intemperance is the great scourge of both city and town. Our own knowledge corroborates this opinion. We believe more liquor is sold and drank in Rhode Island to-day than even before. The prohibitory law does not carry that healing on its wings that was predicted. A foot-pad knocked down and robbed Elisha Whitaker, a farmer of Johnston, last Sunday, on the Plainfield turnpike. Mr. T. J. Goffe, in exhibiting an electrical cannon in Providence, had a charge of powder blown into his face. It is feared he will lose his eyes, Two sudden deaths occurred in Cranston on Sunday and Monday. Widow Greene, aged 50 years, died in a fit in the highway; and Richard Knight, a much respected citizen, was found dead in his bed. The Merchants Bank, Providence, which is an imitator of the Suffolk, Boston, has just made a "run" on the Exchange, Traders, and Aquindneck Banks, Newport, and obtained $19,600. Like the "Suffolk," the "Merchants" seems determined to rule or ruin. The popular verdict is, suicide.