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According to the report of the Bank Comptroller, SQUIRES, the following Banks care now winding up in Wisconsin : Badger Stat Bank, Janesville ; Bank of the City of La Crosse ; Farmer's Bank, Hudson ; Germania Bank, Milwaukee: Globe Bank Milwankee ; Janesville City Bank, Janes. ville; Kanakee Bank, Black River Falls; Marathon County Bank, Eagle River ; Merchants' Bank, Milwaukee ; Northern Wisconsin, Aurora ; Oshkosh City Bank, Oshkosh : People's Bank, Milwaukee ; Pro. ducer's Bank, Janesville : State Security Bank. Gemekon; Union Bank, Milwaukee Wiscomsin Bank, Mineral Point. For the redemption of the outstanding circulation of these Banks, securities have been assigned in trust, to the State Treasurer, amounting in the aggregate to $870,760. The Chicago Press and Tribune, of a late date has the following article upon the future aspects of-business affairs We stated in a paragraph, the other day. that the imports at New York. from January 1st to July 31st, 1859, were $156,450,000. In the same time, the exports, including $43,248,000 in specie, were $80,409,000. The diffierence between the sums is the amount-$76,041,000-that the country has run in debt since the beginning of the year. This will absorb three-fourths of the cotton now growing, and if the same course of trade is continned until January 1860, all the cotton and all the current receipts of Califor nia gold will disappear in the yortex which these enormous importations of gimeracks and gewgaws have created, leaving our merchants heels-overhead in debt and unable to pay, even though they drain the banks of bullion and coin, and inaugurate a new panic, in trying. It has been hoped that importations would fall off as soon as the season advanced, and that some: thing would be done toward the restoration of a commercial equilibrium: but the tide is swelling in force and volume. instead of decreasing. See what was done in July: .. -- ----
