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THE KEOWEE COURIER. The Money Panic. THE HERMITAGE.-Gov. Johnson, of TenPennings and Clippings. The condition of monetary affairs are no nessee, reports the purchase for the State of NEW ADVERTISEMENTS-There are a numbetter. The pressure, in fact, has become the Hermitage, and its tender to the Federal ber of new advertisements in our columns general, and many of our own banks have Government. In case the tender is not acIt is this week, to which the attention of the pubbeen forced to suspend specie payment. The cepted, the Governor recommends that the I am f lic is directed. Bank of Charleston, Union Bank, and the property be retained as a residence for the catego State Bank, in Charleston, and the CommerCorron.-This staple is only now bringing future Governors of the State. theref 12 cents por pound in Charleston. But a few cial Bank, in Columbia, the Bank of Chester, GETTING FRIGHTENED.-Gov. Fletcher, of torial = and the Bank of Newberry, continue to reweeks since it reached as high as 16 cents! Vermont, in his recent message to the Legisladeem their bills in gold and silver. The bills THERE'S AN EXAMPLE FOR You.-A numprogre ture expressed the fear that slavery would be of the suspended banks, however, continue ous, al ber of young ladies in Salem, Mass., having introduced into that State. The Boston Post to be taken as heretofore, and are thought to considered the state of the money market and somet] says that the Green Mountains which make be perfectly good. determined not to pay ten or twenty dollars stand up that State, are in winter white as snow, The extravagant speculation of the people, for a winter bonnet, have set about making that p but Gov. Fletcher is an evergreen. bonnets for themselves. suporinduced by the extraordinary expansion are co of our bank currency, has been the prime CHICAGO, Oct. 12 -A destructive fire broke NUMBER OF BANKS IN THE UNITED STATES. velope cause of the pressure, and inflated the price out yesterday morning in State street, desThe number of Banks in the Union, on Janmake of almost everything to an extent perfectly troying the entire block between Monroe and uary 1, 1857, was 1,255, with 143 branches. banner alarming. Revulsions, sometimes periodical, Adams streets. The buildings were mostly Their capital was $443,874,272; loans and are the fruits of such folly, and, disguise it those frame. The loss by the fire is estimated at discounts, $634,783,280; specie, $59,314,063; as we may, we are now in the midst of one, $125,000. there = circulation, $195,747,950; deposits, $212,705, founde whose pent up fury had best be reckoned by THE LAST OF Ir.-We have to announce an662. The amount of capital employed by distric the death-like inactivity and apathy that now other incident in the Burdell murder case, private banking establishments, without char of the prevail in business circles. which has furnished New York with an exters, was estimated at $118,086,000 man, I The recent monthly statement of the banks oitement that endured unprecedentedly long. worke to the Comptroller General is suggestive of THE LIFE OF NATIONS.-The natural life of Mrs. Canningham, who has been undergoing old ma future difficulty and trouble. The circulanations, as well as of individuals, has its fixtrial, failed to appear at Court on Tuesday, things tion of bills of all the banks of the State is ed course and term. It springs forth, grows and her counsel says he has no knowiedge of men., $7,105,170, and the specie in their vaults, for up, reaches its maturity, decays, perishes. her whereabouts. sician, the redemption of these bills, is set down at have a Con. PRESTON.-The friends of Col. Preston HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN ARKANSAS.-The $999,3991 The times are pregnant with evils a WA will press his claims for the post of U.S. SenBastrop (Texas) Advertiser of the 23d ult. of almost every character, but none can effect should ator before the Legislature this winter. says that on the 14th, Mrs. IIill, a widow, rethe country SO seriously as the present alarmflag h siding near Berlin, Arkansas, and a negro ing condition of monetary affairs. it a lit BOSTON, Oct. 10.-A stranger stopping at
