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LIST OF BANKS UPON WHICH THE CALL IS MADE. American Exchange Banks. $16.231 Bank of Aurora 32,486 Bank of Chester 6.466 Bank of Commonwealth 9.218 Bank of Napierville 2,500 Bank of Pike County 5.126 Bank of Quincy 94.582 Citizens Bank 6,516 Corn Exchange Bank 22.602 Farmers' aud Traders Bauk 7.607 Grand Prairie Bank 6,383 Grayville Bank 40,901 Lafayette Bank 4,944 Merchants' and Drovers' Bank 4,542 Morgan County Bank 6.743 National Bank 8,700 Prairie State 2,043 Railroad Bank 5.057 Reed's Bank 3,060 Southern Bank of Illinois, Grayville 22,444 State Bank of Illinois 30,738 Of these not all will respond to the call; and our city bankers knowing the condition of each, have agreed to throw out the notes of the following banks to-day. LIST OF BANKS/ THE NOTES OF WHICH ARE THROWN OUT! American Exchange Bank, Bank of Aurora, Bank of the Commonwealth, Bank of Raleigh, Corn Exchange Bank, National Bank, State Bank of Illinois. Of course, so decided a step as this will create much excitement among the holders of these notes, and many, fearing a still further depreciation, will make haste to get rid of what they have on hand at any rate which they may be offered. Our advice to all is not to be precipitate. The value of the re-jected bills is not determined. It will fluctuate from day to day with the rise and fall of the stock market. If the political troubles of the day are surmounted, before the time comes for closing these banks up, their notes will again be at par. In any event, they have intrinsic worth; and in every case it will be wiser, where the necessities of the holder do not compel him to realize, to hold on and wait the progress of events. It is believed that every bank named in the list, save the seven, will make good its secu-rities and go on without trouble. At the present, the seventy banks not embraced in this call, are solvent; and we have reason to believe that whatever may happen their notes will be kept good. They are secured by bonds not yet much depreciated-mainly those of the State of Illinois and the United States-and they have ten per cent margins -that is an excess of securities over circula-tion-which entitles them to the continued confidence of the public. On the rejected notes, the people who hold them must charge the losses to that little State of South Caro-lina, whose threats of secession are at the bottom of all this trouble. Chicago Tribune, 20th. In addition to the above, the Tribune has an article upon the banks of that State, which is of much interest and value. It advises all to keep cool and keep their temper. It is hard to be obliged to pay five to ten per cent. for exchange, but this is better than not get-ting it at all. No panic will ensue if the hol-ders of western money will exercise their good sense in the present crisis. The call is made upon the above, to be responded to within thirty-five days, to put up additional securities, or, what is equivalent, to withdraw that amount of circulation, the entire sum called for being less than $300,000. The coupons for the semi-annual interest on the bonds in the hands of the Auditor will be due in forty-five days, and these will be re-tained wherever the banks are short in their margins. Many of the banks are secured by Missouri stocks, and the assurance is given that already three-fourths of the money ne-cessary for the payment of the interest due in Jannary is in New York, and the balance will be there in good time. The Tribune says "we see no cause, therefore, for any anxiety or alarm in regard to the currency of Illinois." A strong belief is expressed that the Wiscon-sin banks will keep their currency good, and that, although Illinois and Wisconsin curren-cy may be, for a few weeks, worth only from ninety to ninety-five cents, yet it will pass freely in the payment of debts, as in 1857-'58, and that exchange will soon be again below two per cent.
