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Paying Specie.-The Detroit Banks resumed specie payments on the 16th inst., as it was ex. pected they would. The demands on that day, the Free Press states, "were mostly from abroad and principally from non-resuming Ohio." The Bank in this village resumed specio payments on the same day; and the two at Niles, we are informed, although of the denomination usually reproached as 'wild cat,' had been paying specie for several days before that time. A whole week of the golden days has already passed, (while we are above all banking here,) and yet, contray to the wisest prediction, the egress of bullion from beneath our feet has not jarred the copy from our cases, nor pied a single line of types. Banks in which the people have confidence are not in much danger of a very hard run. Justenough for small change, seems to be about all the epecie required. Broken Bank.-The Bank of Nortolk, at Rox. bury, Mass.. had immediate funds of 3,000 dol. lars, to pay its direct liabilities of $120,000 and $2,000 in specie, to pay $40,000 in bills! Its officers and owners, all, we are informed, claim the honor of belonging to the whig party,