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 IN SENATE-Monday, Jan. 9.

 Bank cfthe United Stotes.-Mr. Dallas pre- sented the following memorial from the Pre- sident, Directors and Company, of the Bank of the United States: Qo the Senate and House of Representatives cf

 the United States, in Congress assembled.

 The Memorial of the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, in the name and in behalfof the Stock holders of the Bank, respectfully represents-

 That the Charter of the Bank being about to expire, on the. 4th of March, 1886, your memoriaIists deem it their duty to invite the attention of Congress to its renewal.

 The general considerations which caused the establishment of the Bank. the manner in which it has executed the duties assigned to it, and the reasons which recommend its con- tinuauee, your memorialists forbear to discuss, since, of these. subjects, your honorable bod ies are more competent and appropriate Judg- es. They will therefore merely state the views which induce their application at this time. ..u

 Unless the qusstionis decided by the pres ent Congress, no deinitive action upon it can be expected until within two years of the ex- piration of the charter-aperiodb before which, in the opinion of your memorialistssit it ls high ly expedient, not merely in reference to the institution itself, but to tho more important ln- terests of the nation, that the determination of Congress should be known. INdependent- W of tfle influence which the Bank was de- signed to possess, and which it necessarily exercises over the state Of the currency, by which all the pecuniary transactions Of the community are regulated, itsOw immediate operations are connected intimately with the local business of almost every section of the United States, with the commercial inter- change between the several States. and the intercourse of them all with foreign nations.

 Ofthe value to the community. of the sys- tenn which, after long and anxious efforts, and at grea, pecuniary sacrifices, your memorial ists have at length succeeded in establishing, it is not for them to speak; their more lmme' diate purpose is to represent, as they do, most respectfully, that the continuance or de- struction of that system, thus widely dltfus- ed through all the avenues of the productive industry of the country. affecting all the rssa- tions of public revenue and private income, and contributing to give stability to all the re- wards of labor, is an object of general solici- tude. If satisfied with the practical opel ations of the institution, your honorable body shall deem it worthy of continuance, it seems sx- pedient to relieve the country. as soon as may consist with mature deliberatiOn, from the uncertainty in which all private transactionss and all public improvements. dependent on the future condition of the currency, and amount of capital disposable for those objects, must necessarily be involved until your dscis- ion is known. If, on the other hand, the wis dem of Congress shall determine that the Bank must cease to exist. it is still moro im- portant that the country should begin early to prepare for the expected change, and that the institution should have as much time as pos sible to execute the duty, always very deli- cate and difficult one. of aiding the c0mmuni- ty to seek new channels of business, and, by gradual and gentle movements, to press with the least inconvenience on the great interests with it.

 Under these impressions. they respectfully request that the charter of the Bank may be renewed.

 By order of the Boerd of Directors

 N. RIDDLE. President.

 Untortunate Raleigh !-Private letters yes- terday received from Raleigh, in North Car. 0lina, bring Information of a most destructive fire, by which nearly half the town has been destroyed. and with it a large amount of mer- chandise of all descriptions. About 4 o'clock on Saturday morning. the fire broke out on the east side of Fayetteville -strss'. and it spread with consuming rage. destroying the whole of that square, and the square north of it, as far as Mr. John Stuart's house. Hi a remarkable circumstance that. some years ago. a fire which broke out on the same building lot as this ire did, consumed proper ty on precisely the same ground. and was arrested at this same house of Mr. Stuart.- Since then. the whole had been rebuilt in . handsome manner, and was occupied princi- pally by stores. Oae individual has lost goods to the value of 90.0OO others have probably l0sg aS much, if not more.-NGt. IntsH.

 4 horse attached Co pung, with four persons To i going up Broadway, N. Y. . few days Gnee, kicked one 0f them ln tho hond and kllled hlm'