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ADVANTAGES OF THE GoLp CuRRExcr.-The
Treasurer Of the State of Maine, anxious to
exhibit his orthodox notions on the question
of the gold currency, when notified that the
States portion of the surplus was in the Stuff:
ok Bank in Massachusetts, drew draft on
that institution for the amount, and requested
that it should be paid in gold. The request
was complied with, and, at the expense OF
$500, he got the gold home. Here he found
that large portion of it was foreign gold,
the precise value Of each piece of which he
could not ascertain, and the officers of the
towns who were authorized to receive it,
declined accepting it, knowing nothing about
it. Tie banks refused to receive it on de-
posite! Here was pretty state Of affairs
nobody would have his gold, and sthe par
~" were not backward in expressing their
disa pprobation Of his ''golden movement" !"
After so.ne coaxing, the Suffolk Bank con-
sented to receive it again, and give him its
notes, and the gold was carted back at an
other expense of $500. Here ended the
Treasurer's golden scheme, by which the
State lost $500, when, he might have sold his
drafts at per cent. preminm.-[Poulson's
Advertiser.