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The Cu,reacg.-A metallic currency ap- pears to be the great hobby of the day. The United States Bank being already prostrate, (for it cannot be re-chartered,) there is an idea afoat that we can do without any banks. Who may be the father of this wise idea we know not--but 1t is most certain that the men who raised the cry of a sshard money curren- cy, "ssJackson gold,' 6sc. were far from be- Geving in the possibility of the scheme which they proposed, and equally far from desiring to prostitute the local banks. trisc people, of certainty, who are always governed by i'm pulse, rather than sober reason, do believe that at bank bills may be banished, and gold and silver substituted-but no reasoning man supposes it for moment. A great commer- cial nation, as we are, cannot do without pa per money. It is necessity to which we must submit--and the agitators who cry shard moneys know it is all a chimera We could not banish paper money without altering the character of our nation, and changing it's whole business in extent and manner. The gold bill, of which we have all heard so much, is already nearly explo, ded sshumbug." Its consequences, as we have already seen, are that all the gold in tn, country is gradually gathered into the bank

 --thst the importation of gold has ceased while the exportation of silver is continued

 and that thus, money, instead of becomin

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