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Auction Ertramdinary.-The Cleveland Herald gives very amusing description of auction extra ordinary, which took place the Sd inst at that city being nothing less than knocking down ts the highest bidder of lot of city bank notes. It appears that other of the sale made than through the bell and lungs of the negro crer of auctions who rung the town and made proclamation that an Auction Sale of Protested Bank Notes would take place at the junction of Bank and Superior street at 10 o'clock precisely. At the hour quite a concourse had gathered, and Mir. Limber-tounge, "Who Bidsp' mounted the stand and offered for sale $25 of the notes of the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie for ssspecie in hand" Fifty cents, 62a 6s, 70, 75, 7S, came along figure by figure, but at 7S bidders hung fire. The lot was finally struck of 'to the lucky man" at 7s cents in cold speter for 100 in "ags and lamp black" Another lot of $25. 5.brought 9l cents, and as the notes were put up Sin lots for family use,' they brought from 90 to 92a cents until some $400 were disposed of, when the grist was ground out.

 The sale was quite animated. One broker brought on his his bag of hard stuff ready to shave bank or neighbor, and many old stockings and leather purses were displayed the crowd that the auctoneer expressed the opinion that all the paper of the bank could be redeemed in eon if the specie only put to its proper use." The officer (says the Herald) of the bank looked out from the ''palace" upon this novel resumption Gas calm as summer morning." gratifed, doublcss. that the protested notes of their institution sold well ''under the hammer.' The locos ohuckled nightly at the opera ton of "biting of noses, not caring the "frst red cent' whether the bank the note holder first made the caret fly. They had SO long famished the shadow of bank reform, that glimpse of the sub stance set them to grinning like hounds in collars when they snuff fresh joint. The whigs enjoyed the sport too, though we believe the opinion was pretty unanimous that the bank in permitting sale of notes because the holder would not pay more than eight per premium for small draft, was, 10 say the least, "werry ridiculous ''