The following is the comparative position of the
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This Institution appears nnd n strong position II Is
largely creditor Bank and has $4,000 of specie and other
Immediate against s4 GOO of circulation and other I'M
mediate liabilities There has been expansion OF loans 10
the of $50 coo. and Of circulation s2l O while the
Bank has been strengthened by the ausmenng of the coin III
vault s6O0 This expansion is but the result OF healthy
Improvement all departments of trade and proves that Viz


na sharing in the gradual recovery OF the business OF tie
country from the depression Of former years.


A case O. consider rable importance 10 bankers was
decided on "Wednesday last at Baltimore The suit brought
by the Merchants Bank OF Baltimore against the Farmers
Bank of Virginia. on check for $l0 900, dated the 18th June,
1889 which was endorsed good By OIrick, the Cashier OF
the defendants and taken collateral security by the plain
, for loan made 10 them by Stenbercen the great provi
sion pecuator in December 1859, and afterwards the 18th
January $780, retained collateral security for the notes OF 4
third party which received IN substitution and payment
of enbersens notes. 1t defended upon the ground that
the check was uuduently endorsed good by Ocx: that
the plnrls held only security for the loan OF the 18th
January 1910 and that the plaintiffs the .h January,
1870 had notice that there something WRONG about the
check.


After being eeboatey argued by the counsel On both de,
the case was decided in favor OF the defendants.
The Cashier of The Exchange Bank, Lockport
who a, been charged issuing certificates Of deposits in the
form of Bank notes. with the intention of circulating them
such has written note denying in the unqualified terms
that the Bank erer issued any thing be circulated
money except registered and countergned the Comp
,roAr Office, secured By the pledge of public stocks end
real estate We have of the blank certificates, and
hey have every appearance of common Bank intended
for crcua,ou, until closely examined We told they
filled UP with engraved denominations, SIS and sl0 the
West and put in circulation; and constrained have
our doubts the senuenes Of The note containing the de-
NAL alluded 10.


The specie received at New-Orleans since lst
Sen. last amounts 70 S22s5, 49,