Neponset..... Canton

Amount of Dividends..$557,665 $604,630 $630,720 $687,070 $725,836

EXTRA DIVIDENDS.-The following banks made extra dividends (not included in the table) during the five years: In 1848, the Central Bank of Worcester, 9 per cent, amounting to $9,000; Chicopee Bank, of Springfield, 6 per cent, $12,000; Dedham Bank, 4 per cent, $6,000; Brighton Bank, 5 per cent, $10,000; Framingham Bank, 5 per cent, $7,500. In 1849, the People's Bank, of Roxbury, 6 per cent, $6.000; in 1850, the Bay State Bank, of Lawrence, 3 per cent, $2,582 69; in 1852, the Dedham Bank, 4 per cent, $8,000.-Boston Daily Courier.

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EXTRAORDINARY COUNTERFEIT OF MEXICAN DOLLARS.

Some months since the Secretary of the Treasury gave instructions to the United States Mint, to collect specimens of counterfeit coins in circulation, for the purpose of examination and report. This has led to the discovery of one of a very singular charThe Washington Union, which makes the affair public, states that the piece purports to be a Mexican dollar, coined at the city of Mexico in 1851. Two pieces have been assayed, and give an average fineness of 776 thousandths, and a consequent value of 914 cents in silver: but strange to say, the amount of gold contained in them is sufficient to add 12 cents to the value of each, after paying the charge of

separating, making a net value of 103 cents; and if to this the usual premium on silver is added, the worth of this counterfeit coin is actually 109 cents.

The quality of the silver in these dollars proves them to be a spurious issue. There is also an irregularity in the letters MEXICANA, which is regarded as a test for throwing them out, as we learn from a source familiar with them in Mexico, where they appear to have had at times a considerable circulation.

The silver produced by the Mexican mines is understood to contain gold, but generally too small an amount to defray the expense of parting. In making the coins in question, it would seem that silver more auriferous than usual had fallen into hands capable of the double dishonesty of cheating the public and themselves at the same time.

Though there are probably some specimens of this singular counterfeit among the Mexican dollars in circulation, it is not at all probable that they are sufficiently numerous in this country to excite attention other than as curiosities.

CONDITION OF THE BANKS OF WISCONSIN, JULY 3, 1854.

The preceding tables we have compiled from the official statement of William M. Dennis, Bank Controller of the State of Wisconsin. We have given only the leading features of each bank, but in the summary below we give the totals of all the banks, embracing those included and those omitted in the tables:

LIABILITIES OF ALL THE BANKS.

$1,250,000 00 | Due to depositors on demand $1,211,111 33
Due to others, not included
under the above heads ..

786,216 00

Total liabilities of the nineteen banks....

535,138 75

$3,782,466 08

SHIPMENTS OF GOLD AND COIN FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

The San Francisco Price Current and Shipping List furnishes a statement of the shipments of California gold dust and coin from San Franciso, for the six months commencing January 1st and ending June 30th, 1854. From the Price Current, &e, we condense the following statement:—

The manifest of coin shipped from the port of San Francisco, for the quarter ending July 1st, 1854, is as follows:

The statements of coin shipped cannot be considered as thoroughly accurate, inasmuch as the clearances of American vessels for Callao have been very considerable, and but few have taken less than $2,000 for ship's expenses.

The shipments of quicksilver during the six months ending July 1, 1854, amounted to 7,943 flasks. Of this amount 3,500 flasks were shipped to San Blas, 1,050 to Callao.

1,500 to Valparaiso, 400 to Mazatlan, and 1,493 to Hong Kong; total as above, 7,943, Same time in 1853, the shipments of quicksilver amounted to 9,297 flasks, showing a decrease in the six months of 1854 of 1350 flasks.

CONDITION OF THE NEW ORLEANS BANKS JUNE, 1854.

STATEMENT OF THE NEW ORLEANS BANKS, CONDENSED FROM THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CURRENCY, ON THE LAST SATURDAY OF JUNE.

INVENTION TO PREVENT COUNTERFEITING BANK NOTES.

The Swedish papers bring accounts of a very important invention which has been laid before the Commissioners of Banking at Stockholm, by a certain Count P. A. Sparre. The invention is twofold; he counterfeits with incredible exactness the bank notes in use, but prints others which he himself cannot imitate. An editor who witnessed the process, remarks:

When one sees Count Sparre with his simple machinery, which any one may manage with the greatest ease and facility, prepare in a few minutes the bank paper in use, which is made of three different laminæ, and in this give, without the slightest difficulty, or even exertion of artistic skill, the finest water marks in perfection, and then follows the preparation of the paper by a simple and merely momentary process, but which gives again the printing an engraving absolutely perfect- he feels a strange sensation at the thought of being participator in the secrets of the art which, in less conscientious hands, might ruin all our banks, and produce utter and inextricable confusion in our credit system.

Count Sparre, in his memorial, states that his process, if it does not render counterfeiting utterly impossible, at all events, increases its difficulty to almost that degree, and offers to furnish the bank with all its notes for the sum of 25,000 thalers ($18,000) per annum, which is about one-half the present expense for paper. The Commis-ioners have referred the question to a committee of scientific men. In the mean time, Count Sparre is to visit England and other countries, to bring his inventions to the notice of the mercantile public.

• Stock of the bank purchased from the State.
+ Bonds.

Bonds in the hands of the State Auditor.

DUTIES RECEIVED AT THE SAN FRANCISCO CUSTOM-HOUSE.

The duties received at the Custom-house in the port of San Francisco for the six months ending June 30th, were as follows:

For the corresponding six months of 1853, the duties amounted to..... 1,453,056 99 Showing a decline in 1854 of

697,000 64

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.

REGULATIONS OF THE CORN EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION, PHILADELphia. Regarding the extremely low and inadequate rates for which Commission Merchants have been and are now doing business, we deem it inexpedient to delay any longer a reform, which the advance in rents, high price of labor, and increase of expenses of every description so gravely demand; and being assured that a judicious amendment of the charges of the Commission Merchant, observing a perfect uniformity, can neither increase nor diminish the profits of the Miller, nor of the interior or country merchant, inasmuch as the value of all produce intended for transportation to eastern cities, or seaboard, is regulated by the cost of freight, package and charges attending its sale in market, the Association has adopted the following very moderate rules and charges for the uniform government of the trade, on and after the first day of August, 1854, which will be strictly observed.

COMMISSIONS FOR RECEIVING INTO STORE, OR TAKING CHARGE OF PRODUCE CONSIGNED TO OTHER HOUSES.

On Flour and Meal, 3 cents per barrel; hhds. Corn Meal, 12 cents each; Flour and Meal in packages, 2 cents per 100 pounds; wheat, rye, corn, oats and mill-feed, in packages, 1 cent per bushel; cloverseed 2 cents per bushel; timothy seed, flaxseed, other grass seeds, barley, peas and beans, 1 cent per bushel.

COMMISSIONS FOR RECEIVING AND SHIPPING HENCE TO OTHER PORTS.

On flour and meal, 61 cents per barrel; hhds, corn meal, 25 cents each; half bbls. flour and meal, 34 cents each; grain of all kinds, including peas and beans, 1 cent per bushel; seeds of all kinds, 3 cents per bushel.

COMMISSIONS FOR SELLING.

On flour and meal, 124 cents per barrel; hhds, corn meal, 50 cents each; half bbls. flour and meal, 6 cents each; flour, meal, and chopped grain, in bags, 8 cents per 100 pounds; wheat, rye, corn, oats, and barley, afloat, 1 cent per bushel, with cent per bushel for measuring, and actual cost of labor when put into store; wheat, rye, corn, barley and oats, on the railroad, 24 cents per bushel, including labor; seeds of all kinds, peas and beans, 24 per cent; whisky 24 per cent, and 10 cents per cask for inspection; also, 1 per cent guaranty, and of 1 per cent per month fire insurance on gross amount of all sales. Cooperage on flour, i cent per barrel, and 14 cents per barrel on corn meal. Inspection on flour, 1 cent per cask.

COMMISSIONS FOR PURCHASING.

On produce generally, one-half the charges made for selling, and 21 per cent on all other goods.

STORAGE WHEN LIMITED.

On flour and meal 3 cents per barrel per month; half bbls, flour and meal 14 cents each per month; bhds. meal, 12 cents each per month; seeds, 1 cent per bushel per month; chopped grain and mill-feed in packages, 1 cent per 100 lbs, per month; grain of all kinds, in bulk, cent per bushel per month, and pay full storage for any month upon which they may enter.