Old Banks.

Total..........10,881,433 34 2,052,017 32 1,489,467 79 874,412 73 16,980,795 74

Total......

Branches of State Banks.

Athens....

Akron...
Belmont.

Capital stock
paid in.
$40,000 00

Due to de-
positors.
$30,009 78

Total liabilities.

222,046 26

LIABILITIES.

Circulation.
$87,376 00

Safety Fund
stock.

$91,631 03

$287,766 70

50,000 00 50,000 00 145,940 00

57,380 00

98,153 00

21,803 00 100,000 00

52,095 17

77,737 78

339,988 60

208,634 00

757,790 00 1,249,709 00 1,180,720 75 1,278,867 02 5,027,930 88

We would put the public on their guard, says the Charleston Courier of November 9th, 1850, against receiving gold coin without close examination. The greatest precaution, however, on the part of any one not critically conversant with coin, would not avail, to prevent the reception of some ten dollar pieces shown us yesterday, which were sent to the South Western Railroad Bank, where they were detected. These pieces are of 1848, with the letter O under the eagle, to indicate the New Orleans

Mint. The only thing we can describe as differing from a genuine pièce before us, is that the impressions of the die are a little more clumsy, and the rim and milling more raised. There is also a slight tinge of copper color on the rim when held to the light. The general similitude, however, to the pure coin, and being of the same weight, induces us to believe that many of them are in circulation.

MINT VALUE OF GOLD AND SILVER COINS.

We are indebted to the little manual of Messrs. Eckfeldt and Du Bois, Assayers of the Mint of the United States, (published in 1850,) as a supplement to their larger "Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of all Nations," (published in 1842,) for the subjoined table of the net mint value of gold and silver coins issued within twenty-five years past. The following table gives the values only. For the details of legal weights and fineness, and of actual weight and fineness, the readers of the Merchants' Magazine are referred to the larger work of Eckfeldt and Du Bois.

Turkey-Hundred piastres.....
Twenty piastres (new)

Tuscany-Sequin.

United States-Eagle (before June, 1834)...

Five-dollar piece of C. Bechtler, average.
Dollar of the same, average.
Five-dollar piece of A. Bechtler......
Dollar of the same..

Oregon Exchange Company, five dollars...
N. G. and N., San Francisco, five dollars.
Miners' Bark, San Francisco, ten dollars....
Moffat & Co., San Francisco, ten dollars......
sixteen-dollar ingots, about.

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CALIFORNIA GOLD AT THE NEW ORLEANS MINT.

J. M. Kennedy, Esq., the Superintendent of the United States Branch Mint at New Orleans, furnishes the following statement of the amount of California gold received and coined at that mint:

Amount of California gold received for coinage at the Branch Mint,
New Orleans, during the month of October, 1850....
Amount of same received from the 1st to the 22d November, 1850...
And from the 22d to the 25th November, 1850, the amount deposited
for coinage, and not yet assayed, about..

The amount of California gold coined during the month of October, 1850, was..

And from the 1st to the 25th November..

$445,060 23

575,564 86

318,000 00

$1,388,625 09

640,000 00 600,000 00

$1,240,000 00

It will be seen that by the last arrival from California, the passengers brought more gold for coinage than has ever been brought here before at any one time. One million of dollars in gold coin has been received from New York to meet drafts of the Treasury of the United States on the Assistant Treasurer at New Orleans. This will have a tendency greatly to facilitate exchanges.