The Clerk read as follows: To the Senate and HoRep of the U.S. in Congressassembled: Your petitioners, the undersigned, citizens of ton, Ben in the county of Polk, in the State of Tennessee, respectfully pray: 1. That your honorable body will refrain from the passage of any act authorizing the curtailment of the national currency, or having in view the return, within a limited time, to specie payments. They respectfully represent that the further reduction of the volume of currency at present would prove highly injurious to the banking, manufacturing, and mercantile interests of the country, and would entail suffering upon nearly every member, of nity; and they express the opinion that, the commu if such currency shall, now be contracted, we are near to time when the lawful obligations of citizens cannthoet e met; when the demands of ment, together the national Govern State and with the heavy taxes levied by our oauthorities, cannot be paid; and when many of our good citizens shall have to submit to a confiscation of their hard earned property. 2. Your petitioners further pray that your honorable body will refrain from the enactment of o law compelling all national banks, wherever located, to redeem their notes in NewYork, or prohibiting national banks from paying or receiving interest on bank balances. And your petitioners respectfully submit, that any law compelling all national banks to redeem their circulating notes in NewYork would prove onerous to them, injurious to the business men ofity, their local and would ignore the just claims of other sections of the country. And your petitioners further show, that, as the business of nearly every bank in the U.S. requires it to N. deposits at one of the national banks located in receipt NewYork, any law prohibiting the or payment of interest upon balancesby such tbiaonnks, s would operate harshly upon all like institulocated out of that o: and would render wholly unproductive a considerable proportion of their capital.. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.