Wall Street in HistoryFunk & Wagnalls, 1883 - 95 páginas |
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Aaron Burr Alfred Fredericks appointed Assay Office Bayard Boston Broad Street Broadway building Burr century CHAPTER Charles Charles Wilkes Cisco City Hall Clearing-house Clinton Colden Collector Congress corner of Wall Cortlandt Court Custom House Daniel drawing by Alfred Dutch edifice elected elegant England English engraved by permission erected FAMOUS ZENGER TRIAL feet forty front gate George GOLD VAULT Governor Hamilton Heer Schepen Holland honor hundred Jacob James Duane John Alsop John Jay John Lamb Joshua Sands Judge Lieutenant-Governor mansion mayor McEvers Merchants millions Miss nearly occupied Paine Wingate panic Parliament Peyster Philip Livingston political PORTRAIT present President PRIMITIVE FENCE rare print Richard Varick Robert Samuel seat Senate Stamp Act Stamp Act Congress Steendam Stuyvesant Sub-treasury Swartwout Thomas Thomas Hillhouse tion Trinity Church Verplanck Wall Street Washington whole William William Samuel Johnson Winthrop York Historical Society York Stock Exchange
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Página 15 - For shame !" said he to the Parliament; "get you gone; give place to honester men ; to those who will more faithfully discharge their trust. You are no longer a Parliament ; I tell you, you are no longer a Parliament. The Lord has done with you : he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work.
Página 95 - JUST where the Treasury's marble front Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations ; Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont To throng for trade and last quotations ; Where, hour by hour, the rates of gold Outrival, in the ears of people, The quarter-chimes, serenely tolled From Trinity's undaunted steeple, — Even there I heard a strange, wild strain Sound high above the modern clamor, Above the cries of greed and gain, The curbstone war, the auction's hammer ; And swift, on Music's misty ways, It led,...
Página 31 - ... you are not to expect, that we either will raise sums unfit to be raised, or put what we shall raise into the power of a governor to misapply, if we can prevent it; nor shall we make up any other deficiencies, than what we conceive are fit and just to be paid; or continue what support or revenue we shall raise, for any longer time than one year. Nor do we think it convenient to...
Página 23 - Cat ; and when he was got to his resting place, perch'd upon a high branch, we dispatc'da youth after him with a Club to an opposite bough, who knocking his Paws, he comes grumbling down backwards with a thump upon the ground, so we after him again...
Página 48 - ... for its convenience. Thus when the opening of the New Year (1785) was celebrated, New York was the capital of the nation. John Jay had just been appointed to the dignified and important office of Secretary of Foreign Affairs. No man, except Washington, at this moment stood higher in the affections of his countrymen. Upon his return from his successful European mission in July, the whole city was brilliant with festivities in his honor. Wall Street was alive with an enthusiastic multitude as he...
Página 46 - such a number of supernumerary barrack masters, land commissaries, water commissaries, forage masters, cattle commissaries, cattle feeders, hay collectors, hay inspectors, hay weighers, wood inspectors, timber commissaries, board inspectors, refugee examiners, refugee provision providers, and refugee ration deliverers, commissaries of American, of French, of Dutch, and of Spanish prisoners, naval commissaries, and military commissaries, with such a numerous train of clerks, deputy clerks, and other...
Página 83 - surplus capital might be employed in any way not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of the United States or of the State of New- York.
Página 59 - Jackson in uniform, (on my two white horses) and followed by Messrs. Lear and Nelson, in my chariot, and Mr. Lewis, on horseback, following them. In their rear was the Chief Justice of the United States and Secretary of the Treasury and War Departments, in their respective carriages, and in the order they are named.
Página 15 - Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work." Having commanded the soldiers to clear the hall, he himself went out the last, and ordering the doors to be locked, departed to his lodgings in Whitehall.
Página 61 - John Lamb, first Collector of the Port, and father of Alderman Lamb. This was considered not only the finest house, but was believed to be the grandest, house that could be built. On the opposite side, where is now going up the new Merchants' Exchange, stood the residence of Thomas Buchanan, Mrs.