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Date: 08 January 1864
The Inman steamship City of Baltimore, Capt. MIREHOUSE, from Liverpool at 10 A.M., Dec. 23, and Queenstown on the 24th, arrived at this port last evening. The salient points of her news were telegraphed from Cape Race, but our exchanges furnish us details and additional matters of interest.
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GENERAL NEWS.
Date: 08 January 1864
We received a copy of the report of Hon. H.H. VAN DYCK, Bank Superintendent, at a late hour last evening. The amount of circulating notes outstanding at the close of the fiscal year was $42,192,645. The securities held in trust at the close of the fiscal year amounted to $37,639,236 CO. This was divided -- New-York State stock, $17,344,140; limited States stock, $15,797,850; bonds and mortgages, $3,862,097. The increase in United States securities during the year reaches $3,898,490. The report is chiefly devoted to combatting the plans and views of the Secretary of the Treasury. The Superintendent says: "The people and banks of New-York cannot but look with apprehension at the palpable indications from Washington of a design, on the part of the Secretary of the Treasury and his subordinate officers, to foster oppressive legislation by Congress toward the institutions of this State, with the apparent purpose of compelling an abandonment of their present organizations, and an adoption of the national system."
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GENERAL NEWS.
Date: 09 January 1864
A letter received at this office from a gentleman who has resided in Wisconsin, near Milwaukee, since 1845, says that the late cold spell was by far the severest he has known since his residence there. He says: "A man could not live out-doors more than fifteen minutes without being frost-bitten Thermometers refused to indicate -- the mercury would run down in the bowl almost as soon as exposed. I froze my ears in going forty rods; and a neighbor, in exposing his bare hand three minutes, froze his fingers. The hostler at the hotel froze his fingers and ears in trying to hitch up a horse, and then had to give it up. It was fortunate he did, for if the driver had started, he would have frozen to death."
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