Thursday, May 27, 2010

From New York

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.

Specials state that Secretary Chase and the cashier of the Ney York Bank of Commerce are conferring with the Senate finance committee, urgent the adoption of the legal tender clause.

Orders have been issued prohibiting and more furloughs, and all officers are ordered to return to their regiments.

Gen. Lane will probably be a Major-General, and the President will nominate Ethan Allen Hitchcock to a Major-Generalship.

The N. Y. weekly bank statement shows a decrease in loans of $87,852; do. circulation $327,376; do. deposits $1,300,079; increase in specie $693,080.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 11, 1862, p. 1

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