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A very large bell was placed on the City Hall to give alarms of fire; the city being divided into six areas, radiating from the belfry, numbered one to six; and on the occasion of a fire in one of them, it was designated by a like number of strokes of the bell. It gave a sombre, ominous tone, appropriate to the message it conveyed. Many New Yorkers still in active life will remember the thrilling deep note of "the Hall Bell."

Excitement over the removal of deposits from the United States Bank continued, and meetings of both parties were convened. In January a meeting at the Exchange appointed delegates to convey a memorial to Congress, and in February a large open-air gathering in the Park was the scene of considerable disturbance. On February q, another meeting in the Exchange and the neighboring part of Wall Street assembled to receive the report of the delegates in charge of the memorial. These things greatly intensified interest in the coming municipal election, which became almost purely political in its nature and was held to bear chiefly on " the Bank question."

In January the old line of Liverpool packets was sold out, and Goodhue & Co. became the agents. This winter there was long delay in westward passages from Europe, and at one time out of forty-six regular packetships engaged in European trade from New York but two were in this port, and they on the eve of sailing hence. The latest advices from Liverpool at that chat, were seventy-one clays old.

February 5. The long and embarrassing controversy between this State and New Jersey regarding the boundary line, which was finally defined by the Commissioners, was ratified by our Legislature and by that of New Jersey, and sanctioned by Congress.

The principal lines defined were: The middle of to North River, from a point on the 41st degree of latitude

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