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" From A. G."

" Give him another bank bill in exchange, said Jacob.

It was done. Jacob's bank never opened again af¬
ter that day.

I recollect Grant Thorburn when he kept around
the corner from his old Quaker church store. His gar¬
den seed store was then in Nassau, where The Evening
Post office is now located, and under which John Mc-
Aullffe sells his celebrated Irish whisky.

In writing about the Swamp merchants, I should re¬
gret not to mention several more than I have yet done.

Within my recollection, James Roosevelt kept at No.
8 Jacob street. It was before Cliff' street was opened
through. It was in previous years the alley way to the
old Roosevelt sugar house.

That property ran back from Jacob street to Frank¬
lin square, and was thirty or forty feet wide. In the
middle was a large sugar house, which stood where
Cliff street now runs. The old sugar house was re¬
moved about 1826 or 1827, when Cliff street was cut
through from Ferry to Frankfort streets.

Immediately where the street (Cliff ) was opened, the
Harper Brothers (then J. & J. Harper) occupied a
double building at No. 82 Cliff, and also 327 Pearl.
Plundreds of young clerks in those days, if they be¬
longed to the " Mercantile Library Association," wiU
recollect the spot, for the Library was for some years
kept In the store of J. & J. Harper in Cliff street; and
up to the time it was removed to the Clinton Hall, cor¬
ner of Nassau and Beekman streets.

The locality between Pearl and Jacob was where
that old sugar house stood. Many of our readers have
frolicked about the old stone pile.

It was famed for a well of the purest spring water.