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WALL STREET IN HISTORY
and Nebraska. The Sub-treasury occupied during the decade from 1853 to 1863 a small room in the United States Bank building, now the Assay Office. Mr. Cisco was reappointed for another term by President Buchanan in 1857.
This was a year of excitements, of which the great commercial hurricane that swept over both hemispheres was chief. While the political world was in a ferment over the attempt to establish slavery in Kansas,
