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 amounted to $42.9 millions. The Committee of 1841, however, say that the assets were already at that time to a large extent unavailable. The stock fell from 116 to 111 3-4. Thomas Dunlap was elected his successor. After his resignation an account was rendered by Beyan & Humphreys of the cotton operations, which showed a profit of $1.4 millions, on total transactions of $8.9 millions, which was divided, $800,000, to the operators, and $600,000 for the Bank. The $800,000 was drawn out between March 25th and May 22d. In this year the Bank loaned $1 million to the State of Illinois. According to the contract, its ten-dollar notes were to be paid out on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. July 19th, it was allowed by a special act of the State Legislature to issue five-dollar notes for the sum of $2 millions, which it loaned to the State.

The year 1839 opened with a gloomy outlook in the southwest, especially at New Orleans. In the spring there was great distress in Mississippi. A great deal of property was changing hands. The state of things was far worse than in 1837. In June the post-notes of the Planters' Bank, which then fell due, were not taken up. The southwestern currencies were falling to heavier discount. The banks in the North and East were curtailing. At Philadelphia it was said to be the worst period since the panic. According to the news from England, in June, there was scarcely any market there for American securities.

In April, 1839, cotton was advanced one and a-quarter penny in Liverpool by sales on cross accommodation bills.

In June the news from England was bad. The money market was stringent; the Bank of England was losing specie; there was less demand for cotton; and the mills were running short time or were idle; cotton was dull and lower; the Bank of England rate was five and one-half per cent.; and the bills for the speculative purchases in March and April were coming due.

A circular was issued by S. V. S. Wilder, in June, attempting to do more cleverly and completely what Ingersoll had tried the year before. It seems that the latter had blurted out the facts of the arrangement too distinctly. Wilder denied that the United States Bank had anything to do with his plan, Which was false. The circular stated that cotton, by the latest advices, was dull and lower; that the English spinners were working short time, in order to get lower prices on cotton, since the great bull of the last year was out of the market. A grand combination to sustain cotton was proposed. Either the banks would advance enough to hold back the cotton for three months, or all might consign to one Liverpool house which should carry it until the present stock was worked off. In a conference at Philadelphia, the second plan was adopted, because, on the first plan, the market would not be provided with any bills of exchange. Advances of three-quarters of the