Transcriber’s Notes The eponymous street of the title appears in three guises: “wall-street” (once), “Wall Street” (twice) and most commonly “Wall-street”. “Mr. Jacob Broker opened an office near the wall-street”, describing the street built on land where the old city wall was knocked down. His descendant brokers, the author writes, have “since congregated in the region round about Wall Street”, the name which is also used in the book’s title. In all other places in the text it appears as “Wall-street”. In the text that follows, italic text is denoted by _underscores_ around the text. Small capitals in the printed works have been transcribed as ALL CAPITALS. See the end of this document for a full list of corrections and changes. * * * * * A WEEK IN WALL STREET. BY ONE WHO KNOWS NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS. 1841. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1841, BY FREDERICK JACKSON, In the Clerk’s office of District Court of the Southern District of New-York. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.—Introduction—The origin of Joint Stock Companies, and Brokers. CHAPTER II.—The History of the Morrison Kennel—Nicholas the 1st.—A Stock Speculation. CHAPTER III.—State Stocks—History of the Morrison Kennel continued—Introduction of new characters—The U. S. Bank. CHAPTER IV.—How Stocks are bought and sold—How Brokers get out of a bad Speculation—How money is sometimes made by doing a losing business—How Discounts are made and obtained. CHAPTER V.—The Defaulter. CHAPTER VI.—A Panic. PREFACE. The following pages were written during leisure hours of the last six or eight weeks, of which “the times” have thrown rather too many upon the writer’s hands; and the statement of this fact, I conceive to be a tacit admission, that such hours might have been better employed.