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The New York Millionaires.

--A letter from New York says:

‘ We are in a fair way of finding out who are the wealthiest men in New York, according to their own affidavits before the internal revenue commissioners. Some of these were specified in my letter of yesterday, and, as a matter of general interest, I append a few more:

Income for 1864.
A. T. Stewart.$1,843,639
Moses Taylor573,494
Ex-Mayor Opdyke112,800
Judge Roosevelt34,486
August Belmont100,930
W. H. Appleton65,147
Judge Betts.15,030
Ex-Collector Barney30,025
John D. Wolfe57,780
Daniel Drew101,290
Ex-Mayor Kingsland60,000
C. Delmonico70,650
Daniel Parrish62,768
S. L. Mitchell109,324
W. O'Briert.90,000
John O'Brien90,000
Rufus T. Andrews22,616
John Jacob Astor, Jr.20,504
John A. Stevens20,385
J. Sturges135,000
T. M.Taylor105,000
George Law68,444
Jordan L. Mott16,615

All these are in the Sixteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-second Wards, comprising the Eighth District.

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