*. It is a well authenticated fact, that Mr. Daniel Phenix, treasurer of the city of New-York, and his sons were infected with a violent yellow fever, by means of the fetid effluvia from packages of bills of credit, which had been returned into the treasury, after being long used, passing through dirty, sweaty hands, and then being close pack|ed for some weeks, in a hot season. The fact is related to me by Mr. Phenix himself. The at•ack in the first case, was severe; and on a subsequent occasion, a second attack passed off with a nausea.