EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, AND LOUISVILLE, ETC., ETC. VOLUME FIFTEEN. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, 1846. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET. 1846. CONTRIBUTORS HEL TO THE FIFTEENTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE. 57677 J. K. ANGELL, Esq., of Rhode Island, author of several standard Rev. J. N. BELLOWS, of Massachusetts. J. E. BLOOMFIELD, Esq., of New Jersey. Hon. THOMAS G. CARY, Merchant, of Massachusetts. CALVIN COLTON, ESQ., author of the "Life and Times of Henry Clay." Gen. H. A. S. DEARBORN, of Massachusetts, author of a "Memoir E. HASKET DERBY, ESQ., of Massachusetts. ISRAEL DILLE, Esq., of Ohio. FRANCIS O. DORR, ESQ., of New York. V. M. DRAKE, Esq., of New Jersey. GEORGE GORDON, F. S. S., late of London, England. ABIJAH INGRAHAM, M. D., of New York. JOHN B. JERVIS, Esq., Civil Engineer, of New York. THOMAS PRENTICE KETTELL, Esq., of New York. JAMES H. LANMAN, ESQ., author of the "History of Michigan." CHARLES LANMAN, ESQ., of New York, author of "Essays for Summer Hours." Prof. C. F. McCAY, of the University of Georgia. A. NASH, Esq., of New York. Hon. Judge B. F. PORTER, of Alabama. HENRY G. RICE, ESQ., Merchant, of Massachusetts. JUNIUS SMITH, Esq., of New York. Prof. J. L. TELLKAMPF, LL. D., of Columbia College, New York. GEORGE ATKINSON WARD, A. M., Merchant, of New York. Hon. F. WHITTLESEY, of New York; and FREEMAN HUNT, sole Editor and Proprietor, etc. The names of the contributors are appended to the titles of the several articles, in the table of contents on the first page of each number, except such as have been prepared or adopted by the Editor. ACTION to recover amount of clearance bond,.. 289 BACON exported at New Orleans, 1845-6,.. Advertising Liabilities,.. African Slave Trade,.. 406 165 110 Baltimore, price of Flour, Wheat and Corn in, 214 ........ 522 by Glenham Company,. 372 Bank, Michigan, State... 314 of England, leading features of........... 397 weekly returns,............. 422 Alkali, manufacture, improvements in.......... 601 of New York dividends, 1845-6.......... 492 ....................................... 140 Banks' Strait, Light in.................................................................... 311 Indian Archipelago,. States, 1843-4,..... ...... Report of Post Master General,... Exports to France, Netherlands, and Anecdote of Edinburgh Merchant,. Archipelago, Indian,........ Architecture, Naval,.. Aromatique Vegetable Distillations,.... Arno, Navigation of the.................... 165 185 94 ...... 111 46 Railroads, receipts per day, 1838 39... 247 56 Berberah, caravan trade at...... 521 139 104 58 46 Bermuda, Light-house on southern point... 96 311 86, 485 446 446 486 607 417 .... 607 shipments cotton, 1843-46.. 4 Boston, foreign vessels arrived and cl'd, 1840-45.. 37, Buffalo robes furnished by the western fur trade, 217 66 arrivals and clearances, exclusive of Brit- ish mail steamers, 1840-5.......... 37 39 66 breadstuffs received from.............. 298 ་་ receipts and shipments of produce, '44-45 353 95 96 .... 482 39 CABLES, manufactured at Manilla,. 317 418 39 Canada, imports from............. 309 219 220 of U. S. belonging to Boston & Mass., 40 66 Economist,.. export of domestic cotton, 1845-6....... 40 Canal, railr'd and steamb't statistics, 609,508,209, 414 statistics of the cotton trade............ 112 Claims for French spoliations,.. ... " Irish produce and manufactures export- ..... 366 ed 1827-44....... 118 silk goods exported from the United King- .... 66 66 export of woollen goods,... Cholera, deaths by, in New York City... rates of toll, &c., Reading & Phil. R. R.,. 99 coal trade.... back upon.... American land company.. 66 ............ 422 Coffee imported into U. S. from Netherlands,.... 402 Broker's commission on houses sold for an adv'e 66 wool, duty on, 1818-45,. 497 120 310 137 419 146 and trade of St. Louis,... 162 66 of the great western lakes,. 348 Commerce and progressive wealth of Boston,.. 34 Cotton,comparative prices, from middling to fair, 410 estimated sales in New York, 1845-46,... 396 ........ compar. ann. exports, at N. O., 1837-46,.. 406 111 Counterfeiting labels, etc............. 331 484 ...... 177 556 Counting-house of a Hamburgh merchant,.. Chronicle& Review, 85,488,389,296, 44 44 regulations,... 92, 495, 398, 300, 194, 613 Croton Aqueduct, finances of.... sketches of Sierra Leone,.. 315 statistics,......... ....517,326, 214, 603 Cured provisions imported into the U. States,... 411 574 497, 615 statistics of the U. S. Macgregor's, 60 Customs, nett revenue of, 1839-45,.............. 119 value of insects,,............................. 110 66 house bond, action to recover on,...... 84 426 Diamond dust, increased demand for............ 418 British export of, 1844-45,. 602 EAST INDIA Co., revenue and disbursements of... 314 average price per pound, 1790-1844,.. 380 Economist, Canadian...... 220 |