46

Edinburgh merchant, anecdote of....

522 Exports of Virginia, 1838-40,.....
Education of a man of business, ..
381 and imports of Sierra Leone,..

573
Elements of commercial law,......

131

F.
Enterprise of Massachusetts manufacturers,..... 213

FACTORY, cotton, in Florida,..

417
Endorsers,..

82
whip, in Camden...

418
England, revenue and expenditure of........... 100

Factories, wages of women in...

212
summary of savings banks in......... 102

trading, at Sierra Leone,

573
population of all the cities, 1841....... 103
Failure in business, causes of...

260
county towns, '41, 104
Fair, national, nt Washington,...

181
Yankee notions in.....

108
Ferries, Brooklyn steamboat.....

513
accidents on railways, 1840-45, ....... 97
Fever, yellow....

160
reduction of National Debt of........ 313
Fieri fucias, writ of....

74
duty on tobacco in.......

54
premium for exchange on..

Finance, currency and banking, 100, 202, 312, 419,
217

497, 615
tobacco smuggling in,
521 Finances of the Croton Aqueducl........

315
Bank of....

397, 422

of the United States, 1844-46,........ 208
securities and deposits, . 588 Fire and Marine mutual insurance, Boston, 1845,. 43
Spanish flour in,....

331
" insurance in New York,

109
income and expenditure,.............. 616 Fires in Boston, 1838-45,..

42
and Wales, av. price of corn,......... 591 Fish, Preserved, biography of...

582
English railroads, receipts, 1843-45.......... 97, 460 Fisheries, Marblehead.....

112
Erie Canal and Western Railroad,

............. 209
Fishkill Creek manufactories.....

376
“ Railroad,
....... 359 Flax manufactured in U. S., 1821-45.............

113
transportation of milk on........210
Europe, production of coal in......

compar. prod. in Va., Ky., Tenn., and Md., 286
515
Florida cotton factory,...

417
quotation of wheat in................ 397
Flour, Spanish, in England...

331
tobacco business in....

........ 607

freight from St. Louis to Cincinnati, 355
compar. view of the commerce of..... 616
European nations, revenue and debts of........ 505

comparative prices at N. Orleans, 1842-46, 410
Experience of a merchant,.

inspection at Baltimore, 1840-46,... 412

339
Exchange,

arrival at tide water, and value at New

217, 485, 396
Export of British silk goods, 1826-45,.

York, 1844-45,..

391
120
woollen goods,
prices of Genesee, at New York,

520
121
British, first quarter, 1846,.

trade of St. Louis,.....

164
121
of the United States, 1790-1845,.

price of, at Baltimore, 1839-46,.

214
114
of foreign mdze. from U. 8. 1821-45..... 116

in bond, in Great Britain,...

88
British and Irish produce, etc., 1827-44... 118 Foreign banking establishments,..

barrels of, exported from U. S., 1840-45,.. 90
from New Orleans and Mobile, 1844,.... 65

419
compar. of Boston and U. S., 1824-45,... 39

ports, passengers arr, at N. Y., 1827-45... 161
of teas from China,.....

nations, relative naval power,........... 151.

215
of lard and cheese from the U. S., 1844-5, 216
France, consumption of coffee in...

426
from Great Britain to the U. S..........

average rates of railroad fare,

246
219
declared value of British, 1844-46,....

duty on tobacco in.....

54
..... 188
of the port of New York,

exports to, 1845,

58
............... 192
of Cincinnati, 1845-46...

commercial treaty with Belgium........ 94

519
value of New York...,

commerce of, with Belgium, ........... 111

488
of tobacco from Virginia,...

French islands of St. Peter and Miquelon,..... 216

518
from Europe and America beyond Cape

spoliations,.....

366
of Good Hope,......

Francs and sterling in New York, 1843-46,.... 492-3
480

Fraudulent debtor,........
of cotton goods from Boston, 1845-46,.. 520 Free trade association at Montreal,..
of cotton from the U.S., 1844-46...

....... 220
395
of
from New Orleans, 1841-46..... 404 Freight, rates of.......
Freights arrived at St. Louis, 1844-45,..

....... 168
of tobacco"

396
1841-46,.... 405
of

on coal, Phila. and Reading Railroad,.. 99
sugar,
1841-46..... 405 Fulton, Robert, first voyage,..

468
of cotton, tobacco,

1837-46,. 406

Fur trade, Western,..
of molasses

1844-46,.... 406
of flour, pork, bacon, lard, beef, lead,
whiskey, and corn, 1845-46...

........, 406 GENESSEE flour, prices in New York.......... 520
of Ohio, 1845, .......
357 Genoa, Bank of...........

419
of bread-stuffs from New York, 1845-46,. 392 Georgia Railroad and Banking Company 510
of tobacco to Great Britain, 1841-45,.... 296 Georgia iron mines,...
of Germany, 1844-45,.... ...... 256 German Zollverein, ....

66

..... 218

.6

&

217

319

7

.... 258

319

44

88

46

..... 109

Gull Buream, ....

46

Manofacture, export and consumption of Imports into the United Kingdom........

397
Cotton goods, 1843.......

257
of coffee from the Netherlands.

402
Prod’n, imp't and exp't of wool, '34-43..... 258 at New Orleans, inland, 1841-46.

407
Import and export of silk goods.....

cured provisions into the U. S.......... 411
Germany, duty on tobacco in.................

54
raw materials, British........

189
consomption of tobacco in...........

54

of goods from G. Britain to U. S., 1845. 190
import of American produce, 1843-44.. 54 at port of New York........

192
increase of com'l intercourse with U.S. 51 comparative, of Boston and U. S. '24-45 39
Glass, transparent and malleable...............

American produce into Germany, '43-44 54
tumblers, manufacture of pressed...

418

into the United States, 1790 to 1845.... 114
Glenham woollen factory....

374
of Germany, duties on...

256
Gobelin manufactory, French......

107
and exports of Germany, 1844-45

256
Gold, annual deposits at United States Mint.... 203 of wool, 1834-43,

258
Grain trade of Great Britain..........

216
of silks, 1834-43....

258
in bond in Great Britain........

of cotton wool, 1841-43...

267
average price of.....

88

of New York and Virginia, 1821-32.... 281
taonthly export from New York, 1843-45. 89 into Europe and America, from places
Grand Duchy ofTuscany, com'ce and industry of 23 beyond the Cape of Good Hope...... 480
Great Britain, grain in bond in......

at Cincinnati, 1845-46.......

519
import of tobacco from U.S. '41-5. 296 of Sierra Leone....

573
grain trade of.....
216 Imprisonment for debt, policy of....

330
export of goods to U. 8., 1845.... 190

abolished in Louisiana.. 73
Greenbush and Troy Railroad

98 India, British, custom duties in........
Gronskars, light-house on........

201
culture of cotton....

112
Guadaloupe, Pointe-a-Petre....
96 Indian Archipelago..

140
90, 507 Indian corn (see Corn)...........
Gunpowder, law for dealers in...
92 Indian mounds....

480
H.
Industry, manufacturing, in Pisa..

26
HAMBURGH, Bank of...........

and commerce of Italy.

19
419

manuf'g, in the State of New York.. 369
merchant in his counting-house,... 177 Insects, commercial value of.......

110
Hanse Towns, exports to.....,
58 Inspection of tobacco in Virginia....

518
Hardware trade, frauds in ......

425
Harsimus curled hair & h'rcloth manuf'y.

beef npd pork, law of....

185
598
Hartford and New Haven Railroad

floar at Baltimore, 1840-46........ 412
512
tobacco, law in Louisiana

195
Havana, department of Hydrography...

506 Institute, American, Nineteenth exhibition ..... 514
Hemp, comparative product of Virginia, Ken Institution, Provident, for savings in Bos'n, '29-45 43
tucky, Tennessee and Maryland..... 286 Insurance, marine....

586, 486
manufactures of imported into U.S. 21-45 113 profits and premiums of life.......... 227

375

companies, Boston, condition of...... 42
Home consumption, silks entered 1814-44....... 119

risks and losses of 1838-45.....

42
foreigo silks retained for 1826-32.....

120
fire and marine mutual, 1845..

43
Honduras, new light on the south point of...... 507 rights of stockholders in....

585
new light on Island of....

........ 507

fire, New York
Hors and malt, concentrated extract of........ 319

109
life, illustrations of.....

424
Hort

, Dr., his views on contagious diseases. . 158, 159 Internal improvements of Virginia.
Hospital, marine, patients treated in 1799-45.... 161 Internal improvement........

....... 273
Hudson River steamers, speed of ........

63
99 Intervention, petition of........

74
Hudson River, aggregate receipts of leading arti Invention in the United States, progress of....., 417

cles at tide-water, 1843-46,..
Hudson and Berkshire Railroad......
490 Ireland, savings banks in.......

102
323
Hydrography, department of, at Havana........ 506 Iron manufacture of Connecticut...

produce exported, 1827-44.

118

567
I.
mines of Georgia......

319
IcE TRADE of Boston, 1845-46..
Iron and steel imported into the U.S.

328
40
Nepois, lead mines in....

manufacture, American......... 213
Tramigration into the United States.......
Iron foundry, Jersey City...

598
Import duties on cotton, Spanish....

manufacture of G. Britain....

599
496
Imports into the United States from Canada.... 309
Islands, western, Devil's Rocks....

507
Canadian,......
Italy, commerce and industry of.....

19
219
of United States, 1821-45............. 327
cotton manufactures...... ...... 327 JAPAN ........

....... 141
iron and steel manufactures, 1821-33... 328 Java, production and exports of.....

unmanufactured, '21-45. 328 Jersey City, its resources and manufactures ..... 597
and duties at New York..............

393
iron foundry....

598

66

Highland Milks.........

.... 319

...... 598

66

.. 558

8

319
Journal of m'ng & mannf's, 105, 514, 316,416,212,597(Malt and hops, extract of........

bank'g and currency, 100,202,312,419,497 Manilla, manufactures of cables and cordage.... 317
Judiciary of Louisiana.....

71 Manufacture of cotton goods in Germany, 1843.. 257
74

Switzerland..... 265
Jury trial in Louisiana .....

of wool imported into U. 8. 25-45. 326
K.

of silk in New England.....

318
KENTUCKY,agricultural products of..

286

of cotton imp'd into U. 8. 1821-45. 327
tobacco ...

607

of iron and steel into U.S. 1821-33. 328

506
Key, Storm, revolving light on........

317

• of wool in Turkey,....
Knoll on the Pansand.

95 Manufactures and mining, journal of.. 105, 212,

316, 416, 514, 597
L.

and cotton-growing, profits of....... 376,
LABELS, counterfeit..

84

and products of Connecticut... 565, 106
Lake Superior, mines of...

.. 105

British and Irish exports, 1827-44... 118
copper mines.

of hemp and flax imp'd in U.S. '21-45 113
Lake marine, its increase in 1845.

356

of silk ret'd for home cons'n.. '26-32 120
Lakes, vessels employed on the....

65
of cast iron in Michigan..

212
commerce of the great western......... 348

American iron and steel........... 213
revenue collected on the northern, '43-45. 359

of Dutchess Co...........

522
above Niagara Falls, vessels on, 1845.... 355

of Jersey City..

597
Lancaster, port of..

311

in Tennessee ..
Lard trade of St. Louis.....

165

of iron in Great Britain..........., 599
"exported from United States, 1844-45..... 216 Manufacturers of Massachusetts, enterprise of... 213
Law cases, mercantile.... 585, 82, 185, 289, 384, 485 Manufacturing industry of New York State..... 369
maritime............

75

Madeira

20
" of debtor and creditor in Alabama........ 580

Lucca........
" of creditor and debtor, Louisiana...... 70, 471

Pisa......

26
" commercial, elements of.........
131 Marblehead fisheries........

112
" of beef and pork inspection..... ... 185 Marine insurance....

586, 486
" of carriers by sea......

increase of Lake, 1845......

356
Laws and regulations, quarantine.

152

hospital of N. York, patients, 1799, 1845. 161
Lead mines of Illinois ...

107
society, British.

96
* trade in the west......

516
of Madeira..........

20
Legal tender in U. S...

615
Lucca..........

20
Liability, advertising..

487

mutual insurance of Boston, 1845..... 43
Libel on a charter party....
290 Maritime law................

75
Liberality to a fraudulent debtor.....
218 Maryland tobacco........

607
Life insurance, profits and premium of. 227 Massachusetts railroads, 1845...

554
illustrations of...

administrations of..... 234
Light, Bermuda..
311 Matteawan manufacturing company...........

370
Island of Honduras.........
507 Maxims for merchants and business men.......

482
on the Gronskars.......
201 Mechanic, art of the...................

108
on Bermuda....
96 Memphis, convention at.....

63
on Stone Key....

506 Mercantile miscellanies.. 109, 217, 330, 423, 521, 617
Lights on Banks' Strait....

311
law cases.....

82, 185, 289, 384, 485, 585
Liverpool and Boston mail steamers,... ........ 320

library rooms of Cincinnati.. 330
customs, rev. of.. 313
and naval biography...

592, 446
London, census of 1841........................

103
law, chances of success in..........

475
Long Island Railroad...

414 Merchandise imp'd into the U.S. drawback on.. 398
Louisiana, steamboat tonnage, 1844............. 366

foreign, drawback on.............

399
tobacco inspection law............. 195

imp'd, re-exp'd and cons'd, 1821-45. 115
law of debtor and creditor. ...... 70, 471
Lowell, amount dep'd in savings banks, 1841-45. 212 Merchant, patron of fine arts........

foreign, re-exp'd from U.S. 1821-45. 116

80
Lucca, Duchy of..........

21
a large and liberal.....

331
population,...

21
the British.....

331
productions, etc........

22
experiences of a.......

339
M.

Hamburgh....
anecdote of Edinburgh..

522
MACGREGOR's statistics of United States....... 60

benevolent Chinese.

521
Madeira wine trade, decrease of.............
112 Merchantable goods....

83
Magnetic telegraph, extension of ............... 513 Merchants, commission.

82
Mail steamers, American Atlantic................ 51 Merchant senmen, British.

110
British, voyages of 1845......... 39 Merchants' bank, John Randolph.

103
320 Merchants and business men, maxims for.....

480
Mail steom packet company, Royal........ 509 Merchant service of Sierra Leone..

66

424

66

G

. . 177

572

16

.... 316

66

87

102

463

Mesne
process in Louisiana....

73

Imports from the interior, '41-6....... 407
Mexico, commere'l relations with the U.S.. 250, 310 Receipts of produce from the interior, '46... 408
Michigan, cast iron manufacture.............. 212 Arrivals of vessels in ’44-6.....

409
state bank..........

314

Comp. prices of middling to fair cotton, and
Milk transported on the Erie Railroad.

210
total crops of the United States...

410
Mines, copper, of Lake Superior..

105, 319

Comparative prices of sugar on levee, '42-6. 410
diamond, in Bahia......

600

molasses, ........... 410
of Sincure....
600

flour.........

...... 411
iron, of Georgia.

319

mess prime p'k, '44-6 411
silver, of Almaden,

corn in s'ks, '42-6... 411
coal, Prussia........
316 Louisiana, dry dock at.........

413
" lead, Mlinois........

107 Quantity & value of leading articles, '41-44. 490
Mineral resources of Alabama...

213
Exports from '14........

65
Mining and manufactures, journal of..105, 212, Rec'ts of principal staples, 1844-5.

65
316. 416, 514,597
Steamboat tonnage at......

66
Mint and branches, United States, coinage of... 202 Banks paying specie....

86
1793-1845..... 205 Rates of bills at.........

86
Mints, V.States branch, annual coinage, '38-245. 204 New Russian tariff.........

495
Mississippi river, vessels on......
65 New south shoal....

506
Missouri, mineral regions and resources of...... 28 New York and the railroad enterprise..

456
Mobile, exports from, 1844...

65
commerce of........

488
Modena, Duchy of.......

19

prices of produce at, '44-46...
population and products.

19

monthly exp't of wheat and grain, '43-5 89
manufactures, etc.......

20

new usury law...........
commerce....

21

fire insurance in....... .......... 109
Molasses exported from New Orleans, '44 '46 ... 406 death by small-pox, etc.............. 160
Monarchy of Austria, population of.......

211
Money, love of, in America.....

passengers arr'd from f'gn ports.'27-45 161

218
diorals of trade....

imports and exports...

............... 192
Mosaic work, worsted..

quarantine regulationg............... 194
601

taxation of..
Mounds, Indian...

.......... 219
480

manufacturing industry of............ 309
western....

272
Maslin, gold printed.

wheat and flour arr'd at tide w'r, '44-5. 391
....... 108

exp't of breadstuffs, '45-6....... 392
N.

exports of grain from, 1844-46........ 595
Nashville, steamboat tonnage, 1844..........

66

banks, government deposits in....... 595
National Fair at Washington.........

condition of

596
181
Nautical intelligence.........
506, 311, 201, 95, 612
imports and duties....

993
Nations in order of their commercial importance. 151

estimated sales of cotton.............

396
Naval force--commerce of the world....

146

monthly import of cotton, '45-6....... 396
and mercantile biography..

446

banks, immediate means and liab's of. 392
architecture and navigation..

435
canals, statistics of.

414
power of foreign nations.....

151
tolls on, '45-6........

490, 611
Navigation of the Arno........

state debts....

419
26
and naval architecture.

bank dividends, '45-6.....

492
Navy, United States, origin of......

147

sterling and francs, '43 6...... 492
belonging to

148

and Boston route, via L. I. Railroad.. 414
486
incorporated banks of.....

312
Needles, navigation through the..

and Erie Railroad
612

359
Netherlands, coffee imported from...

402

pay't on stocks to May, '45.. 362
New England, rates of fares ou railroads.

Tevenue from '42-45....,... 364
silk manufacture............... 318

and Virginia, comp. imp'ts from ’21-32 281
New Haven and Hartford Railroad ............. 512

imports and exports, '38 40.. 282
New Jersey rope-walk.....

597

Virginia, and west, pop'n, 1790-1840.. 285
New Orleans, trade and commerce of.......... 404

railroad legislation

546
Receipts of grain at, 1845-46...

Virginia, and Pennsylvania agricultu-

594
Bread-stuffs received from '45-46., ........ 298

ral products, 1840........

285
Chamber of commerce, regulation of.....

613
railroads, 1845.....

555
Exports of cotton, '41-46..................

404

Niagara Falls, vessels on the lakes above, 1845.. 353
Tobacco,

66

60

Opium trade, Chinese.......................... 522 Provident institution for savings in Boston...... 43
Oregon treaty.......
402 Provisions, cured, imported into U. S........... 411

316
Oswego, bread-stuffs received from, '45-6, ...... 298 Prussia, gold mines of..........
Our correspondence....

duty on copper in......

426

......, 219

46

..... 810

98

66

P.
Pacific, tonnage employed in Asiatic trade.... QUARANTINE laws and regul'ns of N. York. 152,194
railroad from the Atlantic..... 477

views of Dr. Fraser......... 153
Packet service, British, expenses of.....

99

Dr. Vache.

156
company, Royal mail steam....

509

Dr. Hort.

158
Paddle-wheel, application of steam .......... 67
Padang, pepper trade at..

618

R.
Pansand knoll....

95 RAILROADS, New England, fares on........... 324
Paper manufactures..

416

of Mass., administration of ... ... 234
of Connecticut.

568

out of Boston, average fare, 1846, 236
Papai states, new tariff of....

403
of France, average

fare,...

246
Partnership.....

486

of Belgium, daily rec'ts, 1838-39.. 247
Passengers arrived at New York, 1827-45...... 161

Hudson and Berkshire, ..

325
Pea nuts, production in North Carolina......... 426

revenue of Western, 1840-45, 238, 243
Pearl-ash, direction for examining.....

174

canal, and steamboat statistics,
amount of potash and soda in........ 171

609, 508, 414, 320, 209, 97
Pearl River steamboat tonnage, 1844....

66
Long Island,...

414
Paris, bank of...

419
New York and Erie,...

359
Patent office, United States, 1845...

318
legislation in New York,

546
Pennies converted to pounds...

426
Reading......

209
Pennsylvania, product of coal, 1840.

286
of Massachusetts, 1845,

554
canal tolls, 1845-6..

490
Western,

209
Persia, commerce with...

139
of New York, 1845, ..

555
Personal estate in Boston, 1800-45.

46

Erie, transportations of milk,
Petition of intervention.....

Troy and Greenbush,....
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, freight

Philadelphia and Reading.... 99
and toll on coal........

99

and Banking Company of Ga.,... 510
Pisa, manufacturing industry in...

26

Hartford and New Haven, ....... 512
Pittsburgh, steamboat tonnage, 1844..

66

enterprise in New York,.. 456
Pointe-a-Petre, Guadaloupe..

96
capacity for business, ........

209
Polls in Boston, 1800-45...

46
comparative cost of.....

210
aggregate, Massachusetts........

49

receipts on English, 1843-5,
“ relative proportion to Boston...

49

and canals, Western,... .....
Population of N. York, Va. and West, 1790,1840 285

leading from Boston,..
of the German states......

cars, warming apparatus,

609
statistics of....
210, 103, 502 Railway smoking saloon,....

510
progress of in U. S........
502 signals, new system of...

611
of London in 1841....

103, Railways in England, accidents on, 1840-45,..... 97
of cities in England and Wales, .... 103

receipts of, 1843-45,.. 97
of county towns

104
statistics of British,..

208
of Berlin in Prussia.

104

reduction of fare on, 98
of Modena ........

19 Randolph John, Merchants' Bank, ............. 103
of Lucca....

21 Reading & Philadelphia R. R. freight and toll,. 99
of Boston, 1742 to 1845..... 211 Real estate of Boston, transactions in, 1836-45,.. 44

of the Austrian monarchy.. 211 Real and personal estate in Boston, 1845,... . ... 46
Poor and the rich...

218 Regulations, commercial,.. 495, 398, 300, 194, 92
Pork inspection, law of..
185 Respondentia Loans,...

75
" trade at St. Louis.
165 Revenue customs of Liverpool, ..

313
" exported from New Orleans, 1845-6.. 406

debts and power of European nations,.. 505
Post office, British, returns for 1846....

422

and disbursements of East India Co.,... 314
Potash, amount of, in pearl-ash and soda 171

loss of, by reduc. British Tariff, 1841-45 119
Potato, manufacture of.......

106

of the British Government, 1845-46.... 315
Pottery, American manuf'g company.

597

and expenditure of England and France, 100
Poultry, first importation into England

112

of U. S., 1845-46....... 596
Power of attorney.

82

est. for 1846-47, 91
Products of Modena...........

460

508
.40, 45

255

46