MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

ESTABLISHED BY FREEMAN HUNT IN 1839.

VOLUME THIRTY-EIGHT.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1858.

New York:

GEO. W. & JNO. A. WOOD, 142 FULTON-STREET.

1858.

CONTRIBUTORS

то

THE THIRTY-EIGHTH

VOLUME OF THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

ABBOTT BROTHERS, Counselors-at-Law, New York.

DAVID M. BALFour, Esq., of Boston.

W. W. BATES, Esq., Naval Architect, of New York.

A. N. BELL, M. D., of New York, late of the United States Navy.

E. B. BISHOP, Esq., of Louisiana.

J. E. BLOOMFIELD, Esq., of New York.

CHARLES H. CARROLL, Merchant, of Massachusetts.

BEN CASSEDAY, Esq., Editor Louisville "Commercial Review."

J. S. DE AGREDA, Consul of Venezuela at New York.

GEO. DUTTON, Merchant, of Rochester, New York.

EDMUND DWIGHT, Esq., of New York.

CHARLES W. FREDERICKSON, Broker, of New York.
FRANKLIN B. HOUGH, A. M., M. D., of New York.

THOMAS P. KETTELL, Esq., of New York.

J. PIERCE, Jr., of the United States Legation at St. Petersburg.

EZRA C. SEAMAN, Esq., of Michigan.

RICHARD SULLEY, Esq., of Indiana.

GEORGE TUCKER, LL. D., of Pennsylvania.

AMASA WALKER, late Secretary of State of Massachusetts.

H. M. WHITNEY, Esq., Editor Pacific Commercial Advertiser."

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INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVIII.,

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1858.

46

66

66

66

66

B.

Baltimore. imports & prices of salt at, for 1857 437
66 prices of corn at, for two years.... 425
exp'rts of tobacco fr'm, for 13 years 426
prices of wheat at, for four years.. 424
imports & exports from, for '56-57 418
receipts of grain at, for four years. 423
inspec. of wheat & flour at, 14 years 423
receipts of cotton at, for four years 427
imp'rtations molass's at, for 18 yrs.. 430
prices of provisions at, for 2 years. 431
imports of sugar at, for 18 years... 428
export of provisions from, for 4 yrs. 48!
commercial regulations at....... 618
prices of pig-iron at, for 1857...... 435
importations of coffee at, for 4 yrs. 430
fish and oyster trade of....
annual report of banks of...

66

66

66

66

46

66

66

causes of the commercial crisis... 722
clearing-house at....

Bottomry bond on vessel and cargo, action
banks, weekly returns of........

to enforce

Bottomry on vessel, cargo, and freight..

734

725

710
68

66 antecedent debt, power of master 322
Bread, manuf. and cost of, in Lynchburg, Va. 504
Breadstuffs, prices of, in N. York for 10 years 92
Bremen, United States treasury letter on ves-
sels clearing for ..

Brick, requisites for making good.......
British bankruptcy statistics.

66

66

66

99

246

602

236

wreck register for five years...
ship lett'r postage, reduction of rat's of 495
India, trade and production of

provinces, circular on exports to the

United States

mail packet service...

66

.....

95

621

ships in the fourteenth century.. 772
Post-office, statistics of, for ten years. 750
Broad Sound, west coast, England, rocks in. 104
Broker, magnanimous act of a...
Brooklyn mercantile library association...
Buenos Ayres, changes in tariff of
Buffalo, New York, commerce and manuf, of 689
Bullion, exports of, from California..
Business, choice of a

264

604

..602, 729

330

728

258

734

733

593

66 why merchants are liable to fail in 61
C.

66

66

66 and banking in the State of New York 209
dividends of Massachusetts country... 211
and the merchants.

Calcutta, exports from, in 1856–57..

350

131

of Phila., capital and dividends.

343

of Penn., liabilities and resources of.. 473
of Baltimore, annual report of.

66 produce bro'ght down to, in '34 & '56 95
Calicoes, cleansing of printed...
763
California and Australia, gold exported from,
in 1847-57, inclusive...

471

California, exports of bullion from....

684
330

66

66

of the U. States. By David M. Balfour 341
of New Hampshire, condition of...... 473

66

66

66

vinyards of Los Angeles county.. 516
quicksilver mines of
509

or no banks. By Geo. Tucker, LL. D. 147 | Cambridge, (Mass.,) cattle market at, in 1857 252
in the United States in 1837, '47, & '57. 88 Canada, trade and commerce of....

736