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. 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." 1 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 66 66 66 46 66 66 causes of the commercial crisis... 722 Bottomry bond on vessel and cargo, action to enforce Bottomry on vessel, cargo, and freight.. 734 725 710 66 antecedent debt, power of master 322 Brick, requisites for making good....... 66 66 66 99 246 602 236 wreck register for five years... provinces, circular on exports to the United States mail packet service... 66 ..... 95 621 ships in the fourteenth century.. 772 264 604 ..602, 729 330 728 258 734 733 593 66 why merchants are liable to fail in 61 66 66 66 and banking in the State of New York 209 Calcutta, exports from, in 1856–57.. 350 131 of Phila., capital and dividends. 343 of Penn., liabilities and resources of.. 473 66 produce bro'ght down to, in '34 & '56 95 471 California, exports of bullion from.... 684 66 66 of the U. States. By David M. Balfour 341 66 66 66 vinyards of Los Angeles county.. 516 or no banks. By Geo. Tucker, LL. D. 147 | Cambridge, (Mass.,) cattle market at, in 1857 252 736 |