114 CONTRIBUTORS

TO THE

EIGHTEENTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS MAGAZINE.

9

J. BALESTIER, United States Consul at Singapore.
R. BURN, Esq., Editor of the “Commercial Glance," England.
SAMUEL R. Berts, United States District Judge, of New York.
David M. BALFOUR, Merchant, of Massachusetts.
Hon. Thomas G. Cary, Merchant, of Massachusetts.
E. HASKET DERBY, Esq., President of the Old Colony Railroad Co.
F. 0. Dorr, Esq., of the New York Bar.
Lieut. CHARLES HENRY Davis, of the United States Navy.
Lewis FEUCHTWANGER, M. D., of New York.
CHARLES H. GLOVER, Esq., of the New York Bar.
John EndicoTT GARDNER, Esq., of Massachusetts.
SAMUEL Harris, Esq., of Maine.
L. A. HINE, Esq., Editor of the “Herald of Truth,” Ohio.
David R. JACQUES, Esq., of the New York Bar.
EDWARD KELLOGG, Esq., author of " Labor and Other Capital,” etc.
Tuomas PRENTICE KETTELL, Esq., of New York.
John AMORY LOWELL, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts.
Lieut. M. F. MAURY, of the U. States Naval Observatory, Washington.
C. F. M'Cay, Esq., Professor in the University of Georgia.
ALANSON Nash, Esq., of the New York Bar.
Hon. F. 0. J. SMITH, of Maine.

Hon. George TUCKER, Author of " The Progress of the United States in Wealth and Population," “ Life of Jefferson,” etc., etc.

J. B. VARNUM, Esq., of the New York Bar.

John WILKINSON, Esq., President of the Syracuse and Utica Railroad Company

E. B. WASHBURN, Esq., of Illinois; and
FREEMAN Hunt, the Editor and Proprietor.

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T 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.

INDEX TO VOL. XVIII.,

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1848.

66

46

... 416

66

A.

Bank of France, condition of, December, 1847.. 329
ACTION to recover damages for breach of war.

" capital of cities in the United States...... 325
ranty........

405

Banks of Massachusetts in 1847................ 107
Act authorizing a loan of $16,000,000.......... 554

and bank directors.................... 106
" of N. York authorizing manufacturing com. 438

of the States of the Union............. 199
Admiralty, libel in...........................

295

of the several states, capital, cire'tion, etc. 200
Adulteration of wheat flour................... 233

failures of safety fund.................

430
of medicine.....................

442
free, of New York.........

428

328
Agent and principal......

of Pennsylvania, condition of..
................. 190

233
Agreement to allow a clerk commissions........ 296 Banker, a fraudulent....

105
Banking, New York law of...
to claim nothing for professional ser-
vices void in law................
296 Bankrupt's entertainment..

456
Agulhas, light-house at cape............
446 Bankruptcy, anecdotes of..

455

456
Agriculture, commerce, and manufactures...... 444 Bankrupt, Quaker...
Alabama, manufacture of iron in.............. 656 Bangor, description of....

........ 517
Algeria, trade and commerce of.........

inspection of lumber at............... 518
America, metals and ores of...........

115 Banvard's panorama of the Mississippi River... 232
American cheese trade, progress of the.........
85 Beacon light on Tampico bar......

319
cotton factory, the first......
563 Beet-root sugar in Germany.......

325

339
scythe and fork manufactory........ 562 Belgium, commerce of........
china-ware manufactory

114
Bills of lading, advances upon....

........ 631
manufacture of pins....

564

“ sterling, rates of, in New York.......... 530
Amsterdam, shipping expenses at....

422
of sale as collateral security....

........... 295
Anecdotes of bankruptcy....

455 Birmingham, (Conn.,) chair manufacture...... 661
Attachment, foreigti......
66 Boddy's Island light-house..

447

325
Attica and Buffalo railroad, statistics of........ 542 Bohemia glass manufacture...
Atlantic railroad, where shall it begin ?........ 592

Book trade, notices of... 121, 234, 352, 457, 569, 671
Auburn and Syracuse railtuad, statistics of..... 540

statistics of .

454
Boot trade.......
54]

561
and Rochester, statistics of............

376
Averages, risks and damages of maritime com-

Bordeaux, description of.....
merce concerning..

exports and imports of............. 377
wine trade of.......

378
B.

brandy, fruits, etc. of.............. 380
BALTIMORE, commerce of, in 1847............ 314

bank aod brokers of............... 381
ship-building at, in 1847............ 309

ships destined for.................. 424
Mercantile Library Association of... 230 Borneo, Mr. Brooke of.......................... 56

and Susquehannah Railroad........ 220 Boston and Providence Railroad .............. 103
Bank circulation of England........

654 imports and exports of specie from 1828
of England, condition of........... 409, 636

to 1847...............

202
history of a £30,000 note of. 201 arrivals and clearances of, in 1847...... 212
meeting of proprietors of.... 559 foreign commerce of......

212
stock div. from 1794 to 1847. 425 revenue received at, from 1838 to 1847.. 212
from 1778 to 1844, eond. of. 198 tonnage engaged in foreign trade of..... 213
stock, highest and lowest

Mercantile Library Association of...... 231
prices of................

201 insurance companies of............... 308
of France, suspension of................ 557 merchant, maxims of....

506
in 1847.................... 555

tax payers of.........

558

...........

...... 614

....... 222

64

... 543

66

452

Brazil, trade of........

645 Cincinnati, Commercial Institute of ........... 118
slave trade of........
338 Clerk, a dry goods......

..... 119
Breadstuffs exported to different countries from Coal over Reading Railroad ....

334
the Uniteds tates......
305 fields of Chili........

564
passing New York canals......... 223 trade of Pennsylvania.......

226
Brest, light-house of the main channel of ....... 446 Coffee mills, manufacture of.......

560
British North American Mining Company...... 113 exported from Ceylon....

216
cotton trade and manufactures, statistics

roasting preparation

325
and history of.................. 152, 610|Coin, depreciation of.........

429
trade with Mexico........ .......... 216 Coinage of the U. States mint from 1792 to 1847
naval steamers, voyages of...

107, 328, 428
mail steamers, sailing of, in 1848........ 546 Coke, diamond converted to......

229
investments in railways....
223 Collision at sea ..

186
navigation laws.......
421 Columbia Railroad, statistics of.......

224
consols, price of, etc...... .637, 429 Commerce of the lakes and western waters..... 488
steamery at Boston....

a poem....

448
silk goods, export of.......

645

of Baltimore in 1847............. 314
regulations for emigrant ships.... .... 648 Commercial laws, old fashioned.......

668
commerce and rights of war..... 650

cites of Europe. . 43, 279, 376, 570, 601
Brooke of Borneo, Sarawack........

56
code of Spain.....

614
Bullion, United States export and import of.... 427

speculation....

448
Business, regular......

Chronicle and Review 76, 191, 297, 408
life, dangers of........
449

526, 633
conditions of success in .............

340

regulations. 87, 217, 316, 422, 548, 648
method in .........

335
question....

456
Buxey Sand, beacon of............

205
crisis....

467
Confidence and credit, a poem ........

335
C.
Consular regulations of Uruguay.....

120
CALIcoes exported from Great Britain......... 160

system of United States.............. 60
Camden and Amboy Railroad Statistics....431, 331 Consuls, British .........

429
agent of...... 331 Consumption of wood by locomotives.......... 436
Canada notes prohibited in Michigan.

655

of the U. States from 1790 to 1847 304
tariff of 1848..
548 Copper mines of Lake Superior.....

228
trade and resources of................. 418

sulphato-chloride of....

115
Canal commerce of Pennsylvania.............. 86 smelting, improvement in...

115
"' tolls of Erie and Wabash.............. 664 mines of Cuba.......

114
Canals, tolls received on New York State..... 224

ores, Gryll's statistics of....

111
opening and closing of................ 223

sales of, in England....
Canton, first American consul to.............. 31 Coral reefs discovered.......

665
Capital, investments at different rates of....... 642 Corn and corn meal exported from U. States..., 208

of banks in United States............. 326 Corsica, revolving light on north point of....... 554
of all the banks in the U. States........ 200 Corporations, liabilities of railroad.....

525
Capitalists, French............

..... 559 Cotton, loom for manufacture of...... ..... 110
Carriage springs........

661

trade, sta'tics and history of British. 152, 610
Cement, discovery of a mineral..

660

yarn exported from Great Britain from
Ceylon, trade of..........

419

1841 to 1846................... 154
coffee exported from...

216

chronology of.......... ....... 162
Chains manufactured in Connecticut.

661

value of exports from United States from
Champaign wine trade.....

84, 421
1790 to 1807.......

307
Champlain, commerce of Lake..

491
import into Great Britain of.

.... 311
Charleston Mercantile Library Association..... 337 prices of .........

530
Chart, Maury's wind and current.....

516
factory, first American..

563
Chase's card spinner......

325
production of, in India ........

666
Cheese trade, progress of the American.

85
manual.........

668
Chicago, description of........

164
factories of South Carolina...

227
exports and imports of...
168 Credit, long system of.........

642
business, trades, etc., of its citizens... 171 Creditors, partnership...

407
shipping, arrivals of...
171 Crisis, the present commercial..

467
Chikiswalungo iron furnace.........
443 Cuba copper mines........

114
Chili coal fields...

564
entrepot at the port of........

651
China, steam mail-packet route to

467
Chinaware manufactory, Ainerican.

114

D.
Chronology of cotton yarn.......
162 DAY:BOOK, importance of...

... 660

46

$6

46

44

86

Debt, United States, payments of interest of.... 426 French issue of assignats from 1790 to 1796..... 634
Debtor, honest........

455 and American shipmasters, rights of.... 494
Debts and finances of the states of the Union... 224 Freight, rates of, on railroads between Albany
verbal prom's to pay another's, void in law 406

and Buffalo........

101
Delaware and Hudson Canal..................

546
on the lakes........

664
Destiny.......
391 Flour trade of Rochester .......

306
Discovery of a new island.................... 319 adulteration of...

233
Drasts, action to recover amount of..
195 Frith of Forth, gunnet rock of .......

445
Dry goods clerk.........
119 Florida, vessels wrecked on the coast of

552
Duty on windows in England...
666 Fjordgrunde, banks on the........

666
Dyeing, recipe for...
116 Fisheries, Newfoundland.....

532
Falkland Islands.........

319
E.
File cutting by machinery..

228
ENIGRANT ships, regulations of .......

.... 648
England, condition of Bank of............ 409, 636

G.
meeting of proprietors of bank of ..... 559

420
cost of collecting revenue of.......... 559 Gaspe, trade of ....

219
commercial embarrassment of ........

German customs union, tare of
76
beet-root sugar.......

328
com'cation between the continent and 435
stock dividends of bank of ........... 425

Government of the United States, seat of 367, 142
history of a £30,000 note of the bank of 201

270, 19
stock of the bank of..

559
Great Britain, iron manufacture of ............

201
Bank of ............

timber duties of ................ 649

195
sbort measure in.....

453

duty on glass in................ 650
sales of copper ores of .

660
revenue of ......... .... /... 330

311
stamp duties of .......

import of cotton into............

652
national circulation of ..

654
exports of calicoes, yarns, etc.... 160

343
English window duty........

foreign commerce of ....
665

Goodwin sand, beacon of..................... 206
Europe, cost of railways in........

456
list of failures in .............. 80, 191, 300 Guaranty, a law decision...................... 293
commercial cities of .. 43, 279, 376, 510, 601 Glasgow, cash price of pig iron at.............. 312

650
651 Glass, British duty on.....
Entrepot at port of Cuba.....

325
Endorsing, consequences of ..

manufacture of Bohemia................
455

.... 444, 329
Erie railroad, sales of New York stocks for.... 248 Gold, increase in the quantity of..

" Russian production of .......

661
lake, commerce of

492
mine discovered in Michigan...

107
Endorsed notes....
294

557

" and silver, a standard of value..
Exports of the United States from 1791 to 1847 206

Greensville and Roanoke Railroad..

434
Exchange, London....

341
Gunnet rock.......

445
F.
Good Hope, trade of Cape of....

645

665
FAILURES in Europe...

80, 191, 300 Guadaloupe, port of Moule at....
Finances of Tennessee..

205 Grain measured at Philad'a from 1838 to 1847.. 213
and debt of Mississippi...

427
of Ohio in 1847........

203

HASKELL's mercantile library address......... 618
of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1847.... 204 Harbor-masters of New Orleans..

551
of New Jersey in 1848..

202

Huron lake, commerce of .................... 491
France, consular system of.......

93
Honest insolvent.........

455
condition of bank of

555, 329

Haytien republic, regulations of shipping at.... 424
commerce of, in 1846..

497
Hamburgh, a fraudulent banker of.....

233
suspension of bank of ................

557

imports and stocks of sugar......... 312
special commerce of .......

497

Hudson river, flour and wheat arriving at...... 223
commerce by sea and land of .......... 498

closing of ........

222
commerce of, with foreign countries.... 499 Hog trade of Ohio........

86
imports and exports of ................

500

Hides imported and exported at New York..... 211
transit trade of.....,

501
Havre, description of .................

43
cod and whale fishery of .............. 503 harbor of .............................

45
customs of ..........

503
whale fishery of ....................

47
navigation of .......

503

steamboat and ship-building of..... 48
exports of wines of .

........ 644
insurance at.........

48
prices of government stocks of ... ..... 638 Hawaiian ports, commercial regulations of .... 316
financial effect of revolution of ...... 652 Havana, shops and shopmen of.

451
revenues in 1848 of ..........

653
French illumination of new light-houses..... 446

I.
capitalist and his dollars.....
559 I DRIA, quicksilver mines of.

108
funds, fluctuations in the....
558) India, production of cotton in....

666

6

H.

66

46

66

........ 511

66

M.

66

.... 516

6

66

66

66

India, export of metals to............. 324 Lyons, manufactures of .........
Illinois, minerals and mines in.................

225 commercial statistics of ...

......... 515
Ireland, elaborate paper on...................
579 bank, insurance of ........

515
historical notices of ..................

580
geographical description of

587
Iron, export from G. Britain 10 U. States of ... 641
“ works of South Carolina.......

228

Macassar, regulations for trade and harbor of. 87
46 furnace at Chikiswalungo................

443

Manufactures, journal of 108, 225, 320, 438, 560, 656
" pig, price of, at Glasgow.................

in South Carolina.....
312

227
“ manufacture in Alabama.................. 656
Marseilles, description of ........

279
“ trade of Philadelphia with the interior..... 311

tonnage and navigation of ..

281
“ manufacture of Great Britain......... 659, 559

imports and exports of.....

283
46
improvement in the manufacture of ... 323, 443

trade of United States with....... 283
“ new process for making of ............... 558

coasting and transit trade of ...... 283
Invention for file cutting....

manufactures and fisheries of ....... 284

228
Insurance companies of Boston.......

commercial institutions of
326

284
against perils of the sea..............

Massachusetts railroads, description of ......... 381

186
Italy, new customs union of ...

317

in 1840....

662
Imports of the U. 8. from 1790 to 1847..... 206, 304

condition of the banks of ........ 107
Iodine, method of extracting.

320

increase of railroad capital in.... 438
Insolvent, honest...........

....... 455 Matanzas, exports of sugar, coffee, etc......... 313
Ithaca, lights at entrance of harbor of......... 447

tonnage and shipping of ...

313
Maury's wind and current chart....
J.
Medicine, adulteration of .....

442

Mercantile law cases..... 66, 186, 293, 403, 520, 629
JAMAICA, tariff of....
90

566
Jackson, memoir of Patrick Tracy.......

" question....
........ 355

library association of Baltimore..... 230

of Boston........ 231
K.

of New York.... 232
KELLOGG's, Edw., work on labor and capital 65, 625

of Philadelphia... 229
Key West, completion of the light at.......... 447

of Charleston.... 337
Kentucky tobacco, price of, in London........ 310

of Cincinnati..... 338

associations, usefulness of ... 619
L.

liberality.....

........ 670
LAKES, length and breadth of .............. 489

miscellanies.. 116, 129, 335, 448, 565, 666
and western waters, commerce of ..... 488

biography...
Lake superior copper mines...

228

men, maxims for........
Lead, chromates of .............
... 320 Merchant, the accomplished..

453
value of, produced.....

232

passages in the life of a ...
region of the upper Mississippi...

285 Merchants, maxims for..........
“ shipments of......

292 Mexico, position and resources of ........
Light-house at Cape Agulhas....

446

her relations to the United States...... 132
Lights at Trevose head...

319

British trade with........
for steamers........

318

modification of tariff of .............. 219
at Spotsbjerg...

206

imports and exports of France into..... 504
Liverpool, commerce of

456 Miami, (Little) railroad freight rates of ........ 94
method of approaches to port of ...... 104 Michigan central railroad..

94
imp'ts and prices of Amer. produce at 314

commerce of...

492
London, proceeds of American produce in...... 646 discovery of a gold mine in.......... 107
prices of Virginia and Kentucky tob. at 310 Canada notes prohibited in..