MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, A. M., MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, LOUISVILLE, VOLUME THIRTY-SIX. FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1857. New York: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET. 1857. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE THIRTY-SIXTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. ABBOTT BROTHERS, Counselors-at-Law, New York. DAVID M. BALFOUR, Esq., of Massachusetts. A. N. BELL, M. D., of New York, late of the United States Navy. E. H. DERBY, Esq., Counselor-at-Law, of Massachusetts. HENRY M. FLINT, Esq., of Illinois. CHARLES W. FREDERICKSON, Broker, of New York. DANIEL R. HUNDLEY, Esq., of Illinois. A. B. JOHNSON, Esq., President of the Branch Bank of Ontario. CALEB LAMSON, Esq., Counselor-at-Law, of Massachusetts. JAMES MCHENRY & Co., American Commission Merchants, of Liverpool. E. MERIAM, Esq., of New York. PLINY MILES, Esq., of New York. E. P. PEABODY, of Massachusetts. C. J. W. RUSSELL, Esq., of California. J. W. SCOTT, Esq., of New York. L. W. TENELLI. Esq., of New York. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, Esq., Merchant. AMASA WALKER, Esq., late Secretary of State of Massachusetts. George M. WESTON, Esq., of Maine. DAVID WILDER, Jr., Esq., of Massachusetts. FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor. INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVI., FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1857. Algiers, cultivation of cotton in... America, Central, population of................. 66 the wine grape in.. 66 enterprise abroad.. 263 922 Biography, merc., 147, 313, 428, 517, 641, 646, 769 452 American commerce, present and future of. 516 Boston banks..... 74, 208, 330, 459, 582, 714, 722 Americans and American trade at Constanti for five years, dividends of..... 596 Bank stock, fluctuations in Boston, for '56... 343 454 518 648 230 375 66 66 66 in '56.... 346 Assay office, New Yo.k, deposits at, 66 market, railroad and city bonds sold 71, 206, 328, 457, 580, 711 in 1856-7 in 342 Assignments-debtor and creditor... 68 sales of stock of manufacturing com in Kentucky, of fraudulent... 349 253 Australia, railways in panies in 1856-7 in....... 384 66 merc. lib'y asso'n, donation for... 663 B. with Mediterranean & India, com, of 731 Brazil, light on the east coast of....... 96 66 Baltimore, Peabody Institute in..... banks, condition of the.... Bank, dividend day at the 66 capital and circulation in State of New 434, 668 66 467 131 Bread, the basis of commercial enterprise... 390 York, increase of 66 of England. 66 of France 66 of Ireland, property of 66 of Paris, the international 725 66 559, 682 92 & provisions, U. S. exp'ts of, 79, 89 into G. B. in 1836, imports of... 733 561 British patents 129 66 992 pawnbroker's catechism.. 135 682 postal system, work of the.. 622 66 railways, tariff of taxes on 377 royal lifeboat institution... 743 66 680 wreck register for 1855. 743 258 66 Banking, currency, and finance, journal of, 81, 217, 337, 455, 589, 721 66 and bankers in England.. 66 in New York, the three eras of.... 592 law and banks of Illinois, new.... 469 Bank-note redemption, act of N. Y. State on. 727 Bank-notes, the use of... 424 66 doing double duty, half.. Bankrupt merchant, anecdote of a......... 773 Bankruptcy and barbarism in London...... 519 Banks and banking in New York State...... 465 66 and banking law of Missouri... connected with Montreal..... dividends for five years of Boston.. in Arkansas Brooklyn, Berden's bakery in.. Burlington, Iowa, descript'n & statistics of.. 687 titles of C. Calcutta, directions for approaching the Sand 520 365 Calcutta, port rules of... 738 725 66 41 66 66 596 California, bonded and war debt of......... 210 ... 66 541 66 gold mining in 631 in Baltimore, condition of the........ 46 in Boston, weekly averages of, gold received at New York. 340 California, the debt of 469 74, 208, 330, 459, 582, 714 85 in Europe, first establishment of Canada, commercial progress of. 479 66 imports at the several ports and du- 361 66 dividends of ....... 81 justice to-the" almighty dollar"... 645 ........ 344 66 post-office department of.. 757 |