Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AXD

COMMERCIAL REVIEW. .

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, A. M.,

XEMDER OF THE NEW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ; CORRESPONDIRO MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN
AND LONDON STATISTICAL SOCIETIES; MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ;
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW
YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, LOGISVILLE,

CHARLESTON, AND CINCINNATI, ETC.

VOLUME THIRTY-SIX.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1857.

New York:
PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.

1857.

ABBOTT Brothers, Counselors-at-Law, New York.
HENRY B. Auchiscloss, Esq., of New York.
David M. Balfour, Esq., of Massachusetts.
A. N. BELL, M. D., of New York, late of the United States Navy.
Join P. Brown, Esq., of the United States Legation at Constantinople.
HENRY C. Carey, Esq., Author of "The Principles of Political Econ-
omy,"

“ The Past, Present, and Future," “ The Harmony of Interests,
Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial,” of Pennsylvania.
E. FI. DERBY, Esq., Counselor-at-Law, of Massachusetts.
IIENRY 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.
ADOLPHUS MEIER & Co., Merchants, of Missouri.
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.

A MASA 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 XXXV I.,

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1857.

137

263

PAGE

PAOR Abandonment-insurance

453 Banks in Boston, capital & divid'ds in '56-7.. 722 Abboti's horometer....

483
in Missouri, condition of.

209 Absecim, New Jersey, lighthouse at.... 98, 367 in New Jersey, statement of April. '57 582 Action, the watch word of success...

391

in New Orleans.... 208, 330, 459, 582, 714 to recover for injury done to goods in

in New York city, werkly average of, private warehouse....

325

73, 207, 330, 458, 581, 712 Advertising bores ...

in New York (State) condition of..... 723 Affreightment, parol contract of.

706

the savings.....

721 Africa, commerce and productions of.. 514 in Pennsylvania, condition of ........

209 African slave trade...

in Portland, Me

208 Agents-action to recover value of cotton

in United States

217, 338, 342 sold to a manufacturer

3:24
in Wisconsin, condition of

330 Agricultural future of United States.

116 Mr. Gilbart and the joint stock..... 682 products & labor in olden times 755 origin of savings.

82 Agriculture of United States

371 Bank stock, fluctuations in Boston, for '56... 343 statistics of... 113, 371, 492, 635, 752

transfer of

454 Alabama, financial condition of.. 223 Bargain, a curious....

518 Valley, first American trader to... 519

a Quaker

618 Albany, barley trade of. 230 Barley trade of Albany

230 real and personal property in. 992 Biography, merc., 147,313, 428, 517,641, 646, 769 Algiers, cultivation of cotton in..

113 Birds, trade in, and commercial value of... 375 America, Central, population of...

500 Book trade, the...... 139, 265, 393, 521, 649, 777 the wine grape in...

635 Bottomry-hypothecation of ship, etc.... 452 American commerce, present and future of. 516 | Boston banks..... 74, 208, 330, 459, 582, 714, 722 enterprise abroad...

for five years, dividends of..... 596 Americans and American trade at Constanti

bank stock, fluctuations in '56 of..... 343 nople. By John P. Town..

282

fire insurance in... Apprentices, a good lesson for ..

518

insurance companies, dividends of... 227 Arkansas, finances and debt of.

541

in '56... 316 Assay uflice, New Yo.k, deposits at,

market, railroad and city bonds sold
71, 206, 328, 457, 580, 711
in 1856-7 in ....

342 Assignments-debtor and creditor...

sales of stock of manufacturing cumin Kentucky, of fraudulent... 349

panies in 1856-7 in...

384 Australia, railways in

253

merc. lib'y asso'n, donation for..... 608

with Mediterranean & India, com, of 731 B. Brazil, light on the east coast of...

96 Baltimore, Peabody Institute in........ 434, 668 Bread, the basis of commercial enterprise... 390 banks, condition of the..

467

and meat in cities, prices of .. 494 Bank, dividend day at the ...

131
Breadstuils, United States exports to Great

Britain and Ireland....
capital and circulation in State of New
York, increase of

725

& provisions, U.S.exp'ls of, 79, 89 of England.

559, 62

into G. B. in 1836, imports or... 733 of France

561
British patents

129 of Ireland, property of.

W2
pawnbroker's catechism..

135 of Paris, the international

682
portal system, work of the..

622 Banking, currency, and finance, journal of,

railways, tariff of laxes on

377

743
royal lifeboat institution....
81, 217, 337, 455, 589, 721
and bankers in Englaud..

680
wreck register for 1835.

743

238 in New York, the three eras of.::: 592 Brooklyn, Berdep’s bakery in.. law and banks of Illinois, new .... 469 Burlingion, lowa, descript'n & statistics of.. 687

520 Bank-note redemption, act of N, Y. State on. 727 Business firms, titles of Bank-uotes, the use of...

424 doing double duty, hall,

729

C.
Bankrupt merchant, anecdote of a.. 773 Calcutta, directions for approaching the Sand
Bankruptcy and barbarism in London.... 519 Heads in both monsoons..

365 Banks and banking in New York Slute..... 465 Calcutta, port rules of......

738 and banking law of Missouri......... 725 California, bonded and war debt of.

210 connected with Montreal.....

41
Chinese population of...

640 divideuds for five years of Boston....

500

fisheries. By C J. W. Russell.... 573 in Arkansas

541
gold mining in

631 in Baltimore, condition of the.

467

gold received at New York. 340 in Boston, weekly averages of, California, the debt of

469 74, 208, 330, 459, 582, 714 Canada, commercial progress of..