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.

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."

INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVIII.,

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1858.

banks, weekly returns of..

Australian Colonies, sales of public lands in. 375
Australian monster nugget ..

Austria, population of the empire of.......

66 postage to via France....

B.

424

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..
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. 43!
commercial regulations at.

66

66

66

66

66

66

66

46

64

แ

.......

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.........
receipts of coal at, for seven years.
prices of whisky at, for 1857..

.......

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 ............

95

621

610

66

mail packet service...

629

471

66

434

66

436

521

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
..602, 729 Bullion, exports of, from California...................
330
Business, choice of a
258

260

769

483

Bank president, brief notice of a Phila..
"discount, rates of, in European cities..
"picture of an Illinois..

66

law of Massachusetts, new.........
❝of France, the..........

law, a new.

66 of England, directors of

...

Bank-note redemption of New York........ 733
Banks of Massachusetts.....

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....

131

of Phila., capital and dividends..

343

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

684
330

of the U. States. By David M. Balfour 341
of New Hampshire, condition of...... 473
66 or no banks. By Geo. Tucker, LL. D. 147
in the United States in 1837, '47, & '57. 88

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

66

509
Cambridge, (Mass.,) cattle market at, in 1857 252
Canada, trade and commerce of............ 736