MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

ESTABLISHED BY FREEMAN HUNT IN 1839.

VOLUME THIRTY-NINE.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1858.

New York: GEO. W. & JNO. A. WOOD, 142 FULTON-STREET.

1858.

G. A. Ward, Esq., of New York.
W. W. Bates, Naval Architect, of New York.
A. N. BELL, M. D., of Brooklyn, late of U. S. Navy.
James G. Swan, Esq., of Boston, Massachusetts.
GEORGE S. WILKES, Esq., Brantford, Canada.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1858.

law case.

66

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.. 734

66

397

66

248

PAGK
Admeasurement of Shipping, No. 3. By W.

PAGE Branch Mint, (San Francisco,) operations of

for the last fiscal year..
W. Bates, Esq......

599
Admiralty decistons-damage to cargo, &c..
49 Brandy, origin of..

524
71 Brazil sugar...

358
573
Africa, cotton cultivation in...

commerce of

357
130
commercial aspect of Central

coffee crop of, for the year 1857-58
Agriculture, statistics of,

771 Breadstuffs, export of, from the U. States ... 731
Bremen, commerce of.

3.57
1:29, 255, 385, 512, 636, 760
and the government...

insurance in..

374
326
British mails

370
in Illinois

641
in France.

East India Company, end of the 391

51.5
Agricultural products, value of..

post office-mails for Liberia.... 117

2.50
Allon, Illinois, city debt of ...

fsberie...

397
7:23
Amelia Island, Fli, range lights on...

commerce for four years

907
613
Ainerican extravagance

railways

244
Amoor River, explorations of.

East India Company..

649
176
Apalachicola, Florida....

income tax..

477
478

16
Application for injunction, (law case)

and foreign shipping and exports..

731
45.5
Arkansas, population of .

woolen trade, statistics of the

753
645
Atlantic telegraph cable, extension of

coal tra le, statistics of the

757
Austria, wine crop of..

502 Brooklyn, fires in the city of. for six months. 239
386
Briissels lace, manufacture of

140
resumption of payments by national
bank of.....

Buoy on E. coast of Scotl'd, alter'n of color of 236

725
Average accruing to ship Sea Horse for as-
sistance in getting of strand

C.
580
B.
Calcutta, exports to

103
California, trade and commerce of

353
Bale rope, duty on, (treasury circular)...... 228

Camden & Amboy Railroad and Delaware &
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, receipts of.... 750 Canada, new usury law of,

Raritan Canal...
Bangor lumber market..

476
227
Bank law of Virginia....

tariff of..

488
99
66 of Frauce, condition of..

wheat trade...

102
of England, condition of

canals, statistics of the

751
failures, losses by, in Great Britain.... 721

712 Canal & river insurance in N. York, rates of. 240
Banks of Kentucky..

trade of Virginia, the

753
213 Canal-boats, lien on.
of the State of New York, resources

331
and liabilities of...
Canals in the United States...

119
475
of Charleston, S.C..

vs. railroads-freights..

123
....... 99
of Dlinois..
Canary Islands, population of .

518
96
throughout the U. States, condition of 312 Cantick Head, Orkneys, revolving light on... 367

seed, duty on..

110
of Switzerland in 1857
of Newark, New Jersey, condition of. 722 Cape Busto, coast of Spain, fixed light at.... 114

726 Cape Burda, Anstralia, revolving light on... 496
Banking, currency, and finance, journal of, Cape Cullera, coast of Spain, fixed lischt on.. 742
88, 212, 341, 466, 590, 716 Cape May, New Jersey, light-vessel off...

367
and credit systems, the. By Chas.
H. Carroll.....
Cape Salou, coast of Spain, fixed light at..

365
65

305, 443 Carysfort Reef, Dry Bank & Sand Key lights 111
and currency. By Geo.s. Wilkes. 191 Casks of American manufacture..
Barnegat, N. J., new lighthouse at...

610
613 Cast-steel in coils, duty on ...,
Bass Strait, Australia, lights at.....

231
113 Causes of the recent commercial distre«g...
Bengal, trade of, for 1857–58....

553
Billingsgate Island, Cape Cod, fixed light on. 495 Cavoli Islet, Mediterranean, rev'lving light on 497
734 | Caustic soda, duty on, I treasury circular)...

106
Bishop and Clerk's shoal, new ligbthouse at. 366 Census of the State of New York....
Blank copying books, duty on

132
Bolivar Point, Texas, lighthouse at .
105 Champagne, American

513
366 Chances of life, the .......
Book trade, the...... 141, 270, 398, 526, 654, 771 Charleston, S. C., banks of...
Books imp'rted by Am. Tract Society, duty on 612
Boston bank returns, weekly,

commerce of.
91, 215, 346, 467, 593, 717
Chicago, commercial industry of

420
bank dividends, 1857-58....

shipments of grain from, for 20 years 422

596
property valuation of...

spring wheat inspection

516
478 Chiccory cultivation...
flour and grain trade of.

181
66
commercial industry of.

358 Chile, progress of railroads in

41
and vicinity, dry goods trade of

population of....

102 Chilian post office
merchant, obituary of a

615 China, exports of..
Bottomry bond-laches-right of sheriff to

manufacture of silk in.
intervene, (law case)

73

66
66

66

16

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