THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN AND LONDON VOLUME TWENTY-TWO. FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, 1850. New York: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET. 1850. CONTRIBUTORS. TO THE TWENTY-SECOND VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE. GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts. DAVID M. BALFOUR, Merchant, of Massachusetts. GEORGE BACON, Esq., of New York. EDMUND DWIGHT, Esq., of New York. DAVID FOSDICK, A. M., of Massachusetts. JAMES FERGUSON, Esq., of the National Observatory, Washington, D. C. WILLIAM GREGG, Esq., of South Carolina. General C. T. JAMES, Civil Engineer of Rhode Island. JOHN B. JERVIS, Esq., Civil Engineer of New York. THOMAS P. KETTELL, Esq., of New York. A. A. LAWRENCE, Merchant, of Massachusetts. JOSHUA LEAVITT, Secretary of the Boston Cheap Postage Association. C. EDWARDS LESTER, Esq., late United States Consul at Genoa. Professor C. F. M'CAY, of the University of Georgia. Rev. SAMUEL MARTIN, of London, England. A. NASH, Esq., of the New York Bar. GIDEON NYE, Jr., Merchant, of China. Hon. BENJAMIN F. PORTER, of the Charleston (S. C.) Bar. J. S. ROPES, Merchant, of Massachusetts. FRANCIS G. SHAW, Merchant, of Massachusetts. RICHARD SULLEY, Esq., of New York. Hon. B. G. SHIELDS, late Charge d'Affaires at Caraccas, Venezuela. JUNIUS SMITH, Esq., of South Carolina, and FREEMAN HUNT, Editor, etc. 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. INE. INDEX TO VOL. XXII., FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1850. rti re Mutual Exchange and Banking- Bangor, Maine, lumber trade of.. "Agency, Ohio..... 26 of England, notes forged... 66 แ 102 Batavia, bankruptcy in... 103 514 66 66 Java, passage from New York to.... 240 225 Beachy Head, Royal Sovereign Shoal of..... 673 229 Beef Cattle, production of in Ohio, in 1848-49 84 bullion in the bank of..... 345 Bell, Garvin Mason, biography of........... 377 "dividends of South Carolina........... 573 Bills of Exchange, English law of....314, 637, 543 "Savings, of Charleston....... [law case].. "Bill, New Jersey, provisions of........ 422 "Mutual, of Baltimore........ "London and Westminister. "Disclosure of a Customer's Account... 639 Bankruptcy and Banking, (George Bacon) 643, 311, 398 66 66 198 "of Sight [law case]... 74 447 Board of Trade, the Baltimore.. 438 449 Book Trade....... ..121, 249, 363, 475, 587 697 691 |