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MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, A. M.,

MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; CORRESPONDING 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, LOUISVILLE,
CHARLESTON, AND CINCINNATI, ETC.

VOLUME THIRTY-SEVEN.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1857.

New York:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.

1857.

CONTRIBUTORS

то

THE THIRTY-SEVENTH

VOLUME OF THR

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

ABBOTT BROTHERS, Counselors-at-Law, New York.

L. H. F. D'AGUIAR, Consul-General of Brazil.

JENYNS BATTERSBY, Esq., of New York.

A. N. BELL, M. D., of New York, late of the United States Navy.

JOSEPH E. BLOOMFIELD, Esq., of New York.

CHARLES II. CARROLL, Merchant, of Massachusetts.

J. F. ENTZ, Esq., of New York.

CHARLES W. FREDERICKSON, Broker, of New York.

J. B. Gribble, Merchant, of Louisiana.

A. OAKEY HALL, Esq., District Attorney of New York.

DANIEL R. HUNDLEY, Esq., of Illinois.

A. B. JOHNSON, Esq., President of the Branch Bank of Ontario.

Rev. JAMES MARTINEAU, of Liverpool, England.

J. W. SCOTT, Esq., of New York.

EZRA C. SEAMAN, Esq., Author of "The Progress of Nations in Civilization, Production, Industry, Wealth, and Population," of Michigan.

RICHARD SULLEY, Esq., of New York.

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, Esq., Merchant.

AMASA WALKER, Esq., late Secretary of State of Massachusetts.

JOHN A. WOOD, Esq., of Minnesota.

FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor.

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FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1857.

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Action to recover money lost in gambling-
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on the battery, Charleston, S. C....... 492
on Morris Island, S. C., range.

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on Sullivan's Isl'd, S. C., the front range 493
Beacons and light-houses on Florida Reefs.. 617
219 Bills of exchange in California, stamp tax on. 344
224, 391 Biography, mercantile..
33, 132, 777, 783
362 Bondholders in Maine, railroad..
Book trade, the....... 137, 265, 395, 521, 651, 787
Bondholders, etc., in New Jersey.
Boots and shoes on an improved plan
Boston, boot and shoe trade of...

564

367

Agriculture, statistics of, 117, 238, 364, 506, 635, 768
Alabama, when coton blooms in....
American cloths and cassimeres...
ingenuity, British appreciation of......

"manufactures wronged.

Amoy, China, commerce in 1856 of

Anvil, song of the

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Assay-office, New York, deposits at...71, 199,

Assignments in Wisconsin, voluntary.

630

765

66

764

611
501

in 1856, loss and insurance by fire in
"insurance companies......

66 manufacture of wine from grapes...
"small trades of...

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valuation of property in.....
Brazil, finances of empire of....

" in 1855-6, commerce of......

Post-office at Rio Janeiro..

422 Bread, pure-a model baker

128
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505

486

235

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767

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469

725

481

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92, 228, 355

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currency, and finance, journal of.... 81,
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railway traffic..

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498

Brokers, vocabulary of..

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Brooklyn, valuation of property in..

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Buffalo, canal statistics of..

41, 697

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"in Boston, dividends in 1857 of

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"Business, mind your".

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597 Business, self-reliance necessary to suc casio 515

"in Canada in 1857

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"in New York city and the money crisis. 593
in New York State, condition of... 161, 331

66 the State debt of

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law of 1857 on..... 318
opinions of judges

Canada, banks in.

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on suspensions of.. 601
article on condition

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customs regulations for railroads of.... 90
currency in 1858 of....
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of the savings...... 210

"immigration into United States through 514

"in Philadelphia, capital and dividends.. 83
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progress of railways in...

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" in Rhode Island.

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trade and commerce of...

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" in Russia, establishment of commercial. 603
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"in Tennessee, circulation of notes of less

with the West, trade of..
Candles, lard and tallow..

223

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than $5, of.

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"in United States....

"Mrs. Partington on the

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Barometers, marine..

219 Carpets, American velvet and tapestry

722 Carriers, liabilities of shipowners as common 449
161 Cent, variations in weight of new...
649 Charleston, S. C., lighthouse.....

211

353, 492, 752

448

28 Charter party-to freight ship with full cargo
354 from Boston to Calcutta and back

249

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