THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

O 1.14

EDITED BY

1. SMITI IOXANB, SECRETARY OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMEBOK OF NEW-YORK,

AND WILLIAM B. DANA.

VOLUME FORTY-FIFTH,
FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1861.

New-York :

WILLIAM B. DANA, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR,

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND UNDERWRITERS' BUILDING,

Nos. 61 AND 63 WILLIAM STREET.

1861.

Professor A. D. Bache, Superintendent U. S. Coast Survey.
A. N. Bell, M. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.
JOSEPH E. BLOOMFIELD, of Oswego, N. Y.
Perry McDonough Collins, late U. S. Commercial Agent at the Amoor.
WILLIAM B. Dana, of New-York.
E. HASKET DERBY, of Boston.
I. Smith HOMANS, of New-York.
I. Smith Homans, Jr., Actuary of the Guardian Life Insurance Co., N. Y.
SHEPPARD HOMANS, Actuary of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., N. Y.
SAMUEL HOTALING, of New-York.
Professor LEONE LEVI, of London, England.
Thomas P. KETTELL, of New-York.
E. MERRIAM, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
T. & H. MESSENGER, Merchants, of New-York.
H. E. MÖRING, Coffee and Sugar Broker, New-York.
Robert Murray, Engineer and Surveyor to the Board of Trade, Lon-

don, England.
J. A. SCHMIDT, Merchant, of New-York.
J. W. Scott, of Toledo, Ohio.
CHARLES Tomlinson, of London, England.
Isaac H. Upton, Secretary Shipmasters' Association, N. Y.
Wood & Nichols, Brokers, New-York.
C. F. WREAKS, Secretary Neptune Marine Insurance Co., N. Y.
J. V. YATMAN, of New-York.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

TO SUBJECTS CONTAINED IN THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW,

VOLUME XLV.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, 1861, BOTH INCLUSIVE.

EDITED BY I. SMITH HOMANS, (SECRETARY OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE STATE OT

New-YORK,) AND WILLIAM B. Dana.

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PAGE Amsterdam, money market of,..646, 648 Act of Congress amend’g patent law, 489

cotton imports of,. 12 confiscating properAn incident of the sea,..

620 ty used for insurrectionary purpo

Annual report on breadstuffs,. 484 ses,...

525

on boots and shoes,.. 41 Act of Congress requiring oath of

on drugs,.... 261 allegiance,

423
on dry goods,

69 Act of Congress to increase the num

on hides...

42 ber of consuls,......

256
on salt,

258 Acts of the Thirty-Seventh Congress, 230 Annual statement of business of N. Adams, Charles F., address to the Y. Clearing-House,. .

157 Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, 101 Annual statement of marine insurance Adulteration of silk fabrics,..

636
companies of N. Y.,.....

29 of tea,...

637 A promise to pay the debt of another, Africa, commerce with,. 369 (law case,)..

582 on the cultivation of cotton in, 101 Arbitration, a new plan of, for Newtrade of, 1860,.. 648 York Chamber of Commerce, ....

631 trade with the west coast of, 462 Arkansas, statistics of manufactures, 144 Agricultural products of Iowa,.... 282 Arrival of vessels at N. Y., year 1860, 156 Agriculture, journal of, . . . 102, 280, 487 Art, French school of,..

318 Alabama, cotton crop of,..... 497 Asia, commercial progress in eastern, 353

cotton manufactures of,.. 15 cotton of, its peculiarities,. 337 harbors of............22, 173 Assay office, operations of the N. Y., 273 statistics of manufactures, 144 Atlantic, southern harbors of the,.. 17 vessels built in 1860,.... 181 Australia, railways in,..

291 weight of cotton bale of,.

coast survey of,.

520 Albemarle Sound described,.... 17 Austria, patent law of,.

494 Allegiance to the U. S., form of oath, 423 Aluminum in Greenland,.

315

B America and France,..

406 Bale of cotton, various weights of,.. 9 American Shipmasters' Association,. 517 Baltimore, exports, imports, trade of, 131 war & German commerce, 405

coffee trade of,. .229, 414 war and Great Britain,.. 96 Bangor, lumber market of,.

845 Amoor River, country of the,.. 299 Banka Strait,....

404 Russian settlement of the, 353 Banking, progress of in N. Y. State, 80 Amoor River, society of,...... 368 Bank of England, rate of discount, right of foreigners to

1851-1860,.. 648 settle Dear,.

359

statistics of, 324

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