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 BISTORICAL SOCIETY;

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW

YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, LOUISVILLE,
CHARLESTON, AND CINCINNATI, ETC.

VOLUME THIRTY-SIX.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1857.

New York:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.

1857.

DR-LXXXT- то THE THIRTY-SIXTH VOLUME OF THE

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

HENRY B. AUCHINCLOSS, Esq., of New York.

DAVID M. BALFOUR, Esq., of Massachusetts.

A. N. BELL, M. D., of New York, late of the United States Navy.
JOHN P. BROWN, Esq., of the United States Legation at Constantinople.
HENRY C. CAREY, Esq., Author of "The Principles of Political Econ-
omy," "The Past, Present, and Future," "The Harmony of Interests,
Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial," of Pennsylvania.

E. H. DERBY, Esq., Counselor-at-Law, of Massachusetts.

HENRY M. FLINT, Esq., of Illinois.

CHARLES W. FREDERICKSON, Broker, of New York.

DANIEL R. HUNDLEY, Esq., of Illinois.

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

CALEB LAMSON, Esq., Counselor-at-Law, of Massachusetts.

JAMES MCHENRY & Co., American Commission Merchants, of Liverpool.
ADOLPHUS MEIER & Co., Merchants, of Missouri.

E. MERIAM, Esq., of New York.

PLINY MILES, Esq., of New York.

E. P. PEABODY, of Massachusetts.

C. J. W. RUSSELL, Esq., of California.

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

L. W. TENELLI, Esq., of New York.

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, Esq., Merchant.

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

GEORGE M. WESTON, Esq., of Maine.

DAVID WILDER, Jr., Esq., of Massachusetts.

FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor.

INDEX TO VOLUME XXXV I.,

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1857.

enterprise abroad....

263

American commerce, present and future of. 516 Boston banks..... 74, 208, 330, 459, 582, 714, 722

Americans and American trade at Constanti

in New York, the three eras of.... 592 law and banks of Illinois, new.... 469 Bank-note redemption, act of N. Y. State on. 727 Bank-notes, the use of...

....

424
729

Burlington, Iowa, descript'n & statistics of.. 687
Business firms, titles of

C.

66 doing double duty, half... Bankrupt merchant, anecdote of a......... 773 Calcutta, directions for approaching the Sand

520

Bankruptcy and barbarism in London....

519

Banks and banking in New York State.... 465

Heads in both monsoons..
Calcutta, port rules of..

365

738

and banking law of Missouri...

66

66

connected with Montreal.....
dividends for five years of Boston.... 596

41

66

in Arkansas

74, 208, 330, 459, 582, 714

in Europe, first establishment of
in Massachusetts, condition of........ 341

85

....

dividends of....... 81

66

the savings

344

........

justice to- the almighty dollar"... 645 post-office department of....... 757