THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT,

EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN
AND LONDON STATISTICAL SOCIETIES; MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL

SOCIETY; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIA-

TIONS OF NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, AND LOUISVILLE, ETC.

VOLUME NINETEEN.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, 1848.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.
1848.

CONTRIBUTORS

TO THE

NINETEENTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE.

A. D. BACHE, Superintendent of U. S. Coast Survey.

DAVID M. BALFOUR, Merchant, of Massachusetts.

G. F. SECCHI DE CASALI, Esq., late of Italy, now of New York.
FRANCIS B. CLARK, Esq., Merchant, of Georgia.

Hon. H. A. S. DEARBORN, Mayor of Roxbury, Mass.

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

R. B. FORBES, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts.

JAMES WILLIAM GILBART, F. R. S., of London, England.
CHARLES H. Glover, Esq., of the New York Bar.
DAVID R. JACQUES, Esq., of the New York Bar.
JOSEPH JOHNSON, M. D., of South Carolina.

THOMAS PRENtice Kettell, Esq., of New York.

JAMES H. LANMAN, Author of the History of Michigan.

JAMES A. LAWSON, Esq., of Dublin, Ireland.

C. F. M'CAY, Esq., Professor in the University of Georgia.
E. MERIAM, Esq., of New York.

ALANSON NASH, Esq., of the New York Bar.

Hon. BENJAMIN F. PORTER, of Georgia.

GEORGE W. SAVAGE, President of the Eagle Life and Health Insurance Company.

J. W. SCOTT, Esq., of the Ohio Bar.

HENRY GRATTAN SMITH, Esq., of the Memphis (Tenn.) Bar.

Hon. GEORGE TUCKER, Author of "The Progress of the United States

in Wealth and Population."

GEORGE A. WARD, A. M., Merchant, of New York.

A. WHITNEY, Esq., of New York.

Hon. J. R. WILLIAMS, of Michigan.

FREEMAN HUNT, the Editor and Proprietor.

1 To find the exports, imports, trade, &c., of different places in the Index, see the name of the country, State, city, or ports; and for particulars relating to the commerce, &c., &c., of the United Kingdom, see Great Britain,” “ England,” “ British,” “ English," &c.

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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.

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INDEX TO VOL. XIX.,

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1848.

415

46

condition of............... 406
discounts of....... 407
notes invented by the Chinese......... 319
charters of Pennsylvania......

....

dividends, etc., in New York.......... 542
of Rhode Island in 1845, 1846, 1848..... 107
109
Vermont in 1847..
the State of N. Y., cond'n of, in 1847-8 108
Baltimore, dividends of, in 1847-8..... 108
New York, laws relating to.......... 220
Charleston, condition of.............. 224
Ohio, condition of.......
224
Maine, condition of....................................
316
condition of South-western........... 410
condition of, Western in 1847-8...... 409
condition of New York.....

"to provide for incorporation, etc., of telegraph
companies.........
Action to recover excess of duties............. 533
Admiralty, case in............................................ ... ....
80
Agriculture, exp'ts from U. S. of prod'ts of, 1847 88
influence of, on commerce......... 468]
of the United States.............. 477
products of, in 1847............478, 494
Agricultural productions of U. S. in 1847...... 121
Algesiras, regulations of the port of............ 213 Bankruptcy in Massachusetts....
Amber trade, influence of the................. 346 Barley, product of, in United States......
America, N. and S., geographical division of... 625 Belgian commercial regulations....
625 Belfast, condition of bank of...............

and finance of Ohio..........

536

circulation of New York, from 1837-48 194
New York State, list of the........... 310
and banking in Ireland.....

313

441

232

482

331

American Continental money................. 445 Bills of exchange, law of.......

453 Biography, mercantile.........................、、

manufactory, first................... 659 Black River (Mich.) imp'ts and exp'ts of, in 1847 27
bonnets in England.......
456 Blacking, origin of Day & Martin's............ 662
ocean steam navigation ........ 567 Blackstone coal mines.....
Amiens, France, description of................ 617 Boat, invention of life........

commerce of................. 617 Book trade........... 122, 235, 347, 457, 571, 679
manufactures, etc., of......... 617 Book publishing house, a model..
Amsterdam, rate of bills on.........
189 Bones, commercial value of.....

456

570

456

price of bills on.................. 302 Bonnets, American, in England..................
131 Boston, annual rep't of Merc. Library Ass'ion of 118
dividends of banks of.....

Attachment, law of, in Tennessee................................ 387 crimps, improvement in.................. 453

Averages, marine, Spanish law of..

..... 110 Boots, revolving heels to........ ............................................. 453

59 Brazil, regulations at Rio Grande du Sul....... 212