MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN AND LONDON MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW YORK, BOSTON, VOLUME TWENTY-ONE. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, 1849. New York: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET. 1849. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE TWENTY-FIRST VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. JOHN P. BROWN, Esq., of the American Legation, Constantinople, Turkey. JEAN BENNER, Esq., late of France, now of New York. FRANCIS BRINLEY, Esq., of the Boston (Mass.) Bar. WILLIAM BRIGHAM, Esq., of Massachusetts. Rev. JOHN L. BLAKE, D. D., of New Jersey. WILLIAM DARBY, Esq., author of a "Universal Gazetteer," Washington, D. C. FRANCIS Q. DORR, Esq., of the New York Bar. JAMES FERGUSON, Esq., of the National Observatory, Washington, D. C. WILLIAM GREGG, Esq., of South Carolina. R. G. HAZARD, Esq., of Rhode Island. DAVID R. JAQUES, Esq., of the New York Bar. GEN. C. T. JAMES, Civil Engineer, of Rhode Island. THOMAS P. KETTELL, Esq., of New York. HON. D. O. KELLOGG, Merchant, of New York. JOSHUA LEAVITT, Esq., Corresponding Sec. of the Boston Cheap Postage Association. A. A. LAWRENCE, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts. DANIEL LORD, Esq., of New York. PRO. C. F. M'CAY, of the University of Georgia. E. MERIAM, Esq., of New York. A. NASH, Esq., of the New York Bar. HON. BENJAMIN F. PORTER, of Alabama. S. G. SECCHI DE CASSALI, late of Italy, now of New York. F. G. SKINNER, Esq., of Washington, D. C. J. B. VARNUM, Esq., Member of the Assembly of New York. CHARLES C. WHITTLESEY, Esq., of the St. Louis (Missouri) Bar, and shipping and revenue of.... 294 liability of... 529 66 public debt, exports and imports of. 295 Commission merchants, liability of... 315 66 imports from....... Canadas, bills of exchange, etc., in. Canadian canals, tolls on.... 669 Compound interest, aggregate value with.... 249 134 474 129 574 466 134, 244 66 66 wages of labor, etc., of.. 66 condition of the banks of........ 348 Carquinez Straits, sailing directions from .... 459 Cotton Manufacturing Co., the Vancluse..... 572 |