MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. ESTABLISHED BY FREEMAN HUNT IN 1839. VOLUME FORTY. FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1859. New York: GEO. W. & JNO. A. WOOD, 142 FULTON-STREET. 1859. CONTRIBUTORS то THE FORTIETH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. HENRY C. BAIRD, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pa. GEORGE BAUGHMAN, Esq., of Virginia. Dr. A. N. BELL, of Brooklyn, New York. WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., of Cote des Neiges, Canada. CHARLES H. CARROLL, Esq., of Massachusetts. JOSEPH S. CRAWLEY, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pa. ELIAS HASKET DERBY, Esq., of Massachusetts. R. M. MASON, Esq., of Massachusetts. EZRA C. SEAMAN, Esq., of Michigan. Hon. F. O. J. SMITH, of Maine. RICHARD SULLEY, Esq., of Fort Wayne, Indiana. AMASA WALKER, Esq., of Massachusetts. GEORGE S. WARD, Esq., of Massachusetts. THOMAS P. KETTELL, Editor. INDEX TO VOLUME XL., FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1859. receipts of lumber at, for six years 229 Bangor lumber trade 219 66 66 66 Boston bank dividends for two years 66 bank of lowa, (State,) condition of......... 66 Genoa, history of. Banks of the U. States, condition of, in 1858 590 689 Boston, dividends of, for last two years 594 and banking of State of New York.. 470 Banking, currency, and finance, journal of, Bankruptcy in the currency. 83, 213, 332, 470, 589, 718 Bay State Mills, operation of ........................................... Beef packed at Chicago. Beet root, duty on, (treasury circular)....... 233 230 Belgian flax, culture and manufacture....... 638 Bills of exchange, treasury circular, in rel. to 609 Bishop Rock, (Scilly Islands,) lighthouse at. 111 Black Sea, navigation of.... Bolivia, commerce of.... Body's Island, coast of N. Carolina, lighth, on 741 Book trade, the.......141, 270, 398, 525, 654, 774 Boston bank returns, weekly, 66 229 597 Cape Grosso, (Island of Levanza, Sicily,) 110 134 626 Catawba wine, vintage of 1858... 607 130 260 64 the New York... 260 Causes that p'duced the crisis of '57 consider'd 19 348 Character better than credit. 649 109 Chicago, flour & grain received at, for 4 years 351 66 lumber trade 229 66 46 grain and flour in store at... 66 English treaty with ............... 557 228 66 594 Chronometer compass, the.. 745 647 insurance companies of..........113, 737 756 392 Bread, how its price is managed in Paris.... 266 Cincinnati insurance cos., tax paid by..... ... 613 .... 139 625 604 508 66 66 the anthracite.. 245 66 "of the United States....... 378 |