HUNT'S MERCHANTS’ MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. ESTABLISHED BY FREEMAN HUNT IN 1839. VOLUME FORTY. FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1859. New York: 1859. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE FORTIETH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS'MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Henry O. BAIRD, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pa. INDEX TO VOLUME XL., FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1859. 261 110 132 245 129 516 51 238 PAGE PAGE Bremen, wine treasures of..... 651 Acceptance of bills of exchange..... . 650 Brighton cattle market. ...... 260 Acquisition of Cuba...... 403 British postal system, the ......... 117 Adger, James, obituary of... property and income tax..... 597 Admiralty, decisions in.. 66 railways for 1858 ....... 373 Africa, the negroes of..... trade with China ........ 228 Agriculture, statistics of, Buenos Ayres, exports from, to United States 844 127, 257, 381, 510, 633, 759 46 reduction of postage to..... Agriculture of the Union .... 95 of Ohio ......... 634 receipts of produce at, for 1857. ... 600 of California .... 382 grain received at, in two years.... 599 Alabama, financey of ........ 220 722 Albany lumber trade...... 229 " Jake trade of ...................... 734 * (N. Y.,) assessed value of pi in 93 Business, habits of........ 652 Alexandria, Egypt, commerce of.... .. 727 Butler .................. 633 Alien vessels, notice to masters of..... All weather a blessing ........... American cast-steel........ . 377 gold, product of... California, progress of population in........ treaty with China... 102 382 Anthracite coal trade, the ............... wheat crops of..... 6 structure of.......... 126 population of ...... Assay-office in N. Y., operations of, since 1854 722 Canada, insurance law of...... 366 Augusta, coast of Sicily, alteration of light at 4 Austria, commerce of, with ref. to its currency 38 value and destination of exports of, 6 revenues of ........ for year ending December, 1858... 453 Austrian & Zollverein imp. to U, S. compared post offices of............... 498 16 railways......... 120 500 Australia, south coast, new lights on ....... lakes and canals of..... 122 population of...... 388 66 coin, new ............... 772 101 post office. 616 B. Canal commerce of Toledo ........ 250 * receipts and disbursements....... Baltimore, exports and imports of.. 601 Canals of Ohio.................... 592 617 receipts of coal at.......... 604 122 banks....................... 219 Cape Grosso, (Island of Levanza, Sicily,) receipts of lumber at, for six years 229 lighthouses on ..... 110 Bangor lumber trade ..... 229 134 bank of lowa, (State) condition of.... 597 Carpets, manufacture of.... " Genoa, history of............ 689 ('astor seed, duty on, (treasury circular) .... Banks of the U, States, condition of, in 1858 590 Catawba wine, vintage of 1858... 130 Boston, dividends of, for last two years 594 | Cattle market of Brighton ...... 260 66 and banking of State of New York .. 470 " the New York ..... 260 Banking, currency, and finance, journal of, Causes that p'duced the crisis of '57 consider'd 19 83, 213, 332, 470, 589, 718 Charleston, trade of ........... 348 Bankruptcy in the currency............... 683 Character better than credit.... 649 Bay State Mills, operation of ............... 630 Cherrystone Inlet, lighthouse at ..... Beef packed at Chicago, ............... Chicago, four & grain received at, for 4 years 351 Beet root, duty on, (treasury circular).... 233 * lumber trade ...... Belgian flax, culture and manufacture....... 638 228 Bills of exchange, treasury circular, in rel. to 609 beef packed at..... 230 Bishop Rock, (Scilly Islands,) lighthouse at . 111 Chili, population of............. Black Sea, navigation of.................... 612 China, American treaty with.... 102 Bolivia, commerce of...................... 489 shops in................. Body's Island, coast of N. Caroiina, lighth, on 741 6 English treaty with ...... 557 Book trade, the.......141, 270, 3 British trade with..... 228 Boston bank returns, weekly, " trade regulations of .... 745 89, 215, 332, 474, 591, 719 Chronometer compass, the.... 647 Boston bank dividends for two 594 Cincinnati insurance cos., tax paid by.. 613 16 merchant, wealth of ... Cleveland, Ohio, commercial industry of.... 298 6 insurance companies of........ Clocks as an article of export ..... 139 6 post-office .......... Coal in the United States ......... 625 Bottles to prevent poisoning..... 6 receipts of, at Baltimore..... 604 Brajn work ..... 392 « trade of Pittsburg .. 508 Bread, bow its price is managed in Paris .... 266 266 4 245 Breadstuffs, import and export of, for 10 years 726 66 of the United States.......... 378 120 619 626 607 109 229 643 134 14, 774 Ars .. . |