HENRY C. BAIRD, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pa.
George BAUGIMAN, 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 Hasker Derby, Esq., of Massachusetts.
R. M. Mason, Esq., of Massachusetts.
Ezra C. SEAMAN, Esq., of Michigan.
Hon. F. 0. J. SMITı, 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.

352

66

616

A.

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..

261
property and income tax...

597
Admiralty, decisions in... ..319, 323, 457, 460 railways for 1858..

373
Africa, the negroes of...

262
trade with China

228
Agriculture, statistics of,

Buenos Ayres, exports from, to United States 344
127, 257, 381, 510, 633, 759

reduction of postage to...... 748
Agriculture of the Union

381 Buffalo, (N. Y.,) property valuation of....... 95
of Ohio...

257, 634

receipts of produce at, for 1857. 600
of California

382

grain received at, in two years...... 599
Alabama, finances of

220
taxable property of

702
Albany lumber trade....

2.29
luke trade of

734
(N. Y..) assessed value of property in 93 Business, habits of.....

652
Alexandria, Egypt, commerce or...
727 Butter

633
Alien vessels, notice to masters of...

110
All weather a blessing

267

C.
American cast-steel....

377
guld, product of..
718 California, progress of population in...

132
treaty with China...

102

agriculture of...
Anthracite coal trade, the ...

wheat crops of...

129
structure of..

126
population of

516
Assay-office in N. Y., operations of, since 1854 722 Canada, insurance law of'.

366
Augusta, coast of Sicily, alteration of light at 493 goods imp. from U.S. into, for 3 years 448
Austria, commerce of, with ref. tu iis currency

value and destination of exports of,
revenues of ...

for year ending December, 1958... 453
Austrian & Zollverein imp. to U.S. compared 5! post-oflices of..

498
railways....

120
newspaper postage

500
Australia, south coast, new lights on

238
lakes and canals of..

122
population of....

388
coin, new

480
sugar production of...
772 Canadian reciprocity treaty, the..

101

post office
B.
Canal commerce of Toledo

250
receipts and disburseinents.

120
Baltimore, exports and imports of.
601 Canals of Ohio....

619
(Md.,) valuation of.....

593
of New York..

617
receipts of coal at..

and lakes of Canada..

122
banks.....

219 Cape Grosso, (Island of Levanza, Sicily,)
receipts of lumber at, for six years 9:29 highthouses on ..

110
Bangor lumber trade
29 Carondelet, (Missouri,) population of ..

134
Lank of lowa, (State) condition of.. ...... 597 Carpets, manufacture of...

626
Genoa, history of....

689 Castor seed, duty on, (treasury circular)
Banks of the U. States, condition of, in 1858 590 Catawba wine, vintage of 1858...

130
Bosion. dividends of, for last two years 594 Cattle market of Brighton

260
and banking of State of New York .. 470

the New York.
Banking, currency, and finance, journal of, Causes that p'duced the crisis of '57 consider'd 19
83, 213, 332, 470, 589, 718 Charleston, irade of

318
Bankruptcy in the currency....
623 Character better than credit.

649
Bay Slale Mills, operation of ..
630 Cherrystone Inlet, lighthouse at

109
Beef packed at thicago.

230 Chicago, flour & grain received at, for 4 years 351
Bett root, duty on, (treasury circular)....... 233

lumber trade

929
Belgiau l 1x, culture and manufacture....... 638 66

grain and tlour in store at...

2.28
Bills of exchange, treasury circular, in rel. to 609

beef packed at....

230
Biehop Rock, (Scilly Islands,) lighthouse at . 111 Chili, population of....

643
Black sea, navigation of....

612
bina, American treaty with

102
Bolivia, commerce of.....

4-9
shops in..

134
Body's Island, coast of N. Caroiina, lighth. on 741 English treaty with
Book trade, the.......141, 270, 398, 525, 654, 774

British trade with..

228
Boston bank returns, weekly,

trade regulations of

745
89, 215, 332, 474, 591, 719 Chronometer compass, the..

647
Boston bank dividende for two years 594 Cincinnati insurance cos., tax paid by.....

613
merchant, wealth of ...

619 Cleveland, Ohio, commercial industry of.... 298
tos arance companies of....... 113, 737 Clocks as an article of export

139
post-office
500 Coal in the United States

6.25
Bottles to prevent poisoning.
756 4 receipts of, at Baltimore..

604
Brain work
392 66 trade of Pittsburg

508
Bread, bow its price is managed in Paris .... 26

the anthracite...,
Breadstuffs, import and export of, for 10 years 720 4 of the United States

378

..... 6014

... 607

260

66

557

.... 245

tare on ....

E.

PAGE

PAGE
Coal trade of Great Britain.......

756 Dock warrants and merchandise deposited in
Coals in France ...

376 public warehouses in France, law conc'ning 489
Cocoa, tariff on, in each country.
290 Don't depend on father.....

323
Cod fisheries for the last nine years..
602 Dublin, manufactures in....

630
Coffee and sugar in Europe

484 Dyed Coburg robes a quille, duty on (t. circ.) 232
· tariff on, in each country

290

......... 746
Coin of Judas Iscariot ...

769
Collision at wharf, action to recover on 5-0 Ebenezer Francis, obituary of..

436
action to recover on ...
579 Egypt, locomotives in

505
Columbia, asgsesed valuation in District of... 341 Enameled cloth, process of manufacture.... 627
Combs, manufacture of..........
632 Eogland, life insurance in

113
Commerce, commercial policy, and industry

bank of, condition of, for four years 201
of U. Stales, G. Britain, & France, compared 163 | English treaty with China...

357
Commerce of United States for 1858..

98 Erie & Champl. Canal, deliv's at N. Y, for '58 622
peaceful and civilizing mission of. 518 Europe, population of....

255
of Austria with ref, to ils currency 38

consumption of cotton in

631
and navigation of the United States 425 European States, debts of

2.22
Commercial regulat'ns, 102, 231, 357, 488, 606, 742 Exceptions to interrogatories, [law case)..... 579
chronicle and review,

Erports--see “ Com. Chron. and Review”
76, 199, 324, 462, 581, 709 each month; also name of place.
value, the nature of .

309
mortality...

644
and industrial cities of U.States-
Toledo, Ohio
698 Failures, statistics of, for 1857-58..

204
Commissions, duty on, (treasury circular).... 608 Fish culture, novelty in...

768
Comparative tariffs...

286 Fire & marine insurance cos. of Philadelphia 613
Connecticut, railroads or.
750 Fires in United States

243
Considerations on valge & the precious metals 570 Flax, treatment of ....

755
Continental railways.....
370 Flour, export of, to South America

351
Corn, prices of, for ten years.......
385 and grain received at Chicago...

351
trade of Marseilles.

on the New York canals

623
Cotton, duty on, in cotion-producing countri's 296 Fog-signals and lights to be carried on ves.
invent. for spinning it without ginuing 627 sels of the Netherlands....

236
factories in ihe United Kingdom..... 629 Fog.signals and lights used by sea-going ves-
consumption of Europe...
631 sels of Great Britain....

107
factories in Maryland, 1859..
374 Foreign countries, statistics of..

133
exports of, from Mobile for last 5 years 182

postage, rates of

117
supply association......

512
postages.

615
manufactures of Germany,

509 France, exports from, to United States... 556
duck, duty on, (treasury circular). 234

condition of bank of..

200
in Great Britain

484
trade-marks in....

139
African

637

law concerning public warehouses of 489
Counter claim, when it can be sust'd, (I. case) 73

public funded debt of..

596
Crisis of 1857, consideration of the causes

imports into, from United States.... 555
that produced the

flour and grain exported and im-
Crops, decrease of American.

514

ported from and into........
seasons for........

258
trade and commerce of..

5.52
Cuba, products of the United States imported

and Great Britain, population of....

887
into, with duties paid..
279 France. By Jos. S. Crawley..

659
Cuba, on the acquisition of

403 Free trade and protection; review of Mr.
exports from United States to
277 Carey's letters to the Presiden...

531
export of sugar from, for 9 years 281 French grain reserve

260
sugar exported from for five years.... 602 railways, earnings of, for 1858

504
trade and commerce of....

275
conjugal statistics

388
revenue and expenditure of..
285 Fuggers of Ausbury, the..

648
revenues of the colonial government of 479 Fur trade of St. Paul

350
imports into United States from... 277
are the United States, justified in de-
manding the surrender of....

562
population of......

253 Garblings; or, commercial commodities char-
agriculture of
511 acterized, No. xii..

191
Curious calculation, &.......

648 Georgia, debt and finances of.
Currant wine....
269 German cotton manutactures.

509
Currency terms, origin of

140
Zollverein, finances of ..

726
Currents of the sea...
739 Girard, the money-maker....

137
Glass, manufactured, duty on, (treas. cir.)... 4-8
Gloucester, mackerel catch of..

Glycerine, duty on, (treasury circular).. 361
Damage to cargo-app'l in admiralty, (l. case) 198 Gold rec'd from Cal., & exported from N. Y.,
Damaged wheat-coal vil, act'p to recover on 577 weekly... .77, 202, 3:26, 463,583, 711

cargo, decision in regard to....... 707 deposits of, at the U.S. mints from 1793
Dead money letters......

to 1857..

188
Decision in admiralty-slave trade-seizure. 550 export of, from U. S. for eight years... 189
Denmark, trade of, for 1857...
60: the production and coinage of.

146
postage to.....

616
product of, in 1858...

466
Detroit, (Mich.,) flour and grain received per " product of American

718
railroad at ...

227
decline in the value of..

721
Detroit, population of...
613 Grain received at Buffalo in two years..

319
Diamond cutting...

125 Grain exported froin the lake' region for
Discovery, a curious..

264 1956-57.
District of Columbia, value of property in... 718 Grain and flour in store at Chicago...... 2.28

66

19

66

557

6

66

D.

.... 363

.... 600

4

Grain bags

66

Hair trade, the...

Herning harvest......

Hire a clerk....

Holland, trade of.....

Huinan hair.....

Hydro-l'arbon, a new.

PAGE

PAOL
Grain, receipts of, at the principal ports of Japan, general statistics of...

100
the interior for 1858

727
British treaty with

742
Grain speculator's experience

394
wax, account of

763
Grain on the lakes, shipments of..
442 Java, (Dutch,) crops of..

637
233 Joint stock companies of Massachusetts..... 595
Great Britain, France, and United States, com: Judas Iscariot, coin of....

769
mercial policy of each compar'd 163
metals and coal raise in........ 243

K.
and Ireland, railroad trafic in. 504
and France, population of..... 387 Kentucky, hog statistics of...

180
railways of.....

253 Key West, maritime disasters at, 1858....... 352
cotton in....
481 Kooria Mooria guano...

369
bullion & specie exported from,
during 1858....

732

L.
declared value of exportations
from, for two years.
729 Laguayra, trade of....

269
exp's of, to each foreign country 730 Lake region, grain exported from, for 1856-57 600
foreign trade of ....

disasters for ten years....

615
note circulation of..

723
disasters....

498
underwriters, board of...

614
H.
Lard and pork....

230
Lead mining...

244
138 Leather inspection at Philadelphia..

347
Hartford, (Connecticut,) valuation of........ 592 Libel for possession, [law case).

708
Havana. (Cuba,) commerce of...... 423 Lien for work, &c., on a domestic ship, (law

030
case)......

196
Hides, import of, into port of New York.... 350 Life insurance-American life underwriters 364
History of the bank of Genoa....

6-9
in England...

113
524

242
Hog statistics of Kentucky.
130 Life, how to take it...

268
604
the economy of, in New York.

313
Hong Kong, prices of provisions at.. 319 Lights and fog-signals used by sea-going ves.
Hope, inspectioa of, in Massachusetts. 435

sels of Great Britain.

107
253

and fog-signals carried by Russian
Huron, Michigan, lumber trade of...

vessels...

355
647 Lithographs printed in colors, duty on..... 606
Hymns and groceries..

773 Liverpool, tonnage dues of..

London, import & export of precious metals at 598
I.
growth of ...

641
bank deposits and dividends... 725
395 Lord Overstoue on metallic and paper cur.
770
rency, (by Amasa Walker)......

147
Illinois
, valuation, finance, and debt of. 839 Louisiana, population of..

517
banks of

220
valuation of......

593
two mill tax...

473
sugar crop of..

759
and Michigan Canal...
372 Lumber on the Alleghany River.

604
Immigration into U. States for four years.... 515 trade of Albany..

2.29
Imporis-see * Com. Chron. and Review"

Chicago...

29
each month; also name of place.

Bangor

229
lodia rubber, export of, from Java.......

645

St. Johns, New Brunswick. 601
population of..

761
rubber and gutta percha liable to same

M.
duty, decision in regard to.......

705
Indiana, State debt of...
337 Mackerel catch of Gloucester...

268
losoluble silicate for wood.

756

inspection in Massachusetts....... 318
losurance, journal of. 111, 241, 364, 495, 613, 735

curious habits of.....

770
law of Wisconsin
111 Mailing letters at the cars, prohibition of

747
Companies, (foreign,) in N. Y.... 367 Maine, railroads in...

750
life..

242
new bank law of.....

725
law of New Hampshire......... 242 Malleable iron castings..

248
law of Canada..
366 Mania of amassing.

521
dividends for past seven years... 365 Manufactures of United States

3:0
companies of Boston.... 113, 737 Marine disasters for 1858.

213
comp's of Cincinnati, tax paid by. 613 Marseilles, corn trade of..

229
companies of Massachusetts..... 495

(France, exports of, to N. York
law of New York...
241 and Boston.....

485
companies of New Orleans 735 Maryland, cotton factories in, 1859..

374
law of Pennsylvania .

738 Massachusetts, valuations of, 1850 and 1853. 340
department of State of New York 786

insurance companies..

495
lowe, condition of State Bank of

597
agriculture of.

385
Irish agricultural statistics...

123

joint stock companies of..... 595
Iron exported from Stockholm.

599
railroads of

371
railway consumption of...

railroad dividends..

618
esameling of........

509

mackerel inspection in...... 348
and pickel...

24+
savings banks of.

478
and steel, import of, into United States. 603

railways, operation of....... 619
757 Mechanics, hints to young..

265
Memphis, (Tenn.,) taxable property in...... 475
Merchant, a model...

397

obituary of a Charleston, (s. C.).. 261
Jacquard loom, the improved...
127 Merchants, well informed..

519
depan, agriculture in.

259
accounts, problems in.

263

Ice trade, the
lor and guld..

66

66

250

66

** manufactares.

66

66

66

66

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PAGE
Mercantile miscellanies 131, 261, 390, 518, 644, 707 New Hampshire, insurance law of....... 242
law, journal 0170, 195, 319, 457,577, 705

railroads of......

749
biography: Ebenezer Irancis.... 436 New Orleans bank returns, weekly,
Merchandise pay Quiles ud valurem entered

91, 217, 332, 474, 592, 720
into United States for 1653..... 430

pilot act of....

610
tax on...

649
taxable property of...

335
credit society in Berlin and

ingurance companies..

735
Madgeburg..
767 New wine converted into old...

762
Mexico, population of.....
612 Nickel abd iron.....

244
debt of...

475 Non-delivery of sugar, damages for, (law case) 70
mines of..

632 North America, receipts, expendit's and pub.
Michigan - tate debt..

476
lic debt of each country of..

97
taxable property of..

59
general statistics of ...

96
Microscope and the gun.

269

total com.of each country of, 96
Mill stones, duty on, (treasury circular). 231 North Carolina, debt of..........

333
Milwaukee, sbipmenis ir m..

230 North Hinderbanc, North Sea, floating light at 109
Mines and factories of Prussia'.
126 Nute circulation of Great Britain..

723
Mineral oil, duly on, (lieasury circular).. 606
Minerals & melals produced in the United

0.
Kingdom........

629
Mininy, manufactures, and art. journal os, Ocean mail service.....

240
1:23, 244, 374, 306, 625, 754
mails.....

302
Minnesota, banking law of....
2 Ohio, agriculture of, for 1858.

510
census of, tor 1857.....

133
agriculture of...

257, 634
growtb or the Stute of..

334
canals...

019
Missouri, ra Tronds of ...

360
taxable property of..

477
finances of.
341 66 finances of...

923
vintage of...

128
condition of banks of.

213
Mobile, imports of western produce into, for

exposis of, tor 1058..
two years....

182

distilleries and drinking houses.. 6:28
assessment of property in.

1-4
debt and sinking fund...

7:23
Alabama, commercial industry of... 179 Oregon, population and valuation of... 255
navigation o1, 10! 183...

IS3
Ct usus of, for 1-58...

.... 766
Montreal, Canada, commerce and industry of 444 Oswego, New York, commercial industry of. 542
Mustard seed, duty on, (treasury circular)... OUT

P.

66

66

N.

... 609

66

Paintings on glass, duty on, (treas, circular).. 608
Nashville, [Tennessee,] debt of......
8 Palm oil, export- of, from Africa.....

357
statistics of... 766 Paper making, materials for.....
National revenue derived from ten leading Paris, tobacco manufacture in

507
articles in each county.

288

Peanut oil, duty on, (ireasury circular).. 408
Nautical intelligence..107, 236, 352, 492, 610, 739 Pearl knife handles, untinished, duty on.
Nuval stores, receipts ai, & exporis from N. Y. 351 Pearls strung on threud, duty on, (trens cir.). 232
Netherlands, lights & tog signals to be carried Pennsylvania railroad and branches, wear &
by vessels of

236
tear of iron on..

118
Newark. [Sew Jersey,] debt of

475

receipts and expenditures of... 479
New York bank returns, weehly,

fiuances of....

338
-9, 215, 332, 474, 591, 719

insurance law of.......... 738
New York, foreign imports and exports vi, Percussion caps, duty on, (treasury circular). 608

E0, 200, 329, 467, 525, 714 Peru, convention between United States and 234
foreign imports eulered al port

guano l. ade of....

453
of, for years 1855–56-57 58.... 207 Philadelphia bank returns, weekly,
exports from port of, exclusive

90, 216, 332, 474, 591, 719
of specir, for four

yeire......
209

fire and marine insurance cos... 613
shipments of specie inom port of,

leather inspection at......

347
78, 203, 327, 164,583, 714

taxable property of....

349
cash duties rec'jal, for Ic56-57 50 209 Pilot act of New Orleans.

610
cash duties received al, ivr three Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, bank returns, weekly,
years

82

92, 218, 332, 474, 592, 720
exports to foreign ports for 1855-

cox trade of...

508
56-57-58.....
210 Pontifical states, the

133
comparative prices at, for 5 years 212 Population, siatisucs of,
banks and baking of State of

131, 253, 386, 515, 639, 764
bank dividends for five years... 214

of the globe..

131
Statt finances....

471
and representation....

253
finances of State of...

3.3
of Europe..

236
city debt ..

589 Port Ciotat, (coasts of France and Corsica,]
foreign imports at, for eight years 200 fixed red light at.....

110
railroads of..

121 Portund, Maine, weekly bank returns...470, 720
catlle inarket...

260 Porto Rico, commerce of, for 1857..
canals, flour on..

6:3
exports of ..

60.5
insurance law of ....
241 Postage stamps...

239
insurance department of... 736 Postal department ...114, 239, 362, 498, 615, 747
city and coubiy, mortality of.... 640 revenue of several countries compared 363
the economy of lile in....

313
revenue....

747
railroads of State of....
501 Post-office of l'nited States..

616
canals....

617
United Siates, statistics of..

114
assay.office, operations of...

of Canada......

616
cily, growth oi...

639
statistics

748
cily, finances of

336 Pound sterling, value of, service of notice of
New Jersey, railroads of........ ..373, 753

protesi, [law case)....

6

66

66

66

... 458