CONTRIBUTORS TO THE EIGHTEENTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE. J. BALESTIER, United States Consul at Singapore. R. BURN, Esq., Editor of the "Commercial Glance," England. Hon. THOMAS G. CARY, Merchant, of Massachusetts. E. HASKET DERBY, Esq., President of the Old Colony Railroad Co. Lieut. CHARLES HENRY DAVIS, of the United States Navy. CHARLES H. GLOVER, Esq., of the New York Bar. JOHN ENDICOTT GARDNER, Esq., of Massachusetts. L. A. HINE, Esq., Editor of the "Herald of Truth," Ohio. EDWARD KELLOGG, Esq., author of "Labor and Other Capital," etc. JOHN AMORY LOWELL, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts. Lieut. M. F. MAURY, of the U. States Naval Observatory, Washington. C. F. M'CAY, Esq., Professor in the University of Georgia. ALANSON NASH, Esq., of the New York Bar. Hon. F. O. J. SMITH, of Maine. Hon. GEORGE TUCKER, Author of "The Progress of the United States in Wealth and Population," "Life of Jefferson," etc., etc. J. B. VARNUM, Esq., of the New York Bar. JOHN WILKINSON, Esq., President of the Syracuse and Utica Railroad Company. E. B. WASHBURN, Esq., of Illinois; and FREEMAN HUNT, the Editor and Proprietor. 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. Brazil, trade of.. 14 slave trade of....... 44 the UnitedS tates..... Brest, light-house of the main channel of....... 446 Coffee mills, manufacture of... ..... fields of Chili..... 564 trade of Pennsylvania.. 226 560 44 trade with Mexico.................... 216 Coinage of the U. States mint from 1792 to 1847 mail steamers, sailing of, in 1848.. ..... 546 Coke, diamond converted to..... investments in railways.... navigation laws....... exported from Ceylon. 216 ........ 325 429 107, 328, 428 229 223 Collision at sea regulations for emigrant ships.. commerce and rights of war............................ Brooke of Borneo, Sarawack................. 543 ...... 648 Commercial laws, old fashioned............... 668 650 56 ... 452 526, 633 CALICOES exported from Great Britain......... 160 agent of......... 331 Consumption of wood by locomotives.......... 436 Canton, first American consul to...................................... 31 Coral reefs discovered.... Capital, investments at different rates of....... 642 Corn and corn meal exported from U. States.... 208 64 44 ..... 665 Carriage springs........ of banks in United States............. 326 Corsica, revolving light on north point of....... 554 110 chronology of.... value of exports from United States from Ceylon, trade of........ coffee exported from..... Chains manufactured in Connecticut.......... 661 Chronology of cotton yarn.............................................. 162 DAY BOOK, importance of.. 307 311 530 563 666 668 227 642 407 467 114 651 450 .............. ......... 427 Mercantile Library Association of... 338] 46 United States National, in 1847......... 301 Debt, United States, payments of interest of.... 426] French issue of assignats from 1790 to 1796..... 634 Endorsing, consequences of.. national circulation of English window duty....... Europe, cost of railways in...... 66 list of failures in..... Entrepot at port of Cuba..... Erie railroad, sales of New York stocks for.... 248 Gold, increase in the quantity of.. 654 665 exports of calicoes, yarns, etc.... 160 343 456 Goodwin sand, beacon of......... 206 Guaranty, a law decision....... 293 651 Glasgow, cash price of pig iron at... 312 650 455 444, 329 HASKELL'S mercantile library address......... France, consular system of......................... condition of bank of.... 618 551 ....... 555, 329 497 Haytien republic, regulations of shipping at.... 424 233 commerce by sea and land of .............................. 498 66 commerce of, with foreign countries.... 499 Hog trade of Ohio. navigation of.... 222 86 500 Hides imported and exported at New York..... 211 Havre, description of... .................... 66 whale fishery of......... steamboat and ship-building of............. imports and exports of........ 16 transit trade of......... 501 46 harbor of.... 46 503 insurance at........ 43 45 47 48 48 Hawaiian ports, commercial regulations of.... 316 559 IDRIA, quicksilver mines of............... ... 108 vi India, export of metals to................................................... 324 Lyons, manufactures of ............. 225 66 579 Illinois, minerals and mines in............................................. 66 "furnace at Chikiswalungo.... 641 511 64 commercial statistics of.. 515 515 M. "works of South Carolina............................................. 228 MACASSAR, regulations for trade and harbor of. 87 66 pig, price of, at Glasgow... 66 manufacture in Alabama... "trade of Philadelphia with the interior..... 311 46 ............ .......... tonnage and navigation of ............. 281 ........... 228 JAMAICA, tariff of............. 320 Jackson, memoir of Patrick Tracy............. 355 46 к. KELLOGG'S, EDW., work on labor and capital 65, 625 of New York.... 232 of Philadelphia... 229 of Charleston.... 337 ........ 310 associations, usefulness of... 619 liberality..... 670 miscellanies.. 116, 229, 335, 448, 565, 666 66 and western waters, commerce of..... biography.... 335 value of, produced.. 66 64 46 region of the upper Mississippi... men, maxims for..... 567 ......... 453 506 .......... Light-house at Cape Agulhas... Lights at Trevose head..... 292 Mexico, position and resources of............. 670 ....... 216 318 66 modification of tariff of Liverpool, commerce of......... imports and exports of France into..... 504 method of approaches to port of..... 104 Michigan central railroad..................... 94 46 ........... 492 prices of Virginia and Kentucky tob. at 310 66 discovery of a gold mine in.......... 107 and Liverpool, exp't of metals to India 324 Mining and manufactures, journal of, 108, 225, 320, merchants................ Laguna port regulations.... Leather trade...... |