MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT,

EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN AND LONDON
STATISTICAL SOCIETIES; MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY; HONORARY

MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW YORK, BOSTON,
BALTIMORE, LOUISVILLE, CHARLESTON, AND CINCINNATI, ETC.

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.
J. BLUNT, Esq., of New York.

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.
CHARLES H. GLOVER, Esq., of the New York Bar.

WILLIAM GREGG, Esq., of South Carolina.
EDWARD A. HOPKINS, Esq., of Vermont.

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
FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor, etc.

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
119 Co-partnership of nations.....

134

474
Contracts and agreements enforced by law... 68
Confluents of the Rio de la Plata, navigat'n of 80
Copper ores, improvement in smelting of.... 238
mines of Connecticut....
production of, at the Cliff Mine..
Concord and Claremont Railroad..
Connecticut River Railroad.......

129

574

466

134, 244

66
"6

66 wages of labor, etc., of..
Capital, illustration of the accumulation of... 563
reduction of British railroad......... 686
Cape Hatteras Cove-Bull's Bay......... 339
harbor of refuge near.......
551

66

condition of the banks of........ 348
129
copper mines of.........
Cords & velvet'ens, British exp'rt of, in 1847-8 217
Corporations, relation of railroad, to public.. 622

Carquinez Straits, sailing directions from .... 459 Cotton Manufacturing Co., the Vancluse..... 572