THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

EDITED BY

1. SYITI OYANS, SEORETARY OY TIROHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF NEW-YORK.

AND WILLIAY B. DANA.

VOLUME FORTY-FIFTH,
FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1861.

New-York :

WILLIAM B. DANA, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR,

OHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND UNDERWRITERS' BUILDING,

Nos. 61 AND 63 WILLIAM STREET.

1861.

Professor A. D. BACHE, Superintendent U. S. Coast Survey.
A. N. BELL, M. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.
JOSEPH E. BLOOMFIELD, of Oswego, N. Y.
PERRY McDonough Collins, late U. S. Commercial Agent at the Amoor.
William B. DANA, of New-York.
E. Hasket DERBY, of Boston.
I. Smith Homans, of New-York.
I. Smith Homans, Jr., Actuary of the Guardian Life Insurance Co., N. Y.
SHEPPARD HOMANS, Actuary of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., N. Y.
SAMUEL HOTALING, of New-York.
Professor LEONE LEVI, of London, England.
Thomas P. Kettell, of New-York.
E. Merriam, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
T. & H. MESSENGER, Merchants, of New-York.
H. E. Möring, Coffee and Sugar Broker, New-York.
ROBERT MURRAY, Engineer and Surveyor to the Board of Trade, Lon-

don, England.
· J. A. Schmidt, Merchant, of New-York.

J. W. Scott, of Toledo, Ohio.
CHARLES TOMLINSON, of London, England.
Isaac H. Upton, Secretary Shipmasters' Association, N. Y.
Wood & Nichols, Brokers, New-York.
C. F. WREAKS, Secretary Neptune Marine Insurance Co., N. Y.
J. V. Yatman, of New-York.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

TO SUBJECTS CONTAINED IN THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW,

VOLUME XLV.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, 1861, BOTH INCLUSIVE.

EDITED BY I. SMITH HOMANS, (SECRETARY OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE STATE OZ

New-York,) AND William B. Dana.

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PAGE
PAGE Amsterdam, money market of,..646, 648
Act of Congress amend'g patent law, 489 “ cotton imports of,..... 12

confiscating proper An incident of the sea,............ 520
ty used for insurrectionary purpo-

Annual report on breadstuffs,...... 484
ses,.......................... 525

on boots and shoes,.. 41
Act of Congress requiring oath of

on drugs,.......... 261
allegiance, .................... 423

on dry goods,...... 69
Act of Congress to increase the num-

on hides,...........
ber of consuls,................. 256

on salt,............

258
Acts of the Thirty-Seventh Congress, 230 Annual statement of business of N.
Adams, Charles F., address to the Y. Clearing-House, .............

Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, 101 | Annual statement of marine insurance
Adulteration of silk fabrics........ 636 companies of N. Y.,............ 29

“ of tea,......... ... 637 A promise to pay the debt of another,
Africa, commerce with,........ 369! (law case,).......

on the cultivation of cotton in, 101 Arbitration, a new plan of, for New-

trade of, 1860,............. 648 York Chamber of Commerce, .... 631
" trade with the west coast of, 462 Arkansas, statistics of manufactures, 144
Agricultural products of Iowa,..... 282 Arrival of vessels at N. Y., year 1860, 166
Agriculture, journal of,. . .102, 280, 487 Art, French school of,............ 318
Alabama, cotton crop of,.......... 497 Asia, commercial progress in eastern, 363

cotton manufactures of,.. 15 " cotton of, its peculiarities,.... 337
" harbors of............22, 173 Assay office, operations of the N. Y., 273

statistics of manufactures, 144 Atlantic, southern harbors of the,.. 17
vessels built in 1860,.... 181 Australia, railways in,............ 291

weight of cotton bale of,. 8 " coast survey of,......... 520
Albemarle Sound described........ 17 Austria, patent law of,............ 494
Allegiance to the U. S., form of oath, 423
Aluminum in Greenland,.......... 315
America and France,....... 406 Bale of cotton, various weights of,.. 9
American Shipmasters' Association,. 617 Baltimore, exports, imports, trade of, 131

war & German commerce, 405 " coffee trade of,......229, 414

war and Great Britain,.. 96 Bangor, lumber market of,. ....... 548
Amoor River, country of the,...... 299 Banka Strait,.................... 404

" Russian settlement of the, 353 Banking, progress of in N. Y. State, 80
Amoor River, society of,.......... 368 Bank of England, rate of discount,
" right of foreigners to

1851-1860,.. 648
settle near,........

" statistics of,..... 324

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359