MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, A. M.,

MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; 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, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, LOUISVILLE,
CHARLESTON, AND CINCINNATI, ETC.

VOLUME THIRTY-FIVE.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1856.

New York:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.

1856.

CONTRIBUTORS

то THE THIRTY-FIFTH VOLUME OF THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

ABBOTT BROTHERS, Counselors-at-Law, New York.

SUMNER ALBEE, Esq., of the Suffolk Bar.

DR. A. N. BELL, of New York.

CHARLES H. CARROLL, Esq., of Massachusetts.

BEN. CASSEDAY, Esq., Editor of the "Louisville Commercial Review."

OTIS CLAPP, Esq., of Massachusetts.

THOMAS C. CLARKE, Esq., Civil Engineer, of Port Hope, Canada.

WILLIAM H. DE FOREST, Esq., of New York.

E. H. DERBY, Esq., Counselor-at-Law, of Massachusetts.
FRANCIS O. DORR, Esq., of the New York Bar.
E. B. ELLIOTT, Esq., of Massachusetts.
HENRY M. FLINT, Esq., of Chicago, Illinois.
CHARLES W. FREDERICKSON, Broker, of New York.
J. B. GRIBBLE, Esq., of New Orleans, Louisiana.
ENOCH HALE, Jr., Esq., of New York.

T. S. LAMBERT, Esq., of New York.

E. L. MAGOON, D. D., of New York.

C. F. M'CAY, President of South Carolina College.

E. MERIAM, Esq., of Brooklyn, New York.

COL. WILLIAM S. RAND, of New York.

A. EVERETT STETSON, M. D., of Massachusetts.
WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, D. D., of Philadelphia.

EMANUEL WEISS, Esq., of New York.

FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor.