MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIA- TIONS OF NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, AND LOUISVILLE, ETC. VOLUME NINETEEN. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, 1848. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET. 1848. A. D. BACHE, Superintendent of U. S. Coast Survey. DAVID M. BALFOUR, Merchant, of Massachusetts. G. F. SECCHI DE CASALI, Esq., late of Italy, now of New York. FRANCIS B. CLARK, Esq., Merchant, of Georgia. Hon. H. A. S. DEARBORN, Mayor of Roxbury, Mass. J. F. ENTZ, Esq., Accountant, of New York. R. B. FORBES, Esq., Merchant, of Massachusetts. JAMES WILLIAM GILBART, F. R. S., of London, England. JAMES H. LANMAN, Author of the History of Michigan. C. F. M'CAY, Esq., Professor in the University of Georgia. ALANSON NASH, Esq., of the New York Bar. Hon. BENJAMIN F. PORTER, of Georgia. GEORGE W. SAVAGE, President of the Eagle Life and Health Insurance Company. J. W. SCOTT, Esq., of the Ohio Bar. HENRY GRATTAN SMITH, Esq., of the Memphis (Tenn.) Bar. Hon. GEORGE TUCKER, Author of "The Progress of the United States in Wealth and Population." GEORGE A. WARD, A. M., Merchant, of New York. A. WHITNEY, Esq., of New York. Hon. J. R. WILLIAMS, of Michigan. FREEMAN HUNT, the Editor and Proprietor. To find the exports, imports, trade, &c., of different places in the Index, see the name of the country, State, city, or ports; and for particulars relating to the commerce, &c., &c., of the United Kingdom, see "Great Britain," " England," "British," "English," &c. 66 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. to provide for incorporation, etc., of telegraph Action to recover excess of duties.... Admiralty, case in...... Agriculture, exp'ts from U. S. of prod'ts of, 1847 88 Agricultural productions of U. S. in 1847...... 121 Amber trade, influence of the.... and finance of Ohio....... America, N. and S., geographical division of... 625 Belgian commercial regulations..... 625 Belfast, condition of bank of............ 396 659 Black River (Mich.) imp'ts and exp'ts of, in 1847 27 617 Boat, invention of life...... history and principles of..... 243 Ancram or Copake iron works.. Antigua, tariff of....... Arrivals, forced and in distress........ 452 554, 647 456 570 456 617 Book trade........... 122, 235, 347, 457, 571, 679 298 Associations, savings funds among charitable... 173 Assumpsit, action of (law case).. Athens, laws and coasts at....... Atlantic and interior cities................................ 385 Boot and shoe manufactory. 44 Attachment, law of, in Tennessee............ 387 crimps, improvement in.......................................... 453 Averages, marine, Spanish law of............. 59 Brazil, regulations at Rio Grande du Sul....... 212 |