CONTENTS OF NO. IV., VOL. XXXI. ARTICLES. ART. PAGE. 1. OUR AMERICAN LAKE CITIES. By J. W. Scott, Esq., of Ohio.... 11. A MERCANTILE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. VINCENT NOLTE, OF EUROPE AND AMERICA III. FINANCES OF STATES OF THE UNION IN 1853-54. .......... Maine-Massachusetts-New Jersey-Pennsylvania -Maryland-South Carolina-Kentucky-Tennessee-Alabama- 403 414 IV. SOUND DUES UPON AMERICAN COMMERCE TO THE BALTIC. BY BENJAMIN G. SMITH, Esq, of New York 435 V. TRADE AND COMMERCE OF NEW ORLEANS IN 1853-51. Introductory Remarks on frate during the Year-Cotton Market and Crop-Prices of Cotton-Consumption of Cotton-Sugar Market, &c. -Tobacco-Western Produce-Prices of Flour, Corn, &c.— Pork Market-Prices of Lard-Coffee Sales, Prices, &c.-Exchanges at New Orleans on England and New York-Freights, &c. ....... JOURNAL OF MERCANTILE LAW. Dispute as to quality of goods delivered The Law of Lost Bills of Exchange.-Liabilities of Railways Legal decision in regard to falsely packed Cotton.-Shipping Merchants-Freight.. Ejectment-Non-payment of Rent.-Insolvency.-Bank Liabilities Broker selling shares procuring Registry........... COMMERCIAL CHRONICLE AND REVIEW: ...... 440 EMBRACING A FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW OF THE united statTES, ETC., ILLUSTRA TED WITH TABLES, ETC., AS FOLLOWS: Gradnal return of Public Confidence-Review of the Market throughout the Country, and further details of the causes of the recent pressure Prospects for the future at home and abroad —Effect of abundant Harvests in Europe upon the demand for Cotton-Notice of the Trade in Dry Goods-The late Bank Panic and the impolicy of illegitimate_Banking-Bank averages of the New York, Boston, and Massachusetts Country Banks-The Railroad Interest-Deposits and Coinage at the Philadelphia and New Orleans Mints-Foreign Imports at New York for August and from January fist-Imports of Dry Goods-Cash Duties received at New York, Boston, and Philadelphia-Exports from New York and Foreign Ports for August and from January first-Exports of certain leading Articles of Produce from New York to Foreign Ports-frade in Breadstuffs and Provisons, &c..... New York Cotton Market....... 459-467 467 COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. Of Goods for Lading and Re-exportation.... Of Returns of Statistics of Foreign Commerce. Supervision and Inspection of Steamboats.-Duties of Officers in Bonded Warehouses... Of Uniformity in Gauging Imports.. Of the Transportation of Merchandise between the Atlantic and Pacific Ports.. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. Statistics of the Trade and Commerce of New Orleans in 1853-54 Rates of Freight at New Orleans in 1853-4 Tonnage of each District of the United States in 1853. JOURNAL OF INSURANCE. Rates of Insurance on Marine Risks at Boston... State Mutual Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts.. JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY, AND FINANCE. PAGE 469 470 471 472 473 473 474 475 480 480 483 487 Condition of Banks in South Carolina.. 488 Relative Value of the Real and Personal Estate in the city and county of New York, as assessed in 1853 and 1854... 489 Condition of Free Banks of Indiana.. 490 Condition of the New Orleans Banks.-The National Debt of England. 492 493 Condition of the Banks in Boston.-Taxation in England. 494 Rates of Exchange in New Orleans.-Receipts and Expenditures of the United States The New Canadian Currency.-Imports of Specie into New Orleans RAILROAD, CANAL, AND STEAMBOAT STATISTICS. The Canals and Other Public Works of New York, No. IV., the Cost and Charges of Transport. 496 Boston and Worcester Railroad.. Galena and Chicago Union Railroad.-Receipts of French Railroads.. 503 STATISTICS OF AGRICULTURE, &c. The Value of Lands in each County of the State of Ohio in 1853 504 506 Wheat Production and Exportation of the United States.-The Culture of Cotton in India..... 507 Agricultural and Commercial Value of Railroads. Is Farming Profitable?-Asparagus Seed a Substitute for Coffee.. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. 508 509 509 Discovery of a Shoal off New Point Comfort, and Description of York Spit, Chesapeake Bay... 510 Fixed Light at Plumb Point, Port Royal, Jamaica..... North Carolina Gold Mines.-The Gold Mines of California not giving out.. 517 MERCANTILE MISCELLANIES. Literature of Commerce.-Letter of Ed. Merchants' Magazine to Ed. Boston Transcript, &c.... 518 The Wall Street Journal.-Mercantile Honesty of a Turk..... The Law of Compensation......... England's Commerce with Russia in Peace and War.. The Energetic Merchant.-The Wives and Daughters of Merchants. 520 520 521 529 THE BOOK TRADE. Notices of new Books or new Editions ....... 523-528 |