MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, A. M., MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, LOUISVILLE, VOLUME THIRTY-ONE. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER INCLUSIVE, 1854. New York: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET. 1854. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE THIRTY-FIRST VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. G. M. BELL, Esq., Secretary of the London Bank of Australia, etc. Hon. GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, late Governor of Massachusetts. JOHN P. BROWN, Esq., of the United States Legation at Constantinople. etc., etc., of New Jersey. J. H. GIBBON, M. D., of the United States Branch Mint, North Carolina. ENOCH Hale, Jr., Esq., of Massachusetts. Rev. D. F. HUNTINGDON, of Massachusetts. D. R. JAQUES, Esq., of the New York bar. D. T. LEECH, Esq., of the Post-Office Department, Washington. WILLIAM J. MCALPINE, Esq., late Chief Engineer, etc., of the State of New York. C. F. MCCAY, Professor in the College of South Carolina. DEXTER F. PARKER, Esq., of Massachusetts. JOHN L. PEYTON, Esq., of Illinois. GERARD RALSTON, Esq., late Vice-President of the American Colonization Society. J. W. SCOTT, Esq., of Ohio. MATTHEW HALE SMITH, Esq., of the Boston bar. BENJAMIN G. SMITH, Esq., Printer, of New York. RICHARD SMITH, Esq., Editor of the Cincinnati Price Current, etc. JOHN MILTON STEARNS, Esq., of New York. RICHARD SULLEY, Esq., of Indiana. M. DE TEGOBORSKI, of New York. Hon. GEORGE TUCKER, late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Econ omy in the University of Virginia, author of the Life of Jefferson, etc. Amasa Walker, late Secretary of State in Massachusetts. J. B. WICKERSHAM, Esq., of New York. Freeman Hunt, Editor and Proprietor. Denmark, sound tolls of.. asparagus seed a substitute for...... 509 Detroit, progress of population in... Coin counting process, a curious.. Coinage and deposits at U. States Mint, 516 515 D. Debts and debtors.. 732 and tea trade... 135 235 66 512 66 acorn and chicory..... 774 622 Devaar light-house.... 245 แ of railroads in Massachusetts..... 378 Dry goods, a short chapter on.... 389 504 Drug store, sample clerk in a 775 234 84, 211, 338, 462, 593, 718 66 Comer's steel pens, an excellent article..... of the United States, history of, 159, 275, 531, 659 of Russia with the U. States.... 575 Elements of business success.. 732 46 66 of each State and Territory...... 744 progress of import & exp't trade of 606 494 of San Francisco in 1853.................... 745 66 66 66 16 110, 232, 352, 469, 607, 737 81, 207, 333, 454, 589, 716 772 enterprise, Iceland a field for... 776 Composition for sheathing ships.. 66 statistics of railroads of.. condition of b'ks of, for 18 y'rs. 621 trade and gold supplies of......... 728 66 rates of, at Cincinnati in 1853-4.. 616 F. 520 Falkland islands-Port William.... 762 509 225 Feather and hair trade of New York. 393 39-56 91, 216, 344, 488, 612, 726 Contract, performance of 74 Finances of the States of the Union, 1853-54. 420 565 Contracts-sale and delivery....... 66 exchange association at Philadelphia, Flax, Venezuelan tarifi on 354 352 " measure of European and other ports. 760 507 265 แ exchanges, Bell's essay on..... 320 230 89, 217, 343, 467, 599, 725| 46 manufactures in United States....... 133 Free banks in Indiana, &c... 490 |