THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

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EDITED BY

1. SMITI IOXANB, SECRETARY OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMEBOK OF NEW-YORK,

AND WILLIAM B. DANA.

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

New-York :

WILLIAM B. DANA, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR,

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND UNDERWRITERS' BUILDING,

Nos. 61 AND 63 WILLIAM STREET.

1861.

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CONTRIBUTORS

то

THE FORTY-FIFTH VOLUME

OF THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

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.

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PAGE Act of Congress amend'g patent law, 489 44 cotton imports of, ..... -- “ confiscating proper- An incident of the sea, . . . . . . . . - - - ty used for insurrectionary purpo- Annual report on breadstuffs,...... *S,.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . 525 * - on boots and shoes, .. Act of Congress requiring oath of to on drugs,. . . . . . . . . . allegiance, ....... - - - - - - - - - . . . . 423 -- on dry goods, ...... Act of Congress to increase the num- -- on hides,...... . . . . . ber of consuls, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 -- on salt,. . . . . . . . . . . . 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.,............ 44 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, . . . .

trade with the west coast of, Agricultural products of Iowa, ..... Rio journal of ... 102, 280, bama, cotton crop of...........

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-- harbors of............ 22, statistics of manufactures, is vessels built in 1860, . . . . weight of cotton bale of . Albemarle Sound described,....... Allegiance to the U. S., form of oath, Aluminum in Greenland,....... - - America and France,............. American Shipmasters' Association,. 4. war & German commerce, war and Great Britain, .. Amoor River, country of the, ... . . . 299 “ Russian settlement of the, 353 Amoor River, society of........ ... 368 -- right of foreigners to settle near,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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