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. Charleston, condition of banks of, 1853-54.. 345 Cotton and linen, tanning.. 66 maritime progress of... 263 growth of, in India 371 456 605 66 canvas and cotton cordage.......... 382 328 66 726 66 66 107 391 Chicago, real and personal property of...... 66 Cloth, manufacture of felt "fields of the world.. "analysis of several kinds... "trade of Pennsylvania..... trade exports of, from New Orleans.... 477 Creditors' bills not superseded.. new Canadian. 79 775 204 701 511 66 Cumberland coal trade from 1842 to 1853.... 515 112 66 and banking, essay on.... 188 66 496 "region of Maryland... 516 D. |