CONTRIBUTORS TO THE TWENTY-FIFTH VOLUME OF THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. M. LOUIS CHITTI, late Professor of Political Economy in Brussels. EDMUND DWIGHT, Esq., Banker, of New York. LEWIS FEUCHTWANGER, M. D., Chemist, of New York. HON. A. C. FLAGG, late Controller of the State of New York. John Gardner, Esq., Merchant of Rio de Janeiro. WILLIAM A. GLIDDON, Esq., late acting American Consul at Cairo, Egypt. REV. T. W. HIGGINSON, of Massachusetts. REV. FREDERIC W. HOLLAND, of Massachusetts. DAVID R. JAQUES, Esq., of the New York Bar. A. B. JOHNSON, Esq., President of the Ontario (Branch) Bank-Author of “a Treatise on Banking, etc." GEORGE C. MASON, Esq., Editor of the Newport (R. I.) "Mercury." PROFESSOR C. F. M'CAY, of the University of Georgia. E. ROBERTS, Author of "Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan." J. FORBES ROYLE, M. D., F. R. S., late Superintendent of the East India Company's Botanic Garden at Saharunpore. GEORGE R. RUSSELL, LL. D., Merchant, of Massachusetts. J. W. SCOTT, Esq., of Ohio. E. P. SMITH, M. A., of New York. CHARLES E. SMITH, Esq., of Pennsylvania, and FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor of the Merchants' Magazine, etc. To find imports and exports in the index, the reader is referred to the name of the port, State, or country. business, nature, &c., of........... 193 .... 111 Adulteration of coffee and pepper....... 263 Alabama, railroads of......... ...... Algoa Bay, smiling directions for............ 753 Bargain and sale, law question............. 715 46 printing presses..... inventions in France............. 257 merchant in London............. 390 94 Arsenic in bread.......... 650 Assets, interest of partners in............. Assignments, fraudulent......... Auction sales in New Orleans.............. 364 Baltimore and Ohio railway, statistics of.... 632 Baltic, short passage of... Bank of France in 1850.. 199 66 704 752 629 progress of bank capital of.. 742 385 744 Book Trade...........139, 265, 395, 523, 651, 780 Bankers, calculating machine for........... 359 Buildings erected in New York... Broker in chair of Satan........... ... 619 622 744 136 India-rubber tree................ 767 Insurance companies, New York law of...... 109) Maryland, laws of, affecting business com'nity 76 66 358 taxation in..... 66 66 (6 66 Iron, import of, into New York............. 363 66 "manufacture of Pennsylvauin..... "shipped on Ohio canals for 10 years.... "English and American.... Italy, railways in... act relating to b'k commis'ers 235 362 398 114 264 495 262 39 264 sketch of a Boston... 66 J. Joint stock banking, philosophy of.. ......... 153 K. Kentucky, railroads of..... Key West, sponge trade of.. 66 L. 66 Lagosta, light-house on Island of.......... 630 456 98 Latitude and longitude of Punta Loma...... 494 .28, 520 74 210 120 375 131 Mobile, exports of cotton from........ 66 66 on coast of Sweden... 223 rates of exchange at............... 609 617 600 736 736 Money, acceptance of order for payment..... 456 66 docks, statistics of... 214 66 docks, trade of...... 756 356 how to make it......... 650 ... 259 Manufactures of Philadelphia, statistics of... 128 Journal of.128, 247,365, 509, 641, 763 New Orleans, coinage and deposits at mint at 473 new bank law of .......... 475 66 homestead exemption act of 197 387 railroads of...... 118 |