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Title: October 1846, Vol. XV, No. IV

Date: October 1846
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image-container-0 I , THE MERCHANTS’ MAGAZINE, E s t a b l i s h e d J u l y , I S 3 9 , BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOLUME XV. OCTOBER, 1846. NUMBER IV. CONTENTS OF NO. IV., ^VOL. XV. A R T . PAGE A R T IC L E S . I. CHAPTERS FROM THE EXPERIENCES OF A MERCHANT; No. I . : Business Facili ties of London and New York contrasted. By G e o r o e G o rd on , F . S . S ., late of London, now of New York,...................................................... ; .......................................................................... 339 II. COMMERCE OF THE GREAT WESTERN LAKES,............................................................ 348 in. NEW YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD. By V. M. D r a k e , of New Jersey,......................... 359 IV. THE CLAIMS FOR FRENCH SPOLIATIONS: President Polk’s Veto upon the Bill of In demnity for French Spoliations. By H e n r y G . R ic e , of Massachusetts,................................. 366 V. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; No. I.: Manu factures of Dutchess County—Mutteawan—Glenham—Rocky Glenn—Highland Mills, etc. By L o r e n z o N e e l e y , of New York,................................................................................................ 369 VI. PROFITS OF MANUFACTURING AND COTTON-GROWING COMPARED. By Ca l v in C o l t o n , Author o f the Life and Times o f Henry C la y ,....;............................................ 376 VII. TH E EDUCATION OF A MAN OF BUSINESS,..................................................................... 381 MERCANTILE LAW CASES. Promissory Notes—High Court of Error and Appeals, State of Mississippi,........................................... 384 COMMERCIAL CHRONICLE AND REVIEW, ■ EMBRACING A FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW OF THE UNITED STATES, ETC., ILLUSTRATED W IT H TABLES, ETC., AS FOLLOWS : The Crop Season—Review of Foreign and Home Markets—Consumption of Produce—Cotton Crop— Speculations of Vincent Nolle—Arrival of Flour and Wheat at Tide-water—Price of Flour in New York—Export of Bread-stuffs from the Port of New York in 1845 and 1846—Mexican War—Con dition of New York Banks—Imports and Duties—Cotton Statistics of the United States for 1845 and 1846—Exports, Receipts, Stocks, etc., of Cotton, for all the Ports of the United States, 1845-1846, and 1844-1845—Sales of Cotton in New York—Prices—Freight—Exchange—Import of Cotton into New York—State of Trade in Great Britain—Imports into the United Kingdom of Food and Raw Materials, from January 5 th to July 5th, in 1845 and 1846—Leading Features of the Bank of Eng land—Quotations of Wheat and Flour in Foreign Markets at the latest dates,.................................... 389 VOL. XV.----NO. IV. 22
image-container-1 400 402 493 404 404 405 405 406 406 407 408 409 410 410 410 411 411 411 411 412 413 413 414 415 416 417 417 418 418 419 P A G * COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. Drawback on Merchandise imported into the United States from the British North American Prov inces—Treasury Circular.................................................................................................................. 388-399 Treasury Circular on the Warehousing System,........................................................................................ Act of Congress exempting Coffee imported into the United States from the Netherlands, from Duty, in certain cases, etc.—The Oregon Treaty between the United States and Great Britain,..................... New Tariff of the Papal States,................................................................................................................. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. Trade and Commerce of New Orleans, in 1845, compared with previous years,..................................... Cotton, Exports of from New Orleans, in each year, from 1840, to 1846.................................................. Tobacco, Exports of from New Orleans, in each year, from 1840 to 1846,............................................... Sugar, Exports of from New Orleans, for three years, ending 31st August, 1846,.................................... Cotton, Comparative Arrivals, Exports, and Stocks of Cotton and Tobacco at New Orleans, for ten years, from 1836 to 1846,........................................................................................................................... 40(3 Molasses, Exports of from New Orleans, in each year, from 1843 to 1846,.............................................. Exports of Flour, Pork, Bacon, Lard, Beef, Lead, Whiskey, and Com, for the last three years,........... Imports of Produce, etc., from the Interior, into New Orleans, for the last six years,............................. Value of the Principal Articles of Produce received at New Orleans from the Interior, in 1846,........... Navigation of New Orleans in 1845 and 1846, and 1844 and 1845,........................................................... Cotton, Prices of, at New Orleans, on the first of each month, during a period of five years,............... Prices of Sugar at New Orleans, on the first of each month, for five years,............................................. Prices of Molasses nt New Orleans, on the first of each month, for five years,........................................ Prices of Flour at New Orleans, on the first of each month, for five years,............................................. Prices of Pork at New Orleans, on the first of each month, for two years,............................................... Prices of Corn at New Orleans, on the first of each month, for five years,............................................... Imports of Cured Provisions into the United Kingdom,............................................................................ Baltimore Flour Inspections in each year, from 1840 to 1846,................................................................... Progress of the British Commercial Marine during the last forty-five years,........................................... Louisiana Dry Dock at New Orleans, Rates of Docking, etc.,.................................................................. RAILROAD, CANAL, AND STEAMBOAT STATISTICS. Railroad and Steamboat Route from New York to Boston, via Long Island,.......................................... Statistics of all the Canals of New York,................................................................................................... JOURNAL OF MINING AND MANUFACTURES, To Paper-makers, Letter to the Editor, from Augusta, Georgia,............................................................... Progress of Invention in the United States,................................................................................................ Axomatique Vegetable Distillations,........................................................................................................... Cotton Factory in Florida,........................................................................................................................... 417 Increased Demand for Diamond Dust........................................................................................................... Manufacture of Pressed Glass Tumblers—Whip Manufactory at Camden, New Jersey,........................ JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY AND FINANCE. Debts of the State of New York,................................................................................................................ Foreign Banking E stablishm entsSt. Petersburgh—Imperial Loan Bank—Assignation Bank—Com mercial Bank.—Warsaw, Capital of Poland:—Bank of Warsaw.—Hamburgh :—the Bank of Ham burgh—Transfer Deposit Bank—Loan Bank.—Leipsic, in the Kingdom of Saxony :—Discount Bank or Leipsic.—Genoa the Bank of Genoa—Stockholm Bank.—Brussels, Bank of.—Bordeaux, Capi tal of the Department of the Gironde -.—Bank of Bordeaux.—Paris :—Bank of France—Discount Bank at Paris,................................................................................................................................ 319 to 321 British American Land Company, Finance of,........................................................................................... 301 Bank of England, Weekly Returns of, from July 25th to Aug. 15th—British Post-office Return for 1846, 422 MERCANTILE MISCELLANIES. Rules for Getting Rich : or Hints for Merchants and Business Men,........................................................ 453 Illustrations of Life Insurance—Wealthy Men of Boston,........................................................................ 424 Legislation respecting the Law of Debtor and Creditor—Frauds in the Hardware Trade,.................... 425 Boston Mercantile Library Lectures,........................................................................................................... 426 Production of Pea-nuts in North Carolina—Pennies converted to Pounds,............................................ 426 Consumption of Coffee in Belgium and France—Duty on Copper in Prussia,.......................................... 426 THE BOOK TRADE. Notices of twenty-nine New Works, or New Editions,.................................................................. 427 to 432 CONTENTS OF NO. IV ., VOL. XV.
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