I

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, A. M.,

MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN
AND LONDON STATISTICAL SOCIETIES; MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY;

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS OF NEW
YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, LOUISVILLE,
CHARLESTON, AND CINCINNATI, ETC.

VOLUME TWENTY-NINE.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1853.

New York:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.

1853.

CONTRIBUTORS

TO THE TWENTY NINTH VOLUME OF THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

J. P. BROWN, Esq., of the United States Legation at Constantinople.

M. S. DUMON, late Minister of Finance in France.

CHARLES F. DURANT, Esq., of New Jersey.

R. B. FORBES, Esq., of Massachusetts.

JOHN M. FORREST, Esq., of Oregon.

J. GARDNER, Esq., Merchant, of Rio de Janeiro.

Mr. JOSEPH F. GREENOUGHI, of New York, late of Georgia.

ENOCH HALE, Jr., Esq., of New York.

JAMES P. KIRKWOOD, Esq., Civil Engineer, of New York.

DEXTER F. PARKER, Mechanic, of Massachusetts.

WILLIAM S. PRICE, M. D.

RICHARD SMITH, Esq., of Ohio.

J. E. SNODGRASS, A. M., M. D.

Hon. CALEB STETSON, of Massachusetts.

RICHARD SULLEY, Esq., of Indiana.

L W. TENELLI, Esq., of Oporto.

FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor.