vii 106 363 PAGE PAGE 738 Pepper, how English grocers adulterate..... 777 San Francisco Bay, day-mark on wreck in... 223 66 66 mint, coinage at... 74, 330, 458, 591 Point Bonita, San Francisco Bay, fog bell at. 66 in Chicago and Toledo, progress of 378 66 66 127, 251, 377, 512, 629, 66 the, as it has been, is, & should be 680 Postage. rates of, to foreign countries....... 372 stamps.... L to Egypt, reduction of. Postal Department..... 194 Savings banks in Europe 465 Science, an association for the promotion of. 531 415 Scotland, decline of the weaving trade in 125 649 389 Seaman's wages-servants for hire.. 450 71 467 Silk, cotton superseded by 238 739 66 97 66 738 66 472 250 370 Prussian vital statistics, deductions from.... 49 Strofades, lighthouse at 734 66 John Fitch the inventor of the first 509 388 736 Stick to your business 392 .... 742 Stocks and coupon bonds of Virginia 465 211 487 691 Stores, what young men in, should do 770 519 Success, the secret of . 390 403 Success, the virtues which command 382 39 interests, condition of the......... 764 Tea trade of Europe and United States..... magnetic telegraphs on..... ..... 338 751 92 66 the gutta-percha..... 257 772 Rumili light, Bosphorus. 515 219 777 Traffic in Circassian women, the 352 Train (George Francis) letter from.. Trieste, commerce of, in 1855 froubridge Shoals, lighthouse on... Suez ship canal, the projected.. 635 Sugar crop of Louisiana for 22 years 503 627 Sugar refineries of New York 500 Sugars, do home-grown, need the support of duties? 248 Sumatra, postage to.... 372 Sunderbunds, houses of refuge on the 105 70 Swan's Bank-note List and Detector CONTENTS OF NO. I., VOL. XXXV. NUMBER I ARTICLES. ART. PAGE. L. THE MERCHANTS, AND THE MERCHANTS' FUND. By WM. BACON STEVENS, D. D., of Philadelphia 19 II. THE MONEY OR COMMERCIAL VALUE OF A MAN. By T. S. LAMBERT, Esq., of New York.. 34 .... III. FRANCE AND THE SUEZ CANAL. By E. W., of New York.... 39 ........ ..... 49 V. THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE 52 54 Timber Merchants-Action to recover for Goods supplied VI. DIGNITY OF THE MERCANTILE PROFESSION. BY BEN CASSEDAY, Editor of the Louisville Commercial Review.. VII. THE LAW MERCHANT.-No. vi. The Proper Contents of a Receipt-Of the occasion for giving and taking Receipts-How long to keep Receipts. By ABBOTT BROTHERS, Counselors-at-Law, of New York JOURNAL OF MERCANTILE LAW. The Vanderbilt Company-Charter-Party...... Common Carriers-Giving Through Tickets does not make Partners.. Bankruptcy-New Code of Mercantile Morals.. Case of smuggling Silks to the United States-Breach of Contract............. Salvage-Steam-tug not entitled to it-Oppressive Bargain Freight-Right of Broker to receive Freight-Money-Insolvency of Broker-Revocation of his Authority-Lien of Shipowner Discharge of Surety.-Reassignment of Debts Agency-When Principal bound by Contract of Agent--General Rule--Bill of Lading an exception 70 COMMERCIAL CHRONICLE AND REVIEW: EMBRACING A FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW OF THE UNITED STATES, ETC., ILLUSTRA TED WITH TABLES, ETC.. AS FOLLOWS: Review of the Money Market-The effect of Political Agitations upon the Commercial Interests -Cause of the recent excitement--Speculations in Sugar-State of General Trade-The Bank Movement-Production of Gold-Deposits and Coinage at the Assay Office and Mint-Imports and Exports at New York for May, since January 1st, and for Eleven Months of the Fiscal Year-Cash Revenue for the same time-Imports of Dry Goods-Exports of Domestic Produce, etc.... New York Cotton Market. By CHARLES W. FREDERICKSON, Broker, New York VOL. XXXV.—NO. I. 2 71-79 79 STATISTICS OF TRADE AND COMMERCE. PAGE. Statistics of the Cotton Trade-Exports, Imports, and Duties of principal Commercial Countries 81 Commerce of Richmond, Virginia. JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY, AND FINANCE. How to detect Counterfeit Bills. - Condition of Banks out of Boston..... Condition of the Banks of Ohio.-Condition of the Banks of South Carolina... Amendment of the Usury Laws of Louisiana.. Purchase of United States Stocks by the Government.-Money: whence comes the word?.. Lighthouse on Troubridge Shoals, Gulf St. Vincent, South Australia Guofleet Light, East Swin, England-Entrance to Thames Notice to Mariners.-Gunfleet Lighthouse, East Swin .... Does a Man shorten his Life by insuring it? STATISTICS OF AGRICULTURE, &c. Progress of Vegetables and increase of Animals in United States RAILROAD, CANAL, AND STEAMBOAT STATISTICS. Shortest Route between Europe and America.-The United States Railroad Directory.. Operations of the Railways of Massachusetts JOURNAL OF MINING AND MANUFACTURES. The Great Iron Works near Troy, New York.-Decline of the Weaving Trade in Scotland American and European Marbles.. Paper from refuse Tanned Leather.-Characteristics of the rare Gems Great Britain opposed to Cotton Manufactures.-Machine for Pegging Boots and Shoes HUNT'S MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. JULY, 1856. Art. I.—THE MERCHANTS, AND THE MERCHANTS' FUND* I. MERCHANTS-WHO AND WHENCE ARE THEY? 1. They are an historic class. Their existence as a body can be traced to the earliest annals of the world. As far back as the days of Abraham, nearly 2,000 years before Christ, we find the Patriarch buying the field of Machpelah, and paying Ephron for it "400 shekels of silver, current money with the merchant;" showing, not only the existence of merchants as a class, but also that they had standard weights and coins, and regulated the currency of the times. A little after this record, Moses writes of "Midianitish merchantmen," who “came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt." Job speaks of "merchants" in his day; and towards the splendor of King Solomon, merchants largely contributed. The vast quantities of gold, and ivory, and spices, and precious woods, and linens, and wool, and other articles, which he accumulated, were obtained not only by traffic with foreign traders, but also through those denominated "the king's merchants," who were the factors * We have been furnished with a copy of the address delivered before the "Merchants' Fund" Association of Philadelphia, on the occasion of their second anniversary, January 24, 1856. This article embraces, as will be seen, a comprehensive sketch of the merchants as an historic class, to gether with a brief sketch of the history and character of mercantile benevolence. For an account of the "Merchants' Fund" of Philadelphia our readers are referred to the department of "Mercantile Miscellanies,” page 131, in the present number of the Merchants' Magazine. – ED. |