MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, A. M., MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN 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 HFT v.31 MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. 57693 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 Economy 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. |