MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW. .

ESTABLISHED BY FREEMAN HUNT IN 1839.

VOLUME FORTY-TWO.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1860.

New York:

GEO. W. & JNO. A. WOOD, 82 NASSAU-STREET.

1860.

CONTRIBUTORS

то

THE FORTY-SECOND VOLUME OF THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

DAVID M. BALfour, Esq., of Massachusetts.

JOSEPH E. BLOOMFIELD, Esq., of New York.

WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., of Cote des Neiges, Canada.

J. P. BROWN, U. S. Consul, Constantinople, Turkey.

H. C. CABELL, Esq., of Virginia.

CHARLES H. CARROLL, Merchant, of Massachusetts.

S. COLWELL, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pa.

THOMAS DALTON, Jr., of New York.

PROF. C. F. McCAY, of Augusta, Georgia.

FREDERICK A. SAWYER, Esq., of California.

J. W. Scort, Esq., of Toledo, Ohio.

RICHARD SULLEY, Esq., of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Hon. AMASA WALKER, of North Brookfield, Massachusetts.

Agriculture, statistics of

66 in Kentucky

Book trade, the..... 142, 271, 399, 526, 655, 775
123, 256, 33. 505, 640, 757 Boot and shoe trade of Boston.
610, 615
66 of the United Sates, statistics of. 352
shoes, improvement in sewing.... 380
a new scheme of in France..... 386 Borrowing.......
767
of Ohio for 159..
259 Boston bank returns, weekly,
12

81, 215, 349, 467, 599, 714
wool imported into for four years.... 476

and New York, population of..

... 131

labor...

641

610, 615