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 THIRTY-FOUR.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1856.

New York:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.
1856.

CONTRIBUTORS

TO THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME OF THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

ABBOTT BROTHERS, Counselors-at-Law, New York.

SUMNER ALBEE, Esq., of the Suffolk Bar.

J. H. ALLEN, Esq.

Hon. NATHAN APPLETON, of Massachusetts.
EDWARD R. BOYLE, Esq.

H. BOYNTON, Esq., of New York.

Hon. THOMAS G. CARY, of Massachusetts.

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

GEORGE S. FOX, Esq., of Philadelphia.

CHARLES W. FREDERICKSON, Broker, of New York.

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

T. B. HALL, Esq., of Massachusetts.

GEORGE LIVERMORE, Esq., Merchant, of New York.

J. W. SCOTT, Esq., of Ohio.

Hon. F. O. J. SMITH, of Maine.

RICHARD SULLEY, of Indiana.

GEORGE F. TRAIN, Esq., of Melbourne, Australia.

EX-PRESIDENT JOHN TYLER, of Virginia.

EMANUEL WEISS, Esq., of New York.

GEORGE M. WESTON, Esq., of Maine.
L. WOODRUFF, Esq., of Michigan.
PROFESSOR WURM, of Hamburg.

FREEMAN HUNT, Editor and Proprietor.

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