MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE

AND

COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT, A. M.,

EDITOR OF THE LIBRARY OF COMMERCE, ETC.; 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, PHILA-
DELPHIA, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, LOUISVILLE, CHARLESTON, AND
CINCINNATI, ETC.

VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT.

1853..

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, INCLUSIVE, 1853.

New York:

PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET.
1853.

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D. M. BALFOUR, Merchant, of Massachusetts.

G. M. BELL, Esq., Secretary of the Bank of Australia in London, Author of
Works on Banking, &c.

J. P. BROWN, Esq., of the Legation of the United States at Constantinople.
WILLIAM J. CLARKE, Controller of the State of North Carolina.

A. F. CARMAN, Esq., of Wisconsin.

E. H. DERBY, Esq., of Massachusetts.

EDWARDS, Esq., of Massachusetts.

CHARLES GRAEBE, Esq., U. S. Consul at Frankfort on the Maine.

REV. T. W. HIGGINSON, A. M., of Massachusetts.

ENOCH HALE, Jr., of New York.

SAMUEL HARRIS, Esq., of Maine.

REV. J. T. HENDRICK, of Clarksville, Tennessee.
DAVID R. JAQUES, Esq., of the New York Bar.
DEMING JARVIS, Esq., Manufacturer, of Massachusetts.
B. LAWRENCE, Geologist of Arkansas.

STEPHEN P. LEEDS, Geologist, of New York.

C. F. M'CAY, LL. D., of the University of Georgia.

M. F. MAURY, LL. D., of the National Observatory, at Washington.

E. MERIAM, Esq., of New York.

GEORGE D. PRENTISS, Esq., of Kentucky.

WM. S. PRICE, M. D., of Alabama.

HON. BENJAMIN F. PORTER, of Porterville, Alabama.

E. W. STOUGHTON, Esq., of the New York Bar.

JOHN MILTON STEARNS, Esq., of Massachusetts.

C. D. STUART, Esq., of New York.

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

CHARLES STEARNS, Professor of Geology, of New York.
CHARLES WHITTLESEY, Esq., of Missouri.