Financial Events of the year 1848, Crisis in Great Britain, London Times on, Fillmore (Millard) Report upon the Banking System óf New York, Fixed and Floating Capital, by James Wilson, M. P., Foreign Opinions upon the Gold of Russia and California, . 575, 608, 619, 631, 690 Forgery, Improvements in Bank Note Paper for the Prevention of, Gurney, (Samuel) Opinions on the Commercial Crisis, Banking System, &c., Harris (J. Morrison) Historical and Descriptive Sketch of California, Irving, (Washington) on the Gold Fever in the 16th Century, Jacob (William) on the Supply and Consumption of the Precious Metals, Journal (Le) des Debats, Remarks on California, Louisiana State Bank-Proceedings respecting the, Manufacturers, Merchandize and Crops of the Several States, 1848, Merchants' Bank in the City of New York-History of the Mexico Statistics of the Coinage of, Mississippi Valley-Trade of the, Mint of the United States-Coinage of, 1793 to 1848, Account of the, [with an Engraving,] 72, 200, 264, 324, 384, 456, 528, 587, 644, 707 Morris, (Governor of the Bank of England) Views of Currency and Banking, 501 National Wealth-Principles of, by H. C. Carey, Industry-On the Progress of, New Orleans-Remarks on the Public Debt of, New York-Commerce of, 1846, 1847, 1848, Prices of Provisions in, 1823 to 1847, Historical Sketches of the Banking Institutions of, 678 Palmer (J. Horsley) Opinions on the Commercial Crisis, Banking System, &c. 245 Pease (J.) Opinions on the Commercial Crisis, Banking, &c., 502 Peters, (S. J.) Remarks on the Public Debt of New Orleans, Production of the, in America, Travelling Facilities fifty-three years ago-Changes in the Basin-New Papers proposed-New Lines projected for Philadelphia and Easton-Delays of TravelNew Stone Bridges over Jones' Falls-New Insurance Companies-New Banks Established. Travel.-In consulting the daily journals of fifty years since, published in Baltimore, the reader is struck with the extraordinary, nay, almost incredible, change that have taken place in the facilities of travel to and from the city. The traveller of that period had neither the telegraph nor the rail road to prompt his movements. Even steamboats, now pursuing their comparatively slow path, were unknown-not conceived. The mail coachee was the ready means of reaching Philadelphia in thirty hours, and news from Boston in seven days was a rarity. In the winter season, more particularly, the merchant, the broker and the statesman had to wait the dull process of the mail for intelligence respecting the captures on the ocean, money operations, or the elections far and near. As a singular instance of such delays, we find the editor of a daily paper in Baltimore, acknowledges in his journal of the 25th February, 1795, "A gentleman who arrived last night in the stage from Philadelphia, favored us with a Philadelphia paper of the 21st instant. Our readers will attribute the barrenness of our paper to the irregularity of the mails, which, although they arrived last evening in due time, brought, we may say, not a single paper." On the 3d March of that year, a new line of "accommodating coaches" was advertised by William Evans & Co., to start from Grant's Fountain |