The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 61William B. Dana F. Hunt, 1869 |
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... June .. Banks of United States , returns for June ...... Boston bank returns , weekly , 80 , 158 , 287 , 818 , 898 , 476 .95 , 275 .99 , 101 Breadstuffs movement . Breadstuffs in the west .. C. .... 148 820 Canada railways ...
... June .. Banks of United States , returns for June ...... Boston bank returns , weekly , 80 , 158 , 287 , 818 , 898 , 476 .95 , 275 .99 , 101 Breadstuffs movement . Breadstuffs in the west .. C. .... 148 820 Canada railways ...
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... June , 1867 , the king tendered slaves in payment of a debt which he had contracted . I am unable to give particulars of this trade which as yet is in its infan - y . I come next to the rivers , Benin , Brass , and Bonny ( nouths of the ...
... June , 1867 , the king tendered slaves in payment of a debt which he had contracted . I am unable to give particulars of this trade which as yet is in its infan - y . I come next to the rivers , Benin , Brass , and Bonny ( nouths of the ...
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... June have inspired the business community with so much caution , and have tended so strongly to " prevent the inordinate inflation of credits , that there is more soundness and strength among the timbers and girders and buttresses of ...
... June have inspired the business community with so much caution , and have tended so strongly to " prevent the inordinate inflation of credits , that there is more soundness and strength among the timbers and girders and buttresses of ...
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... June the Treasury held thirty mil- lions and ur city banks seventy - two milions . Thus we see the aggregate is now less than that of last year by the vast sum of thirty - four millions of dollars . We need offer no farther evidence of ...
... June the Treasury held thirty mil- lions and ur city banks seventy - two milions . Thus we see the aggregate is now less than that of last year by the vast sum of thirty - four millions of dollars . We need offer no farther evidence of ...
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... June 1 , was 101,329 , against 76,116 for the same months of last year , showing an increase for that period of about 30 per cent . For the first seven days of the present month , the number landed at Castle Garden was 10.978 . The ...
... June 1 , was 101,329 , against 76,116 for the same months of last year , showing an increase for that period of about 30 per cent . For the first seven days of the present month , the number landed at Castle Garden was 10.978 . The ...
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Page 256 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 338 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 338 - The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 90 - ... people had become unable to buy them, except in very insufficient quantities, there was a great and urgent need of something to replace the cotton seed, and restore to the soil those chief ingredients, indispensable to the production of a good cotton crop — phosphoric acid, or soluble phosphates. In this emergency came the discovery of those natural deposits. , Already too much space has been given to the effort to report faithfully the condition of the cotton culture of the United States,...
Page 427 - The rise in the money price of all commodities, which is in this case peculiar to that country, tends to discourage more or less every sort of industry which is carried on within it, and to enable foreign nations, by furnishing almost all sorts of goods for a smaller quantity of silver than its own workmen can afford to do, to undersell them, not only in the foreign, but even in the home market.
Page 339 - This coincidence of the two great English commonwealths (for so I delight to call them ; and I heartily pray that they may be forever united in the cause of justice and liberty) cannot be contemplated without the utmost pleasure by every enlightened citizen of the earth.
Page 339 - ... of other States. I have already observed its coincidence with the declarations of England, which indeed is perfect, if allowance be made for the deeper, or at least more immediate interest in the independence of South America which near neighborhood gives the United States.
Page 86 - annihilation of property," for the whole labor power would have remained as before, only it would have changed owners. Precisely so stands the effect of the decree of emancipation, made as an act of war, with this difference, however, that the laborers of both races were sadly reduced and demoralized by the incidents of the war which wrought the change. The same laboring force still exists, with the exception mentioned, and except, also, that the sudden and violent change in relations between capital...
Page 427 - But that degradation in the value of silver which, being the effect either of the peculiar situation, or of the political institutions of a particular country, takes place only in that country, is a matter of very great consequence, which, far from tending to make any body really richer, tends to make every body really poorer.
Page 89 - ... country. A description of them and of the circumstances leading to their discovery will be found in the Appendix C, in a letter from Dr. NA Pratt, whose researches, aided by others, have opened up a treasure whose value cannot now be measured. This store of phosphates, thus prepared in nature's laboratory and laid up until the day of special need, contains just the chemical properties wanted for the cotton plant, and which the cotton seed had been abstracting from the soil. So long as cotton...