Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 39F. Hunt, 1858 - Commerce |
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... Iron mountain in Missouri ... " hardening , new methods of ... 41 238 Mail facilities , improved 95 Mails for Germany . condition of the banks of .. 752 Maine , banking in .. 767 66 387 Making and saving money .. 118 747 99 724 648 476 ...
... Iron mountain in Missouri ... " hardening , new methods of ... 41 238 Mail facilities , improved 95 Mails for Germany . condition of the banks of .. 752 Maine , banking in .. 767 66 387 Making and saving money .. 118 747 99 724 648 476 ...
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... iron mills at Brady's Bend , Pa 66 management 66 property in Great Britain ....... Railways , British .... 251 268 244 Stock dealing .. 702 334 Stockings , gloves , ruffs , & c . , facts about Sugar crop of Louisiana 653 637 616 66 the ...
... iron mills at Brady's Bend , Pa 66 management 66 property in Great Britain ....... Railways , British .... 251 268 244 Stock dealing .. 702 334 Stockings , gloves , ruffs , & c . , facts about Sugar crop of Louisiana 653 637 616 66 the ...
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... iron trade of .. 756 v . Valuation of property and tax in St. Louis .. 722 Vegetable oil , & c . , duty of ..... ...... 110 Velvets , manufacture on ... ....................................... ... 512 Vermont , finances of .....
... iron trade of .. 756 v . Valuation of property and tax in St. Louis .. 722 Vegetable oil , & c . , duty of ..... ...... 110 Velvets , manufacture on ... ....................................... ... 512 Vermont , finances of .....
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... iron rails would give Boston that internal con- nection with the fertile West , that New York and New Orleans had naturally by water . The valuation of Boston property , 44 Commercial and Industrial Cities of the United States :
... iron rails would give Boston that internal con- nection with the fertile West , that New York and New Orleans had naturally by water . The valuation of Boston property , 44 Commercial and Industrial Cities of the United States :
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... Iron rails 7 53,000 129,300 15 227,500 607,500 Copper 14 43,000 112,000 10 293,500 2,000,000 Brass foundries .. 9 119,900 211,440 14 324,000 1,004,000 Britannia ware . 3 15,000 20,550 1 15,000 40,000 Glass ... 4 88,200 72,900 3 615,000 ...
... Iron rails 7 53,000 129,300 15 227,500 607,500 Copper 14 43,000 112,000 10 293,500 2,000,000 Brass foundries .. 9 119,900 211,440 14 324,000 1,004,000 Britannia ware . 3 15,000 20,550 1 15,000 40,000 Glass ... 4 88,200 72,900 3 615,000 ...
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Page 323 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 270 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs, America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 270 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth ; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.
Page 363 - Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this...
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Page 95 - The State may contract debts to supply casual deficits or failures in revenues, or to meet expenses not otherwise provided for; but the aggregate amount of such debts, direct and contingent, whether contracted by virtue of one or more acts of the General Assembly, or at different periods of time, shall never exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars...
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Page 271 - ... be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet, as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war...
Page 387 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be...