SOUTHERN AND WESTERN REVIEW. A MONTHLY INDUSTRIAL AND LITERARY JOURNAL. PUBLISHED IN NEW-ORLEANS. Five Dollars per Annum. Library Edition, Bound, 1846-1852, 11 Vols. The following list, made up for us on the last day of the session of Congress by a friend, is in complete, and does not include many names which were given. As we get them they will be added. "The undersigned, Members of Congress, take great pleasure in recommending De Bow's REVIEW to the People of the Southern and Western States, a work which has been edited and published in New-Orleans for the last five years, by J. D. B. De Bow, and which embraces in a monthly series of numbers, the most complete and reliable facts and statistics relative to the progress and development of all the great branches of industry in the States, whether in Com merce, Agriculture, Manufactures, or Internal Improvement; as also the growth and progress of Population and Improvement; the question of Slavery in all its bearings, social and political, Slave Products, &c. The published volumes of this work constitute an invaluable library of Southern and Western Statistics, and have already become a standard authority." NEW-ORERANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, May 14, 1846. Be it Resolved, That this Chamber highly approves of the Commercial Review, a periodical established in this city by J. D. B. De Bow, Esq., and recommends it to the patronage of the commercial community. CHARLES BRIGGS, Secretary. SAMUEL J PETERS, President. CHARLESTON MERCANTILE LIBRARY SOCIETY, Feb. 1847. In exercise of the power given them by the Constitution, the Board have unanimously elected as Honorary Members, Freeman Hent and J. D. B. De Bow, Esqrs. These gentlemen are entitled to wide and honorable distinction. The former in originating the Merchants' Magazine, the first successful attempt of its kind in the United States, sustained and conducted as it has been by marked ability. The latter, one of our own citizens, in the laudable spirit which prompted the establishment of the Commercial Review of the South and West, and the masterly pen which he has wielded in elu eidation of the commercial interests of the South, have richly earned our most grateful acknowledgments. A. O. ANDREWS, President. CHARLESTON Chamber of Commerck, Oct. 26, 1846. On motion of Col. James Gadsden, Resolved, That the Commercial Review, edited in New Orleans by our fellow citizen, J. D. B. De Bow, Esq., is a work well calculated to exercise a most favorable influence on the commercial inte rests of the South and West. Resolved, That the zeal and talent with which it has been commenced, and the able articles which have appeared in its pages (as foreshadowing on the future the promises of the past,) strongly recommend the Review to the patronage of the Southern community, and that the Chamber of Commerce of Charleston feel gratified at the opportunity of presenting to the public this testimony in its favor. W. B. HERIOT, Secretary. CINCINNATI MERCANTIK Linary Society, Jan. 1849. Resolved, As the seuse of the Mercantile Library Association of Cincinnati, that De Bow's Commercial Review of the South and West supplies an important desideratum in the mercantile literature of this great western valley; that the comprehensive views and practical attainments of Professor De Bow are special qualifications for conducting such a periodical, and that this Association very cordially recommend the Commercial Review to general favor, and the special patronage of our mercantile community. 103082 INDEX TO VOLUME IV., COMMERCIAL REVIEW, NEW SERIES. FROM JULY, 1851, TO JANUARY, 1852. ORIGINAL ARTICLES. PAGE. INDEX. PAGE. The State of Mississippi. By J. M. CHILTON, of Miss... Thoughts on a Rail-road System for New-Orleans and the Southwest. By M. B. Hɛw. Slave Laws of the Southern States. By Col. H. W. WALTER, of Miss.. Cotton crop of U. S., 1851, 522. Cotton, diseases of plant and remedies, 7. 38. Concordia Parish, Louisiana-its settlement, citizens, mounds, country, soil, minerals, plants, animals, birds, fishes and insects, roads, &c., diseases, education, religion, 40. Cotton, price of crop, 70. -, frauds in packing, 70. Census, 1850, 83. Charleston and Savannah, 140. Cotton-prospect, effect on civilization, kind Cotton tables, 317. factory at New-Orleans, 342. Charlestonians, their character, 5. Creole ladies of New-Orleans, 6. Canals, western, 178. Colleges at the South, 99. 179, 569 Cotton Trade of New-Orleans, 1851, 488. 574 561 601 617 611 621 630 planters' convention, address of Commit tee, 497-504. Cotton, new and choice variety, 634. Cotton manufactures, extent of, and relation between the price of cotton, 639. Cotton manufactures, to what extent carried, 641. manufacture of by planters, 642. Charleston, commerce of, 648. Memphis, Ten., 532. M. Marquette's descent of the Mississippi, 3. Missouri lead mines, 89. &c., 413. compared with Western cities, her true policy, 172. - projected rail-roads. 174. why she does not advance, 8. mortality, 100, population, 484. vital statistics and mortality of, statistics of her commerce in the years 1850-'51, 488-497. Negroes, emancipation of, 185. peculiarities of, 186. history of race, 144. sanatory condition of race in the south- ern states, 196. diseases of, 209. treatment of, 210. peculiarities of, by Dr. Cartwright, 331. diseases, and peculiarities of, organi- management of, 369. Negro civilization in St. Domingo, &c., 530. boundary and appearance, 286. New Orleans, exports of flour, pork, bacon, New-Orleans, exports of do. 1849-'50, 644. New-Orleans, exports of sugar and molasses, tion at, 668. 0. Opelousas, rail-road meeting at, 655. P. Plank Roads, advantage and cost, 63, 428. North Carolina, Colonial and revolutionary his- Russian Empire, extent, inhabitants, govern- Robb, James, his speech at the New-Orleans Rail-road and water distances, 162. Mobile and Ohio, 161. progress in world, 176. Tehuantepec and Florida, 177, do. 214. New-Orleans and Texas, or how N. profits, 421. of Alabama, 425. cost of, 425. in Massachusetts, 521. in U. S., and various statistics of, 428. Slavery, origin of, 23, 349. dependent on property, 27. among ancients, 28, 357. and manufacturing, 318. imports and exports of, 197-199. progress of, in Texas, 402. -necessity of manufactures in, and her fa- resources and trade of, 650. South, intellect of, compared with North, 351. South and North, 530. South Carolina, manufactures in, address of South Carolina, her natural advantages, 130. her soil, 138. Society, modern, compared with ancient, 124. South, how affected by slavery, 349. T. and manufactories, reciprocal influ- Tupper's works reviewed, 12. ence, 468, 651. system for New-Orleans, 471. Tahuantepec, 515. influences, 517. construction, 655. Tennessee, €70. New Orleans and Opelousas, January convention, 672 Red River, excursion to, 221. Races of men, 338. Rice-history, cultivation, improvements, &c.. Ruffin, Edwin, biography of, 431. Roman, A. B., do. 436. Texas, emigration to, 221. present and future of, 336. inducements to settle in, 533-537. Trade, direct to foreign ports, 651. Tobacco-prize essay on mode of culture, soil, U. U. S. Territories, 337. V. Virginia-historical essays on, 463. -mercantile convention, 682, Warrior, valley resources, 82. Wirt, Wm., his life, character, services, 363. |