OF THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN STATES. DEVOTED TO COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, GENERAL LITERATURE, &C. u Commerce is Bing.", J. D. B. DE BOW, EDITOR, AND PROPRIETOR. R OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA VOL LX-NEW SERIES, VOL. I. New-Orleans : J. D. B. DE BOW. 1850. SOUTHERN & WESTERN REVIEW. A MONTHLY INDUSTRIAL AND LITERARY JOURNAL, PUBLISHED IN NEW ORLEANS. $5 PER ANNUM. Library Edition, Bound, 1846-1850, 8 Vols., $25. The following list, made up for us on the last day of the session of Congress by a friend, is incomplete, and does not include many names which were given. As we get then 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 COMMERCE, 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." Va. SENATE. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. R. M. T. Hunter, Va. W. R. W. Cobb, Ala. Paulus Powell, James M. Mason, T. S. Clingman, N. C. J. W. Jackson, Geo. Thos. J. Rusk, Texas. J. Thompson, Miss. J. E. Holmes, S. C. R. Barnwell, S. C. Wm. J. Alston, Ala. W. McWillie, Miss. A. P. Butler, W. P. Gentry, Tenn. W. S. Featherston, Pierre Soulé, La. Isaac E. Morse, La. V. E. Howard, Texas. S. N. Downs, - Jas. A. Sedden, Va. Dan. Wallace, S. C. Jefferson Davis, Miss. Thos. H. Averett, - T. P. Stanton, Tenn. Henry S. Foote, J. A. Woodward, S. C. R. K. Meade, Va. Geo. E. Badger, N. C.W. F. Colcock, Andrew Ewing, Tenn. W. Mangum, Samp. W. Harris, Ala. James L. Orr, S. C. W. C. Dawson, Ga.S. W. Inge, J. Thompson, Miss. W. K. Sebastien, Ark. A. G. Brown, Miss. J. G. Harris, Ala. D. L. Yulee, Florida. R. H. Stanton, Ky.M. J. Welborn, Geo. Emaile La Sere La J. P. Caldwell, N. C. HOME GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. By W. Adam.. ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND PROSPECTS OF SLAVERY. By the Editor, INVASION OF DE SOTO IN ALABAMA,. DR. CHANNING ON SLAVERY. By Jno. Fletcher, of Missy. YEXICAN MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES IN 1850. By Brantz RUINS OF CENTRAL AMERICA AND YUCATAN. By A. W. Ely, M.D., 44 .164 ..55, 304, 354, 544 LITERATURE OF SPAIN. By the Editor. 66 POPULATION. Part 3 ..... 85 PROTECTION OF MISSISSIPPI LOW LANDS By Maj. J. G. Barnard, 90, 177 COMMERCE OF THE RED SEA AND THE EASŤ. By Emmanuel Weiss 132 NATIONAL VANITY... 140 MONETTE'S "EARLY SPIRIT OF THE WEST." By Mason Butler......142 THE BARON HUMBOLDT'S COSMOS. By Prof. C. G. Forshey, of N.O. 150, 271 .158, 392 184 SOME THOUGHTS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY AND GOVERNMENT. By the Editor. 257 SLAVERY AND THE BIBLE .281 HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL COLLECTIONS OF LOUISIANA. By M. Le Blanc..... .286 SOUTHERN MEDICAL REPORTS. By the Editor. .294 SUBMERGED LANDS. By Genl. Duff Green. PROGRESS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN STATES. Charleston, B.C.-Memphis-Improvements-Business, etc.... 307 SPANISH PARTIES IN THE WEST. Part 2nd. By Mason Butler, of Missouri 357 EARLY AND GROWING COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. By the Editor.. 370 THE SCUPPERNONG GRAPE, AND WINE MAKING. By Sidney Weller, of N. C. 381 REMARKS ON AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS. By the Editor.... 389 ANNEXATION OF CANADA. By J. A. Turner, of Georgia. CURRENCY AND BANKING. By T. Prentice Kettell, New-York.. .. 413 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY.. LITTLE RED-HEAD INSURANCE OF CHARACTER CHANCELLOR HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY. .495, 614 SOUTH AFRICA AND I'TS SPORTS. .504 RAIL-ROADS AND TRANSPORTS AT HOME AND ABROAD ..513 MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR.. . 521, 625 BRYANT'S POEMS. By J. A. Turner, of Geo........ PACIFIC RAIL-ROAD ...601 1828 ......300 ...397 ...466 ...476 ..492 ...578 Interests of Agriculture..... .108 Trade and Commerce of Hamburg, Sugar-its Production and History......109 96 Historical Notice of Sugar, Commercial Resources, North and South 98 Consumption of Sugar in Europe... ..113 Rice-Production of in Southern States. 200 Governor Aiken's Rice Estate... 201 Commerce of the Red Sea, &c... 132 Cheap Farming Lands of Virginia .. 203 Trade of Great Britain and United Sugar Lands of Florida... States, with South America. .338 Grapes, Production of, in South and Pittsburg Steamboat Building - New Orleans Chamber of Corumerce... 342 Profits-from Wine Making.... 207 Early and Growing Commerce of the Southern Commerce and the Gulf Cotton Culture in British India........314 Sugar-West India Culture... 320 Condition of the Banks in the U.S.....442 Draining and Subsoiling.. Prospective Commerce with Japan. .444 Meslin's Method of Making Sugar.....417 New Sugar Process in England. .418 195 Sugar Making—The Highlands. .197 Prospects of Cotton Growers...... 419 ..198 Agricultural Developments of Texas...426 ...199 Hog Killing in the West. Commercial Summary and Review... Exports--Cotton-1849-'50, and crop...233 Supply of Trade and Commerce of Charleston.... 307 Business, &c., of Memphis... .314 Exports of Cotton-Charleston.. .312 Product and Consumption of Sugar in Cotton Growing Facilities in Ceylon....664 African Trade and Productions. Production of Cotton in Jamaica.......665 Exports and Imports of the U. 8. in 1849.542 Improved Sugar Process.... ..665 Shipbuilding in the U.S..... .542 Steam Communication between the North American Whale and Seal Fish- Turpentine Business of Georgia. Manufactories of Cannelton, Ind. ...191 British and American Steamships.. Trade and Commerce of Cincinnati....639 Trade and Commerce of Mobile. ..654 Exports of Cotton from Mobile. Trade of New Orleans, 1849–50........660 Cotton—the American Monopoly.......105 Mineral Resources of Alabama.. ...105 Iron Manufactures in E. Mississippi.... 331 Successful Cotton Plantings in the Poor American Manufactures. How Cotton should be Packed..... .107 Manufactures in the South ..445 448 ..552 ..257 Manufactures, Domestic..... 431 | Alabama, Mobile, and Chicago Rail-road 440 Girard and Mobile Rail-road.. 433 Mobile and Ohio, and Nlinois Central .434 Rail-road the Alabama and Tennessee Rail-road 554 Orange and Alexandria Rail-road, Va...556 Greenville and Columbia Rail.road, 8.C. EDITORIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS 19 DEPARTMENT. 120 228 ..140 Physical Character of the Negro 231 236 238 239 .240 Ethnological Researches.- Is the African and the Caucasian of Common Origin? 243 245 .246 -346 How far the Tides affect the Mississippi 248 Census of 1850 249 250 Nashville Convention .504 Notice of Books, Reports, etc., etc......253 ..676 Products of the Interior received at N.O.456 457 461 85 Resources of the Mississippi.. ..559 and Wealth of Texas. The Brazos Country, Texas 567 Letters in New Orleans. 571 572 .575 .560 64 46 305) Gallery of Industry and Enterprise.- 671 677 .331 To the Planters of the South.. .....335 Notice to Subscribers ....678 |