THE COMMERCIAL REVIEW SOUTH AND WEST. A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF TRADE, COMMERCE, COMMERCIAL POLITY, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, IN- EDITED BY J. D. B. DE BOW, PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, COMMERCE AND STATISTICS, IN THE UNIVERSITY DE BOW'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW. NEW ORLEANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MAY 14, 1845. elected as Honorary Members, Freeman Hunt and J. D. B. De Bow, Esqrs. These gentlemen are entitled to wide and honorable distinction. The former in originating the Merchant's 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 elucidation of the commercial interests of the South, have richly earned our most grateful acknowledgments. A. O. ANDREWS, President. CHARLESTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 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 interests 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 MERCANTILE LIBRARY SOCIETY, JAN., 1849. Resolved, As the sense 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. HUNT'S MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE, NEW YORK. De Bow's Commercial Review for May contains much valuable matter of a Commercial and Miscellaneous character. It has reached its seventeenth number, which is, in our opinion, the best of the series. Success to our namesake. The paper which has interested us most, is that entitled Commerce and Agriculture Subjects of University Instruction," from the pen of the accomplished editor of the Review, in which be submits the plan of a Professorship of Public Economy, Commerce and Statistics, for our Colleges and Universities. The plan has our hearty approval, and will, we trust, ere long, be adopted by some of our higher institutions. The article on Charleston and its Resources," we shall endeavor to find room for in a future number of this Magazine. Establishment of Manufactures at New Orleans-Remarks on the Practicability of the Estab- lishment and profitable prosecution of the Manufacture of Cotton at New Orleans,.... British Competition in the Production of Cotton-true interests of England in reference to the American Cotton Growers and Manufacturers,. Southern Slave Laws-Abstract of the Laws of Mississippi in regard to Slavery. By HON. Manufactures in South Carolina-Steam Cotton Factory in Charleston, Water-power Factory in Graniteville. By J. H. TAYLOR, of Charleston,.. Communication between New York, New Orleans and San Francisco-the Tehuantepec and Florida Peninsula Railroads. By G. R. FAIRBANKS, of Florida,.... Louisiana and her Industry-Importance of Statistical Researches, Agricultural Societies, Agricultural Products of Louisiana, Sugar Limits and Crops, Cotton Limits and Crops, Meteorology of Louisiana, Profits of Sugar Industry, Rice, Indigo, Silk, Wages, Trans- portation of Products, Trade between States, Taxation, New Orleans. By the EDITOR, 32 Georgia and her Resources-Population, Internal Improvements, Productions, Enterprise, The Southern States-Review of Elwood Fisher's pamphlet, Progressive Movements at the South, Southern and Northern States compared, Hopes of the South, Rights and Rem- edies under the Constitution, &c.,... Production and Manufacture of Cotton. By a Mississippi Planter,.. The Levee System of Louisiana. By H. D. PECK, M. D., of Louisiana,.. Mississippi Valley-on the Improvements of the Mississippi. By ALBERT STEIN, of Mobile, 99 Alabama,. Melsens's Sugar Manufacture, Part I.-New method for the extraction of Sugar from Sugar- cane and Beets, by M. Melsens, Professor of the State Veterinary and Agricultural Col- lege of Belgium, Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, &c. Trans- Helsens's Sugar Manufacture, Part II,... 300 Governor Hammond's Letters on Slavery, No. 3-Physical and Moral Condition of Southern Slaves compared with English Laborers, Schemes of Abolition, Moral Suasion, Force, Competition of Free Labor, West India Emancipation,... Governor Hammond's Letters on Slavery, No. 4-The Argument from Religion, Progress of Domestic Industry-Manufactures of the South, Inaction of the South, Southern Absente?- Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. By REV. II. B. PRICE,. Population-Operation of the Laws of Population in Europe and in the United States. By 207 The Memphis Convention-Importance of California and Oregon, Progress of Population to the Pacific, Facilities of Intercourse in their Political Influences, Value of Eastern Trade with Europe and America, Statistics of Railroads in Europe and the United States, Costs, Dividends, Passengers, Proposed Routes to the Pacific and their Practicability, Panama and Tehuantepec, Military Road along the Mexican Frontier. By the EDITOR, 217 Memoir on Slavery, Part I.-Paper prepared for and read before the Society for the Advance- Memoir on Slavery, by Chancellor Harper, Part II.-Slavery anticipates the Benefits of Civ- ilization and retards its Evils, Struggles of Society and the Competition of Interests, Poor Laws contrasted with the Relation of Master and Slave,. 41990 The Cost of Southern Vineyards. By SIDNEY WELLER, of North Carolina,. Protection to Home Industry. By a Southern Planter,.. Cuba-its Position, Dimensions and Population-Position, with reference to the United States, Territorial Limits and Extent of the Island, Progress and Statistics of Population, Blacks and Whites, Slaves and Free Negroes, &c. By THOMAS C. REYNOLDS, Esq., of Early Spirit of the West, No. 1-Political Factions and Parties in Kentucky and the Western Early Spirit of the West, No. 2. By DR. J. W. MONETTE, "author of Mississippi Valley,"... 407 Mississippi Valley-Remarks on the Improvement of the Mississippi River. By ALBERT Stability of the Union-British Policy regarding Tropical Productions and the Slave Trade, Abortive Movements to check this Trade, Annexation of Texas, how regarded in Eng- land, Products of Slave and Free Labor. Commercial Advantages of the Southern States Statistical Bureaus of the Progress of Southern Industry and Manufacturers' Fair, Commercial Statis- of the Future, &c., 348 Process of Extraction, 450 au of Statistics of Louisi- 422 fer Rivals for the Commerce 444 AMMOND before the Mechanics' 501 522 257 538 Population, Part 2-Analysis of the Census of 1810, 1820. By the EDITOR... INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Cotton prospects, demand and supply, 57. Preservation wheat and flour, 66. Prospects cotton trade 1850, 150. Cultivation of land in the U. S., 157. Cotton prospects for 1850, 264. Patent report and American agriculture, 267. English views of the cotton crop, 270. Relations between the supply, stock and demand of cotton-consumption gains upon produc- tion; British and French cotton trade for 10 Sugar making by new process of Melsens, 491. Successful sugar planting in Florida, 492. Improvements in sugar making, 493. Schutzenbach's system of curing sugar, 493. South Carolina Mechanics' and Agricultural Culture of Tea in South Carolina, 560. Present and future prospects of Great Britain relative to the supply and consumption of Destinies of the West and of the Union, 73.1 Employment of slaves in cotton factories, 75. Another southern factory, 168. Pennsylvania and her resources, 168. Progress of cotton manufacture in U. S., 272. OF Exports from Philadelphia, 489. Ship building in New York, 490. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. South Carolina slave laws, 69, 182, 294, 579. Statistics of northern and southern statesmen, 92. Population of South Carolina, 92. Lard oil business of Cincinnati, 94. Progress of southern internal improvements and Attakapas sea coast, Louisiana, 95. domestic industry, 86. Improvements in railroads, 89. Important and remarkable invention, 90. Progress and prospects of southern railroads, Plankroads at the South, 173. Campaign of the Rio Grande, 185. Magnetic telegraph, its history, cost, operations, Railroad from New Orleans to Jackson, Miss., Mines near Little Rock, Arkansas, 296. Alabama railroad enterprise, 178, 477. Virginia and her internal improvements, 284. Attakapas and Mississippi railroad, 391. The levee system of Louisiana, 485. States and territories of the United States, 569. Bagasse for fuel, 401. Whale Fisheries, 404. Louisiana geology and hydrography, 495. Proposal to re-levee the State of Louisiana, New Orleans improvements, etc., 497. The natural history of death. Black and mulatto population of the South, New Orleans enterprise, 589. Black and mulatto population of the South, 587. Editorial notices of books, etc., 96, 206, 311, 406, 500, 590. Exports from Philadelphia, 489. Georgia, her resources, 39. population, internal improvements, 66 66 66 of United States 1848, 277. 66 of New Orleans, 281. 66 St. Louis, 364. 66 in West and in Union, 73, 272. southern factories, 168. of granite in South Carolina, 169. |