Endustrial Resources, Statistics, etc.
COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, EDUCATION, POLITICAL ECONOMY, GENERAL LITERATURE, ETC.
PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, ETC., IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA.
VOL. XIX.---NEW SERIES, VOL. II.
ART. LXXXIV.-Management of Negroes. 85$
Address of Hon. C. C. Clay, jr., 725.
Alabama coal, 91.
Animal food, consumption of, in U. S.,
233; consumption to population, 234;|
value of, 234.
Agriculture in all ages, 589; Egyptian,
Israelites, 590; remarks upon, 591-7.
Agriculture in the U. States, State aid
for, 723.
Agriculture in all ages, 713, 717.
Agava plant, importance of, 491.
Ancient slavery, 559; French works on,
561; history of, 561; remoteness of
its existence, 564; evil effects of man-
umission, 565; modes in which slav-
ery has arisen, 567; history of the
Visigoths, 568; morality of, 569; dif-
ference between ancient and mediæval
slavery, 569; influence of slavery, 577.
Ancient slavery, 617.
Banks of the United States, 701.
Bear-grass, its cultivation in Florida,363.
Breadstuffs, the crop of the present year,
364; comments on, 365; extent of
present wheat crop, 366.
Bank capital, am't in various cities, 78.
C.
Churches, progress of the principal in
the United States, 668.
Coal trade of Pittsburg, 696.
Coal on Lower Ohio, 661.
Coinage, 707.
Commerce of the Ohio and Missis-
sippi, 675.
Commerce of Great Britain, 697.
Cotton manufactures, 693.
Cotton crop, 720.
Cotton trade, 721.
"Cotton" is king, 308; failure of negro
colonization, 309; facts in relation to
cotton, 310; its growth, manufacture
and influence on commerce, 310; sla-
very emancipation, &c., chronologi-
cally arranged, 310; the growing im-
portance of cotton, 312; tabular state-
ment of, 313; imports of coffee,
tobacco, &c., the produce of negro
labor, 314; evil results of emancipa-
tion, 315.
"Cotton" is king, free negrodom, 263;
effects of the abolition of slavery in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 264;
degradation of the free negro, 365;
condition of free colored in the United
States; Island of Jamaica; deprecia-
tion in value of estates, 268.
Commerce, statistics, &c., 431; Louisi-
ana State University, 432; professor-
ship in New Orleans, 433; outline of
labors of professorship, 433; Hon.
Manuel White, 434; programme of
lectures, 435.
Court of Claims at Washington, 158;
rules of practice of, 159-161.
Cotton, competition of India in, 292;
its quality and application, 230; its
irregular demand in the English mar-
ket, 231; culture of in the Madras
presidency, 232.
Charleston, comparative reports of, 460.
Crops and exports, 471.
Colza oil, its use, production, &c., 473.
Cotton crop of 1855, statement of growth,
&c., 596-8.
Cotton seed, different varieties of, 224.
Cotton planters, something for, 116.
Cotton plant, insects infecting the, 478;
characteristics of, 480.
Cattle, remedies for diseases of, 475.
Cotton, agricultural memoirs on Santee
Long, in South Carolina, 104-5.
Carob tree, its pods a food for cattle &c.,
100.
Cities, nativities of leading, in United
States, 262-3.
Cotton gin and introduction of cotton,
602-606.
Coal, product of U. S., 123; coal fields
in Virginia, 124; importance of Penn-
sylvania, 125; Ohio third in rank, 125;
consumption in England and the Uni-
ted States, 126; value of iron import-
ed, 128; imports of foreign coal, 129;
coal trade of United States.
California, mining statistics of, 95.
College, Agricultural, 369.
Cotton plant, insects infesting, 607.
Canals and railways, 205.
Cotton, suggestions for obviating ob-
structions in navigation from low
water, 100.
Curious plants, 732.
District of Columbia, law of slave and
free negroes in, 100-101; slave trade
and slave depots, &c, 101-2.
East, commerce with, 593; a Nicara-
gua canal, 494; location of the Atra-
to river, 495; confluence of the Atra-
to and Truando, 496; tides of the Paci-
fic, 496; healthfulness of the climate,
497, advantages of route, 498; estimat-
ed cost of canal and appurtenances,
499; table of time saved, 500; trade be-
tween California and Atlantic ports,
500; freight money paid at San Fran-
cisco in 1854-55, 501; tonnage in Cal-
ifornia trade, 501; commerce between
United States and Pacific ports, 502;
trade of European States and Pacific
ports, 503; imports of Victoria 1853
-'54, 504; exports from Victoria, 505;
calculations of commercial value of Guano, 218; its formation, 219; the
canal, 506; note, 507.
Education for southern youth, 462-466.
Education, agricultural, 114; institu-
tions in Georgia, 115.
Education, the province of, 588.
Education in Texas, 695.
Chinchas, 219; mode of loading, 220;
exports in three years, 220; imports
into England from 1841 to 1852, 221;
trade of the United States in, for six
years, 221; countries imported from,
222; "Bird Island" variety, &c., 222.
Education, a plea for agricultural, 482- Grain Crop of 1855, 467; estimated pro-
485.
Emancipation, effects of, 226.
Exports from the United States, 704.
Experiments in agriculture, 704–705.
F.
Florida, western and middle sections of,
542; Pensacola, 548; yellow fever in,
544; Tallahassee, 545; situation of,
545; Jacksonville, improvement of,
546; Newport and Pilatka, 547; rivers
of, 548; floating islands of, 549; aquatic
plants of, 549; levelness of on the sea-
shore, 551; lakes of, 552; springs in,
553; natural curiosities of, 556.
Florida, medical topography of, 355; ex-
tent and boundaries, &c., 256; gene-
ral character of the soil of, 257; phy-
sique of the country, 258; alluvial
formations in, 259; the lakes of, 260;
springs of, 261.
Farming, economy of, 594.
Flour, southern, remarks of an English
paper on, 228.
France in 1845, 440; houses, land own-
ers, &c., in, 441; length of railroads
in, 442; population and census of for
fifty years, 443.
Farmers, meteorology for the, 489.
Flour exports, 606.
Free Society, failure of, 29; application
of the term society, 30; remarks on a
clause of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, 31; absurdity of the idea that
"all men are born free and equal,'
32; points against free society, 33;
hybridity of socialism, 34; sociality
first used by Compte, 35; statistical
and historical testimony against, 35;
changes in society, 36; the working
classes how can their condition be
improved, 37.
Free negrodom, master and slave, 371;
settlement of Liberia, 372; result of
abolition doctrines, 373; moral power
of slavery, 374; How is expatriation
to be effected? 375; advice in respect
to, 376.
Florida, railroad and railroad system of,
316; enumeration of public works in,
317; harbor of Pensacola, 318; St. An-
drew's Bay, Bay of St. Marks and
Tampa Bay, 318; canal system, 320;
Tallahassee railroad, 322; great re-
sults of railroad operations in, 323.
Florida, medical topography of, 539; al-
luvial prairies in, 540; cities of, 541;
climateric advantages of, 542.
Farmers, education of, 595.
Fruit trees, new method of raising, 719.
duction in several States, 467; aver-
age number of bushels per acre in
principal States and Territories, 469.
Grapes, enumeration and character of,
349.
Guano, home made, 235.
Grain Crops, the weather and, 227.
H.
Hybrid Races of Animals and Men--
Sterility of, 535; the mulattoes, 537;
black population, 538; inferiority and
tendency to disease in mulatto race,
Hireling and the Slave, 209-213.
Horses and Mules, reasons why the
south should raise, 229.
Hemp, one of the great staples of the
country, 544; experiments of Mr.
Myerle, 244; the superiority of Ame-
rican, 245.
Horse and Mule Power, economy and
value of, 476.
Hemp, its cultivation, &c., 591.
Horticulture for the South, 717-19.
Ice, how much of it is used, and where
it comes from, 709.
Illinois, statistical view of the State of,
405; soil and productions of, 405;
acres of improved and unimproved
land, 406; number of farms in, 407;
marble quarries in, 408; production
of iron in, 409; discoveries of copper
in, 409; coal, 410; vegetable produc-
tions, 411; enumeration of crops, 412;
acres in cultivation, &c., in, 413; rank
of, as a wheat growing State, 414;
stock and cattle estimate in, 415;
game, 416.
Illinois, statistical view of, 247; its sit-
uation, 428; territorial extent of, 248;
prairies of, 250; area of, 251; the
timber lands of, 251; rivers of, 252;
climate of, 253; meteorological obser-
vations during three years, 254–5.
Indigo, the cultivation and preparation
of, 242; its introduction, 243; mode
of curing, &c., 242.
Internal Improvements, agencies to be
depended on in, 81; distribution of
taxation, 82; official criminality in
corporations, 83; revenue road can-
not be constructed in Texas, 85; argu-
ment thereon, 89.
Internal Improvements, agencies to be
depended on in reference to Texas,
201; sale of Michigan railways, 202;
corporate system of, in U. States, 203.
Indian and the Slave, 214-218.
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