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.
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 29
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;
Cotton, competition of India in, 292; rules of practice of, 159-161. 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.
Cotton crop of 1855, statement of growth, Colza oil, its use, production, &c., 473. Cotton seed, different varieties of, 224. &c., 596-8. Cotton planters, something for, 116. Cotton plant, insects infecting the, 478; Cattle, remedies for diseases of, 475. characteristics of, 480. 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 Curious plants, 732. water, 100.
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 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.
Guano, 218; its formation, 219; the 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-
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, 539.
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.
Indian Corn, cultivation and production of, 347.
Iron, American, 466.
Kansas, the Territory of, 185; face of the country, 186; rivers of, 187; ob- jects of interest to tourists in, 187; minerals, forest trees, zoology, and forts and stations in, 188; population of, 189. L.
Lampas in horses. 730. Law and Lawyers, 301; the science of, 302; natural and revealed, 302; the scope of, 303; the design and object of, 303; the Jewish, 304; Persian, Grecian, and Roman, 305; in the middle ages, 307.
Law and Lawyers, 637.
Lafitte, the pirate, 145; local descrip- tion of Grand Terre and vicinity, 146; occupation of Lafitte, 147; privateers commissioned, 148; legal prosecu- tions against, 150; his generous ser- vices, &c., 151.
Law and Lawyers, 389; elements of English law, 390; statute law, 390; nature of chancery, 391; magna charta, 392; encroachments on the power of the jury, 393; conflicting jurisprudence, in American, 394; ob- ligations of, 395; origin and import- ance of, 396; facility of making law- yers, 397 ; practice in South Carolina, 398; necessity of thorough prepara- tions in, 399; requirements in Eng- land, 300; expositions of legal char- acters in the, 402-3.
Law and Lawyers, 507; habit of argu- ing, 508; opinions of distinguished persons, 510-11; uses of adversity to the development of, 512-13; re- marks upon the character of distin- guished jurists, 514-523.
Mosquito, 171; remarks upon, 172; Mosquito bay, 173; account of, by Herodotus, 174; geographical distri- bution and climatical range of, 176; mosquitoes in the Arctic or frozen zone, 177; in times past and in dif- ferent places, 179; reproductive pow- er of, 181; water, food, of, 181; in- fluence of temperature upon, 185. Mississippi, the overflows and freshets of, 190; causes of, 190-1; general remarks upon, 192-3. Mississippi, geology of the State of, 92; analysis of coal, 92-3; analysis of limestone, 94.
Males, statistics of, 120.
Mobile, statistics of, 459; exports of cotton, 459.
Massachusetts, flagitious act of, 137; Judge Loring, 138. Marriages, among slaves, 130. Millionaries, in New York, 122.
New Orleans, commerce of, 458. New Orleans, present and future of, 688. Negroes, management of, 338; distri- bution of labor, provisions, &c., 359; houses of, 360; necessity of plenty of sleep to, 361; the character of privi- liges to, 362; the fondness of child- ren for, 363; necessity of religious education of, 363.
Ohio grape vintage for 1855, 722-723. Olive, the cultivation of, 723. Orr, Hon. Jas. L., address before South Carolina Institute, 1.
Oxen, marks of good working, 117; feeding, 117; management, &c., 117. Ohio Valley, coalfields and products of, 206; production of coal in, 207; prob- able consumption in 30 years, 208. Observatory, the National, 369.
P. Philadelphia, assessment of real and personal property, 712.
Political Economy, notes on, 416; wealth, utility, labor, exchangeable value commodities, and money, 417; definitions of, and remarks upon, 418, 419; transferring capital, 420; cost of production, 421; remarks on wages and profits, 422; principle of popula- tion, 423; emigration and immigra- tion, 423; coined money and bank notes, 424; value of the circulating medium, 425; varieties of banks, 425; advantages and evils of banks, 426; the sub-treasury, 427; free banking, 428; commerce, 428; the tariff, 429; duty on imports, 430; McDuffie's forty-bale theory, 431.
Pauperism and Crime-White and Col- ored Native and Foreign, 268; house of refuge, Boston and New York, 269; ratio of prisoners to popu- lation, 270; education of prisoners, 274; greater tendency of the colored race to, 276-7; notes, &c., 279. Pacific Railroad Routes, 336; estimated cost and equated lengths, 337; the most practical and economical, 337; comparison of results, 338; distances of the eastern termini of the several, 339; valuable statement, 340; notes, 341.
Population, Production in United States, 132; geographical sections of U. S.,
133; estimate of value, 134; compara- tive view of productive industry of United States, 135.
Pacific, 57; commerce of, 456; mail route advocated, 457.
Patent Office, agricultural division of,
Pitch Pine and Red Oak, analysis of the leaves of, 343; comparison of mineral constituents, 345; table, 346. Planters, important to Sea-Island, 369 Potato, the sweet and the Irish, 592.
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