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Geological Survey of Missouri.....
Pacific Railroad-Equity Shares.
Railroads in Arkansas. .
Literary Notices...
German Philosophy •
Credit, Gold and Silver..
St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans Railroad....
St. Louis, Paducah and Nashville Railroad Connection
Germany-Taste. Translated from the French of Mad. De Stael..
The Cross. A Poem..
The Way to Heaven. A Poem
Let me think in my heart. A Poem
Sketch of a Beauty. A Poem..

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GENERAL INDEX TO THE TWELFTH VOLUME.
A.

| Conimercial aspects of California, 362.
Africa and African Slavery, 338. Cotton: its culture and commerce in In-
Agricultural Capacity of California, dia, 420.
264.

Credit, Gold and Silver, 118.
Agriculture: Its essentials and non-es- Cross: a poem, 227.
sentials, 450.

Cultivation of Taste by Farmers,
Amazon Valley : Its climate and pro-

448.
ductions, 96.

D.
Angel Child, a poein by Lettie of Ky., Decomposition of rocks and production
304.

of metals, 276.
Arkansas Railroads and Land Grants, Dependence of mind upon matter, 137.
64.

E.
Arkansas trade with St. Louis, 134. Education Statistics:- Census of 1850,
Australia, produce of gold, in, 379. 438.
B.

England and the Slave Trade, 415.
Banking: Free Banks, Banking Corpo- European War : Probable effects on
rations, 154.

American sccurities, 25.
Banks: How Savings Banks get rich,

F.
428.

Forest Mining Co., 59.
Banks and Banking in Indiana, 431. Fremonts Expedition to the Pacisic in
Banks of Illinois. Commissioner's re- the winter of 1853-4, 184.
port, 436.

Fruits of Oregon, wild and cultivated,
Banana, Culture of, in Florida, 446.

93.
Bartlett's Personal Narrative of the

G.
country between San Antonio, Texas, Galvanized Iron, 430.
and the Pacific, 251.

Gas : Cast and consumption of, in 34
Beauty, a sketch, 228.

166.

road iron discussed, 77. New method

P.
of rolling railroad iron, 301. Gal- Public Lands, Pre-emption laws, edut
vanized iron,
430.

cation endowments, Railroad grans,
J.

&c., 37.
Japan: Treaty with the U. S., 368. Pacific Railroad, Mo., Equity Shares
K.

&c., 63,
Kansas Territory, the Act of organiza-

Pacific Railroad Convention in Cali-
tion, boundary, &c., 303.

fornia, 296.
Kaskaskia : Its capture by Col. Clark, Prime Mover, Universal, Graham's in-

Partnerships, limited, 238.
Keokuk and Muscatine Railroad, 374.

vention, 273.

R.
L.

Railroads.
Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis rail-

Pacific Railroad, Mo.,
road, 387.

Equity shares, &c., 62. Frémont's
Lander, Col., His opinion respecting a

exploration of the central route. 184.

Southern route, 256. Central route
railroad route to the Pacific, 299.
Lands, public, Statistics of the General

convention in California, 296, Rail.
Land Office, 44.

roads in Arkansas, 64. Midland R.

R., 224.
Lands, public, Speech of Mr. Perkins,

Breaking ground at Hele-
of La., on a proposition to transfer

na, 300. Mississippi, Ouachita and
them to the States, 381. Law gradu-

Red River Railroad breaking ground
ating the price of the public lands,

301. Railroads concentrating at Hei

lena, Ark., 370. Mobile and Obt-
399.
Let me think in my heart, a poem, 228.

Railroad, Engineer's Report, 173. So.

Louis, Memphis and New Orleans
Libraries, public, 22.
Life among the Mormons, 279.

Railroad, 212. St. Louis, Paducah

and Nashville Railroad Connection,
Limited Partnerships, 238.

220. Railroads in Great Britain, Re-
Literary Notices, 67.

port for 1853, 313. Keokuk and
M.

Muscatine Railroad, 374. Clevelan.
Memory of Friends, a poem, 301. and St. Louis air line railroad; it
Memphis Navy Yard and Western Riv.

progress, length of straight lines

curves, grades, &c., 374. Obio and
Mesilla Valley; 251.

Mississippi railroad open to Carlyle,
Mexico, Treaty with the United States, 376. Chicago and Mississippi Rail-
1854, 260.

road completed, 376. Mississippi &
Mind, dependence of on matter, 137. Tennessee Railroad, Engineer's Re-
Mining and Metallurgy of the Ancient, port, 377. Lake Erie, Wabash and
411.

St. Louis Railroad, Progress of the
Mint of the United States; Annual Re- work, 378. Railroad iron, shall the

duties on be repealed ? 77.
Mississippi, Ouachita and Red River Railroad iron, improved method of rol-
Railroad, 301.

ring bars, 301.
Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad; Rocks, decomposition of, and recom-
Engineer's Report, 377.

position of their metalic coin position,
Mobile and Ohio Railroad; Engineer's
Report, 191.

S.
Mohave Índians, 336.

St. Louis and Arkansas Trade, 134.
Mormons, life among,
379.

Trade with Hickman, Ky., Tennessee
N.

and Arkansas River3, 204. St Louis
Navy Yard at Memphis, 348.

civil statistics - Mayor's message,
Nebraska Territory, 305. Law organ-

197. St. Louis, Memphis and New
izing, 311.

Orleans Railroad, 212. St. Louis,
Newspapers and public libraries, 22.

Paducah and Nashville railroad cuo-
North, Christopher, [Professor Wil-
son;] his critical and miscellaneous Savings Banks, how they get rich, 428.

ers, 348.

port, 173.

276.