WRIGHT'S INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS.

This highly valuable preparation, esteemed above every other article of the kind at the North, has been latterly ac quiring a like celebrity at the South and Southwest. It is a strictly original composition, and bases, its claims upon its intrinsic merits, as adapted to the varied requirements of the human system. In fact it has been justly styled "Nature's own Remedy," since the Pills, in their operation, answer precisely the indications which Nature points out. They possess the merit, also, of being entirely free from mercury, and all mineral admixture whatever.

In the fevers and other complaints incident to southern and southwestern life, these Pills are unsurpassed in efficacy. They have cured YELLOW FEVER alter every other remedy had failed. They have broken up the AGUE and BILIOUS FEVER in all their forms. They are thoroughly anti-bilious in their action; in whatever shape it may present itself, powerful for good and yet innocent of injury.

If resorted to in time, this medicine will be found to answer all the requirements of the family and Plantation. For FEMALES at certain seasons, there is none superior, if indeed there be any equal to it. Even for CHILDREN afflicted with any of the prevalent disorders, a trial of it will suffice to place it upon the most favorable footing in the estima tion of all concerned.

Space will not allow of the introduction of the numerous testimonials received by the proprietor. He therefore subjoins only two or three of them, the first of which was received from Vera Cruz, in 1849, while the Yellow Fever was quite prevalent, and is signed, as will be seen, by the HIGHEST MEDICAL AUTHORITIES of that city.

TRANSLATION.

We, the undersigned, licensed Physicians in and for the city of Vera Cruz, do hereby certify, that we have used Dr. W. Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills, bought of Mr. Felix Rovira, Agent in this city, and having ap plied said Pills to cure the different diseases for which they are recommended by Dr. Wright, we have found them in every respect satisfactory, and we therefore recommend the use of said Pills to every person in this republic whoever may be suffering from any of the maladies for which their use is recommended by the inventor of said Pills.-And in order that the present certificate may be used as convenient to the parties, we have signed it in Vera Cruz, this 10th day of August, 1849. (Signed,) GEORGE GAIDAN, MANUEL HOVAD. Extract of a letter from the editor of the Greenville Mountaineer, S. C., received during the Mexican war: DR. W. WRIGHT-DEAR SIR: * * A week or two ago I sent you a Mountaineer, containing a letter from one of our Volunteers in the City of Mexico, in which he pays WRIGHT'S INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS, under all the circumstances, the highest meed of praise I have ever known a medicine to receive. The Volunteer, William W. Goodlett, Esq., is a gentleman of fine standing-an accomplished and well educated man, and was recently High Sheriff of this district. By one of your advertisements in a Charleston paper, I happened to notice the location of your office, and thought you might extract an article of some value in regard to your medicine, therefore I sent the paper. The following is an extract from the letter referred to above:

"My health is very fast improving. I procured, a few days ago, some of DR. WRIGHT'S INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS, and they have acted on my system like magic !"

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Extract of a letter from Judge Dutton, late editor of the Ibervillian," Plaquemine, La. DR. WRIGHT-DEAR SIR : * There is a great call for your useful medicine in this part of the country. Two years ago I took a few dozen from Mr. Bronsema, your Agent in New-Orleans, for my own use. But, as soon as it was known in the neighborhood, I was importuned for them till there was none left; and one person, to whom I gave up one half dozen boxes for $1 25, I found selling them out again, as a special favor, at SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS a box!

The genuine may be had of J. WRIGHT & Co., Chartres-st., and A. BRONSEM, 74 Camp-street, New-Orleans; M. BOULLEMET, Mobile; HAVILAND, HARROL & Co., Charleston; and by the principal dealers throughout the United States and Canadas. Principal office, to which all communications must be addressed, 169 Race-street, Philadelphia.

TEXAS-GENERAL AGENCY.

ESTABLISHED 1842, BY A. F. JAMES, CITY OF GALVESTON.

CAPITALISTS and others wishing to make investments, can always find at this office a list of improved and unimproved Real Estate for sale, consisting of building lots suitable for stores and private residences; also, cottages and desirable family residences in the city and suburbs.

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The undersigned have known Mr. A. F. James, as a citizen of Galveston, for the last eleven years, during most of which time he has been engaged in the above business, for which we believe him well qualified, and recommend him to such as require the services of an Agent in Texas, as a gentleman in whom the fullest confidence may be reposed.

DE BOWS REVIEW:

A MONTHLY JOURNAL

OF

COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT, STATISTICS,

VOL. XIV.

ETC., ETC.

ESTABLISHED JANUARY 1, 1846.

MARCH, 1853.

No. III.

ART. 1.-EXTENSION OF THE SUGAR REGION OF THE

UNITED STATES.

SOME REMARKS ON THE QUESTION: "HOW FAR NORTH THE CULTURE OF THE SUGAR-CANE CAN BE PROFITABLY EXTENDED IN THE UNITED STATES?"

and the climate and soil most suitable for its production. Because the cane and cotton plants grow in the tropics where there was no frost, Spanish logic arrived at the conclusion that those plants could not be profitably cultivated in any region subject to cold, frosty weather. True science, guided by experience, has already proved the reverse in regard to the cotton plant, and it will no doubt demonstrate the same thing of the cane. It will prove, that a little frosty weather is as essential to the perfect maturity of the one plant as the other, and that neither comes to perfection without it.

I HAVE interrogated facts and science on the question, and they say, that the sugar region, proper, extends much further north than is generally supposed. A false theory, in regard to the climate the best for the cane, has limited its culture, in the United States, mostly to the 30th parallel of latitude, and a little beyond. But one fact is worth many theories. A thousand hogsheads of sugar was made last year, 1851, on a plantation the farthest north of any other sugar estate in America, and this sugar, I am creditably informed, brought a better price, and the molasses sold for two cents on the gallon above any in the market. The plantation is owned by Mr. Calhoun, and lies in latitude 31%, nearly half a degree north of Alexandria, on Red River. While theory would limit the sugar region in the United States to 30, actual experiment has found, in latitude 31° 30', not only as good, but a better climate for the production than that further south. A The further north the cane plant can similar erroneous notion, about the best be made to grow and mature its juice, climate for cotton, kept the culture of the better will be the sugar, and the the cotton plant within and on the bor- higher its value, because its grain will ders of the tropics for more than two be better, as proved by the sugar made hundred years. It would have been on Mr. Calhoun's plantation, situated a there still, if science had not interposed degree and a half north of the supposed and proved the folly of the traditional limits of the sugar region. Every sugar opinions derived from Old Spain. From broker in New-Orleans is apprised of the the same old non-progressive country fact that Louisiana sugar is far superior we have got, until recently, all our ideas to that made in the West India islands. about sugar-its culture, manufacture, Some years ago, before I was aware of

Cold nights and hot days, near the period of maturity, give strength and elasticity to the staple of cotton, and have a favorable effect upon cane, preparing the liquid sugar in it to mature sooner and better, and to crystallize, when defecated, in firmer, harder, and dryer grains than it does in tropical climates.

ment, to the domestication of an agricultural product, for which our country is better adapted than any other on the globe-requiring nothing more than temporary aid to become, like cotton, one of the heaviest and most profitable of our exports.

this fact, a personal friend in Indiana sent me a good horse, and requested me to send his value in the best quality Orleans brown sugar. Wishing to show my gratitude for the good horse, I aimed at sending a superior article to that ordered, and purchased a number of boxes of the best white Havana in market. But the truth, that our country is betBut I found he did not like it, and ob- ter adapted than any other on the whole jected to it as being neither so sweet nor globe for the profitable culture of the palatable as what he called Orleans cane, should first be made to appear. sugar-the product of Louisiana planta- The errors which have been thrown tions. This I attributed at the time to a around the question by a certain class perverted taste and want of judgment, of politicians, who opposed the acquisibut subsequent investigation proved that tion of Texas, and those favorable to he was correct. The prevalent idea, got forcing upon the country by high tariffs, up by politicians to get protection, that various branches of industry, without sugar is a forced product in Louisiana, discriminating between seed sown on and the cane plant a sickly exotic, de- stony ground, and that in which it would feated its object, and was ruinous to the take deep root and sustain itself, must sugar interest of the southern states, as first be removed. Thus, it has been it caused the duty to be reduced to the assumed by the Hon. Joel Poinsett, and revenue standard, and prevented that politicians of that class, who opposed protection which the introduction of a the re-annexation of Texas, and at presnew agricultural product, requiring an ent assumed by the opposers of the fair immense outlay of capital, needed and acquisition of Cuba by purchase, that would have got, and no doubt will get, the cane of Cuba is eight times as rich when the truth becomes generally as that of Louisiana, and that the lands known, that our soil and climate are the of Mexico, on the authority of Humboldt, best for it in the world. Nothing more yield twice as much sugar per hectare is needed to give to the southern states as the West India islands. Hence the the same monopoly in the production of inference was drawn, that the acquisisugar that they have in cotton, than a tion of either country would ruin the knowledge of its natural history general- sugar planters of Louisiana. Most of ly diffused among our people, and a our planters believed, and still believe, sufficient protection of the sugar interest the policy of acquiring territory further to induce our agriculturists to make the south, to be suicidal to their pecuniary first outlay in the expensive machinery interests; yet many of them, glorious and buildings necessary in the culture patriots! were foremost in advocating it and manufacture of the cane into sugar. as a public good, although to be reached After capital and labor have, by a by their own bankruptcy. Happily, wise governmental encouragement, however, the assumption, that the cane been once extensively diverted to that is a sickly exotic in Louisiana, yielding 'branch of industry, it would need no further aid, and instead of being an extensive importer of foreign sugars, the United States would soon become as great an exporter of that product of our soil as of cotton. However parties may differ on the tariff question, touching the sugar interest, while that branch of industry is paraded before Congress, dressed in the false colors of a sickly beggar, to be a perpetual tax upon other interests, without the hope of any ulterior and remunerating benefit, there could be no essential differences of opinion in the tariff and anti-tariff parties in regard to the question of not only giving encouragement, but ample encourage

less saccharine matter than that of the West India islands, or any other country, is without foundation. The statement quoted from Humboldt, and published in Vol. III. of De Bow's Industrial Resources of the South and West, page 284, that "a hectare of the best land in Mexico will produce no less than 5,600 pounds of raw sugar," is admitted as a truth. It is also admitted that Humboldt may be right in the statement, that that is double the amount produced from the same quantity of land in Cuba. But before permitting these facts of Humboldt to be used any longer as a bugbear for political effect, it is necessary to ascertain how much sugar a hectare of land