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 BILJOUS 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 afflict ed with any of the prevalent disorders, a trial of it will suffice to place it upon the most favorable footing in the estimation of all concerned. Space will not allow of the introduction of the numerous testimonials received by the proprietor. He therefore subjcins 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. (Signed,) 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. GEORGE GAIDAN, MANUEL HOVAD. Extract of a letter from the editor of the Greenville Mountaineer, S. C., received during the Mexican war: Da. 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 PILLA, and they have acted on my system like magic !" 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. Conveyancing, and all other instruments of writing, legal or commercial, carefully and neatly drawn on paper or on parchment. Title-papers, and other instra Land Titles examined, and defective Titles perfected, when practicable. ments, recorded in any of the record offices throughout the state. Orders for the purchase or sale of slaves, or real estate, faithfully executed. Sugar and cotton plantations, and unimproved lands in various sections of the state, for sale. Claims against the Republic of Texas, and against private individuals, received for collection and prosecuted. The payment of taxes in all the counties of the state, carefully attended to; and property which may have been sold for taxes in the several counties, redeemed. Maps of all the principal counties, with the original surveys, are now preparing for this office; and abstracts of all original land titles granted by the states of Coahuila and Texas, and by the late Republic of Texas, can be examined at the General Agency Office. 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. EDWARD HILL, President Galveston Chamber of Commerce. J. BATES, U. S. M. M. B. MENARD, President Galveston City Company. JOHN C. WATROUS, Judge of the Dist. Court of the U. S. 1853 May 17. DE BOW'S REVIEW: A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT, STATISTICS, ETC., ETC. ESTABLISHED JANUARY 1, 1846. VOL. XIV. APRIL, 1853. No. IV. ART. 1.-PROGRESS OF OHIO, HISTORICAL AND UNDER Marquette's discoveries in 1673, the French laid claim to all the region watered by the Mississippi and its tributaries; and after D'Iberville's expedition from France, which explored northward up the Mississippi, as Marquette had done southward from Canada, forts were located, and colonies planted at different points throughout the whole extent of country-all subject to the general authority of Louisiana. And thus originated their claim to the territory northwest of the Ohio river, while the English based theirs, not only upon the grants of different monarchs, embracing the whole extent of land from sea to sea, but upon the ground that the Six Nations owned the entire valley of the Ohio, and had placed it, with themselves, under the protection of England; the English, also, asserting the purchase of a portion of the land. An English trading company was formed in 1748, styled the Ohio Company, whose trading-house or fort on the Great Miami, attacked and destroyed by the French, in 1752, was the first English settlement in the Ohio valley upon record. Braddock's defeat in 1755, gave encouragement to the Indians to encroach eastwardly. After several treaties and outbreaks, they were defeated by Lord Dunmore at Point Pleasant, in a severely contested battle, which was followed soon afterwards by a final peace. In 1763 took place the cession of Canada to England by France, and with it all her claim to the territory east of the Mississippi river. After the colonies renounced their allegiance to the British crown, in 1776, the different states claiming western lands under their respective charters, ceded them to the United States as common property, and the English claim was relinquished by the treaty of Paris, in 1783. The Ohio river had been proposed for our western boundary by Mr. Oswald, the commissioner on the part of England; but, as is well known, John Adams insisted upon the Mississippi as the boundary, and it was thus settled by that negotiation. It was in 1784 Virginia ceded her right to the lands north of the Ohio river Connecticut, Massachusetts, New-York, and Pennsylvania shortly afterwards following her example. The Indian title was extinguished, first by a treaty at Fort Stanwix with the Six Nations, and subsequently by a second one with the Wyandotts, Delawares, &c., at Fort McIntosh. Surveys and sales were then made by Congress, the "New-England Ohio Company" purchasing a tract lying adjacent to the Scioto and Muskingum rivers, and there commencing in the spring of 1788 the settlement of Marietta, at the mouth of the Muskingum, the first permanent one in Ohio. A previous attempt at the mouth of the Scioto, where Portsmouth now stands, was abandoned, on account of difficulties with the Indians. In the same year with the settlement at Marietta, General Arthur St. Clair was appointed by Congress governor over the new territory-Winthrop Sargeant, se |