Slave holding States, position of, 139. Southern civilization, 141. South Carolina, products of agriculture, 145. 66 66 sea islands of, 146. swamps and highlands of, 147. health of, 148. minerals, plants, &c., 149. 66 staples and products, 150. St. Louis, trade and commerce, 179, 180, 181. Slave treatment at the South, 220. 66 compared with European operative, 223. Science, slow progress of, 227. modern and ancient compared, 228. Sugar, various processes of manufacture com pared, 240-46. Ship building in the West. 256. Slave laws of the South, 271. emancipation laws, 272. Sword and olive-branch, 276. Slavery at the South, 289. history of, 290. Swamps of Louisiana and Florida, 298. Slavery, agitation of, 385. 66 at the North, 386. 68 view of the South, 387. Slaves, their number, 388. Fugar cane, analysis, 389. approv'd modes of manufacture, 395. W COMMERCIAL REVIEW COMMERCIAL OF THE SOUTH AND WEST. CONDUCTED BY J. D. B. DE BOW, PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, COMMERCE, AND STATISTICS, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, NEW ORLEANS. VOL. I, NO. I, NEW SERIES. NEW ORLEANS: PUBLISHED BY WELD & CO; B. F. DE BOW, CHARLESTON, S. C. I. INTERCOMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS.-Canal Projects; Explorations; Various Railroad Routes Proposed; Memphis Convention and Pacific Railroad; Railroad Statistics in Europe and the United States; Trade of the East Indies, and the mode of commanding it; Value of California; Gold Mines; Progress of Population across the Mountains; Prospects of Western America, etc., etc., with Wood Cuts and Maps. III. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NEW YORK AND NEW OR- LEANS.-Proposed New Route by Railroad across the Florida Penin- IV. COTTON.—The only Practical Method Presented to its Producers of |