Railroad in Tennessee and Alabama, 458. meetings at New Orleans, 550. Sugar cane, crops, 1849, 431. crops of world, 144. interests of New England, 451. Tehuantepec, isthmus connection, 11. sketches of, 368. 66 San Francisco, 25. beet, 112. “ Degrand, 114. 6 Derosne & Cail, 116. ufactures, 132. North. 136. sea islands of, 146, staples and products, 150. compared with European operative, 223. moxtern and ancient compared, 228. pared, 240-76. 64 Slave laws of the South, 271. emancipation laws, 272. history of, 290. at the North, 386. 66 United States, extent of, 2. comitnerce of, 1848, 75. tonnage of, 450. 517. Virginia, 143. view of the South, 387. approvu modes of manufacture, 395. Western America, prospects of, 5. of the North and South, 15). preparation for market, 160. 66 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. 1819. THE COMMERCIAL REVIEW SOUTH AND WEST. ESTABLISHED JANUARY 1, 1846. J. D. B. DE BOW, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ARTICLES. I. INTERCOMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS.-Canal Projects; Explorations; Various Rajlroad 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. By the EDITOR, II. MISSISSIPPI.-A Sketch of the General Character, as to Soil, Climate, 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 Advancing and Controlling the Price. By Hamilton Smith, of Kentucky, 48 V. THE MISSISSIPPI SWAMP. By Rev. Mr. Price, of Louisiana, 53 VI. SUGAR, ETC.- By Prof. McCullon, of Washington, D.C., 56 COMMERCE AND RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 1. Commerce of the United States, 1848,...... 2. Products of the United States, 1848,. 3. The Last Patent Office Report, 1848,........ 4. Sea and River Shores of the United States,.... PROGRESS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. 1. Slave and Free Negro Laws of Southern States, . 2. Mobile and Ohio Railroad, ........ 3. South Carolina Art Institute,...... 4. Agriculture, Commerce and Arts in South Carolina,... 5. Cotton Crop, 1848,......... 6. Coast and Keys of Florida,.... 8. Cotton Supplies for 1848-1849,. 1. Periodical Publications,..... 3. Reports, etc., to Congress, .... 4. Late Books, Essays, etc.,. . 6. To Contributors, ................... |