TESTIMONIALS.

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IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE SEVENTH VOLUME.

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1. Regular monthly Summaries of American Commerce will be prepared by one of the ablest writers upon such subjects in the Union.

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4. A series of papers will be published, beginning with the present number, and extending through one or two years, from the pen of the editor and other collaborators upon

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II.

III.

SUGAR.

COTTON AND COTTON MANUFACTURES.

STATISTICS AND RESOURCES OF THE GREAT WEST.

IV. POLITICAL ECONOMY, COMMERCE AND STATISTICS.

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INDEX

TO VOLUME VI. OF COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

FROM JULY 1848, TO JANUARY 1849.

ARTICLES.

South American States :-Historical Progress of South America; Spanish Colonial Policy; Declaration of Independence; Reports of U. S. Commissioners upon South America; Mr. Poinsett's views; South and North American Character contrasted; Araucania; Argentine Republic: Bolivia, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Ecuador, Granada, Venezuela, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Patagonia, &c. By the EDITOR.

The Sugar Cane; McCulloh's Report on the Sugar Cane to U. S. Govern-
ment, Reviewed. By M. AVEQUIN, N. Orleans,

Printing and Printers. By EDWIN HERIOTT, Charleston,
Production of Rice in Louisiana, By R. WILKINSON, Louisiana,

Central America: Antiquities, Ruins of Copan, Quirigua, Palenque, Gua-
temala, &c.. By the EDITOR,

United States' Public Lands:-Organization and History of the Land Office; value of Lands sold; Lands granted to States and Territories; Cost of Lands; Area of the Land States and lands remaining; Pre-emption rights; War Bounties; Mineral Lands, &c. By STEPHEN F. MILLER, Esq, N. Orleans,

The American Indians,

Natchitoches and N. W. Region of Louisiana. By W. F. C. CLAIRBORNE,
Esq., N. Orleans,

A Professorship of Commerce. EDITOR.

Sugar Manufacture-Plants, their mode of growth and development; proxi-
mate vegetable principles; non-azotized; azotized; catalyssis; salts. By
Dr. EVANS, London,

-The Cotton Trade:-advances of the cotton trade and manufacture; home
and foreign supplies; stocks; demands; prospects of coming crops; prices,
&c. By J. B. GRIBBLE, Esq, N. Orleans,
Improved Husbandry, Implements, &c.

Cane Sugar-its Physical and Chemical properties; action of re-agents; molasses, treacle: anatomy and physiology of the cane; composition of cane juice; changes produced by re agents; alterations produced during life of plant. By Dr. EVANS, London,

164

British America:-Extent of: progress of liberalism in; destinies; Upper
and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New
Britain. By STEPHEN F. MILLER, New Orleans,
Vine Culture at South. By J. NOYEZ of Mississippi,
California, New Mexico, and the Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans; Maury's Letter to Mr. Calhoun; Fremont's Report; San Fran-
cisco, &c. By EDITOR,

Money of Commerce:-progress of private credit; banking in New Orleans;
development of trade; accumulation of specie; supply of specie, inter-
change of products; demand for capital; value of money; Bank of Eng-
land; finances of France; paper projects; banking system of New-York,
of Ohio; injurious effects of financial legislation. By THOMAS P. KETTELL,
New York.

Sugar Manufacture:-extraction of juice from cane; sugar mill; quantity of juice obtained; hydraulic press; slicing and drying of canes Michiels' process; results obtained by mill increased by care and attention; five roller mills; four roller mills; economy in the employment of megass as fuel; motive powers applied to sugar mill; defective cane juice; its imperfections, filtrations. By Dr. EVANS, London,

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204

243

256

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Industry of Southern and Western States:-Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Wisconsin,

The Sword and the Olive Branch. By H.

The British Colonial Empire:-East and West Indies, Africa, Australia,
&c., &c.

The Merchant Fleets and Navies of the World:-Great Britain; increase
Royal navy; naval force in 1846; United States' navy, 1799, 1812,
1815; naval victories; navy in 1818; American navy-yards; French navy;
Russian and other navies; commercial marine of all the powers of the
world. By Editor,

The Sugar Cane-Avequin's Review of McCulloh's Report Reviewed.
By Professor R. S. MCCULLOH, Philadelphia.

Sugar Manufacture-Concluded.-Object of Evaporation; Methods of Eva-
poration; Filtration through Animal Charcoal; concentration of Syrup;
Vacuum Pan; Alkaline Acid, Saline, Viscous and Albuminous Syrups;
Crystallization; Potting; Claying; Liquoring; Concentrating Syrup;
Molasses; Boiling Houses; Quantity of Sugar in Canes; Loss in Extrac-
tion, &c., &c. By Dr. EVANS, London,

Araucania, 3.

Argentine Republic, 3.

Avequin's review of McCulloh's sugar, 24,
Alabama, 285.

Artesian Well, Charleston, 150.

Alabama, progress of, 229.

Army in Mexico, 369.

Arrival flatboats, 444.

British Colonial Empire, 310.

Battles of the Revolution, 58.

Chili, 3.

Colombia, 3.

Central America, 83.

Commerce, chair of, in University, 110.
Cotton trade and manufacture, foreign
cottons, &c., 126.

Canada, Upper and Lower, 181.
California, 204.

Carolina, North and South, 285.
Colonies of Great Britain, 310.
Commerce of the States, 138.
Cotton Statistics, 143.

Cotton plantation of McDuffie, 149.

Chemistry of agriculture, 148.

Coffee, 152, 453.

Charleston, S. C., health of. 226.

Cotton interests, 363.

Canada, population of, 366.

Commerce of New-York, 455.

Charleston, S. C.-Statistics taxable, 430.
Cotton-comparative receipts, 439.
Cincinnati-position-commerce, 431.
Comparative receipts of produce, New-
York and New Orleans, 454.

Exports-flour, &c., 437.
Exchange rates, 442.

Grenada, 3.

Georgia, 285.

Galveston Rail-road, 73.

Grain Trade, American, 143, 147.

Grain Trade, foreign powers, 144.
Grace, days of, 155, 242.

Husbandry, implements of, 131.
Hides, 60.

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Hogs slaughtered in the U. States, 66,
Health of Southern cities, 226.

Health Statistics of the U. States, 226.
Houston, Texas, 230.

Hemp, 453.

Kentucky, 285.

Lands, public, 92.
Louisiana, 285.

Leather and Tanning, 60.

Debt of the United States since 1791, 365. Light of other days, 236.

Ecuador, 3.

East India trade, 204.

Editor's notes, 80, 235, 162, 378.458.

Exports, New Orleans, year ending June

30, 1848, 454

Exports-sugar and molasses, 436.

M'Culloh's report on sugar, 24.

Mineral Lands, 92.

Money of Commerce, 243.

Mississippi, 285.

Missouri, 285.

Michigan, 285.

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310

322

334

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