COMMERCIAL REVIEW 


SOUTH AND WEST. 


A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF TRADE, COMMERCE, COMMERCIAL POLITY, 
AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, 
AND GENERAL LITERATURE 


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“Commerce is King.”—Cancrte. 


J. D. B. DE BOW, 


EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. 


VOL. I. 


NEW ORLEANS: 
22 EXCHANGE PLACE 


1846 


DEPARTMENT CF ARCHIVES & HISTORY 


JACKSON, MISS, 











NEW ORLEANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, May 4, 184¢, 
Be it resolved, That this Chamber highly approves of the ComMERCIAL Review, a periodical 
established in this city by J. D. B. De Bow, Esq., and recommends it to the patronage of the com- 
mercial community. SAMUEL J. PETERS, President 
Cuakces Briaas, Secretary. 


Sin: I prefix copy of a resolution passed unanimously at a meeting of the Chamber of Com 
merce of this city, last evening. 


Respectfully, CHAS. BRIGGS, Sec'y 
Te J. D. B. Da Bow, Enq. 





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INDEX VOLUME I. 
FROM JANUARY TO JUNE INCLUSIVE, 1846 


GENERAL ARTICLES, Interest, Exchange and Stock Jobbing 
calculations, by Dr. D. McCaulay, 
New Orleans, 369 

Sources of Louisiana Law, by Hon. B. 
F. Porter, of Ala. 374 

Louisiana, by the Editor, 380 

Remedy for the Cotton Planters, by a 
South-western Planter, 434 

French Colonial Records of Louisiana, 


Position of Commercial Review in re- 
lation to Seuthern and Western pe- 
riodical literature and Southern and 
Western interests, page 1 

Convention of Southern and Western 
States—the Memphis meeting, 7 

Southern Atlantic and Mississippi 


Railroad, 21 
H dF = Grain Market. 83 by E. J. Forstall, 473 
ain Market, Rear Pye 
pena sellin, «0s Humbigiana, by Dr. D. Maccaulay, 
ee ee a New Orleans, 444 * 
The ississi pi 5 in “* ii ms ° ° 
: he Mis is sippi, hg (2 3. fin The importance of correct statistical 
a sugar, DY ms. J. FPoOrsraill, information in relation to the various 
The Ginsaler Sesto Se statistics of our country, illustrated 
The Warchousing Policy, 6 in the case of Indian Corn the pre- 
The Warchousing Policy, 61 sent season, by the Editor, 465 
he De aig ; meray - The laws of Blockade, by J. P. Ben- 
Vic dite ude 2 jamin, Esq. New Orleans, 498 
The origin, progress and influences of | "he city of Nashville, by Milton A 
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commerce, 97 Haynes, Esq. Nashville, Tenn. 502 


Mexico, its social and political condi- Corporations, by S. F. Glenn, New 
tion, by Gustavus Schmidt, Esq. Orleans. 508 


tam Cleena 949 ‘ -. # 

New Orleans, 117 . The State of Indiana, by Carnahan 
Morses Electro Magnetic Telegraph, | and Porter, Indianapolis, 512 

33 : Privateering, by A. H., New Orleans, 
Commercial polity of ancients and 51d 

__moderns, 141 : . . . , | Louisiana, by E. J. Forstall, Esq. New 
Cities of the valley of the Mississippi Orleans. 519 

and Ohio rivers, 145 | Popular delusions in Education, by 
History and Doctrine of Bills Exchange r. D. McCaulley, New Orleans 

by S. F. Glenn, Esq. New Orleans,., 598 ; : 

193 : : an The Bill of Exchange and Bill of Lad- 
American Lake Commerce, 158 ~~, ing, by Hon. George Eustis, New 
Louisiana Agricultural and Mechanics Orleans. 534 ' 


Association, 161 

International rights of Peace and War, 
193 

Agricultural and manufacturing pros- 


COMMERCIAL JURISPRUDENCE. 


_ Law in Louisiana, 72 
Legal import of a Bill of Lading in the 


nects of the South and West. by hands of a holder of a bill of Ex- 
John Pope, Esq. of Tenn. 227 | change, 169 


Antiquities of Louisiana, by E. J. For- | sourneRN AND WESTERN COMMERCE 
stall. Esq. New Orleans. 238 STAT'STICS, AGRI: ULTURE, &c. 
Military and Naval resources and ne- | Agriculture of the South and West— 


cessities of the South and West, by Cotton, 73 
L. Troost, Esq. Engineer, Mobile, | Agricultural products of Louisiana, 75 
Ala. 251 | Military and Naval defences of the 
Commerce and the Fine Arts, by G. | Gulf of Mexico, 75 
Cooke, Esq. New Orleans, 269 | Texas, 77 
The Cotton Plant, by the Editor, 289 Commerce of the Ohio River, 78 
The Rice Plant, by R. W. F. Allston, | Trade of Pittsburgh, 78 
of South Carolina, 320 Trade of Baltimore, 79 


French Colonial Records, Louisiana, | Trade of Charleston, 79 
by FE. J. Forstall, New Orleans. 357 Commerce of St. Louis, 7% 


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Index. 


Lake Defences and Commerce, 80 
Western Marine Hospital, 81 


Health of Southernand Wes*tern cities, | 


81 

State debts, 82 

Education in New Orleans, 83 

Satety of Railroad travelling, 83 

Mexican Gulf Railway, 84 

Whitney’s Oregon Railroad, 85 

New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, 
17] 

Prospects of Second Muni ipality, 
New Orleans, 174 

Banks of New Orleans, 174 

Pilotage Charleston Bar, 175 

Central Georgia Railroad, 175 

Mississippi and Michigan Railroad, 
176 

Unitelt States Mint, Dahlonega, Geo. 
176 

Cotton manufactures in South Caro- 
lina, 276 


Savannah, Geo. 276 


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St. Louis steamers, 277 
Georgia Railroads, 278 


Central Southern Railway, 279 
Railroad from Mississippi west, 280 
Comparative prices of Sugar, &c. at 
New Orleans and Cincinnati, 379 
Champomiers Sugar statistics, 380 
Culture of Silk in Louisiana, 381 
Mercantile integrity, 381 
Libraries in New Orleans, 381 
Health in New Orleans, 382 
FOREIGN COMMER E. 
Civilizing influences of Commerce, 86 
British Tariff of Duties, 86 
Regulations of Trade wih China, 88, 
Dutch Corn Law, 90 
Commercial, &c. statistics ef Britain, 
France and America, 92 
United States commerce and naviga- 
tion, 177 
Commerce of the sevaral States, 179 
Island of Cuba, 180 
Commerce of Havana, 182 
United States Imports for 1845, 281 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REVIEW 


Transactions in the New Orleans 
Market, 93 
do do, 190 
do do, 286 


FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC STATISTICS 
OF TRADE 


Imports cotton into Britain last ten 
years, 283 


Stocks of cotton in Britain for six 
vears, 283 


| Export and consumption of cotton in 
Great Britain, 283 
Prices of cotton at Liverpool, 283 
Stocks of tobacco in Liverpool for ten 
vears, 284 
Railroads 285 
Thomastou, Maine, 285 
‘ MERCANTILE A\D AGRICULTURAL 
MISCELLANIES. 
Charleston Chamber of Commerce. 
449 
Queries to Cotton Planters, 453 
Well water in Louisiana, 453 
Agricultural Schools, 456 
Nashville, Tenn. 457 
Prices of Sugar, &c. 459 
Railroads in the United States, 460 
THE PUBLISHING BUSINESss. 
fiunt’s Merchants Magazine, 95 
Southern Quarterly Review, 95,288, 
544 
Southern Literary Messenger, 95,544 
Texas and her Presidents, 95 
Norman’s New Orleans, 95 
Glenn’s constitution of La. 95 
Farmers Library, 96,288 
Fremont’s Expedition, 96 
Prairiedom, 95 
| Wiley and Putman’s Libraries, 96 
Norman’s school books, 191 
Thorpe’s Backwoods, 191 
Norman’s Cuba and Mexico, 192 
Memoirs of a Statesman, 192 
Blackwood, 192 
Heriot’s Magazine, 192,544 
|Grouped thoughts and scattered fan- 
cies, 287 
Memphis Convention, 288 
Southern Agriculturist, 288, 
Catalogue of the gallery of Fine Arts, 
287 


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Theatricals, 288, 
Editor’s note, 288,384,545 
Monograph of the Silver Dollar, 383 
Medical Journals of the South, 383 
'Porter’s argument on Capital Punish- 
ment, &c. 383 
Norman’s map of New Orleans, 384 
Proceedings of S. C. R. R. Company, 
| 384 
Democratic Review, 463 
Whig Journal, 463 
Paulding’s Old Continental, 464 
| Life of Paul Jones, 544 
Life of Gen. Scott, 545 
| Arevtos or Songs of the South, 545 





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ARTICLES. 


ART. Pacr 
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ern and Western Periodical Literature and Southern 


and Wester BRRTOD «2.0200 cone wstindesentonnsrs l 

II. Convention of Southern and Western States.........--- 7 
III. Southern Atlantic and Mississippi Railroad -........--- 21 
IV. Home and Foreign Grain Market._--............--... 33 
V.. Rew Cerkennn wind CATON so 5. sn detec cnccecee 44 
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J. =Cemely Oe CORE be tge en senweneenthanenénch at 64 
we. Peat Olles Tee tonne thre oncastiantiacisnens 69 


COMMERCIAL JURISPRUDENCE. 
Low in LAGER 6.0 coumedesesémbsbitsewtsbls ccad cian cuss 72 


SOUTHERN AND WESTERN COMMERCE, STATISTICS, AGRICULTURE, &e 


Agriculture of the South and West—Cotton ....-...-......_.. 73 
Agricultural Products of Louisiana --........--...-. 22-2 2... 75 
Military and Naval Defences of the Gulf of Mexico .._..._..- 75 
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Lake Defences and Commerce—the Ship Canal..-......-----. 80 


po Ee ae ey ae me an 81 
Health of Southern and Western Cities.__....-......--.-_-.- 81 
IN a cisiete AEE a: tvno event else } udcuc diamine adn 82 
menntien in Tow Ovicems ......~--.0-n pc occces oesuc cea 83 
Ry Or I IG is ceric nniwencimesenecce ult 83 
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PU I We CR NOONE on nn iin oni oe dds isan so 85 ( 


FOREIGN COMMERCE. 


Civilizing Influences of Commerce -.--..------.---.-------- 86 
OD va Noein cies psptingsic adigetlinnweninavdiac 86 y 
Regulations of Trade with China... -..................--.-- 88 Vou 
gt Ee ag pale La, Pd 90 “ . 
Commercial and Maritime Statistics of Great Britain, France, and RS 
Fa NID sais lls hh hence shh dasitiniledcnansins whaslnatibibenene 92 2 
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MONTHLY COMMERCIAL CHRONICLE AND REVIEW. Ss 
Stocks and Transactions in Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco, and Flour, re 
ts GS in etki tds coca ai dnnsnnextesn kes 93 : T 
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Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine. ---.--.----------------------- 95 a of g 
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Southern Literary Messenger w enn nen nnn are ee 2 -- = ------- 95 adve 
Tenns and her Promtiemts 2... «22 230s 200s 22 200s oo nee nccqes- BD mor 
Norman’s New Orleans and its Environs......--.....-.------- 95 rant 
Glenn’s Constitution of Louisiana -.------------------------ 95 ques 
The Farmer's Library... . .... - -2.-- 2222-22-20 cnn nnennsee=s 96 stret 
Fremont's Exploring Expedition -------- eee eee n-ne -e------ 96 wis] 
PERIGEE cnucncciccwe score pe cnesne dene enone es cenecemss 95 RB 
Wiley and Putnam's Libraries ene 4 proj 
Memoir’s of Bienvenuto Cellini...-.....-----.-.---.. 96 : ail 
PAA Gi CNED iccate nde wh sci den wecnntnewhs 96 a 
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