tions of the Gulf of Mexico to the valley of the Mississippi and to other parts of the earth considered. Exports and imports at New Orleans and other cities on the Gulf coast. Influence of ocean steamers on the commerce and growth of seaport cities. Com- merce between the United States and Mexico. Line of mail- steamers between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, and also between New Orleans and Venezuela.... ..BY THE SENIOR EDITOR. II. THE WESTERN RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS, IN CON- III. THE COTTON TRADE. Comparative value of short and large crops. Crop of 1851, and its probable value. Amount of the crops of the United States from 1827 to 1851, and the quantity and value annually exported during that period. Quantity of cotton received at the several ports of the United States from 1848 to 1852. English imports from the East Indies from 1830 to 1852. English imports from Brazil, Egypt &c. from 1846 to 1851. Sup- ply of 1851, and estimates for 1852. Consumption on the Conti- nent, not including France, of cotton received from Great Brit'n and America from 1846 to 1851. Consumption in the U. S. fion 1844 to 1851. Consumption of Europe and America from 1849 to INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. VI.-CHARTER OF THE NORTH MISSOURI RAIL ROAD.............. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. COMMERCE OF ST. LOUIS. Imports of St. Louis by the rivers Statement of wheat received from the Missouri, Mississippi, and Illinois rivers, and flour from all sources during the year 1851....... COMPARATIVE STATEMENT, showing the monthly arrivals of steamboats at the port of St. Louis, from New Orleans, Ohio river, Illinois river, Upper Mississippi, Missouri river, Cairo, and other points, during five years. MONTHLY ARRIVALS of steamboats and barges, keel and flat boats, Tonnage, Wharfage, Harbor Master's fee &c., for the years 1850 and 1851.. ...... 258 264 266 267 268 ..... FOREIGN IMPORTS at St. Louis, for the year 1841. Amount of duties paid &c. 269 COMMERCE between the United States and Mexico. Table of Exports and Imports from 1829 to 1850. 270 count de Chateaubriand. Translated S 3. ATALA. From the French of M. Vis- BY THE Junior Editor. 279 9. SONG OF THE MECHANIC. ............、、、、 BY THE JUNIOR EDITOR. 10. FINE ARTS-ITEMS. FROM THE BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN 290 To the people of the South and West few topics are more congenial or interesting, than the broad domain, the mighty rivers and fertile valleys of the United States. But while contemplating the utility and grandeur of these subjects, they overlook the relations-physical, social and commercial which exist between the natural divisions of their own country, and, between this and foreign lands. Like one gazing upon the distant horizon, when lighted by the rays of the departing sun, they behold all forms softened into harmony, and "all colors melted into one vast Iris of the West;" but take no cognizance of the intricate and rugged landscape which intervenes. We would not deprive our countrymen of the pleasures which they derive from these their visions of grandeur, whether present or prospective; but would awaken a spirit of inquiry in respect to the means of realizing those dreams of national greatness, which they so much delight to cherish. The elements essential to human wants, are distributed by a wise providence so as to induce the inhabitants of every part of the earth, through the medium of commerce, to fraternize with each other. And the physical condition of the human family, the nature of their wants, as also, the vegetable and animal kingdoms, from which those wants are chiefly supplied, are all infinitely diversified by climate; and hence the natural law, impelling the principal currents of commercial and social intercourse to flow in a northern and southern direction. But the order in which the mineral kingdom is disposed, and the peculiar adaptation of some 1 |