Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-09-25

inc 10 all admirers oil individual consistency what
ever can be performed of most marvellous, in re-
concling to each other personal doctrines which
had apparently sworn, like Hannibal to Rome, an
eternal hostility the other, much less exraordi.
nary and therefore less fit perhaps, to captivate
this wonderful country" of ours but still, in
every sober sense, valuable and instructive Struck
with il such, we gave it, at IFS publication, place
in our columns; where those who desire clearly to
retrace to themselves the prodigous growth of the
trade and population which now furnish a subject
and readers to this ReUieU will do well to seek it.
We can point them to no other survey of the mat
ter SC wise, comprehensive, or complete, or drawn
from sources of information so ample and exact
| The object properest to our present mention OF
the Review being rather to give just idea of its
general merits than of the particular contents of the
No. before us, we shall no doubt best accomplish
that purpose by noting, out Of the index which ac-
companies this No., the chief contributors TO the
preceding volumes, and the main subjects which
have employed their pens.
The number of papers bearing the editors name
give good earnest of an original diligence and dis
elimination highly commendable when due allow
ance is made for the separate amount of labornevi-
tably imposed by. his supervisory duties as redac-
tem: which French word for editor conveys much
more aptly than our own the peculiar toll O that
Junction. toll which is rather that of cuttng-Cown,
reducing, re-shapng, correcting, reforming than
editing giving5or the labors Of others, or than
composing ones own. Among Mr.. De Bows in
divdua contributions, we remark papers on the
following subjects: in the first and second volumes,
definition of the political position to be occupied
by his Magazine; Remarks on the Memphis Con-
vention and its objects the projects of our trans
continental Railways the Home as compared
with the Foreign Grain Market; on tie Consular
System; on the Warehousing Policy: on the Post
Office Reform, (which-the Barry, Kendall. or Cave
Johnson-we know not;) on Morse's Magnetic
Telegraph; on the cities of the Mississippi and the
Ohio; on the Commerce of our Likes; on Agr-
cultural Associations the CottoI Plant; on In
dian Corn; on the importance of Statistics; Ma
rine Insurance, &c. In the third (asD volume, he
gave articles on Drainage; the Jefferson and
Livngston) batture in front of New Orleans Rail
way systems and projects, in Europ and America );
Southern and Northern Railway to tie Pacific; the
Atlantco-Pac Ship-canal of Tehuatepec; South
ern Railway enterprises American Tobacco trade;
with diversity of other topics treated; among
which we remark an essay to show the necessity
of introducing Scientific Agriculture as one of the
branches OF instruction in our universities. Among
the contributions bearing the name OF the Hon. Joel
X. Ponsett, series of some five, On the present
Mexican War, its causes, excuses, policy, resour-
ces, &C., could not fail to be worthy of great aten-
He SAINT getllleinal mas dSO given WHdt
may well be highly instructive-a paper on new
objects of (agricutura) production for the Southern
country. With these are joined great diversity
of useful papers, of which we can only enumerate
the main contributors as the Hon. b. I. Porter,
OF Alabama; Mr.. Forstall, of New Orleans; Col.
}. Gadsden, of S. c.. Mr.. r. F. w. Allson, of
do; Wheelock s. Upton, of New Orleans; DR..
McCauley, of do; S. F. Glenn, of do. DIR. Mo-
nette, the historians Hon. Fl. Bullard DR.. Josiah
Eott, of Mobile; Hon. Charles Gayarre, the his
torian Prof. Brumby, of Ala; Prof. Hale, of do;
Prof. Riddell, of the U. S. Mint, &c.
In the present No. of the ReUie,c, we have the
following papers: The dignity and importance of
Commerce, illustrated by the history of the West
ern States, by the Hon. James Hall, of Ohio; Pro-
gress of the Great West and survey Of lis several
valleys, by the Editor; Progress of American Com
merce, Agriculture, and Manufactures, No. |, by
New orker; The true functions of Government
as TO Legislation, by John McKrum, Esq, of Mis-
souri,; Relation of Creditor and Debtor in Louisi-
ana, by h. Eyma, of New Orleans; The Mission
OF America, as to Law, Religion, Commerce and
the Arts, by Hon. b. +. Porter, of Alabama; The
Memphis and Chicago Conventions compared, ap-
parently by the Editor of the Review who how
ever,se much to prefer, as more comprehensive
and conclliatory, the principles of the former as
eXpounded IN its memorial to Congress and in the
celebrated Mediterranean Report Of Mr.. Cal
houn. Probably the editor is right if principles be
always conciliatory in proportion as they COM
prehensre. But the comprehensiveness ap-
pears to some to be rather dangerously stretched,
which can include with Mr.. Cahoun's doctrines
OF 1916 all the subsequent restrictions, contra
dlchons, notifications, and revisals of Jacksonsm,
and Of veoes where nothing is seen or done but
the problem of shaking violently together principles
which can no more remain in combination than oil
and vinegar. Why should Chicago have reatempt-
ed any such defiance of chemical aflintes, unless
bent only on compounding sauce for the old anti.
improvement salad! Gould all 90 back to Ho-
mers time and believe with him that the Hees-
Pont was an ocean-stream," "boundless river "
OF md-earth flowing all around the globe, and hav-
ing the Euxine, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic the
Paclhc, and all the rest of Shakspeare's +" mudtu-
dnous seas strung to il only as feeders and could
we, to complete the needfu meanders, clap the Gulf
Stream and the " Father of Waters " to one end and
splice on at the other the lost Straits of old De Fuca
that pierced our continent from Vancouver's land
to about Cape Cod, why all this would be, no
doubt highly comprehensive and wontlrous conciIi.
atory for it would smooth down all the differences
between Arrowsmith and Arrian, Jedediah Morse
and Ptolemy of Alexandria, Mr.. Bentdn's red-lne
maps and the charts which Eneas's skipper Pali-
nurus was looking at in his pinnacle when he slip
ped overheard in the Bay of Naples, and was
drowned before he was fairly awake All THE r,o