Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-05-20
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
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he Rows Commercial Review of the South and West
monthly journal of Trade Commerce, Commercial Poy
Agriculture Manufactures, Internal improvements and Ge-
neral Literature J. d. b. De Bow Editor and Proprietor.
New Orleans Nos ?, g. A, of VoV, for February March,
and April. ls4s"
IT. after the very favorable opinion which we have
heretofore expressed OF this journal and the useful
body of information which it conveys, we.have
fallen in arrears to the monthly notices due it,,
The fault or rather fact has been involuntary: the
press of matter more instant and urgent-cart-loads
Of Congressional history, households of speeches
and documents, carloads of Mexican dispatches,
shploads OF foreign news the most interesting
have, as our readers know, left always preoccu-
pied columns no power of admitting things that
The superfutes of the newspaper, its ornament, not
It's necessities. Besides this excuse, sufficient in
itself, we may mention that the numbers of the
Commercial Repiep have, we know not from what
cause, reached us rregularly.
The three numbers of it now before US contain
papers on no small diversity Of subiects-as, in No.
2, regular articles on the history Of Land Titles in
our territories acquired by treaty. Thy DR.. Monette
on Victor Cousins Science Of History, (by G. G.
S. Farrar j on Sugar Production in the United
States, (by J. c. Delavigne j on The Post System
of several countries, (by ]. S. Duke;) Trade and
Statistics, foreign and domestic to which succeeds
a body of short papers, on Hedging with the white
Cherokee rose; Rum vi The sugar estates Rice
cuAiUation in East India; Texas Sugar; South
Carolina Sugar Comparative Industry OF Rhode
Island and South Carolina; Value of the Cotton
Manufacture Properties of Sugar, as food and
physic; Comparative profits OF SlaUe-tabor in Lou
isiana and Virginia; Resources OF Georgia Tor
manufactures Cotton and Iron production in
South Carolina Manufactures in Georgia and
Tennessee These are followed by the monthly
Statistical Suruey OF the progress of population
and the monthly Commercial Summary, which the
Review always gives. A short series of Miscelid-
mics and of notices of NeW Publications on COM
mercal or agricultural subjects closes the number.
The History Of Land Titles (article y is an abb
sract of the fraudulent landclaims in territories
got from France and Spain. 1t is, apparently,
abridged from that part of the collection OF State
Papers" which regards the public lands. The an
nexaton of Texas is about to afford very coPious
supplement to these very intricate questions of right
The article on Cousins Philosophy is continued
through all the three numbers of the Review before
us. 1t seems to us, slight view, rather psyche
logical than historical, and too much imbued with
the recent yscism Of the Hunt and Cousin schools
10 be very instructive. We venture TO say that he
who expects to obtain any real view of the philoso
ply Of Institutions without having thoroughly stu
died, filst of all, the principles Of society as deve
Hoped in the minute annals of all nations, will miss
his mark just the young ladies do, in fashionable
boarding schools, who are set to learning rhetoric
before yet they have read one poet or orator, and
while they are yet ignorant OF the most necessary
elements Of language We have not time, however,
for more detailed notices and must content our
selves with extracting, as very useful one, the
subjoined article. 1t is apparently selected from
the Caroinian, of Columbia:
M.SurAcruREs ron TAR SourH-RHopE ISLAND AND
Souri, CARoLrSA.- Manu- featuring Industry, Sc.-One
great Of the unpoducveness of capital and labor
Of diversion Of them In every country there
kind labor which experience be TIE best and most
productive of that country In agriculture should predo
inmate in another manufactures in third commerce but
the face OF tue globe has an exclusive attention
10 either Of these branches been found the most profitable
is the judicious combination Of them oil that makes nation
great and prosperous and happy This Is an old political
doctrine antiquity, however, is dparagement OF its
truth For its illustration shall 60 further than the
history Of country And fortunately for our pur-
po the last of the Government furnishes data upon
which there can be dispute.
II divide the population Of Rhode Island l3s 1901 and
that Of South Carolina 549 3gs into their respective annual
incomes viz into ,223 for Rhode Island, and into
S27 $50 for South Carolina, viii be perceived that
Rhode Island divides the yearly income OF each OF lis IN
habiants $780, while South Carolina divides only S45. II
YOU take out the black population In both States and make
the division only among the whites, Rhode Island will divide
Sli9, while South Carolina will divide Sl0l. These are
startling facts Why they so Il will perhaps be said,
either because the people Of Rhode Island more indus
than people, engaged in more profitable la
Dor from both causes combined.
The first Of these unwilling TO grant. Naturally,
believe there people willing work than ours
when only taught profitable result their labor The
difference in the profits Of the two States must be attributed
therefore, other The labor Of Rhode Island
diversified ours Let There engaged in
Ar.u sass1 .l... in Agriculture sSTs o..".i IN