The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-17
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De BOWS
Industrial Resources and Progress of the
Southern and Western States,
In three large and closely printed volumes, small
type, double columns; handsome print, paper, and
binding. being digest and abridgment of the
t,oeiUe Uol,mes of De Bo,c's Rerie,c) Price S 10;
s 33 per uollme.
n ESiROUS of supplying the large and contin
~ ually increasing demand for the complete Sc
ries of the Rerie,c in twelve volumes now exhaust
ed, and which it would require very large outlay
to reprint, the editor has been induced to make a
selection of all the important and valuable papers
contained in them from the beginning, condensing,
rearranging and completing to date, and throw
ing the subjects, after the manner of the encyclo-
pHdias, into alphabetical order. In this manner
everything ofinterest and importance will be pre-
served in convenient form for reference; and the
volumes will constitute the only repository for the
shelves of the library, of such information, which
by means of the monthly numbers hereafter, will
always be brought down to date.
The volumes will embrace the giet of everything
that has appeared in the Reuie,p relating to the
Southern and Western States, ian imperfect index
Of which will be found at the opening of the 10th
volume,) to wit:
Their History, Population Geography, Stats
ics; Agricultural products-of Cotton, Sugar, To-
bacco, Hemp, Grains, Naval Stores, &C., &C., Man
ufactures-deaieda accounts, statistics, and history
of all branches. Internal Improvements COM
pete statistics of Railroads. results, profits, ex-
penses, costs, advantages, miles in projection, con
structon, completed, &c; Plank Roads, Canals,
Navigation, &c. Statistics of Health and Diseases,
wealth and progress; relative condition whites and
backs Slave Laws and Statistics, management
pnd amelioration of slavery; origin, history, and
aefenCes of slavery and slave institutions; the val
liable treatises of Harper, Hammond, Drew, on
slavery, &c. Commerce ofthe South and West in
III OF its minute particulars, &c; together with
historical and statistical sketch of each of the States
and cities; the domestic and foreign trade, re-
sources, manufactures, &C., of the United States;
the Census Returns from 1870, with the complete
s,rf,r cpftt, 70
The volumes will be issued in September, Octo-
Der, and November, 1852; and orders are solicited
in advance, payable on delivery to merchants or
to the parties themselves.
DE Bows REVIEW, of which this is a condensa-
tion, is published monthly in New Orleans, and
other southern and western Cities ll2 to l40 pages
small print, fine paper and engravings, and treats
of all the great industrial matters relating to the
Southern and Western States, and incidentally of
the North and the Union Terms s 5 per apnum
The volumes hereafter will be uniform with the
condensed series
A few sets of the complete work may be had at
the office, in twelve large and handsomely bound
volumes. Price $42. Single numbers supplied to
make up sets, and binding furnished on reasonable
terms.
Orders commission merchants in cities or
towns, payable sale of crops, received as cash.
j. D. B. DE BOW,
Editor De BOWS Review,
June 10 Merchants Exchange, New Orleans