THE

American

QUARTERLY REGISTER

AND

MAGAZINE.

Causas rerum videt, earumque progressus.

- CICERO

Conducted by James Stryker.

SEPTEMBER, 1849. ... Vol. III. No. I.

Philadelphia:
PUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETOR,
NO. 520 CHESTNUT STREET.

1849.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by

JAMES STRYKER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

CONTENTS.

No. 1. Vol. III.

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HISTORICAL REGISTER OF 1849,- United States, Mexico, Venezuela,

Guatemala, Hayti. Argentine Republic, France, Great Britain, Ger-
many, Prussia, Austria, Hungary, Denmark, Italy, Venice, Russia,
Śc.,
TARTERLY CHRONICLE, for June, July and August, with an Appendix

for September: containing a great variety of interesting and im-
portant items of intelligence, among which will be found:

accounts from Africa, Nicaragua, Yucatan, Jamaica, Canada,

Minesota

, Western Indians, the Emigrants to the Pacific, the Sand-

wich Islands, Tahiti, California, &c.; also, notices of the ravages
of the Cholera, the Shipwrecks of the Charles Bartlett, St. John, &c.,

of the latest Events in Hungary, the Peace Congress, the formation
of the Governments of California and Deseret, of the Agricultural

Fairs, American Institute, &c., &c.,

Statistics:

Smithsonian Institution, its Organization, &c.,

Public Libraries in Europe and the United States,

2. Immigration to the United States,

Proportion between Foreign and Native Population,

The Commerce of the Lakes,

Growth and Commerce of Milwaukie,

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ylvania.

* Commerce of Michigan,

Do.

of Cincinnati,

Do. of New Orleans,

Cotton Factories in Alabama,

Public Moneys, Treasury of United States,

New York Sub-Treasury,

California Gold,

Statistics of Cholera,

Ecclesiastical Statistics,

Next House of Representatives,

College Statistics,

Extent of the British Colonies,

Education in Ireland,

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS:

Legal Reform in the State of New York,

Sketch of the Life of Samuel Stanhope Smith,

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