SEPTEMBER, 1849. . . . VOL. III. No. I.

Philadelphia:

PUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETOR,

NO. 520 CHESTNUT STREET.

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.

WM. S. YOUNG, PRINTER.

CONTENTS.

No. 1. VOL. III.

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

Guatemala, Hayti, Argentine Republic, France, Great Britain, Ger-

many, Prussia, Austria, Hungary, Denmark, Italy, Venice, Russia,

&c.,

QUARTERLY 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,

Immigration to the United States,

Proportion between Foreign and Native Population,

* The Commerce of the Lakes,

5-43

44-98

99

105

108

110

111

Do. of Cincinnati,

Growth and Commerce of Milwaukie,

Commerce of Michigan,

116

117

117

Cotton Factories in Alabama,

Do.

of New Orleans,

119

120

Public Moneys, Treasury of United States,

120

122

College Statistics,

Education in Ireland,

California Gold,

Statistics of Cholera,

Ecclesiastical Statistics,

Next House of Representatives,

Extent of the British Colonies,

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS:

Legal Reform in the State of New York,

Sketch of the Life of Samuel Stanhope Smith,