THE WESTERN JOURNAL, AND Civilian, DEVOTED TO" Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal Im- PUBLIC POLICY, AND POLITE LITERATURE. Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts are the basis of Civilization. RINTED BY M, NIEDNER & CO., COR. OF PINE & THIRD STREETS, 1854. Treaty between the United States and Mexico. Mesilla Valley. Pacific The New Territories: Nebraska and Kansas 251 305 ...... St. Louis, Paducah and Nashville Railroad Connection 62 64 67 .68, 135 118 212 CONTRIBUTIONS. ......... .......... .................. ............... 71 Valley of the Ohio. Its conquest and settlement by Americans. By MANN Africa and African Slavery. By Hugh A. Garland, Esq., of St. Louis.. 338 |