Banking: Free Banks, Banking Corpo-
rations, 154.

Banks: How Savings Banks get rich,
428.

Commercial aspects of California, 362.
Cotton: its culture and commerce in In-
dia, 420.

Credit, Gold and Silver, 118.
Cross: a poem, 227.

Cultivation of Taste by Farmers,
448.

D.

Decomposition of rocks and production
Dependence of mind upon matter, 137.
of metals, 276.
E.

Education Statistics:-Census of 1850,
438.

European War: Probable effects on
England and the Slave Trade, 415.
American securities, 25.
F.

Forest Mining Co., 59.

Banana, Culture of, in Florida, 446.
Bartlett's Personal Narrative of the
country between San Antonio, Texas,
and the Pacific, 251.
Beauty, a sketch, 228.
Boone, Daniel, taken prisoner by the
Indians, 14.1

Bricks, new style of manufacture, 351.

C.

Cahokia, Great Indian Council at, 246.
California, its Agricultural Capacities,
264. Its commercial aspects. Prices
of flour and other commodities. Vac-
ant houses in San Francisco. Ship-
ment of gold, &c., 362.
Chambers, A. B., Obituary notice, 149.
Chicago, Statistics of trade, manufac-
tures, &c. History of its improve-
ments, public and private, 43, 124.
Completion of the railroad from Chi-
cago to Alton, 376.

Cleveland and St. Louis air line Rail-
road, 374.

Coffee, Trade, Imports, Prices, &c.,
360.

Commerce of Chicago, 43, 124.

Com-

merce of the United States, 282 to
292, and 352 to 357. Commerce be-
tween St. Louis and Arkansas, 134,
and between St. Louis and the South,
294.

Clark, Gen. George R., Negotiations
with Virginia for the Illinois cam-
paign; his march to Kaskaskia, in
1778; capture of Kaskaskia, 159. His
notions of Indian negotiations, 238.
His plan for recovering Vincennes
from the British, 319. His second
invasion of the Indian country, 400.
Commercial Regulations: Treaty be-
tween the United States and Japan,
368.

the winter of 1853-4, 184.

Fruits of Oregon, wild and cultivated,

93.

G.

Galvanized Iron, 430.

Gas: Cost and consumption of, in 34
cities in the U. S., 380.
Geological survey of Missouri, 1.
German Philosophy, 68, 135.
Germany: Taste.

From the French of

Mad. De Stael, 225.
Gold: Amount deposited in the U. S.
mint in the year 1853, 173. Forma
tion of gold, 276. Shipment of gold
from California during the first six
months of 1853 and 1854, 367.
duce of gold in Australia, 379.
Graham, A. J., Inventor of Prime
Mover, 273.

Pro-

Great Britain: Its Iron trade, 60. Its
Railroads, 343.

Gutta Percha: Its history, manufacture,
uses, &c., 85.

H.

Heart, Let me think &c., a poem, 228.
Harry and Jule; a poem, 152.
Heaven, the way to. A poem, 227.
Helena, Ark.: Its railroad and com-
Herndon, Lieut., his expedition in the
mercial prospects, 370.
Hickman, Ky.: Its trade with St. Louis,
valley of the Amazon, 96.
294.

road iron discussed, 77. New method
of rolling railroad iron, 301. Gal-
vanized iron, 430.

J.

Japan: Treaty with the U. S., 368.

K.

Kansas Territory, the Act of organiza-
tion, boundary, &c., 305.
Kaskaskia: Its capture by Col. Clark,

166.

Keokuk and Muscatine Railroad, 374.1
L.

Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis rail-
road, 387.
Lander, Col., His opinion respecting a
railroad route to the Pacific, 299.
Lands, public, Statistics of the General
Land Office, 44.

Lands, public, Speech of Mr. Perkins,

of La., on a proposition to transfer
them to the States, 381. Law gradu-
ating the price of the public lands,
399.

Let me think in my heart, a poem, 228.
Libraries, public, 22.

Life among the Mormons, 279.
Limited Partnerships, 238.
Literary Notices, 67.

P.

Public Lands, Pre-emption laws, edut
cation endowments, Railroad grans,
&c., 37.

Pacific Railroad, Mo., Equity Shares
&c., 63.

Pacific Railroad Convention in Cali-
fornia, 296.

Prime Mover, Universal, Graham's in-
Partnerships, limited, 238.
vention, 273.

R.
Railroads. Pacific Railroad, Mo.,
Equity shares, &c., 62. Fremont's
exploration of the central route. 184.
Southern route, 256. Central route
convention in California, 296. Rail-
roads in Arkansas, 64. Midland R.
R., 224. Breaking ground at Hele-
na, 300. Mississippi, Ouachita and
Red River Railroad breaking ground
301. Railroads concentrating at Hei
lena, Ark., 370. Mobile and Oht-
Railroad, Engineer's Report, 173. So.
Louis, Memphis and New Orleans
Railroad, 212. St. Louis, Paducah
and Nashville Railroad Connection,
220). Railroads in Great Britain, Re-
port for 1853, 343. Keokuk and
Muscatine Railroad, 374. Clevelan
and St. Louis air line railroad; it
progress, length of straight lines
curves, grades, &c., 374. Ohio and
Mississippi railroad open to Carlyle,
376. Chicago and Mississippi Rail-
road completed, 376. Mississippi &
Tennessee Railroad, Engineer's Re-
port, 377. Lake Erie, Wabash and
St. Louis Railroad, Progress of the
work, 378. Railroad iron, shall the
duties on be repealed? 77.
Railroad iron, improved method of rol-
ring bars, 301.

Rocks, decomposition of, and recom-
position of their metalic composition,
276.

S.

St. Louis and Arkansas Trade, 134.
Trade with Hickman, Ky., Tennessee
and Arkansas Rivers, 294. St Louis
civil statistics- Mayor's message,
197. St. Louis, Memphis and New
Orleans Railroad, 212. St. Louis,
Paducah and Nashville railroad cue-
nection, 220.

Savings Banks, how they get rich, 428.
Slavery in Africa and in the United
States, 338.

Slave trade, history of, as carried on by
England, 415.

Steel, manufacture of, 61.
Stone, manufacture of, by L. S. Ro
bins, N. Y., 121.

Sugar trade and sugar crop of Louisi

ana, 358.