THE

WESTERN JOURNAL,

OF

AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, MECHANIC ARTS,
İNTERNAL IMPROVEMENT, COMMERCE,

AND

GENERAL LITERATURE.

Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts are the basis of Civilization.

M. TARVER & T. F. RISK,

EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.

MORITZ NIEDNER, Publisher.

VOL. V.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY.

ST. LOUIS :

PRINTED BY MORITZ NIEDNER-OFFICE, NORTHWEST CORNER
OF CHESNUT AND THIRD STREETS.

1851.

Our Republic, by Mrs. MARY R. HALL, Iowa,

Railroad Land Bills-Pacific Railway, by-

The great Industrial Exhibition of 1851, by A. S. MITCHEL, Esq., of Mo.
Grape Growing in Illinois, by THEODOR HILGARD, sen., Ill.
Spirit Culture, by HENRY COBB, Esq., member of the St. Louis Bar,
Sign Language of the Prairie Indians, by F. W. PREWITT, of Mo
Route to Santa Fe, by G. C. SEbley, Mo.,

Improvement of the Maramec River, by

Mo.,

St. Charles and Iowa Railroad, by B. A. ALDERSON, MO.

Spirit Power, by HENRY COBB, Esq., member of the St. Louis Bar,
An approaching monied Crisis-Means of preventing, by RoBT. TRIPLETT,
Esq., Ky.,

Female Education, by Mrs. HARRIET WESTBROOK, St. Louis, Mo.

Cedar Pyramid, by B. A. ALDERSON, Mo.,

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Reading and Study, by EDWARD STAGG, Esq., St. Louis, Mo.,

273

A Day on the Canadian River, by ISAAC J. COOPER, St. Louis, Mo.,

346

The reader will please to observe that the paging in this volume from 143 to 213 is repeated
the 3d and 4th numbers having been paged alike.

EDITORS.