Perry's mines, 608. Plank roads, 381. Saddle, air seat patent, 635. Salt Lake, California, 618. Ploughing deep, 226; subsoil ploughing, Salt-see commercial statistics. 316. Pork, quantity received at St. Louis for Salmon Trout River, 623. five years, 103; quantity received in Scraps from the editor's table, 276-346. Sept. 1846-27, 105; quantity received Siera Nevada, 618. at New Orleans for ten years, 106; ex- Sculpture, its moral influence, the Apol- ports from N. Orleans for three years, lo Belvidere, 571; Jewish, Egyptian quantity exported to Great Britain for Sheep, number in England and Wales, delphia from 1787 to 1848, 174; num- St. Louis from 1st January to 1st July, Ships, &c., number of arrivals at Phila- Lines to Miss G. W., by Henry F. Wat- Profits of Labor, if the condition of the Randolph John, chapter from life of 416. Rivers, see navigation of the Mississippi, Slaves and Slavery; negro slavery in the Specie in the Bank of England, in New Subsoil ploughing & water furrows, 314. &c., see the Basin of the Salt Lake. Tallow Slate, 611. Roads, railroads in Massachusetts, their Tea, consumption, &c., in the U. S., from 73; Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad, Tin in Missouri, 344. railroad from Memphis to Monterey, Theory of Life and Happiness, 675. Lieutenant Maury's, scheme, 259; his Tobacco, crops and prices in Missouri, letter to J. C. Calhoun, 353; plank Russia, its population, its slaves, price 28; imports into St. Louis for 5 years, 111; quantity inspected in Virginia Vernal Season, 276. Vessels-See ships and shipping. March 4th, 1848, 284; quantity re- Weights of produce, as established by Great Britain for seven years, 281; Zinc, cobalt, mundac, &c., found in Per- The objects proposed by the Editors of the Western Journal. The combination of knowledge with labor, may be regarded as the only means of securing to the industrial classes. their legitimate position in the ranks of civilization. It is not sufficient that these classes should be acquainted with the details of the arts in which they are employed.They must advance a step further, and enlighten their minds with a knowledge of the science connected with their several pursuits and they should, also, understand the relation which exists between the producers and the consumers of all the leading articles of human comfort. Owing to the diversity and variety of human wants, a large portion of mankind must necessarily be employed in producing articles for the use and consumption of others; and hence arises the necessity of an exchange of products: the means of making these exchanges, so as to promote the interest of all classes, constitutes one of the great problems of political economy; and is alike interesting to both the producer and consumer. The nearer these two classes can be brought together-other things being equal—the greater will be the advantage of each; for, it must be borne in mind, that the labor and capital employed in these exchanges, add nothing to the quantity or quallity of the article, therefore, if we analize the subject, we shall discover that the merchant and the carrier derive all their support and profit from the labor of the producers; and hence it follows as an inevitable result, that the greater the distance and cost of making the exchanges, the greater will be the burthen imposed upon the producing classes. For, although the merchant and the carrier, are necessary agents, yet viewed abstractly, they may be considered as constituting a previledged class. Impressed with the truth, as well as the importance of these propositions, the Editors of the "Western Journal" have entered upon its publication, with the design of collecting and laying before the people of the Mississippi valley, that class of facts and information which relate to the varied pursuits of the People. And, to enable them to do justice to the work which they have undertaken, they respectfully invite the agriculturist, the merchant, the manufacturer and the miner, to furnish the Journal with such facts and information as may be deemed useful and interesting to the public. The Western Journal will contain an account of all valuable discoveries and improvements in agriculture, manufactures, and the mechanic arts. The leading and more important statistics of the agriculture, commerce, manufactures, mining, &c., of not only the Mississippi valley, but of the whole country, will be collected with care and fidelity, and laid before our readers in as concise and clear a form, as their nature will admit. It is our wish to collect at as early a period as practicable, a full and complete account of all the manufacturing establishments of whatsoever kind in the Mississippi valley; to the end, that we may be enabled to note the increase from year to year, so long as our Journal shall be continued. Considering internal improvements as one of the great social agents of the age, we shall collect and publish such facts and information touching this subject as may be deemed useful to our readers. Believing that our Republican form of government can only be sustained by the virtue and the intelligence of the people; we shall advocate the importance of establishing an efficient system of Education in the State of Missouri; one that shall secure sufficient instruction to every free white child within our limits, to enable it to read the Holy Scriptures and the Constitution of the State, and also, that each elector may be able to write his own ticket at the polls of an election. To enable us the better to promote this important object, we shall be pleased to receive and publish the plans and suggestions of such patriotic individuals as may be willing to connect their names with this subject. In the absence of more important and interesting matter, we shall endeavor to furnish our patrons with original essays upon the various subjects connected with the objects of our Journal; but we entertain a hope that the intelligence and public spirit of the people of the West will in due season relieve us from much of this labor by furnishing matter more interesting than our own productions. We shall neither write nor publish any article, which has reference merely to the politics of the State or gen |