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INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

VI.-CHARTER OF THE NORTH MISSOURI RAIL ROAD..............

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STATISTICS.

COMMERCE OF ST. LOUIS. Imports of St. Louis by the rivers

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Statement of wheat received from the Missouri, Mississippi, and Illinois rivers, and flour from all sources during the year 1851....... COMPARATIVE STATEMENT, showing the monthly arrivals of steamboats at the port of St. Louis, from New Orleans, Ohio river, Illinois river, Upper Mississippi, Missouri river, Cairo, and other points, during five years.

MONTHLY ARRIVALS of steamboats and barges, keel and flat boats, Tonnage, Wharfage, Harbor Master's fee &c., for the years 1850 and 1851..

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FOREIGN IMPORTS at St. Louis, for the year 1841. Amount of duties paid &c.

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COMMERCE between the United States and Mexico. Table of Exports and Imports from 1829 to 1850.

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To the people of the South and West few topics are more congenial or interesting, than the broad domain, the mighty rivers and fertile valleys of the United States. But while contemplating the utility and grandeur of these subjects, they overlook the relations-physical, social and commercial which exist between the natural divisions of their own country, and, between this and foreign lands. Like one gazing upon the distant horizon, when lighted by the rays of the departing sun, they behold all forms softened into harmony, and "all colors melted into one vast Iris of the West;" but take no cognizance of the intricate and rugged landscape which intervenes.

We would not deprive our countrymen of the pleasures which they derive from these their visions of grandeur, whether present or prospective; but would awaken a spirit of inquiry in respect to the means of realizing those dreams of national greatness, which they so much delight to cherish.

The elements essential to human wants, are distributed by a wise providence so as to induce the inhabitants of every part of the earth, through the medium of commerce, to fraternize with each other. And the physical condition of the human family, the nature of their wants, as also, the vegetable and animal kingdoms, from which those wants are chiefly supplied, are all infinitely diversified by climate; and hence the natural law, impelling the principal currents of commercial and social intercourse to flow in a northern and southern direction. But the order in which the mineral kingdom is disposed, and the peculiar adaptation of some

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