Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 39F. Hunt, 1858 - Commerce |
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... miles of Louisburg , ) where he was to arrive in the evening , and anchor under cover of darkness , forthwith to land his men and commence an attack without delay !! These were preposterous ideas of the lawyer- governor - that a hundred ...
... miles of Louisburg , ) where he was to arrive in the evening , and anchor under cover of darkness , forthwith to land his men and commence an attack without delay !! These were preposterous ideas of the lawyer- governor - that a hundred ...
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... miles , and forms a part of the great table land of North America , having a general elevation of 800 to 1,200 feet above the surface of the sea , yet nowhere does the highest point rise more than 2,000 feet above the gen- eral level ...
... miles , and forms a part of the great table land of North America , having a general elevation of 800 to 1,200 feet above the surface of the sea , yet nowhere does the highest point rise more than 2,000 feet above the gen- eral level ...
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... miles , and about 1,162 miles are still to be completed on these roads : - WISCONSIN RAILROADS IN OPERATION . Railroads . From . To . Milwaukee and Mississippi . Janesville Branch Southern Line Chicago and Fond du Lac Middle Division ...
... miles , and about 1,162 miles are still to be completed on these roads : - WISCONSIN RAILROADS IN OPERATION . Railroads . From . To . Milwaukee and Mississippi . Janesville Branch Southern Line Chicago and Fond du Lac Middle Division ...
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... miles 39,964 acres 25,576,960 ..miles 634 974 290 72 ..degrees 52 ..inches 40.14 ..feet 1,250 425 Population * ( estimated by known ratios ) July , 1857 . Increase since 1850 .. Born in Ohio ..... Born in other States ..... 2,368,000 ...
... miles 39,964 acres 25,576,960 ..miles 634 974 290 72 ..degrees 52 ..inches 40.14 ..feet 1,250 425 Population * ( estimated by known ratios ) July , 1857 . Increase since 1850 .. Born in Ohio ..... Born in other States ..... 2,368,000 ...
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... miles Common roads ........ Railroads VII . Aggregate value of proper- ty by assessment ... 97 | Tonnage of vessels ... miles 73,418 $ 77,096,452 55,000,000 66,200 Debt of railroads . 2,834 ... Aggregate length of transit lines ...
... miles Common roads ........ Railroads VII . Aggregate value of proper- ty by assessment ... 97 | Tonnage of vessels ... miles 73,418 $ 77,096,452 55,000,000 66,200 Debt of railroads . 2,834 ... Aggregate length of transit lines ...
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Page 323 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 270 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs, America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 270 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth ; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.
Page 363 - Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this...
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Page 271 - Nor is the occasion to be slighted which this proposition offers, of declaring our protest against the atrocious violations of the rights of nations, by the interference of any one in the internal affairs of another, so flagitiously begun by Bonaparte, and now continued by the equally lawless alliance, calling itself holy.
Page 95 - The State may contract debts to supply casual deficits or failures in revenues, or to meet expenses not otherwise provided for; but the aggregate amount of such debts, direct and contingent, whether contracted by virtue of one or more acts of the General Assembly, or at different periods of time, shall never exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars...
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Page 271 - ... be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet, as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war...
Page 387 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be...