Session from third Monday in November until the third Monday in May, twenty-six weeks. Ex-Officio: Administrators of the University. (HONORABLE ISAAC JOHNSON, Gov. of the State of Louisiana, GEORGE EUSTIS, Chief Justice Supreme Court, 66 66 A. D. CROSSMAN, Mayor of the City of N. Orleans; HON. PRESTON W. FARRAR, 66 MAUNSEL WHITE, 66 R. C. NICHOLS, I. T. PRESTON, Esq. LEVI PIERCE, Esq., In the capacious and splendid Buildings of the University ON COMMON STREET, NEW ORLEANS. Under Professor J. D. B. DE BOW, Assisted by several distinguished Scientific, Literary and Professional Gentlemen of New Orleans. *There will be a Summer Term in the Collegiate and Military Institute of Kentucky, near Frankfort, for such Students of the University of Louisiana, who may desire to spend their summers in that fine climate and obtain the advantages of that excellent Institution. Such Students will pursue their studies, with some additional ones, and have the benefit of Military Instruction. The expenses are quite moderate, as will be seen by reference to the Circular of the Institute, which was published in September No. Review, 1849. The instructions in this branch of the University established under the endowment of LECTURES AND INSTRUCTIONS. I-A Course of Lectures upon Political Economy, Commerce and Statistics.— The course of instruction will be conducted by oral lectures and examinations. Though primarily intended for the large and important class engaged in, or preparing for, commercial life, it is at the same time addressed to all who are pursuing a liberal education, with a view to any of the professions. No subject can be more generally interesting and important than those which relate to the industry, resources, and wealth of nations, and the laws which influence their progress or decline. The course will embrace : 1. Relations of Governments and Industry; Sources of National Wealth and Progress, etc.; Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wealth. 2. History and Progress of Commerce-its Principles and Laws; Home and Foreign Commerce; Tariffs, Treaties, Life Insurance; Roads, Canals, Shipping and Revenue; Systems of Reciprocity, Balances of Trade; Mercantile and Navigation Systems; Colonies and Colonial Systems; Banks, Finances, Accounts, Transportation, Book-keeping, Principles of Merchant Law; Commerce of Nations, Ancient and Modern: Geography of Commerce; Commodities of Commerce; Literature of Commerce, etc. 3. Progress and Results of Agricultural Science; Principles of Agriculture; Comparative Condition of Agricultural, Commercial and Manufacturing Communities; Statistics of Agriculture, etc. 4. Origin and Progress of the Manfacturing System; its relations to the other pursuits; Invention and Machinery in Manufactures; Condition of the Manufacturing Classes; Statistics of Manufactures, etc. II-A Course of Lectures upon Chemistry applied to Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures.--Gasses, Organic Substances, Acids, Organic Elements of Plants, Food of Plants, Inorganic Constituents of Vegetables, Nature and Origin of Soils, Rocks, etc., Chemical Constitution of Soils, Improvement of Soil by Art, by Chemistry; Manures, Organic and Animal; Produce of the Soil, etc.; uses of Chemistry in the various branches of Arts and Manufac tures, etc. III-A Course of Lectures upon Commercial and Maritime Law and Mercantile Usages.-Commercial Law, as it relates to Mercantile Persons, Property, Contracts, Remedies, Partnerships, Corporations, Bills of Exchange, Freight, Average, Insurance Sale, Guarantees, Lien, etc. IV. A Course of Lectures upon Geology, Mineralogy, Botany and the Analysis of Soils and Products.-Descriptive and Practical Geology: Composition of Rocks, Stratification, Formations, Series and Periods, Metalliferous Veins, Fossils; Classification, Distribution and Analysis of Plants; Specific Gravity Soils, Various Analyses, Earthy and Mineral Substances in Plants, Saline Matters. Clays, Sand, etc. V.-A Course of Lectures upon Modern History, Constitutions and the Ameri can Government. VI.—A Course of Lectures upon the Theory of Numbers, Commercial Accounts and Calculations. VII.-Practical and daily instructions in Book keeping by double and single entry in all its applications; opening and closing regular Mercantile Books; Penmanship. VIII.-General Discussions upon Criticism, Rhetoric and the Art of Composition. IX.-The French, Spanish and German Languages. Lectures daily, with oral instructions and rigid examinations. Each Student to be supplied with Text books in the different departments. Students preparing for Mercantile life will not be required, unless it is preferred, to attend the Agricultural Lectures. Agricultural Students will have a similar option about Commercial matters; although it is desirable every Student should attend all the Lectures, Students attending the Institute two years and standing all necessary examinations, receive their regular diploma. $65 10 10 to 20 Modern Languages, extra (session),... Single Course of Lectures in either department,. Payment on the opening of session or within six weeks afterward. Board can be obtained, in respectable families, in New Orleans, from four to five dollars per week; and parents and guardians are requested to make the necessary arrangements through their friends or factors in the city. Attached to the College is a Library and Reading Room, containing all the Commercial, Agricultural and practical Periodicals, Newspapers, etc., published in this country, England and France. The advantages of business experience in New Orleans, from its great trade, are unrivalled. Here are the practical daily illustrations of all teachings. A great city only can give these. The Buildings of the University are of the most spacious character, and it embraces a flourish. ing Law and Medical School, and a Preparatory Department in the Classics and Mathematics. wwww THE OBJECT OF THE COMMERCIAL AND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA, Is to prepare young men for practical life and success in the callings upon which they may engage. It is the first Institution of the kind in the country and in keeping with the spirit of the present age. It will be remembered that Abbott Lawrence, by a splendid endowment, added but lately to Harvard College a department of Engineering, Arts and Manufactures, and that Agricultural Chairs have been connected of late with many of the leading American Colleges. In Europe, they have the schools of Liebig, Rosa, Mulder, etc. The Smithsonian Institute at Washington, has one distinct department of Agriculture, Commerce, Statistics, etc. Several years ago, a convention of the Southern and Western Merchants, held in Augusta, Georgia, declared: That this convention cannot but view with deep regret the neglect of all Commercial pur suits which has hitherto prevailed among the youth of our country, and which has necessarily thrown its most important interests into the hands of those who, by feeling and habit, are led into commercial connections elsewhere. This convention cannot, therefore, too earnestly recommend the speedy adoption, by all of their fellow citizens, of measures to introduce COMMERCIAL EDUCATION among our youth; to train them up to habits of business and thereby to establish a body of merchants whose every interest and feeling shall be centered in the country which has reared and sustained them." Malachy Postlethwayt, in his great work, the Universal Dictionary of Commerce, maintains that, "Without an acquaintance in the produce and manufactures of the commercial world, and in the laws of our own and foreign countries, in relation to general trade; without abilities to obtain the best intelligence, in order to strike the critical time when and where exportation or importation from nation to nation, drawing, remitting, and negotiating foreign bills, invite to the best advantage; without knowledge of the duties, imposts, subsidies, drawbacks, bounties, and all other charges and allowances at home and abroad, to which trade is subject; it is impossible that any previous calculation can be made, whether an adventure will turn to account or not. To the ignorant, commerce is but a game of chance, where the odds are against the player. But to the accomplished merchant it is a science where skill can scarce fail of its reward; and while the one is wandering about on a pathless ocean without a compass, and depends on the winds and tides to carry him into port, the other goes steadily forward, in a beaten track, which leads him directly, if no extraordinary accident intervenes, to wealth and honor. Such, indeed, is the strength of natural discernment in some, and such sometimes the uncommon attention to business of others, that they make little difficulty in breaking through every obstacle to knowledge, if they obtain but a glimmering light. The case of the generality is far different." In an Address before the southern Agriculturists, the Hon. John B. O'Neal, of South Carolina, remarks: “This, however, demands what we have not in all parts of the State, an educated class of husbandmen. The great fault of education in Carolina is that it has no particular application. The clergyman, the lawyer, the physician, the merchant, the mechanic and the farmer, are all educated alike. With suitable attention on the part of parents and guardians, education might be so directed as to fit a man for his business, instead of making him a prodigy of learning without one particle of common sense." Dr. Bachman, the collaborator of the celebrated Audubon, adds: "Agricultural schools first had their origin, I think, in Germany; they were introduced next into France and Switzerland, and are now springing up in every part of Europe. The Renssellaer School in New York is also an agricultural one. The most complete institution of the kind I had an opportunity of examining, is called the Institute of Agriculture and Forrestry, near Stautgard. I observe that it is characterized in the British Farmers' Magazine, as the most complete agricultural school in Europe. Here, in addition to all the studies pursued usually in academies, all the operations of agriculture and horticulture are performed by the students in the open air, under the supervision of teachers qualified to undertake, note down and record, every observable fact and traceable cause. Here are delivered regular courses of lectures in geology, mineralogy and chemistry-on soils, water, moistures, vapor, fermentation, gasses, mutual attraction, condensation and results. Instructions are given and eluci dated by experiments on light, heat, electricity, galvanism, magnetism, etc. These are all employed by nature and are in incessant operation. They constitute the class of great natural agents. Botany, in the most extensive sense of the term, forms a very important feature, which extends to the physiology of plants, their uses, medical and other virtues. Entomology is also taught as a science connected with agriculture, and the habits of insects as well as birds and quadrupeds, are studied in order to guard against their depredations or to benefit by their labors." Will not be numerous or expensive, and can be had in New Orleans. Authorities consulted and referred to in the course of Instructions and Lectures in the different departments. Economics. Stewart's Inquiries in Political Economy; Lauderdale on Public Wealth; Smith's Wealth of Nations; Ricardo's Political Economy and Taxation; Malthus's Works on do.; Torens on the Production of Wealth; M'Culloch's Works; Dr. Cooper's Treatise on Political Economy; Cardoza's do.; Whatley's do.; Chalmer's do.; Scrope's do.; Seniors' do.; Carey's Principles of Political Economy; Quincy's Logic of do.; Ilume's Essays; West on Land and Capital; Ricardo's Dialogues; Bailey on Values; Jones on Wealth and Taxation; Boileau's Introduction to Political Economy; Young's Political Arithmetic, Foreign Works of Isnard, De Tracy, Say, Garnier, Ganith, Douffroy, Sismondi, Droz, Blanqui, Rau, Chevalier, Rossi, Nerri, Becarria, Gioja, Pecchio, Munoz, Ward, Ortiz, Guarina's Estrado, Dictionaire d'Economie, Scrittori Classici Italiani, di Economia Politica, etc.; Mills's Political Economy, 2 vols., 1849. Commerce.-Robertson's Mappe of Commerce; Roberts's Treasure of Trafficke; England's Treasure by Foreign Trade, by Thos. Mun; Fortrey's England's Interest and Improvement; Coke's Treatises on Trade, etc.; England's Great Happiness; Britannia Languens; Childs's Discourse of Trade; Dudley North's Discourses on Trade; Davenant on the Balance of Trade; King's British Merchant; Woods's Survey of Trade; Defoe's Plan of English Commerce; Gee's Trade and Navigation of Great Britain; Carey's Discourse on Trade, etc.; Dobbs on Trade of Ireland; Decker on the Decline of Trade; Tucker on the Trade of France and England: Tucker on Commerce and Taxes; Tucker on Trade of Turkey; Bell's Vindication of Commerce and the Arts; Postlethwayt's Dictionary of Trade and Commerce; Postlethwayt's Commercial Interest of Britain; Cantillon s Analysis of Trade; Rolt's Dictionary of Trade; Mortimer's Dictionary of Trade and Commerce; Mortimer's Elements of Commerce; Tucker's Tracts on the same subject; Sheffield on American Commerce; Sheffield on Irish Commerce; Oddy's European Commerce; Mill's Defense of Commerce; M'Culloch on its Principles and History; Pitkins's Commerce of the United States; Hagemeister on Russian Commerce; McGregor's Commercial Statistics; Melon's Essay on Commerce; Savary's Dictionary of Commerce; Condillac, du Commerce et Le Gouvernement; Ricardo's Traite du Commerce; Arnauld's Balance du Commerce; Sismondi, Laboulinierre, etc., on Commerce; Douglass's North American Settlements; Bacon's Colonization of the Free States of Antiquity; Moseley's Treatise of Sugar; Brougham's Colonial Policy; Edwards's West Indies; Bliss Colonial Intercourse; Bliss on the Timber Trade; Martin's Statistics of British Colonies; Merivale's Lectures on Colonization and Colonies; Mun on the India Trade; Robertson on Ancient Communication with India, and Modern Trade with it; McPherson's European Commerce with India; Milburn's Oriental Commerce; Chitty on the Laws of Commerce, Manufactures, etc.; Hooper on Ancient Measures; Reynardson on English Weights and Measures; Arthbutnott's Coins, Weights and Measures; John Quincy Adams's Report on Weights and Measures; Gordon's Universal Accountant and Complete Merchant; King's British Merchant; Hertslet's Treaties of England; Evelyn's Navigation and Commerce ; Anderson on Commerce; Macpherson's Annals of Commerce; Vincent's Commerce of the Ancients; Stephen's Progress of Discovery, Navigation and Commerce; Cooley's Maritime and Inland Discovery; Heeren's Commercial Researches; Huat's History of Commerce; Depping's Histoire du Commerce; MMartin's Commercio d'Veneziani; Petty on Money; Locke's Treatises on Money; Sir Isaac Newton on Coinage; Leake's History of English Money; Harris on Money and Coins; Snelling's Works on Coinage; Merrey on the Coinage of England; Thornton on Paper Credit ; Foster's Commercial Exchanges; Liverpool on Coinage; Blake on the Course of Exchange; Rudong's Annals of British Coinage; Gilbert's History of Banking; Gallatin on Currency and Banking in the United States; Gouge's Treatise on do.; Carey's Credit System; Tucker's Theory of Money and Banks; Tooke's History of Prices, Agriculture, Manufactures, Internal Improvements, Statistics, etc.-M'Adam's Observations on Roads; Parnell on Roads; Phillips's Inland Navigation; Woods's Treatise on Railroads; Petty's Essays on Political Arithmetic; Works of Arthur Young; Dickson's Husbandry of the Ancients; Chalmer's Comparative Strength of Great Britain; Colquhoun on British Empire; Loudon's Encyclopædia of Agriculture; Parnell's Applied Chemistry; Knapp's Chemical Technology; Weisbach's Mechanics of Machinery and Engineering; Liebig's Agricultural Chemistry; Johnson's Agricultural Chemistry; McCulloch's Statistical Account of British Empire; Porter's Progress of the Nation; Porter's Tables of Revenue, Population, etc.; Tucker's Progress of the United States in Population and Wealth; Holland's History of Coal and the Coal Trade; Fraser's Fisheries of Great Britain; Elking's Greenland Trade and Fisheries; Scoresbey's Arctic Regions; Murray's Polar Seas; Babbage's Machinery and Manufactures; Schrivenor on the Iron Trade; Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines; Bischoff on Woolen and Woolen Factories; Slater's American Manufactures; Morgan's Treatise on Life Insurance; Edmond's Tables on do.; Morgan's Essays on Probabilities Applied to Life Insurance; Bentham's Defense of Usury; Betero's Cause of the Greatness of Cities; Benjamin Franklin on the Increase of Men; Hume on Populousness of States; Short on Decrease of Mankind; Price, Wales and Malthus, on English Population; Summer's Treatise on the Records of the Creation; Saddler's Law of Population; Allison's Principles of Population; Hawkin's Elements of Medical Statistics; Thackrah on the Effects of Arts, Trades and Professions, on Health and Longevity; Eden's History of the Laboring Classes and tate of the Poor; Walker on Pauperism; Carey on Wages; Farland's Inquiries Concerning the Poor; Pratts's History of Savings Banks; Prostitution dans la ville de Paris, par M. Parent Duchatelet; Dalrymple on Feudal Property; Maugham on Literary Property; Godson on Copy and Patent Rights; Blair's Slavery Among the Romans; Blandinel on the Slave Trade; Phillips on the National Debts; Saxby on the British Customs; Sinclair on the Revenue of the British Empire; Dr. Hamilton on the National Debt; McCulloch on Taxation; Dr. Davenant's Political and Commercial Works; Beckman's History of Inventions and Discoveries; Jacobs on the Precious Metals; Public Economy of Athens, by Boeckh; Vaughan's Age of Great Cities. ART. I.-NEGRO SLAVERY AT THE SOUTH.* COMPARISON OF SLAVE LABOR AND THE PAUPER LABOR OF EUROPE; ABOLITION OUTRAGES AND FALSEHOODS; THE RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION AND THE HAYTIAN REPUBLIC, ETC. [As we said in September last, this paper is the production of a northern gentleman who has traveled extensively in the southern States. The style is simple, unaffected and loose, but the paper will have interest with our readers notwithstanding any faults.-ED.] It is not this mutual love and good will and spirit of mutual protection, binding southern masters and slaves together, that keep English freemen in submission to a system inconceivably worse than any system of negro slavery in the United States. It is want, absolute want, and perfect inability to escape from it. That there is no love for employers, is proved by the hostility of operatives against them which requires a constant force of police and armed soldiers to ride down the mob whenever they meet to discuss their grievances-by the necessity of the locking, bolting, barring and guarding, every night brings to the property holders in all English manufacturing towns, to guard their lives and property from the vengeance of the starving millions of England's slavery-denouncing, free born, poverty-inheriting laborers. What a miserable state of insecurity and fear, so different from the prevailing practice in slave-ridden Mississippi, where I know, from personal observation, that, instead of the southern people reposing, as I have often heard asserted by visionary abolitionists that they do, upon a magazine of gun powder, the explosion of which they were in constant fear and dread of, masters and their families, and overseers, those cruel negro-whipping tyrants, lay down at night with feelings of the most quiet and perfect security-their persons and property unguarded by bolt or bar, policeman or soldier, and not one in a hundred ever thinks of sleeping with gun or pistol in the room: and if he did, what would be the use where doors and windows are all open, and all the slaves upon the plantation as free and unconfined as master and overseer, and yet the latter sleep as free from fear as I do in my own house. I visited a plantation in Mississippi, upon which there are more than one hundred slaves in charge of an overseer, who, with the exception of a young physician boarder, are the only whites on the place; and two of the nearest plantations upon which there are more negroes than *Concluded from September number. |