per's Monthly is, perhaps, more unexcep | best that we have recently had the pleasure tionable on the score of Slavery, than any of reading. Mrs. Trollope is so well known Northern work of similar kind. Southern Quarterly Review.--The leading article on the Polk Administration is ably written, but we do not like the author's estimate of Robert D. Walker. The paper on Rights of the Slave States is, we believe, from John A. Campbell, of Mobile, and bears the impress of his ability. He traces the slave discussion beyond even the date of the Constitution. There are several other political and literary articles, carrying out the views and theories of the Quarterly, which are distinctly those of the Nashville Convention. Mr. Simms has also appended a large number of useful Critical Notices. Report of the Secretary of State, Communicating Mr. Gurley's Report on Liberia. Report of the Secretary of War, on the Geology and Topography of California. -Mr. Soule favors us with these documents. We intend to study out this subject of Liberia, Colonization, Emancipation, Ebony Line, etc., and give the result to our readers in several articles before long. We have already a multitude of facts, and will thank any one to furnish new ones, or, documents. Mr. Pease, the gentlemanly agent of the Society, notwithstanding our differences upon so many points, promised to place all the documents yet published in our possession. We await them. as a popular and sparkling sketcher of men and things in our country, that the mention of her name is alone sufficient to attract curiosity to know what she has to say about petticoat government. She strongly insinuated in her sketches, that the women wore the breeches. Coast Directory. By Charles J. Pike.which rolls up very neatly and contains a Baton Rouge. This is in the form of a chart, list of all the plantations, estates and towns Orleans to Port Hudson, Miss., a distance upon the Mississippi, from the city of Newof 146 miles. It should be in the hands of all the planters as a useful directory, and we hope the enterprise of Mr. Pike will meet with its just reward. NORTHERN SLAVERY. The following is an extract from a letter of a distinguished citizen of Connecticut, addressed to Mr. Kettell, of New-York: "It is the custom, in many towns in Connecticut, to set up the paupers at auction every year, and knock them off to the lowest them for the year, at the lowest price. bidder-that is, to the man who will take This was the case, to my knowledge, in several counties. I have always understood it to be a general thing in Connecticut. When we were in H. they were sold to the number of sixty, for the year, to our next door neighbor, for fifteen dollars a head; and he got all the work out of them that he could, though most of them were infirm, and not able to do much: They hoed his corn and sawed his wood, and weeded his garden; and being an extensive fisherman, they assisted in dressing his fish, nnd did chores' generalare able. In H. the contractor, as I said, ly. They are made to work all that they was a fisherman, and during the fishing season, a principal article of food for the paupers was the heads and tails of shad, which were cut off when dressed for salting. house, with an attic not to exceed 25 by 30 They were all lodged in a little one-story feet; and were all stored in together, male and female, with, as appeared to me, very little regard to decency. In case of the death of any of them, the contractor got a specified sum for their burial; and also, I think, secured the whole amount contracted for, for the year; indeed, I believe the probable death of some of them, was a contingency calculated on in making the bid; so that the contractor had a direct interest in starving them to death, or neglecting them when sick." EDITORIAL NOTES, ETC. WE are indebted to a gentleman of the interior, for a most interesting paper upon the price of Cotton, its cost of production, etc., which was prepared for our February No., and, most unfortunately, mislaid by us, so that it cannot appear before next month. A thousand apologies for this, our first omission of the kind. TOUR THROUGH TEXAS. Dennett, late editor of the Planters' Banner, proposing a tour through the whole of Texas, intends to publish a series of letters in that paper, and to give information upon all points connected with the agriculture, lands, prospects, etc., of the state, exacting a small fee in return. His address will be 'Care of Witter & Crosland, New-Or leans." We shall republish many of these letters. THE BENCH AND BAR OF GEORGIA. Our esteemed friend, Major Stephen F. Miller, of Lanier, Geo., proposes to publish a work with this title, which will, no doubt, be very rich in incident and illustration He intends sketches of all the most distinguished barristers and jurists of the state, from the earliest times down; and invites assistance from all quarters. We know Major Miller to be eminently qualified for TO READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS. Like Pericles of old, when asked of the funds which had come into his possession, we show what has been done with them. Look at the Review-its size, its matter, its illustrations, and then ask if we are unrea. sonable in asking more subscribers and more money. We have not enough of either yet. So pay up, on all hands-the mails are a constant dun upon you. They knock at your door every hour. PAY UP, and aid our lists. Gentlemen of the South, we expect you all to stand by us in this enterprise, for otherwise, like Sir John in the play, we should show "a wonderful alacrity in sinking." As it is, it consoles us that we are in the tide of prosperity, and have as large a cir culation as any similar work in the Union But this is to say nothing-we must double that circulation, and our word is onward. "Never say fail, again!" We have several interesting articles on hand which must be postponed to next month. Mr. Chilton's article is receivedalso Mr. Turner's, of Georgia. We have another Rail-road paper in progress which will rouse the South upon this subject, if anything in the power of man can. |