AMERICAN REGISTER

AND

MAGAZINE.

Causas rerum videt, earumque progressus.-CICERO.

Conducted by James Stryker.

JULY 1850....VOLUME IV.

WASHINGTON, W. M. MORRISON......PHILADELPHIA, J. B. SMITH & Co.....NEW
YORK, C. S. FRANCIS & CO... BROOKLYN, A. S. WILDER...BOSTON, C. STIMPSON...
ALBANY, W. C. LITTLE....BUFFALO, O. G. STEELE.....TRENTON, C. SCOTT.

PHILLIPS & BOSWELL, PRINTERS.

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Communications to be addressed to "JUDGE STRYKER, Trenton, N. J.”

CONTENTS.

VOL. IV.

9-127

HISTORICAL REGISTER OF 1850. United States, Mexico, Central America,

South America, West India Islands, Europe, Great Britain, France, Ger-

many, Austria, Prussia, Denmark, Italy, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Tur-

key, China, India, Africa,

CHRONICLE of interesting incidents and events, among which, are: Pursuit

of the Apache Indians, Iron in China and Wales, The spindles of the

world, Exhibition of languages at Rome, Meeting of the American Colo-

mization Society, Lion hunting, Steamers for the Atlantic, Indian outrages,

Naval work in Russia, Explosion in New York, The past Winter, Semi-

Role Indians, Manufacture of Beet Sugar, Eruption of Vesuvius, Disco-

veries at Nineveh, Flood in California, African explorations, Trial of

Webster, Hungarian refugees, Disaster at Angiers France, Storms of

April, Explosion in India, Franklin expedition, Cholera in United States, 128-152

STATISTICS:

Arts, Science, Discoveries, (comprising several interesting articles and

notices),

281-288

Meteorological Statistics for 1850,

289

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS:

General Wool's March from San Antonio to Saltillo, (by Hon. F. Baylies),

Holland, (by the Rev. Dr. Baird), -

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