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With the use of glass, and the aid of solar beat only, the foreign 

 grapes are now successfully raised among us, and are equal in 

 size and beauty, to those raised where tliey are indigenous. Our 

 city is singularly liappy in its locality. In addition to the sur- 

 plus and abundant fruits of its surrounding horticulture and ag- 

 riculture, nuroerous Railroads with their cars loaded with the 

 productions of the east, the north and the ffir west, arc hurrying 

 to its centre — while steam, freighted with the collections from 

 the South, and the West Indies, is hastening to this great mart of 

 business and commerce. Few cities in the world have such va- 

 riety and abundant supply of all the luxuries of the land, and 

 such a promise of prosperity. 



Georgia has presented the finest upland cotton ever produced. 

 Its superiority comes from cultivation, I'rom a careful selection of 

 the seeds, and the improvement of the soil. South Carolina pre- 

 sents a buggy, or single wagon, of great beauty of workmanship — 

 from a factory, the proprietors of wliich now employ forty hands 

 in full work ;^ which, with the cotton factories and other estab- 

 lishments now being erected in the South, augurs well for tho 

 opinion that is daily gaining ground, that the South will soon 

 come to believe that they have the same interests, and that tlio 

 same legislation required by the North is also required by them. 

 This is a subject for much congratulation to the country at large, 

 and is a pledge that the day is not far distant wheii they who arc 

 supposed to be hostile to the maintenance of the Union, will con- 

 tribute much to its greater support and glory. A just system of 

 Manufactures and Internal Improvements, with Steamboats and 

 Railroads pervading every part of our land, like the veins and 

 arteries in the human frame, gives health and prosperity, and 

 secures to us Union and independence. 



The American Institute avows itself the friend and advocate 

 6f Free Trade, but it is that kind of Free Trade which is re- 

 ciprocal, and not free on one side only^ but equal to both. The 

 condition of the people of Ireland, or, if you please, of British 

 India, marks the desolation consequent on an unequal free trade. 

 It illustrates the destiny and certain ruin of a country wliich 

 allows its food, or the produce of its soil to be taken in an uu- 



