THE WESTERN JOURNAL, OF AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, MECHANIC ARTS, AND GENERAL LITERATURE. Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts are the basis of Civilization. M. TARVER & T. F. RISK, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. MORITZ NÍEDNER, Publisher, VOL. V. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. ST. LOUIS : PRINTED BY MORITZ NIEDNER-OFFICE, NORTHWEST CORNER 1851. CONTRIBUTIONS. Railroad Land Bills—Pacific Railway, by- 37 130 178 191 199 165 Female Education, by Mrs. HARRIET WESTBROOK, St. Louis, Mo., 206 Cedar Pyramid, by B. A. ALDERSON, Mo., 209 Our Republic, by Mrs. MARY R. HALL, Iowa, 270 Reading and Study, by EDWARD STAGG, Esq., St. Louis, Mo., 273 A Day on the Canadian River, by Isaac J. COOPER, St. Louis, Mo., 346 * The reader will please to observe that the paging in this volume from 143 to 213 is repeated EDITORS, |