Ascendency Of The West

Hunt's Merchant's Siíágazine hos an article on ie rieing power of ihe Wes', and the decreasïg influenccof the Allaniic States. Tho wrier aniicipatcs ihnt alter the census of l-5) the scendency of the West in the political councils f the nation w i 11 bc acknowledged as veil as elt, and will cventually produce a change in the lace of covernment. It will also produce a maerial change of public policy. The Agiiculiual interest, which has been comparatively ovcrooked in the struggle of the Commercial and Manufacturing classes to "carry their favorite meUres will become predominant in the nation1 Legislature. The commerce of the Lakee and of the Mississippi will receivc more attention nd encouragement. As an instance of the lavshness with which appropriations are made on he 8eaboard, and the parsimony by which they aro characterized elsewhcre, the writer states. hat "the amount of outlay on a single work on hc Atlantic- the Delaware break-water- exceeds, f wc are not mistaken, all appropriations of every sort for intercommur.ication, and forcommercial purposes, for the wholc immense region included between the lakes and ihc Gulfof Mexico, and reaching from the Apalachafn range to the Rocky Mountnins.,