THE American QUARTERLY REGISTER AND MAGAZINE. Causas rerum videt, earumque progressus.-Cicero. Conducted by James Stryker. MAY, 1848. . . . VOL. I. No. I. TOR LIBRARY NEW-YORK PHILADELPHIA: E. C. AND J. BIDDLE, No. 6 SOUTH FIFTH STREET. All communications for the Register are to be directed to JAMES STRYKER, Editor of the American Quarterly Register, Philadelphia, or to the Publishers, E. C. and J. Biddle, Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA: T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS. CONTENTS. HISTORICAL REVIEW and REGISTER for 1846 and 1847, comprising United States, South America, Great Britain, France, Spain and Portugal, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Switzerland, Italy, Africa, Asia DOCUMENTS ACCOMPANYING THE REVIEW, including: The early correspondence of General Taylor with the Department of War The mint and coinage of the United States,-with Statistical tables PAGE 38-84 |