The experiments in Cotton culture are of very great promise. Commencing in latitude 39 deg. 30 min. (see Mattoon on the Branch, and Assumption on the Main Line), the Company owns thousands of acres well adapted to the perfection of this fibre. A settler having a family of young children, can turn their youthful labor to a most profitable account in the growth and perfection of this plant.
Traverses the whole length of the State, from the banks of the Mississippi and Lake Michigan to the Ohio. As its name imports, the Railroad runs through the centre of the State, and on either side of the road along its whole length lie the lands offered for sale.
There are Ninety-eight Depots on the Company's Railway, giving about one every seven miles. Cities, Towns and Villages are situated at convenient distances throughout the whole route, where every desirable commodity may be found as readily as in the oldest cities of the Union, and where buyers are to be met for all kinds of farm produce.
Mechanics and working-men will find the free school system encouraged by the State, and endowed with a large revenue for the support of the schools. Children can live in sight of the school, the college, the church, and grow up with the prosperity of the leading State in the Great Western Empire.
PRICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT--ON LONG CREDIT.
80 acres at $10 per acre, with interest at 6 per ct. annually on the following terms:
Payment in one year 48 00 " in two years 48 00 " in three years 48 00 " in four years 236 00 " in five years 224 00 " in six years 212 00
Payment in one year 24 00 " in two years 24 00 " in three years 24 00 " in four years 118 00 " in five years 112 00 " in six years 106 00
DEVOTED TO LITERATURE and NATIONAL POLICY
The Causes of the Rebellion. Hon. F. P. Stanton, 513 Word-Murder, 524 Stewart, and the Dry Goods Trade of New York. W. Frothingham, 528 Unheeded Growth, John Neal, 534 Red, Yellow, and Blue, 535 One of the Million. Caroline Cheesebro, 541 Las Oraciones. C. K. Tuckerman, 557 A Merchant's Story. Edmund Kirke, 560 The Union. Hon. Robert J. Walker, 572 The Wolf Hunt. Chas. G. Leland, 580 The Poetry of Nature. Chas. G. Leland, 581 Maccaroni and Canvas. Henry P. Leland, 591 The Proclamation. Chas. G. Leland, 603 The Press in the United States. Hon. F. P. Stanton, 604 Was He Successful? Richard B. Kimball, 610 Aurora. Horace Greeley, 622 From Mount Lafayette, White Mountains, 626 The Homestead Bill. Hon. Robert J. Walker, 627 Literary Notices, 636 Editor's Table, 638