sion of profound and serene repose liquor and opium has rushed out and is which characterises all the best images running amok, striking and stabbing of him. We do not care to linger at his with his gleaming Kriss, every one in worship which seems to us more than his way. Yet farther on the Hindoo, usually dull and dreary, and passing sleek, graceful, and eminently handsome on we come to a temple to Sin-tü the in form and feature. but treacherous Japanese divinity, who shares with and deceitful, bows very humbly and Buddha the reverence of that people. obsequiously, but it would not surprise His worship is more distinctively idola- us to know, that in one of his fits of trous than that of Buddha, and while jealousy against Englishmen and Amerthere is something interesting, there is icans, he had assassinated some friend of also much that is ludicrous, and not a ours to whom he had been equally obselittle that is sad, in this worship of wood quious and polite. and stone. We are in the Japanese We turn away a little disgusted with quarter of LaPorte, and we find here this city, which a few hours before we and there elegant cottages, with inscrip- had thought such a model. It is evitions indicating that they are "tea dent that LaPorte is not a city of the houses." The "Social Evil" among the saints, unless it be that "Latter Day" Japanese has not so many revolting fea-kind which a hundred years before had tures as among our professedly more made a neighboring city a by-word and highly civilized people; but we decline a reproach. Returning to the wareall invitations to enter, and pass on. house we find Mr. Marston ready to go The begging nuns, pretty, after the ori- home by the open railway, the cars of ental style, and very winning in their which are driven by the new motor, ways, next accost us, and ask that we whose wonderful power and freedom will visit their halls and witness their from danger, are just beginning to make dancing, and perhaps contribute some- it popular. He says very pleasantly to thing toward giving their patron god- a friend whom he has invited to accomdess a new silken suit; but we are hard pany him, that going by this route he hearted, and do not think their patron will have an opportunity to see somegoddess much more destitute of "some- thing of the beauties of the landscape. thing to wear" than her devotees before We enter the car, and it begins to move us. We have had enough of the Japa- almost immediately; the speed increases nese quarter and turn away to retrace with great rapidity, but without the our steps towards the great thorough- short, quick puffs, or the jerky motion, fare; but in so doing we have entered of the old time locomotive. Before we the purlieus of the lowest classes of the have had time to be conscious of the Chinese, Hindoo, and Malay population. change, our speed has increased till it is Here is an opium shop, and on benches terrific. trees, buildings, and towns under the verandah lie ghastly-looking are passed so swiftly that it is vain to men and women, under the influence of attempt to distinguish them. The landthe potent drug. They seem dead, and to scape, whose beauties we were to notice, have died in horrible agony; but soon has become an undistinguishable plain, one of them, and presently another, the eye can only rest in looking to the raises his head, and propping it up with far off hills, and even these approach one hand, looks around with an idiotic and recede too rapidly to be comfortable. expression, and calls in utter wretched- Yet amid it all there is no rocking or ness for more of the poison. If denied swaying of the cars, as there was in the he presently raises up again, and may days of steam. We ask the reason and commit murder or become a violent are told that, high as is the rate of speed, maniac. A little farther on a crowd are the train is balanced and kept in place gathered, who suddenly start and fly for by a sort of quasi-connection with a their lives. A stalwart Malay, whose middle rail. In thirty minutes after face is so malignant with all evil pas- leaving LaPorte, we are set down at the sions that it would make a capital study station nearest Mr. Marston's house, a for Gustave Doré in his next picture of distance of sixty miles. Mr. Marston Satan, and who is maddened with vile rallies his friend on his enjoyment of the landscape, and promises to show him reservoirs to furnish water sufficient for some of its beauties in his own carriage. the entire estate whenever and wherever Entering this, which is in waiting, the it was needed, and that now his crops party are presently set down at the door of wheat, millet, dourra maize, and of the villa. other agricultural products are so enorAs it yet lacked more than two hours mous that he hardly knows what to do of sunset, the carriage is retained at with them. the door and, after a brief delay, Mr. and Returning to the mansion, the closing Mrs. Marston, with their guests, drive hours of day are passed in high social over a superb road to the brow of the enjoyment. The dinner, at seven o'clock, mountain overlooking the magnificent is luxurious without ostentation. SalNorth Park, one of the grandest land- mon from Oregon, caught thirty-six scapes in the whole eastern slope of the hours before, and sent in ice; the deliRocky mountains. After contemplating cious blue fish of the Atlantic coast, its beauties for some time from different brought fresh in like manner; the great points, they turn southward and drive turkey of the plains, the acknowledged for a little distance through one of the monarch of the gallinacious tribes; a passes of the Uintah range, and cross saddle of elk venison; a roasted ham of the Green river-already a considerable the grizzly bear, now becoming very rare stream-on a fine suspension bridge. in the mountains; piquant sauces, the Descending from the carriage, the whole genuine trepang or birds' nest, now party look over the railing of the bridge found in the caverns of the Queen Chardown into that deep, dark cañon, even at lotte Islands, and numberless delicacies this point two thousand feet below them, devised by the skill of their accomplished its black waters striking on either side cook and confectioner, make it a repast the perpendicular walls of rock which which brings enjoyment without glutshut them in. tony. Coffee and chocolate were served, and bottles of the choicest wines of California stand in the cooler, but neither host nor guest desired them. Again entering the carriage, they come to the reservoir ponds and the acequias, which Mr. Marston has had constructed for the irrigation of his estate. He ex- The evening would have been dull plained to his friend that when he pur- had music been wanting; but in this the chased it, this was mostly a barren des- Marston family are adepts. All joined sert, covered with the sage or grease in some sweet, new songs, while Mabush; that several efforts had been dame accompanied them on the organmade to reclaim it, but unsuccesfully, piano, a new combination of string, reed and that taking advantage of a perren- and wind instruments, whose soft and ial stream higher up in the mountains, delicious tones delighted all ears. So he had obtained an ample supply in his ends a day in June, 1970. INDEX ACCORDION, the, 438. Adriatic, the (steamer), picture of, 237. Aged and infirm, houses and asylums for the, 454. Agricultural exhibitions, the first, 25; benefits of, 26; fruit Agricultural implements in old times, 20, 24, 26; improve- Agricultural literature, progress of, 97. Agricultural societies recommended by Washington, 24; first Agricultural wealth of California, 68; of the United States, 68. Albany, penitentiary of, 439. Allen, Horatio, account of his first locomotive trip, 245. American bottom, first settlement of the, 74. "American Farmer," 97. American Watch Company, 371. Americus, large ox, 48. Ambler's mowing machine, 35. Amoskeag Locomotive Works, 246; illustration of, 247. Andrews, Dr., permutation lock of, 897. Annealing, process of, 402. Barley, production and geographical distribution of, 78. Bay State Mills, 308. Beads, glass, manufacture of, 405. Beans, production and exports of, 79. Bedford hog, the, 63. Beeswax and honey, production of, 90. Beverly, Mass., first cotton mill at, 277, 280. Blanchard, Thomas, hat-felting process of, 349. Blodgett & Lerow, sewing machine of, 414. Blowers for steamboats, introduced by R. L. Stevens, 241. Bock, Henry, tambouring machine of, 414. Bohemia, manufacture of glass in, 399. Boilers, water gauges for, 229; pumps connected with, 233; Bones for manure, 100. Bony fish, for manure, the taking of, 885. Apples, primitive culture and use of, 81; thirty good native Books, agricultural, 98. varieties of, 82; at the South, 82. Apple trees in California, 83. Arkwright's cotton-spinning invention, 108, 275. Apricots in California, 83. Astor, John Jacob, 139; the fur trade of, 844. Atlanta and West Point railroad, 205, Atlantic, first crossing of the, by steam, 180. Atlantic slope, area of the, 101. Boots and shoes, importations and manufacture of, 816; manu- Boston, export of apples, 82; lumber business of. 97; railroad Auburn prison, silk manufacture in, 895; trial of solitary Boston and Maine railroad, 197. confinement in, 436. Axes, manufacture of, 841. Ayrshire cows, good milkers, 49; importations of, 50.* Bakewell, improvement in the breeding of cattle by, 89. Ballast, use of, in railroad construction, 195. Baltimore and Ohio railroad, 192; account of, 203, 245; pre- Baltimore clippers, 162. Bank of England, 145, 151. Bankrupt law, operation of the, 152. Banks, multiplication of, 143, 151; failure of, 151. Boston and Providence railroad, 197. Bottles, manufacture of, 405. Bradshaw, John, sewing-machine patent of, 414. Brazil, export of flour to, 107; cotton imported from, 117. Bricks, early importation of, 356; material of, 357; manufac. Broadcloth, the fulling of, 302-3. Brooks Brothers, clothing establishment of. 810. Brooklyn, boiler explosion in, 254; hospitals of, 449; dispen- Brooklyn Ship Timber Bending Company, 267. Buckskin gloves, 326, 827. with, 164; land transportation in, 172; American steam- Chincha islands, guano obtained from, 100. Buckwheat, production and geographical distribution of, 78; Cincinnati, pork-packing in, 65; early steam transportation land cleansed by its cultivation, 78. Buffalo robes, 845. Buildings and building material, 353. Bunker, Elias, sloop of, 178; captain of the Fulton, 179. Butter, great production of, from 73 cows, 89; from an Ayr- 51. Byfield breed of hogs, 64. Calico printing, 276; improvements in, 277; processes of, Camden and Amboy railroad, 202. Canada, operation of the treaty with, 156. Canal up the Potomac projected by Washington, 71. Candy and confectionery, 892. Cane, sugar. See Sugar cane. Cane carrier, the, description of, 128. of, 181; railroad connections of, 205; steam fire engines Cities, street railroads in, 223; plans of steam cars for, 251; Civil engineering, American triumphs in, 230. Clay, Henry, importation of Herefords by, 48; compromise Clearing house, exchanges at the, 160. Clipper ships, 162; in the California trade, 167. Clothing trade, the, rise and growth of, 309; management of, Cloth manufacture, wool used for, 802. Cloths and cassimeres, imports of, 312. Clover and grass seeds, production of, by sections, 79. Cod fishery, the, mode of conducting, 378-81; illustration of Calebs, short-horn bull, 47. Cole's American Fruit Book," 84. Cannon, improvements in, 834; metal for, 335; casting, 835; Colles, Christ'r, first steam engine in America built by, 227. proving, 336. Caoutchouc. See India-rubber. Carding, hand, picture of, 299. Carding machine, improvements in, 276; operation of, 287; introduction of, 301. Card-making machine, 276, 801. Cards, wool, 300; machine for making, 301. Carpenter & Plass's pumping engine, 263. Carpets, use and manufacture of, in America, 806; kinds of Carriages, manufacture of, 360; materials of, 861; illustra- 140. Car-springs, rubber, 411. Cartwright, power loom of, 108, 276. Cast iron, best metal for guns, 835. Cavalry, diminished importance of, 828. Colling, Charles and Robert, breeders of short-horns, 89. Coloring matters, 203, Colt, Samuel, invention of the revolver by, 331; the manufac Comet, the, second western steamboat, 239. Commercial disasters, table of losses from, 152. Conestoga wagon, 184. Connecticut, the clock business in, 868-70; silk culture and Conner, James, fire-proof chest made by, 396. Corning and Sotham, of Albany, importation of Herefords Cornish engines, 258. Champlain or Northern canal, 184. Chicago, rise and growth of, 75; preeminent as a grain depot, 75; statistics of the grain trade of, 76; preeminent as a Chickering's plano-forte manufactory, picture of, 852. China, American cotton goods sent to, 107; former course of Corn laws, English, repeal of, 153, 157. Cotton, the demand for, 106; the high prices of labor sus- Cotton clothing, demand for, 157. Cotton manufactures, progress of, 274; inventions in, 275-6, Cotton plant of Europe and America, 110. restrictions of, upon colonial trade, 183, 139; loss of the Ericsson's screw propeller, 167, 160, 240; steam fire engine, Erie railroad, account of the, 200. Essex hog, improved, picture of, 62. Cotton States, the, progress of the population of, 116; supe- Evans, Oliver, 228, 229; Orukter Amphibolos” of, 235 (pic- Cotton yarn, prices of, 110. Cows in New England at its settlement, 19; in Virginia, 23; Cranberry, culture of the, 84. Credit, system of, 148; evils of, 148. Crocheting machine, Thimonier's, 414 Crompton's mule spinner, 108, 275–6. Crooked Lake canal, 185. "Cultivator," the, 98. Cumberland national road, the, 174, 177. Currency, inflation of, 146. Currier, operations of the, 319. Curves in railroads, 193-4. Cushing, Caleb, treaty with China negotiated by, 164. Cutlery, American manufacture of, 339; grinding and polish- Cut-off, steam, the theory of the, 232-3; experiments upon Dwellings, number and value of, 354; Improved style of, 855. Dyeing of cotton goods, 289; of woollens, 301, 803; of leather, Dye-stuffs for woollens, 304. Eagle Cotton Mill, Pittsburg, 284. ture), 243; on steam wagons, 244. Eve, J., cotton gin of, 113; rotary engine of. 253. 889. Exchanges at the New York clearing house, 160. Export, three chief articles of, 107. Factory operatives in New England, 282. Faile, Edward G., Devon cow and bull owned by, 44, 46. Farmers, their primitive condition a century ago, 22; their "Farmers' Cabinet," 98. Farming in America in early times, 19; by the Indians, 21; Farın implements, general account of. 26. Farms, number and value of, in the United States, 102. Felting, the process of, 304-5; of hat bodies, 349. Fire engines, steam, 244; origin and kinds of, 259. Fish, eating of, at stated times, decreed by Queen Elizabeth, Floyd gun, the, 837. Fly frame, the, 257. Food, importation of. into England, 71. Fortunatus or Holderness, short-horn bull, 48. Fourdrinier machine, the, 295. Foster, Wm., first importer of merino sheep, 59. East Indies, cotton imported from, 117: inferior quality of, Fox, silver, fur of the, 845. Electro-gilding, 877. Electro-plating, 872; illustrations of, 878-6. Emigration into the United States explained, 106; to the Engineers, steam, 254, 268; advice to, 270. France, revenue from tobacco in, 85; imports of cotton into, Fruit, former and present importance of, 81; native varieties Fruit-raising, works on, 84. Fuel for locomotives, 249; economy in, 250; for stationary |