1870 reached upwards of $315,000,000, and exports for the same year amounted to more than $254,000,000. The first steam railway went into operation in 1827, and have since extended their lines until they span the continent from shore to shore with a total length of 72,623 miles. The electric telegraph was first introduced in 1844, and there are now 75,187 miles in use. The resources of the country in agricultural pro ducts, and the mechanical arts, stimulated by the in ventive talent and genius of its people, have wonderfully developed. In referring to the inventive genius of America, Mr. Charles Reade, a writer of whom England may be justly proud, says: "Europe teems with the material products of American genius. American patents print English newspapers, and sew Englishmen's shirts. A Briton goes to his work by Ameri can clocks, and is warmed by American stoves. In a word, America is the leading nation in all matters of material invention and construction, and no other nation rivals or approaches her." In 1836, Congress authorized the appointment of a Commissioner of Patents, which with one assistant was all the help necessary to meet the requirements of the Patent Office. Now a force of nearly 400 are employed, and issue nearly 20,000 patents annually, while the accumulation of models is so great as to demand for their accommodation one of the largest public buildings in the world. We may justly point with pride to our educational, religious, charitable, and humane institutions. It is not the design of this article to enter into details, and while we recapitulate some of these great triumphs in the past, we are not content much of the time to look backward. America is still one of the youngest nations of the world. We have no fellowship with those countries whose chief glory is exhumed from the ruins of centuries and milleniums that are past. Our motto is Onward! We welcome other nations that are rapidly adopting our principles of popular liberty, public education and political equality. We bid them welcome to the peaceful contest for the highest honors of the centuries to come. The past is secure. What shall be the future? In 1976 the custom of hereditary office holding will be obsolete, and all civilized nations will be practically republics. All will be confederated, and wars will be infrequent. Temptations to crime will be lessened, but criminals will be more surely if less severely punished. The English language will prevail over all North America, as well as in other large portions of the world. Many new editions of this book, or of others of the same kind, will have been published; and there will even then, as now, be croakers complaining that the present days are not as good as the former, and also men of faith and hope and enthusiasm, looking for better days to come. Read, then, and be happy, for intelligence is an essential element of genuine American citizenship. E. O. H. LIST OF THE NAMES AND FAMILIES OF THE PILGRIMS WHO CAME OVER FIRST IN 1620. One hundred and one passengers left Plymouth, England, in the Mayflower, September 6th, 1620, and landed at Plymouth Rock, Mass., December 22d, 1620. (December 11th old style.) The names here given are in the order Governor Bradford placed them in his History of Plymouth Colony, which was first given to the public in 1856.* MR. JOHN CARVER; who was chosen the first Governor on their arrival at Cape Cod. He died the first spring. Katherine, his wife; she died a few weeks after her husband. DESIRE MINTER; afterwards returned in poor health, and died in England. JOHN HOWLAND; man-servant, afterwards married the daughter of John Tillie, and had ten children. ROGER WILLIAMS; man-servant, died in the first sickness. WILLIAM LATHAM; a boy, after more than twenty years visited England, and died at the Bahama Islands. A MAID SERVANT; who married, and died one or two years after. JASPER MOORE; who died the first season. MR. WILLIAM BREWSTER; their Ruling Elder, lived some twentythree or four years after his arrival. Mary, his wife; died between 1623 and 1627. Love Brewster, a son; married, lived to the year 1650, had four children. Wrestling Brewster; youngest son. RICHARD MORE and brother; two boys placed with the Elder. Richard afterwards married, and had four children. His brother died the first winter. MR. EDWARD WINSLOW; Mr. W., afterwards chosen Governor, died in 1655, when on a commission to the West Indies. Elizabeth, his wife, died the first winter. Mr. W. left two children by a second marriage. GEORGE SOULE and ELIAS STORY; two men in Winslow's family. G. Soule married and had eight children. E. Story died in the first sickness. ELLEN MORE; a little girl placed in Mr. Winslow's family, sister of Richard More, died soon after their arrival. *It is a matter of historic interest, and yet, strange to say, is not recorded in any one of a dozen histories and encyclopedias in our library, including Bancroft's and Hildreth's extended works; but in Hotten's List of Emigrants to America 1600 to 1700.--[Chicago Weekly Inter-Ocean.] 40a |