THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD; OR THE GREAT WEST. THE Land of Promise, and the Canaan of our time, is the region which, commencing on the slope of the Alleghanies, broadens grandly over the vast prairies and mighty rivers, over queenly lakes and lofty mountains, until the ebb and flow of the Pacific tide kisses the golden shores of the El Dorado. With a soil more fertile than human agriculture has yet tilled; with a climate balmy and healthful, such as no other land in other zones can claim; with facilities for internal communication which outrival the world in extent and grandeur, it does indeed present to the nations a land where the wildest dreamer on the future of our race may one day see actualized a destiny far outreaching in splendor his most gorgeous visions. To the New England man, who has been nurtured among the bleak hills and the rough, rocky valleys of his native section, where land is scant and food scan tier, where the farmer laboriously cultivates his little patch of ground, and gets therefrom but a small return for his toilsome labors, let him turn his gaze to the broad fields of the West, and there behold the ne plus ultra of farming- an agriculture worthy of the name. There will he see the field where his busy brain and thinking hand can find space and material to work, and an opportunity to rear from its virgin civilization institutions which shall bless generations yet to be. O, the soul kindles at the thought of what a magnificent empire the West is but the germ, which, blessed with liberty and guaranteeing equal rights to all, shall go on conquering and to conquer, until the whole earth shall resound with its fame and glory! The hardy yeomanry of New England are peopling by thousands on thousands this land of "milk and honey," carrying with them the indomitable AngloSaxon energy, and the stern virtues of their fathers, and more than all, minds which the common school has trained into strong intellectual growth, thus fitting them to be the master spirits of the new era. The old world, cursed with despotism, is pouring out its oppressed millions into the lap of the West, and they will furnish the hardy sinews which, directed by New England minds, shall lay the untold bounties of nature under contribution, and swell the tide of wealth. When a Pacific railway shall connect the farthest east and the farthest west within a few days' travel, and the now almost limitless deserts shall "blossom as the |