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.

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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:

Cash payment $48 00

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

40 acres, at $10 00 per acre:

Cash payment $24 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

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Number 12 25 Cents.

The

Continental

Monthly

Devoted to Literature and National Policy.

DECEMBER, 1862.

NEW YORK:

JOHN F. TROW, 50 GREENE STREET

(FOR THE PROPRIETORS).

HENRY DEXTER AND SINCLAIR TOUSEY.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: FRANCK TAYLOR.

CONTENTS.--No. XII.

The Union. Hon. Robert J. Walker, 641
Something we have to Think of, and to Do. C. S. Henry, LL.D. 657
Cambridge and Its Colleges, 662
A Physician's Story, 667
La Vie Poetique, 679
The Ash Tree. Charles G. Leland, 682
An Englishman in South Carolina, 689
The Causes of the Rebellion. Hon. F. P. Stanton, 695
On Guard. John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President
Lincoln, 706
Railway Photographs. Isabella McFarlane, 708
The Obstacles to Peace. A Letter to an Englishman.
Hon. Horace Greeley, 714
Thank God for All. Chas. G. Leland, 718
A Merchant's Story. Edmund Kirke, 719
Th