4:8 HOW TO GET A FARM, 



a thing as a day-school among the peasantry was hardly 

 known. There is great anxiety to be able to read the laws, 

 as well as to read the Scriptures. To meet a pressing de 

 mand, the Church authorities have published the Russian 

 New Testament at the low price of sixpence a copy. 



&quot; The changes which have already been made in the mu 

 nicipal arrangements of the country are equally wonderful. 

 Within the last two years the cities of Moscow and St. 

 Petersburg have for the first time had mayors elected by 

 the citizens. In the peasant villages, the chief is elected 

 by the people, and all measures are debated and settled in 

 village meetings the training-schools of freedom, as every 

 philosophical observer considers our American town-meet 

 ings. An honorary local magistracy has been created all 

 over the empire, of men of character and standing, who can 

 execute justice between man and man, repress crime, and 

 protect the weak against the strong.&quot; 



The benefits to be conferred on this country by 

 the Homestead Law are strikingly illustrated by the 

 events of the slaveholders rebellion. It has been 

 seen that cheap lands have induced a vast immigra 

 tion, and that by help of this immigration the re 

 public has sprung, in a single lifetime, to the status 

 of a powerful nation. Of the whole number of ar 

 rivals, ninety-five per cent, have settled in the Free 

 States, and only five per cent, in the Slave States. 

 An anonymous essayist presents the following views 

 in relation to this part of the question : 



&quot; It is from the armies, raised from the former and their 

 descendants, that the Government has been mainly enabled 

 to overcome the rebellion. They gave to the nation its 

 magnitude, and that magnitude alone has saved us from 



