1867.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
375 
(Business Notices $2.50 per Agate Line of Space.) 
EXPOSITION" UNIVERSAL, 
Parts, 1S67. 
The Howe Machine Co.,— Elias Howe. Jr.,— 699 Broadway, 
New York, awarded, OVEB EIGHTY-TWO COMPETI- 
TOP.S, the 
Only Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, 
AND GOLD MEDAL, 
given to American Sewing Machines, as per Imperial De- 
cree, published in the " Moniteur TJniversel," (Official Jour- 
nal of t h e French Empire). Tuesday , 2d July, 1SG7. 
Exposition Uuiverselle, 
Paris, 1867. 
WHEELER & WILSON, 
625 Broadway, Hew York. 
AWARDED OVER EIGHTY-TWO COM- 
PETITORS, THE HIGHEST PREMIUM, 
A. GOLD MEDAL, 
FOB THE PERFECTION OF 
SETTING MACHINES, and BUTTON- 
HOLE MACHINES. 
The only Gold Medal for this Branch of Manufacture . 
WHEELER'S HOMES for the PEOPLE. 
Villas, Mansions, and Cottages, post-paid, $3. 
"Wheeler's Rural Homes, 
Houses for Country Life, post-paid, $2. 
Woodward's Architecture & 
, RuralAit, Nos.l&3, $1.50 each, 
' post-paid. Numerous Designs and 
y| Plans for Cottages, Country nooses 
and Stables. 
CEO. E. WOODWARD, 
Publisher & Importer of Abchitectceal Books, 191 
Broadway, New Tors. 
Complete Illustrated Catalogue mailed free. 
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.iflGUTI^O AGAINST W Eo . 
and for 
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Little Corporal 
Is nrlcnowledfre-l bv Press and Pc>pltf almost onlvi 
tally to bfl THE BLST PAPER for Bovsam) 
Girls ever published in tills country. 
It Is edited by ALFRED L. SEWELL, and 
EMILY HUNTINGTON' MILLE?.. 
Volumes Ik-jiti .T«It or Jarmarv. Back Nos. supplied. 
Terms, Uuc Dollar a. vear; Sample copy U-n cents. 
GREyiT INDUCEMENTS art offtrtd U thost 
wlio wish to raise clubs, 
>-v Address, ALFRED L. SEWELL, Publisher, s-£ 
~"\ Chicago, 111. XS^ 
GRAPE VINES 
In Large Quantities and at Low Prices. 
Parsoxs & Co. call attention 
to their advertisement of Vines 
in the September number of 
the Agriculturist, and to the 
remarkably low prices detailed 
therein. The Yines offered 
are of the finest quality, and 
are offered low because the 
stock is large. 
Address for Catalogue, 
PARSONS & CO., 
Flushing, N. Y. 
ACROSS THE SIERRA NEVADAS. 
the cbntraTTacifTc RAILROAD. 
The Western Half 
OF THE 
GREAT NATIONAL TRUNK LINE 
Across tne Continent, 
Being constructed with the aid and supervis- 
ion of the United States Government, is des- 
tined to be one of the most important lines of com- 
munication in the world ; as it is the sole link be- 
tween the racifie Coast and the Great Interior Basin, 
over which the immense Overland travel must 
pass, and the 
Principal Portion of the Main Stem 
Line between the Two Oceans. 
Its line extends from Sacramento, on the tidal waters of 
the Pacific, eastward across the richest and most populous 
parts of California, Nevada and Utah, contiguous to all the 
great Mining Regions of the Far "West, and will meet and 
connect with tlie roads now building east of the Ilocky 
Mountains. About 100 miles are now built, equipped and 
in running operation to the summit of the Sierra Nevada. 
Within a few days 35 miles, now graded, will be added, and 
the track carried entirely across the mountains to a point in 
tlie Great Salt Lake Valley, whence further progress will be 
easy and rapid- Iron, materials, and equipment, are ready at 
hand for 300 miles of road, and 10,000 men are employed 
in the construction. 
The local business upon the completed portion surpasses 
all previous estimate. The figures for the quarter ending 
August 31, are as follows, in gold: 
Gkoss Operating 
Eabnlxgs, Expenses, 
$88,548.47 
or at the rate of about two millions per annum, of which 
more than three-fourths are net profit, on less than 100 miles 
worked. This is upon the actual, legitimate traffic of the 
road, with its terminus in the mountains, and with only the 
normal ratio of government transportation, and is exclusive 
of the materials carried for the further extension of the road. 
The Company's interest liabilities during the same period 
were less than $125,000. 
Add to this an ever-expanding through traffic, and the pro- 
portions of the future business become immense. 
The Company are authorized to continue their line east- 
ward until it shall meet and connect with the roads now 
building east of the Rocky Mountain ranges. Assuming 
that they will build and control half the entire distance be- 
tween San Francisco and the Missouri River, as now seems 
probable, the United States will have invested in the com- 
pletion of 865 miles S2S.593.000, or at the average of 
935,000 per mile— not including an absolute grant of 
10,000,000 acres of the Public lands. By becoming a 
joint investor in tlie magnificent enterprise, and by waving 
its first lien in tavor of the First Mortgage Bond holders, 
tiie Gexekal Government, is effect, invites the co- 
opEitATiox of private CAPITALISTS, and has carefully 
guarded their interests against all ordinary contingencies. 
$487,579.64 
Net 
Eaestxgs, 
$401,031.17 
The Company offer for sale, through us, their 
First Mortgage Thirty-Year Six Per 
tent. Coupon Bonds, 
Principal and Interest Payable in Gold Coin, 
in New Tort city. They are In sums of $1,000 each, with 
semi-annual gold coupons attached, and are selling for the 
present at 95 per cent, and accrued interest from July 1st 
added, in currency, at which rate they yield nearly 
Nine Per Cent. Upon the Investment. 
These Bonds, authorized by Act of Congress, are Issued 
only as the work progresses, and to the same amount only 
as the Bonds granted by the Government ; and represent In 
all cases the Jlrst lien upon a completed, equipped, and pro- 
ductive railroad, In which have been invested Government 
subsidies, 6tock subscriptions, donations, surplus earnings, 
etc., and which Is worth more than three times the amount 
of First Mortgage Bonds which can be issued upon It. 
The Central Pacific First Mortgage Bonds have all the 
assurances, sanctions and guaranties of the Pacific Railroad 
Acts of Congress, and have, in addition, several noticeable 
advantages over all other classes of railroad bonds. 
First— They are a first lien upon altogether the most vital 
and valuable portion of the through line. 
Second— Beside the fullest, benefltof the Government subsldv, 
which is a subordinate lien, the road receives ttie 
benefit of a larse donation from California. 
Third— Fully half the whole* cost of grading S00 miles east- 
ward of San Francisco is concentrated npon the 150 
miles now about completed. 
Fourth— A local business already yielding three-fold the 
annual interest liabilities, with advantageous rates 
payable in coin. 
Fifth— The principal as well as the Interestof Its Bonds Is 
payable in coin, upon a legally binding agreement. 
Having carefully Investigated the resources, progress and 
prospects of the road, and the management of the Company's 
affairs, we cordially recommend these Bonds to Trustees, 
Executors, Institutions and others as an eminently sound, 
reliable and remunerative form of permanent investment. 
Conversions of Government Securities 
TNTO 
CENTRAL PACSFEC 
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS 
now realize for the holders from 
Twelve to Eighteen Per Cent. Advantage, 
with the same rate of interest. 
The exchange is effected at the following rates to-dav, 
(September 9th), subject, of course, to slight fluctuations 
from dav today. We receive in exchange: 
U". S. Sixes. lSbl, coupon, and pay difference $153.49 
U. S. Five-Twenties, 1862, coupon, and paydifference. 1S0.49 
IX. S. Five-Twenties, 1884, coupon, and pay difference. 135.90 
IT. S. Five-Twenties, 1S65, coupon, and paydifference. 148.49 
tX. S. Five-Twenties, 1SC5, (new), coupon, and paydif- 
ference- 120.99 
TJ. S. Five-Twenties, 1S6T, (new), coupon, and pay dif- 
ference 120.99 
TJ. S. Ten-Forties, coupon, and pav difference SS.49 
U. S. Seven-Thirties, (2d series), and pay difference.. 128.19 
IX. S. Seven-Thirties,. (3d series), and pay difference.. 123.19 
on each one thousand. 
For sale by Banks and Bankers generally, of whom de- 
scriptive Pamphlets and Maps can be obtained, and by 
FISK & HATCH, 
BANKERS 
And Dealers in Government Securities, 
Financial Agents of the C. P. R. R. Co., 
Ko. 5 Nassau St., N. ¥. 
||i:rali> or heaxth. 
This Magazine has met with a great success during 
1SG7. Those who subscribe for this Journal for 1868, NOW, 
shall get the Oct., Nov., and Dec. Nos. of lSi>7 free. A Wheel- 
er & Wilson Sewing Machine premium fur 30 subscribers, 
$00. Those who have never seen this Magazine can have it 
three months on trial for "0 cents— $2 a year; 20 cents a 
number. MILLER, WOOD & CO., 
No. 15 Laiglit-st-, New York. 
Ilural B uiprovciiiciits. 
Robert Morris Copland, author of Countrv Lift 1 , furnishes 
plans and advice for laying out or Improving public or pri- 
vate grounds. Refers to John M. Forbes, Nathaniel Thayer, 
Boston; Francis O. Shaw, Now York; Rufua Waterman, 
Providence, K I. Office, 40 Barristers' Hall, Boston, Mass, 
FRANKLIN 
iilJ6R MJAeiHJlNE' 
Justly celebrated lor perfect simplicity, great strength, and 
immense compressing power, is guaranteed, with eight 
men and two horses, to self-temper the clay and m:ike 3,000 
to:yn'it elejrant bricks per hour. J. II. KEN K'K, Proprietor, 
No. 71 Broadway, New York , Room 2S. 
I^EED CUTTERS.— Gale's Copper Strip is the 
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