AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
311 
FARM LANDS FOR SAFE. 
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL 
RAILROAD COMPANY 
IS NOW PREPARED TO SELL 
OVER TWO MILLION OF ACRES 
OF 
FARMING LANDS, 
IN TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARD, 
ON LONG CREDIT AND AT LOW RATES OF INTEREST. 
THE INDEPENDENT, 
A 
WEEKLY RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Circulation over 25,600!!! 
Rapidly Increasing 
AMONG ITS MANY DISTINGUISHED WRITERS ARE 
A GRICULTURAL ENGINEERS.—The 
A A. undersigned, having: long experience as Engineers, will 
pay attention to those branches of their profession connected 
with Agriculture, viz : Land Surveying and Mapping, the ar¬ 
rangement and construction of houses and farm buildings.— 
Draining and Irrigation in all their branches. Also, the 
adaptation of all machinery necessary for agricultural purposes, 
including steam engines, wind and water mills, water rams, 
force pumps, &c. Materials and machinery purchased on com¬ 
mission. SHIPMAN & HAMMOND. 
Ill—121n48 No. 63 Trinity Buildings. Ill Broadway, N.Y 
THE TEETH vs. THE HEALTH. 
Everybody knows the pleasures of an aching tooth, and 
nothing need be said upon that head. But 
These lands were granted by the Government, to aid in the 
construction of this Railroad, and include some of the richest 
and most fertile prairies in the State, interspersed here and 
there with magnificent groves of oak and other timber. The 
road extends from Chicago, on the northeast, to Cairo at the 
south, and from thence to Galena and Dunleith, in the north¬ 
west extreme of the State, and as all the lands lie within fif¬ 
teen miles on each side of this road, ready and cheap means are 
afforded by it for transporting the products of the lands to any of 
those points, and from thence to Eastern and Southern markets. 
Moreover, the rapid growth of flourishing towns and villages f 
along the line, and the great increase in population by immigra¬ 
tion, etc., afford a substantial and glowing home demand for 
farm produce. 
The soil is a dark, rich mould, from one to five feet in depth, is 
gently rolling, and peculiarly fitted for grazing cattle and sheep 
or the cultivation of wheat, Indian com, etc. 
Economy in cultivating, and great productiveness, are the 
well-known characteristics of Illinois lands. Trees are not re¬ 
quired to be cut down, stumps grubbed, or stone picked off, as 
is generally the case in cultivating new land in the older States. 
The first crop of Indian corn, planted on the newly broken sod, 
usually repays the cost of plowing and fencing. 
Wheat sown on the newly-turned sod is sure to yield very 
large profits. A man with a plow and two yoke of oxen will 
break onea nd a half to two acres per day. Contracts can be 
made for breaking, ready for com or wheat, at from $2 to $2 50 
per acre. By judicious management, the land may be plowed 
and fenced the first, and under a high state of cultivation the 
second year. 
Corn, grain, cattle, etc., will be forwarded at reasonable rates 
to Chicago, for the Eastern market, and to Cairo for the South¬ 
ern. The larger yield on the cheap lands of Illinois over the 
high-priced lands in the Eastern and Middle States, is known 
to De much more than sufficient to pay the difference of trans¬ 
portation to the Eastern market. 
Bituminous coal is mined at several points along the road, 
and is a cheap and desirable fuel. It can be delivered at several 
points along the road at $1 50 to $4 per ton. Wood can be had 
at the same rates per cord. 
Those who think of settling in Iowa or Minnesota, should 
bear in mind, that lands there of any value, along the water 
courses, and for many miles inland, have been disposed of—that 
for those located in the interior, there are no conveniences for 
transporting the produce to market, railroads not have been in¬ 
troduced there. That to send the produce of these lands one or 
two hundred miles by wagon to market, would cost much more 
than the expense of cultivating them; and hence, Government 
lands thus situated, at $1 25 per acre, are not so good invest¬ 
ments as the land of this Company at the prices fixed. 
The same remarks hold good iu relation to the lands in Kan¬ 
sas and Nebraska, for although vacant lands may be found 
nearer the water courses, the distance to market is far greater, 
and every hundred miles the produce of those lands are carried 
either in wagons or interrupted water communications, in¬ 
creases the expenses of transportation, which must be borne by 
the settlers, in the reduced price of their products ; and to that 
extent precisely are the incomes from their farms, and of course, 
on their investments, annually and every year reduced. 
The great fertility of the lands now offered for sale by this 
Company, and their consequent yield over those of the Eastern 
and Middle States, is much more than sufficient to pay the dif¬ 
ference in the cost of transportation, especially in view of the 
facilities furnished by this road; and others with which it con¬ 
nects, the operation, of which are not interrupted by the low 
water of Summer, or the frost of Winter. 
PRICE AND TERMS OF PAYMENT. 
The price will vary from $5 to $25, according to location, qual¬ 
ity, etc. Contracts for deeds may be made during the yearl856, 
stipulating the purchase money to be paid in five annual install¬ 
ments. The first to become due in two years from the date 
of contract, and the others annually thereafter. The last pay¬ 
ment will become due at the end of the sixth year from the 
date of the contract. 
Interest will be charged at only three per cent, per annum. 
As a security to the performance of the contract, the first two 
years’ interest must be paid in advance, and it must be under¬ 
stood that at least one-tenth of the land purchased shall yearly 
be brough uuder cultivation. Twenty per cent, from the credit 
price will be deducted for cash. The Company’s construction 
bonds vill be received as cash. 
Ready Framed Farm Buildings, which can be set up in a few 
days, can be obtained from responsible persons. 
REV. GEORGE B. CHEEVER, D. D. 
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER, 
GOV. LOUIS KOSSUTH, 
M. LOUIS CZERNATOnY, 
MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, 
MR. CHARLES L. BRACE, 
DEAN, 
MINNIE MYRTLE, 
ANNIE H., 
M. E. W., 
M. L. E., 
And numerous others. 
CORRESPONDENTS 
from all sections of the Union; from England, France, Ger¬ 
many, Switzerland, Italy, and the Holy Land, contribute to en¬ 
rich the columns of THIS JOURNAL. 
That no other weekly religious newspaper ever met with the 
success of The Independent must now be universally admitted. 
It has been the aim of the proprietors, without regard to ex¬ 
pense, to make it rank in point of talent as high as the best 
journal of a similar character in the world ; and to make it pop¬ 
ular only so far as this could be done by treading boldly and 
firmly in the path of Christian duty—“ not as pleasing me , but 
God.” 
A crisis has arrived when every Christian is called upon to 
ask, “ Lord, what wilt thou have me to do ” iu a conflict for prin¬ 
ciple and human rights as great as the world has ever seen. No 
voice can now be silent with impunity. If the religious press 
or Christian men now refuse eitDer to speak or to act, the very 
stones will cry out for Heaven’s sorest judgments, and we shall 
be left as a nation to fill up the measure of our iniquity. 
Now is the time to prove who are the true lovers of liberty, 
and to demonstrate who are the worthy descendants of the fath¬ 
ers of the Revolution, who were willing to lay down their lives 
to secure for this fair country an inheritance of freedom. 
The Independent will enter the field side by side with all who 
desire to do battle for truth, justice, and humanity. With all the 
power God may give it, it will urge the Christian public to do 
with their might what their hands find to do to save our beloved 
country from the death-grasp of Slavery. It will advocate free¬ 
dom of speech, freedom of the press, free soil, free men, and- 
Fremont for the next President. Those who think a religious 
paper should not thus freely join with the secular press in doing 
this extraordinary work, are informed that the matter has been 
calmly considered, the cost counted, and the conclusion de¬ 
liberately and conscientiously arrived at, that duty to God and 
man precludes a moment’s hesitation as t d the course which 
ought to be taken by this paper. Those who sympathize with 
it, of every name and party, and they are thousands , will aid the 
cause by doing all they canto extend its circulation. 
Those unacquainted with The Independent are informed that 
the paper will furnish articles weekly as follows : 
1st. Religious Editorials. Selections, and current Religious 
News. 
2d. Editorials discussing the great Moral and Political Ques¬ 
tions of the Day. 
3d. Communications from regular weekly contributors, embra¬ 
cing every variety of topic suited to a Christian family—to 
the living, not to the dead 
They will be twelve feet by twenty feet, divided into one liv¬ 
ing and three bedrooms, and will cost, complete, set up on 
ground chosen anywhere along the road, $150 in cash, exclusive 
of transportation. Larger buildings may be contracted for at 
proportionate rates. The Company will forward all the materi¬ 
als for such buildings over their road promptly. 
Special arrangements with dealers can be made to supply 
those purchasing the Company’s lands with fencing materials, 
agricultural tools, and an outfit of provisions in any quantity, at 
the lowest wholesale prices. 
It is believed that the price, long credit, and low rate of inter¬ 
est charged for these lands, will enable a man with a few hun¬ 
dred dollars in cash, and ordinary industry, to make himself in¬ 
dependent before all the purchase money becomes due. In the 
mean time, the rapid settlement of the country will probably 
have increased their value four or five fold. When required, an 
experienced person will accompany applicants, to give informa¬ 
tion and aid m selecting lands. 
Circulars, containing numerous instances of successful farm¬ 
ing, signed by respectable and well-known farmers living in the 
neighborhood of the Railroad lands throughout the State—also, 
the cost of fencing, price of cattle, expense of harvesting, 
threshing, etc., by contract—or any other information—will be 
cheerfully given, on application, either personally or by letter, 
in English, French, or German, addressed to 
JOHN WILSON, 
Land Commissioner of the Illinois Central Railroad Co. 
Office, up to the 1st of May, No. 53 Michigan Avenue,Chicago, 
Ill. After that date, in the new stone Passenger Depot, foot 
South Water-street. 112-—117n51 
4th. Foreign and Domestic Correspondence. 
5th. Reviews and Special Articles on important topics by the 
ablest living writers. 
6 th. An Article on Agriculture, embracing information from all 
parts of the country in relation to the condition of the crops. 
7th. A Review of the'New-York Cattle and Produce Market. 
8 th. A Price Current, carefully corrected weekly. 
9th. A Commercial and Financial Article, embracing topics 
suited especially to business life, and containing all the im¬ 
portant news of the day, including a List of Failures from 
all parts of the country. 
10th. Poetry, Religious Items, Reports of Public Meetings, 
Book Notices and Reviews, and other matters interesting 
to the reading public. 
Terms.— By Mail, $2 00 per annum in advance, 
Advertisements.—F ifteen cents per line each insertion. 
Specimen NuMBERsZsent gratis. 
Office, No. 22 Beekman-street, New-York. 
JOSEPH H. LADD, 
& Publisher. 
August, 1856. U6-118n96 
Everybody does not fully appreciate how much good health 
depends upon having food well masticated, for which, of course 
good teeth are necessary. Said the Editor of the Agriculturist 
recently: 
“ I have kept myself and my Children in perfect health during 
the present year, by simply taking especial care to have every 
particle of food thoroughly mashed or pulverized before going 
into the stomach. In this way nothing of a hard nature, like a 
piece of potato, fruit, meat or other food goes into the intestines 
to produce irritation, and the consequent diarrhoea, dysentery 
and other bowel complaints.” 
Every consideration speaks strongly in favor of preserving the 
teeth we have, and of supplying those already gone. 
Those who wish any operations upon their teeth performed 
honestly, carefully , s'tilfully, in short, in the best possible manner, 
and upon reasonable terms, will do well to call upon DR. BEN¬ 
JAMIN F. ADAMS, at No. 122 Chambers-street, New-York 
(a little west of the City Hall.) 
Dr. ADAMS has given exclusive attention to operations upon 
the teeth for over fourteen years, and confidently refers to the 
thousands of persons who have been under his care. 
Dr. ADAMS may always be found ?.t his office, so that persons 
coming in from the country may depend upon having any de¬ 
sired operation performed immediately on their arrival. 
Whole or Part Sets of Incorruptible Teeth inserted without 
pain, on (?old Plate or Gutta Perclia, excelling nature in beauty 
and durability, by aid of the various modem inventions and the 
subscriber’s recent improvements. Spongy, bleeding, or ulcer¬ 
ated gums speedily cured. Partly decayed teeth saved with 
golj||tm, or patent fillings, and their preservation warranted. 
No impure gold or dangerous amalgams used. 
Irregularities in children’s teeth prevented, or of adults reme. 
died. Cleansing, extracting, &c., &c. f all at low prices. 
Satisfaction in regard to color, form, and translucency of all 
teeth inserted, in block or single, is in all cases warranted. 
The great delicacy and caution observed in all operations 
with the aid of recently improved and superior instruments, dis¬ 
pense with all necessity of chloroform or other narcotics in the 
most irritable nervous system. 
Teeth examined,'and advice given free of charge. 
BENJAMIN F. ADAMS, 
116 —II 811 IOI No. 122 Chambers-street. 
YOUATT’S CONDITION POWDERS, 
JL For HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP ami SWINE—cures 
Heaves, Cough, Glanders, and all diseases resulting from Colds, 
and which affect the mucous membrane of the lungs, throat und 
head of the Horse. Also expels Botts and Worms, loosens the 
hide, improves the appetite, and keeps the animal in good con¬ 
dition. Youatt’s Condition Powders are recommended to all 
who take a pride in preserving the good health and fine appear¬ 
ance of their Stock. Price 50 cents a package. Sold at whole¬ 
sale by Haviland, Harral & Risley, Wholesale Druggists, No. 39 
Warren-st., and,by dealers generally. 114-119n70 
DOCTOIl HOOFLAID’S 
CELEBRATED 
GERMAN BITTERS, 
PREPARED BY 
Dr. C. M. JACKSON, Philad’a, Pa. 
WILL EFFECTUALLY CURE 
LIVER COMPLAINT. DYSPEPSIA, JAUNDICE, 
CHRONIC OR NERVOUS DEBILITY, 
DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS, 
AND ALL DISEASES 
ARISING FROM 
A DISOR¬ 
DERED 
L 1 Y E R 
OR 
STOMACH; 
Such as Constipation, Inward Piles, Fullness or Blood to the 
Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn. Disgust 
for Food, Fullness or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eruc¬ 
tations, Sinking or Fluttering at the Pit of the Stomach, 
Swimming of the Head, Hurried and Difficult Breathing, 
Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensations 
when in a lying posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots of Webs 
before the Sight, Fever, and Dull Pain in the Head, Defi¬ 
ciency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, 
Pain in the Side, Back, Chest, Limbs, &c., Sudden Flushes 
of Heat, Burning in the Flesh, Constant Imaginings of Evil, 
and Great Depression of Spirits. 
The Proprietor, in calling the attention of the public to this 
preparation, does so with a feeling ef the utmost confidence in 
its virtues and adaptation to the diseases for which it is recom¬ 
mended. 
It is no new and untried article, but one that has stood the 
test of a ten years’ trial before the American people, and its 
reputation and sale is unrivalled by any similar preparations 
extant. The testimony in its favor, given by the most prominent 
and well-know physicians and individuals in all parts of the 
country, is immense, and a careful perusal of the Almanac, pub¬ 
lished annually by the Proprietor, and to be had gratis of any of 
his Agents, cannot but satisfy the most skeptical that this 
remedy is really deserving the great celebrity it has obtained. 
Principal Office and Manufactory, No. 96 ARCH-street, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. And for sale by all Druggists and Store-keepers 
in every town and village in the Unitea States and Canadas. 
117—119nll6 
