. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... dy way of bringing about the res-toration of the Union. The Emperor Napoleon hesitated for awhile, but finally acceded to the Americandemand. The French troops were recalledat the close of the year 1866, and the EmperorMaximilian was left to face the Mexicanpeople alone. They at once rose againsthim, defeated his forces and took him the nineteenth of June, 1867, he was shotby order of the Mexican government, inspite of the efforts of the United S
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... dy way of bringing about the res-toration of the Union. The Emperor Napoleon hesitated for awhile, but finally acceded to the Americandemand. The French troops were recalledat the close of the year 1866, and the EmperorMaximilian was left to face the Mexicanpeople alone. They at once rose againsthim, defeated his forces and took him the nineteenth of June, 1867, he was shotby order of the Mexican government, inspite of the efforts of the United States tosave him. Thus ended the hope of reviving the dominion ofcontinent. The efforts of the gentlemen interested inthe laying of a telegraphic cable across theAtlantic did not end with their failures in1858. In 1865 the same company succeededin laying a cable for about fourteen hundredmiles from the Irish coast, when it suddenlyparted and sank into the sea. The expe-dition then returned to England. Undis-mayed by this failure, Mr. Cyrus W. Field,of New York, to whose courage and deter-mination the final success of the scheme was. NATIVES OF ALASKA BUILDING HOUSES. due, succeeded in persuading capitalists tomake one more effort, and in July, 1866, acable was laid from Valentia Bay, in Ireland,to Hearts Content, in Newfoundland, a dis-tance of eighteen hundred and sixty-fourmiles. It was found to work to the entiresatisfaction of all parties, and the great enter-prise was now an accomplished fact. The fleet then sailed from Newfoundlandto the spot where the cable of 1865 hadparted in mid-ocean, and proceeded to grap-ple for it. It was recovered and raised froma depth of over two miles, and was then Boo THE CIVIL WAR. splicea to the coil on board the GreatEastern, the ship employed in the under-taking. The huge steamer then put about,and completed the laying of the cable toHearts Content, thus giving the companytwo working lines. The completion of thework was hailed with rejoic
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