Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . t year;but when he turned over the command, in the spring of 1837, to GeneralZachary Taylor, the conquest of the Seniinoles seemingly was as far off as attempted to use a number of Cuban bloodhounds for tracking the mon-grels into the swamjis, but the dogs refused to take the trail of the red men, andthe experiment (widely denounced in the North) was a failure. In October, while Osceola and a number of warriors we
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . t year;but when he turned over the command, in the spring of 1837, to GeneralZachary Taylor, the conquest of the Seniinoles seemingly was as far off as attempted to use a number of Cuban bloodhounds for tracking the mon-grels into the swamjis, but the dogs refused to take the trail of the red men, andthe experiment (widely denounced in the North) was a failure. In October, while Osceola and a number of warriors were holding a con- GREAT IMPR0VE3IENTS IN THE COMFORTS OF LIFE. 221 ference with General Jessup under the protection of a flag of tiuce, all weremade j^iisoners, and Osceola was sent to Charleston, and died in Fort Moultriein 1838. The war dragged on until 1842, when General Worth, after it hadcost $40,000,000 and many lives, brought it to an end by destroying the cropsof the Seminoles and leaving to them the choice between starvation and sub-mission. GEEAT IMPROVEMEXTS IX THE COMFORTS OF LIFE. The steam locomotive, of which we have given a brief history, came into. OSCEOLAS INDIGNATION. general use during the presidency of General Jackson. When he left office1,500 miles of railway had been built, and many more were being laid in dif-ferent parts of the country. It wrought a social revolution by bringing all partsof the country into close communication, making settlement easy and the costof moving crops slight. Anthracite coal was tested in 1837, and, because of itsgreat advantages, was soon widely used. McCormicks reaper was j^atented in1834, and gave an enormous impetus to the cultivation of western lands. Inthe early days fire was obtained by the use of flint and steel or the sun-glass. 222 JACKSON, VAN BUREN, HARRISON, AND TYLER. Friction matclies appeared in 1836, and quickly supplanted the clumsy methodthat had been employed for centuries. On the night of December 16, 1835
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