History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . The Vandalia, The Pioneer Propeller on the Lakes. through, losing their entire outfit, besidesone-fifth of their number. The whole terri- 272 THE YEARS OF SLAVERY [i860 tory was harassed by Indians on the warpath, and General Wool had to be sentup from San Francisco to restore done, immigration was renewed. Athousand new inhabitants came to Oregonin 1852, and its northern half was organized. Old Stone Towers of the Niagara Suspension Bridge. as Washington Territory the following Pacific
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . The Vandalia, The Pioneer Propeller on the Lakes. through, losing their entire outfit, besidesone-fifth of their number. The whole terri- 272 THE YEARS OF SLAVERY [i860 tory was harassed by Indians on the warpath, and General Wool had to be sentup from San Francisco to restore done, immigration was renewed. Athousand new inhabitants came to Oregonin 1852, and its northern half was organized. Old Stone Towers of the Niagara Suspension Bridge. as Washington Territory the following Pacific Mail Steamship Company hadbeen chartered in 1848, and four years earl-ier a newspaper started, the first in Eng-lish on that coast. Its sea;t was OregonCity, its name the Flumgudgeon old West prospered, notwithstanding i86o] MATERIAL PROGRESS 273 the drain which it, in common with theEast, experienced in favor of parts farthertoward the setting sun. The first lake pro-peller was launched at Cleveland in same year the Tribune was started inChicago. In 1850 the city had its thea-tre and its board of trade. The Chicagostreets began this year to be lighted withgas. The first bridge across the Missis-sippi was built in 1855 at Minneapolis;that at Rock Island, 1,582 feet long, in1856. The Niagara suspension bridge wasfinished in 1855. The increase of railways did not at onceend the opening of canals; The MiamiCanal, between Cincinnati and Toledo, 215miles, begun in
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