The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-24
THE SEPTEMBER MAGA AZINES.
NHARPER,S.,,

''HARPEh'S."
The September number of Ha,pers Kaga-
zine has been sent us by Turner & Co. and
by Claxton, Remsen & Haffelinger. The
contents are as follows
''The Mediterranean of the Pacific, ~
Thomas Somerville, with sixteen illustrations;
"a Sunset Memory" Azella NJ. Smith; ''South
Coast Saunterings in England (Saunter VD,
Canterbury H., NJ. d. Conway, with nine
Illustrations; ''The Daisies" Miss Fl: R. Hud-
son; "Among the Peaches," William G.
Lodge, with seven illustrations; Frederick
the Great, X. The Invasion of Bohemia and
the Retreat, with four illustrations; Sup and
Down, d. r. Castleton; ga Day Among the
Quakers," Mrs. Nellie Eyster; 1.-The Mes
sage" S. S. Conant; Se-quo-yah," William A.
Phillips, with a portrait; ''The Old Love
Again, Annie Thomas, with two illustrations;
''In Wall Street, Austin Abbott; ''Was it II,
or K?" Katharine G. Ware; with Flower,
Harriet Prescott Spofford; ''Anne Furness,"
by the author of ''Mabels Progress, aunt
Margarets Trouble, Veronica" etc.; ''Fe-
male Suffrage, letter to the Christian
women of America" part I'D, Susan f.
Cooper; "A Dream of a Dead Face" j.
Bunting; ''Anteros," by the author of !'Guy
Livingstone;" "a Modern Bill of Fare" T,
B. Thorpe; Footprints of Charles Dickens"
NJ. d. Conway Editors Easy Chair" ''Edi-
tors Literary Records" Editors Scientific
Record" Editors Historical Record" '.Edi-
tors Drawer"
Under the title of tThe Mediterranean of
the Pacific" Mr.. Thomas Somerville gives a
readable description of Puget Sound and its
vicinity, where the Northern Pacific Railroad
will have it's western terminus. As public
attention is being now attracted to this
quarter of the country, the following extracts
from this paper will be of Interest,"
The railway linking the far West to the far
East was opened in July last. The full sig
nificance of that important announcement
can scarcely be estimated. 1t will change
the aspect of great and productive region
The Indian already stands aghast as he sees
the line of cars-that greatest of all great
medicines" "-rattling along the plains
where he hunted the buffalo, and with
draws to the northward. He hears
in the whistle of the engine the
! death knell of all his race. The trapper
hears it, and hurriedly gathers up his traps
and little ''hxins, and, with his squaw and
half-breed brood, retreats before the surging
flood of migration They hear, not afar of,
''the rush of waves where soon shall roll a
human sea"-a sea that shall sweep them be-
fore it.
These regions, of which many knew little,
save by the tales that came floating back of
the exploits of Jed Smith AMI Kit Carson.
the hardy pioneers; of Skipper Gray, who first
breasted the breakers on the bar of the
Columbia; of Captain Bonneville, who made
his way to them by land; of Sutler, who
found a bank of gold in his milrace; of
old Downie, yclept ''Major," who always
''struck it" where he slept-these
regions have all been brought near
by the railway. Thousands have
left their homes in the East for month"; s
vacation and trip to California during the
last summer. They have been to see us and
/ gone away again, to tell of our snow-tipped
mountains, and giant forests. and rocky gull
ches, and the glittering gold, and pleasant
corn-covered valleys and vine-clad hills. To
us in the West it seemed as if New York and
Philadelphia and Chicago had gone out son
the tramp" In August the writer
met an authoress from New
York in the Willamette Valley, a
professor from Iowa away up at the Cascade
Falls of the Columbia, a couple of Senators
from Washington staging it through an
! Oregon forest, the Governor of illinois at a
social gathering in Portland dined with the
! Vice. President on board one of the Oregon
/ Steamship Company's vessels, near to the
/ 10th parallel, had a drink with an Eastern
editor in one of the ice-caves of Washington
Territory, and spent three of the happiest
days of his existence with Seward and his
party, on the pleasant waters of the Puget
sound
And no sooner has one railway been opened
than another is proposed. The engineers
have already been out apd made the survey.