JOHN RANDOLPH. (From a picture by Jarvis in 1811, at the New York Historical Society). JAMES MONROE. (From a painting by Gilbert Stuart--now the property of T. Jefferson Coolidge). JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. (From a picture by Gilbert Stuart). JOHN C. CALHOUN. (From a picture by King at the Corcoran Art Gallery). CALHOUN'S LIBRARY AND OFFICE. ANDREW JACKSON (From a photograph by Brady). ROGER B. TANEY. MARTIN VAN BUREN. (From a photograph by Brady). GENERAL WILLIAM J. WORTH. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. (From a copy at the Corcoran Art Gallery of a painting by Beard in 1840). JOHN TYLER. (From a photograph by Brady). A PONY EXPRESS. THURLOW WEED. (From an unpublished photograph by Disderi, Paris, in 1861. In the possession of Thurlow Weed Barnes). FROM AN OLD TIME-TABLE. (Furnished by the ABC Pathfinder Railway Guide). TRIAL BETWEEN PETER COOPER'S LOCOMOTIVE "TOM THUMB" AND ONE OF STOCKTON'S AND STOKES' HORSE CARS. (From "History of the First Locomotives in America"). PETER COOPER'S LOCOMOTIVE. OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF A TICKET USED IN 1838 ON THE NEW YORK & HARLEM RAILROAD. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD, 1830. OLD BOSTON & WORCESTER RAILWAY TICKET (ABOUT 1837). THE "SOUTH CAROLINA," 1831, AND PLAN OF ITS RUNNING GEAR. BOSTON & WORCESTER RAILROAD, 1835. THE DISCOVERY OF NAT TURNER. JOHN G. WHITTIER. WM. LLOYD GARRISON. WENDELL PHILLIPS. FACSIMILE OF HEADING OF THE "LIBERATOR." GENERAL SAM. HOUSTON. GENERAL SANTA ANNA. JAMES K. POLK. (After a photograph by Brady). GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT. THE PLAZA OF THE CITY OF MEXICO. ZACHARY TAYLOR. (After a photograph by Brady). THE SITE OF SAN FRANCISCO IN 1848. SUTTER'S MILL, CALIFORNIA, WHERE GOLD WAS FIRST DISCOVERED. MILLARD FILLMORE. (From a painting by Carpenter in 1853. at the City Hall, New York). THE RENDITION OF ANTHONY BURNS IN BOSTON. FRANKLIN PIERCE. (From a painting by Healy, in 1852, at the Corcoran Art Gallery). STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. CHARLES SUMNER. THOMAS H. BENTON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. (After a rare photograph in the possession of Noah Brooks. Only five copies of this photograph were printed). JOHN BROWN. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. (From a photograph by Brady). ELIAS HOWE. THE VANDALIA. THE PIONEER PROPELLER ON THE LAKES. OLD STONE TOWERS OF THE NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGE. THE NEW IRON TOWERS OF THE NIAGARA BRIDGE. BIRTHPLACE OF S. F. B. MORSE, AT CHARLESTOWN, MASS. BUILT 1775. S. F. B. MORSE. THE FIRST TELEGRAPHIC INSTRUMENT, AS EXHIBITED IN 1837 BY MORSE. CALENDERS HEATED INTERNALLY BY STEAM, FOR SPREADING INDIA RUBBER INTO SHEETS OR UPON CLOTH, CALLED THE "CHAFFEE MACHINE." THE GREAT EASTERN LAYING THE ATLANTIC CABLE. SOUNDING MACHINE USED BY A CABLE EXPEDITION. CYRUS W. FIELD. PAYING OUT CABLE GEAR. FROM CHART HOUSE. SHORE END OF CABLE--EXACT SIZE. BARNACLES ON CABLE. JAMES BUCHANAN. (From a photograph by Brady). STREET BANNER IN CHARLESTON. MAJOR ROBERT ANDERSON. MAJOR ANDERSON REMOVING HIS FORCES FROM FORT MOULTRIE TO FORT SUMTER, DECEMBER 26, 1861.