* * * * * PRICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT--ON LONG CREDIT. 80 acres at $10 per acre. with interest at 6 per ct. annually on the following terms: Cash payment $48.00 Payments in one year 48.00 " in two years 48.00 " in three years 48.00 " in four years 236.00 " in five years 224.00 " in six years 212.00 " in seven years 300.00 40 acres at $10 per acre; Cash payment $24.00 Payments in one year 24.00 " in two years 24.00 " in three years 24.00 " in four years 118.00 " in five years 112.00 " in six years 106.00 " in seven years 100.00 Address Land Commissioner, Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. * * * * * Number 14 25 Cents The CONTINENTAL MONTHLY. DEVOTED TO Literature and National Policy. FEBRUARY, 1863. NEW YORK: JOHN F. TROW 50 GREENE STREET (FOR THE PROPRIETORS). HENRY DEXTER AND SINCLAIR TOUSEY. WASHINGTON, D.C.: FRANCK TAYLOR * * * * * CONTENTS.--No. XIV. Our National Finances. Robert J. Walker, 129 A Trip to Antietam. Charles W. Loring, 145 American Destiny. John Stahl Patterson, 160 The Birth of the Lily, 169 Was He Successful? Richard B. Kimball, 171 Nullification and Secession. Hon. Robert J. Walker, 179 The Sioux War. John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln, 195 "Dead!" 204 A Merchant's Story. Edmund Kirke, 206 The Consequences of the Rebellion. Hon. Frederic P. Stanton, 223 Sunshine in Thought, 233 How they Jested in the Good Old Time. Charles G. Leland, 237 Literary Notices, 248 Editor's Table, 250 The article in this number of THE CONTINENTAL, on "Our National Finances," by Hon. ROBERT J. WALKER, will be found worthy of especial attention at the present time. * * * * * Our next issue will contain a valuable article on "GOLD." * * * * * ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by JAMES R. GILMORE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. * * * * * INDEX TO VOLUME III. A Chapter on Wonders. Perth Granton, 461