Passengers or shippers of freight will find it to their interest to call on the Agents of these Lines. F. E. MORSE, _Gen'l Western Pass'r Ag't_, Chicago, Ill. CHS. F. HATCH, _Gen'l Superintendent_, Cleveland, O. J. A. BURCH, _Gen'l Eastern Pass'r Ag't_, Buffalo, N. Y. * * * * * VERMONT CENTRAL R. R. Line. The =GREAT Northern line= and =most direct= route from =BOSTON= and =ALL POINTS= in =New England= to the =CANADAS, DETROIT, CHICAGO=, AND =All points West, Northwest, & Southwest=. NEW SLEEPING-CARS, the most elegant from =Boston=, and =SPLENDID DRAWING-ROOM CARS= run on every express train, connecting on the =Grand Trunk Railway= with =Pullman's Palace, Hotel, and Sleeping Cars=; this being the =only line= affording such comfort and luxury to the passenger between the East and West. TIME FREIGHT VIA National Despatch Line. =Freight= taken for =Chicago=, =St. Louis=, and =all points West without breaking bulk or transfer=, in as =short time= as any other line. --> For full information relating to time contracts, Tickets, &c., &c., please address or call at =No. 65 Washington Street (Sears Building), Boston. LANSING MILLIS, General Agent.= (=Montreal Office, No. 30 Great St. James St.=) (=New York Office, No. 9 Astor House.=) * * * * * Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad. The line of this road is from St. Paul, the head of navigation on the Mississippi River, to the head of Lake Superior, a distance of 140 miles. It connects at St. Paul with each of the long lines of railroad traversing the vast and fertile regions of Minnesota in all directions, and converging at St. Paul. It connects the commerce and business of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, the California Central Railroad, and the Northern Pacific Railroad, with Lake Superior and the commercial system of the great lakes, and makes the outlet or commercial track to the lakes, over which must pass the commerce of a region of country second to none on the American continent in capacity for production. The land grant made by the government of the United States and by the State of Minnesota, in aid of the construction of this road, is the largest in quantity and most valuable in kind ever made in aid of any railway in either of the American States. This grant amounts to seventeen square miles or sections [10,880 acres] of land for each mile of the road, and in the aggregate to =One Million, Six Hundred and Thirty-two Thousand Acres of Land=. These lands are for the most part well timbered with pine, butternut, white oak, sugar maple, and other valuable timber, and are perhaps better adapted to the raising of stock, winter wheat, corn, oats, and most kinds of agricultural These lands are well watered with running streams and innumerable lakes, and within the limits of the land belonging to the Company there is an abundance of water-power for manufacturing purposes.