railroad of the Eastern counties increases in length. However, let us pay the penalty of parting from those dear old things, with the grace that becomes us, reflecting that their removal, has made room for the onward march of the great pioneer of civilization—a power that has brought men nearer, and made them dearer to each other, than any other invention that can be named, and by its annihilation of space, has added, virtually, many days to the lives of the human race.

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