Eighty years' progress of the United States : from the Revolutionary War to the great rebellion, showing the various channels of industry through which the people of the United States have arisen from a British colony to their present national importance, giving, in an historical form, the vast improvements made in agriculture, commerce, and trade; manufacturing, machinery; modes of travel and transportation, etc., etc. : with a large amount of statistical information showing the comparative progress of the different states with each other, and, to some extent, this country with other nations