first issue, he said: "I have long wanted to see in circulation a newspaper adapted to the capacity and wants of the youth and others in the United States, free and untrammeled by the unseen scheming of designing men and parties, and opposed to war, slavery, intemperance, military honors and

, Strasburg, Pa. Since that paper was published, Mr. William B. Bishop, a prominent citizen and progressive farmer of Strasburg township, Lancaster county, applied to the War Department, through Hon. J. Roland Kinzer, Lancaster county's distinguished representative in the Congress of the United States, for a