fast-thinning ranks of the Blue and the Gray to Gettysburg in final reunion. H. G. Wells, noted authority, classes Abraham Lincoln, the central figure of that great drama, among the first six men of the world's history. If that be true, no excuse need be offered to record in the annals of this Society

proffered to all who should engage in this great national object. But no sooner is peace concluded, our ports thrown open to the European nations, our markets inundated with the products of foreign climes, and a general depression in the price of all articles made at home threatens ruin to every domestic

impending evils, and to restore freedom to our commerce and pre- serve peace to our citizens." War was declared June 18th, 1812. The Benevolent Society of Paradise By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A COMMUNICATION, — dated Paradise, Pa., January 11th, 1817, — appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, Jan- uary