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

, strange to say,has become the philosopher's stone of geographers. They have searched the Orient with a view of finding an available quarter in which to locate it, but at each move confusion becomes worse confounded, and in hopeless de- spair they leave it to be located any- where, except, of course, on

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