in North America to the submis- sion of the last remnant of fighting savages—from the downfall of Mont- calm to the destruction of Sitting Bull —the rifle has been the sign in which Americans have conquered America. In all the annals of frontier and pioneer; of struggles that wrested the continent

General Horace A. Por- ter, of military and diplomatic fame, Gen. Grant's chief of staff and one- time Ambassador to France; he re- sides in New York. Another was the famous Judge William A. Porter, of the Philadelphia Bench and Bar; his son, William W. Porter, was one of the first Judges of the Superior

will thin the ranks of our old maids and send their withered ghosts (for many of them are reduced to 'vox et preterea nihil') to the do- minion of that old tyrant Hymen. I shall not attempt to give you a cata- logue of the newly licensed copula- tions, which have taken place "more humano" since you

AN ITALIAN ARTIST IN OLD LANCASTER. (LUIGI PERSICO-1820) With all of its many distinctions Lancaster has never been notable for lavish patronage of the fine arts. It has neither a public gallery nor pri- vate collection of famous and mer- itorious paintings or attractive sculp- ture. It would be

, September 2, 1782, which manifestly lasted three days, and had among its many guests Gen. Arthur St, Clair and Graydon, of the famous "Memoirs?" An Eventful Career. And who do you think—October 4, 1782—was this "General Lee, late of cur army, and just from his farm in Virginia, to-day buried in Christ

to rightly relate our own local doings, in their origin and influence, with movements along lines and towards ends of State, national and world sig- nificance. Thus it happens that, while we have been considering the various local phases under which the questions of slavery and abolitionism took