| Will each week contain Pomeroy's Saturday Night Chapters, | | Pomeroy's Social Chat with Friends, Editorials on different | | Topics, Terence McGrant Letters, a splendid Masonic | | Department; in short, everything that helps to make a | | first-class Family Newspaper, and the best advertising | | medium in the United States. | | | | | | Single Subscription, $2.50. | | | | For sale by News Dealers everywhere at Six Cents per copy. | | | | Office, 166 Nassau Street, New York. | | | | C. P. SYKES, Publisher. | | | | M. M. POMEROY, Editor and Proprietor. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by the PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. * * * * * THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD. AN ADAPTATION. BY ORPHEUS C. KERR. CHAPTER XXI. BENTHAM TO THE RESCUE. European travellers in this country--especially if one economical condition of their coming hither has not been the composition of works of imagination on America, sufficiently contemptuous to pay all the expenses of the trip--have, occasionally--and particularly if they have been invited to write for New York magazines, take professorships in native colleges, or lecture on the encouraging Continental progress of scientific atheism before Boston audiences;--such travellers, we say, convinced that they shall lose no money by it, but, on the contrary, rather sanguine of making a little thereby in the long run, have occasionally remarked, that, in the United States, women journeying alone are treated with a chivalric courtesy and deference not so habitually practiced in any other second-class new nation on the face of the earth.[1]