For a long time there has been a general desire that some one should write a history of Duchess County, and at length Mr. Smith has undertaken the work, the result being a handsome volume of 500 pages.--Po’keepsie Eagle. Price $2, mailed to any address. PHILIP H. SMITH, Publisher, Pawling, N. Y. ELIZABETH FRY: LIFE AND LABORS OF THE EMINENT PHILANTHROPIST, PREACHER, AND PRISON REFORMER. BY EDWARD RYDER. “Mr. Harvey, two days ago I saw the greatest curiosity in London, aye and in England too, sir, compared to which Westminster Abbey, the Tower, the British Museum, nay Parliament itself, sink into utter insignificance! I have seen, sir, Elizabeth Fry in Newgate, and have witnessed miraculous effects of true Christianity upon the most depraved of human beings.”--John Randolph. We shall not look upon her like again! and must try to preserve the impression of her majesty of goodness which it is a great privilege to have beheld.--Baroness Bunsen. I could wish that your book might be found in every Christian family.--Rev. W. S. Clapp. 389 pp., 8vo., with full page portrait of Elizabeth Fry. Price $1, mailed to any address. PHILIP H. SMITH, Publisher, Pawling, N. Y. FOOTNOTES: [A] In 1763, Rev. Samuel Peters, the first clergyman who paid a visit to the thirty thousand settlers in that country, in the presence of a number of landed proprietors, performed the ceremony of giving a new name to the province, “on the top of a rock standing on a high mountain, then named Pisgah, because it provided the company a clear sight of Lake Champlain to the west, and of the Connecticut River to the east, and which overlooked all the trees and hills in the vast wilderness at the north and south,” ... which new name is “Verd Mont,” in token that her mountains and hills shall ever be green and never die. He then poured the spirits about him and cast the bottle at the rock. The ceremony being over, the company descended Mount Pisgah and took refreshments in a log house, kept by Captain Otley, where they spent the night with great pleasure.--Hist. Mag. [B] Should read “Beekman’s” Patent, in Duchess County, probably in the present town of Pawling. [C] An expression signifying an application of the beech rod. [D] Irving describes Allen as “well-fitted for the enterprise by his experience as a frontier champion, his robustness of mind and body, and his fearless spirit. He had a rough kind of eloquence, also, that was very effective with his followers.” “His style,” says another who knew him personally, “was a singular compound of local barbarisms, scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness: and though unclassic, and sometimes ungrammatical, was highly animated and forcible.” General Washington wrote, “there is an original something in him which commands attention.” [E] Ira Allen’s History of Vermont. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.