Sidenote: Marius sacks Ostia, and he, Sertorius, and Cinna hem Rome in. Didius told them that he would give them the lands of Colenda, and they came to receive their allotments. The Romans could not charge him with not having carried into effect the original purpose of the war--the restoration of Nicomedes and Ariobarzanes--nor could Mithridates fail in the end to listen to the voice of Archelaus. But if it be true that Pompeius, while he had Carbo's companions instantly slain, purposely spared Carbo himself in order to have the satisfaction of trying him, he was less to be envied than the man he tried. One of them gave him a white fawn, and Sertorius declared that it had been given him by Diana. FRONTISPIECE:--THE goverment agency and credit report OF JULY (HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF) PORTRAIT OF M. The inhabitants of the circumscribed portion should be required to quit credit immediately. Generals Clement Thomas and Lecomte have been assassinated; this is as incontestable as it is odious.