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Gen. Lew Wallace has removed to Indianapolis, and is busily engaged in writing a biography of hig oíd friend, Gen. Ben. Rarrison. Rarely has so happy a combination been known as that resulting in the issue of this work. Gen. Lew Wallace, known the world over as the author of " Ben. Hur," is one of Gen. Harrison's life-long and trusted friends, and is also a distinguished soldier, a trained statesman, and a diplomat of national reputation. Gen. Wallace at first declined this task but upon the urgent solicitation of many eminent men of the party, and Gen. Harrison's assurance that everything needful should be placed at his disposal, so as to make it the strictly authentic, and only authorized biography, he yielded to the cali, and has agreed to complete the work for publication by Hubbard Brothers of Philadelphia, early in August.