MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN LAN CASTER DURING THE WAR OF 1812 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N January 8th, 1815, General Andrew Jackson won a bril- liant victory over the English troops at the celebrated battle of New Orleans,—two weeks after the treaty of peace between England and the United States

day before Congress declared that a state of war existed between the United States and Great Britain, a large and re- spectable meeting of the Friends of Peace, consisting of at least four hundred farmers, was held in Lancaster borough on Wednesday evening, June 17th, 1812. The Lancaster Journal

, a dye house, with four copper boilers and nineteen dyeing vats, a three-story stone warping and ware house, a wash house, calendering and dry house, together with all the apparatus and machinery necessary to carry on the business of spinning cotton yarn, were listed for sale. Also the unexpired

of Friday, November 12th, 1819. The libra- rian, M. C. Clarkson, requested all persons having in their pos- session books belonging to the Juvenile Society of Lancaster to return them without delay. Prevention of Horse-Racing and Gambling in 1812 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER L ANCASTER borough was

nations, and the world be emancipated from tyranny! 2. The Memory of General George Washington. 3. Thomas Jefferson—The Venerable Author of the Declaration of In- dependence. The misfortunes of his old age have rendered him ten-fold. dearer to the American people. 4. The Navy and Army of the United States

paper was written my attention has been called to a meeting of the "Columbia Grays" and "Columbia Hunters" which was held in the town hall in Columbia, Pa., on Saturday evening, November 17th, 1832. Captain Michael Way was appointed president, Captain James Haughy vice-president, and Moses Montgomery

, specially composed and set to music for the occasion, by a Republican of the borough, was sung, accom- panied by the music. This song inspired the heart of every Ger- man in the borough with patriotic joy. A song in English, specially composed and set to music for the occasion, by another Republican in the

Lancaster's Contribution to Cape Verde Islands in the Famine of 1832 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the autumn of 1832, information reached Lancaster that the inhabitants of the Cape Verde Islands were in a most distressed condition. They had had no rain for two years, their crops had failed, and

of his age. For many years Mr. Carroll was regarded by the peo- ple of this country with the greatest veneration. When Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died July 4th, 1826, he became the sole representative of that noble band of patriots who stood sponsor at the baptism in blood of our infant Republic