. We cheerfully paid the additional dollar, and were full of gratitude for our crossing in safety. On Thursday, July 4 (1811) we heard firing on the other side of the river, celebrating the day. The war spirit was waking up Canada as well as in the United States, and the people answered �by firing

candidates of the Constitutional Union party— John Bell, once United States Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of War and his running mate Edward Everett, the peerless orator and edu- cator. This gathering too was held in front of the court house with Henry E. Slaymaker, Lancaster businesss man, in the

. This interruption in his life marked the end of his career as a minister and for the remainder of his life he served the young nation of the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in civil offices, most notably as a congressman and Speaker of the first and third congresses. It was during

Collections of Eichholtz Paintings George L. Heiges To those Lancastrians who minimize the status of Jacob Eichholtz as an outstanding American portraitist, it may come as a surprise to be told that in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington there are eleven portraits by Jacob

of absence several weeks. I visited the Philadelphia Navy Yard — saw the largest vessel of war owned by the United States, on the stocks. Lieutenant Heintzelman's tour of duty took him first to Bellefontaine in Missouri and then to the army posts of Fort Machinac and Fort Gra- tiot, both in Michigan