people of Portsmouth. The whole sum collected on this occasion is: "From the members of the legislature, $335.00 "From the citizens, 200.00 $535.00" Meeting of the Citizens to Express Indignation at the Outrage Perpetrated by the British Ship Leopard By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER JJ OHN BACH McMASTER, in

in executing the will of those who had contributed generously to alleviate the distress of the poor and sick of the community. The Committee on a Dispensary recommended that one be established. The Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg, Rev. Wil- liam Ashmead, Rev. Dr. Christian L. F. Endress, William

stated that "Between twelve and one o'clock on the morning of January 11th, the fire commenced, and in twelve hours time the principal part of the city was reduced to ashes. The number of habitations (exclusive of the public buildings) thus rapidly destroyed is stated to be 464, so that at the moderate

fires. He was the last of the great chiefs of the Seneca tribe. For a time, he was in favor of the education of his people but subsequently became a bitter opponent of education and Christianity. During the Revolu- tionary War, he fought on the side of the English, but seems to have become reconciled

- out. General Taylor came to Lancaster, after repeated and pressing invita- tions; and the welcome accorded him on this occasion was such as only the Chief Magistrate of the Nation should receive. The hearty manner in which he was entertained by the people of Lancaster city and county must have been

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

five persons on board the Commerce, Captain Misservy got under way immediately, and beat out to sea with the wind ahead." That the American people were more or less interested in the move- ments of the royal fugitive is indicated by the following excerpt copied from the Lancaster Journal of Friday