nephews. Peter Muhlenberg was a son of General Peter Muhlenberg, and John Philip Emanuel Muhlenberg was a son of Rev. Henry Muhlen- berg, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster. Because all of the clerks in his office were of his own family, F. A. C. Muhlenberg was accused of nepotism. After the

October 11 was election day and a greater number of Pennsylvania voters went to the polls on that day than on any previous similar occasion. More than one hundred and eleven thousand votes were cast. Simon Snyder won by a plurality of 28,400, but in Lancaster County, the county of his birth, he lost by

Hostetter, York County Jacob Bonnett, Bedford County James Montgomery, Westmoreland County John Minor, Greene County John Hamilton, Washington County Nathaniel Irish, Alleghany County The Republican ticket won the election on November 2, and these men were duly chosen by the electorate of Pennsylvania to be