How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

boundary between the United States and the Spanish posses- sions on our southern borders. That work accomplished, Governor McKean, of Pennsylvania, in 1801, appointed him Secretary of the State Land Office, which he held until 1808. Lan- caster being at that time the State Capital, he moved to this place

dissenting, that the Lancaster County Historical Society— if not the State Association—should see to it that time and decay work no further ravages upon these most mem- orable sites, monuments of the early �history of Pennsylvania and the his- tory of printing and literature in the United States. They noted

, you will find therefore many Faults in consisting with the Idiom of the same; but we know, you are too much of a Gentleman, than to exhaust your Wit about such Trifles. We mean no Insult to you, or any of the Gentlemen, it is the true Language of an undesigning and feeling Heart we speak, they are the