sale. The Council of Safety issued an order punishing persons in the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania for buying up large quantities of merchandise, particu- larly provisions and necessaries for the army for speculation and prices were raised. Any person caught buying up or forestalling bar-iron, salt

LODGINGS IN LANCASTER, OF STATE SENATORS FOR 1809-1810 By William Frederic Worner For one day, September 27th, 1777, the borough of Lancaster was the capital of the United States. On that day the Continental Congress held a brief session in the court house that stood in Penn Square. The borough was

conciliation degrading to the national character and dishonorable to the government. If, unhappily, the United States be driven into hostility by the injustice and insatiate ambition of the French Republic, we trust that that benign Being, whose aid in our keenest distress we have so frequently experienced

citizens have encour- aged a horse-race on Tuesday next [Nov. 24th] in or near this borough : Therefore, it is "Resolved, That we will, by all lawful means in our power, prevent the said horse-race and all species of gambling consequent thereto ; and will use every exertion to detect and bring to punish

Purchase that ever passed from Man to Man, or from Nation to Nation. May his example be followed by Kings and Princes !" Volunteer toasts were offered by Timothy Matlack, Chris- �topher Mayer, Mr. Boyd, Mr. A. Wilson, Mr. Clendenin, Mr. Coch- ran and Major John Light. The festivity ended with a volunteer

Mcllvaine. It ceased to be a tavern more than one hundred years ago. (See History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, by Judge Charles I. Landis, pages 24 and 25). "June 4th, 1773. Breakfasted at the Sign of the Bull, 13 miles from the Ship; dind at Lancaster, 19 Miles further, and lodgd at Wright's

, the statement is true, if we are to believe the following news item, which appeared in the Lancaster journal of Thursday, May 5th, 1813: "Yesterday passed through Lancaster, seven or eight wagon loads of silver and gold, amounting to three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This money is to go to the

Lancaster in 1796 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER I N the fine collection of rare books in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., is one entitled, "Travels Through the United States of North America in 1795, 1796 and 1797." The work, in two volumes, was pub- lished in London in 1807. The author