the seat of Govern- ment and ready to perform the duties of Electors. "Mr. Boyd informed the meeting, that he had been well assured that the state of the health of Wiiliam Montgomery did not admit of his attendance, at this time at the seat of Government. "On motion, Agreed unanimously that Timothy

Pemberton, in and on Behalf of the meeting of suf- ferings, held at Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the 20th of the 12th month 1776." The result was that Congress decided there were strong reasons for arrest- ing these persons and recommended to the State authorities to "forthwith apprehend

Politics 75 Years Ago. The following letters deserve consid- erations for two reasons. They were written by one of the most distin- guished men this county ever produced to one still more distinguished in the annals of the State and the nation. Both the writer of them and the re- ceiver were

within the British lines, at New York. Colo- nel John Connally was a notorious Tory, a native of Manor township, con- tinually intriguing in the western part of the State, arrested and held as a prisoner, and yet his name does not appear in the list published. He prob- ably had no estate that could be

on the drawing. NO. 1. THE OLD STORE HOUSE. The first one of the ten is the build- ing on the extreme left, standing out boldly. It is what was known then and in later times as the old "Store House." It was built by the State of Pennsylvania at an early period of the Revolutionary. War, for the

William Penn at the first settling of Pennsylvania (The �LIBERTY HALL. Composed for the Anniversary of American Independence at Lancaster, July 4th, 1794. Sung by John Moore, Esquire. Here with Freedom, we act, Here with Freedom we think, Then let us fill for a toast such as Freemen should drink. 'Tis a

country, in Caernarvon township, Lancaster coun- ty. The immediate locality of the large spring that gives the river birth is known as "Bortz's Swamp," the "Big Swamp" and "Pengall Field," the prop- erty at present being in the owner- ship of Peter Wertz. The country near the head of the stream is marshy