, in another; of girls, in a third, and of boys in a fourth. The grave of John Augustus Sutter, a governor of the northern district of California under the Mexicans, and on whose estate gold was discovered in 1848, is here. At Ephrata was the famous "Order of the Solitary," a semi-monastic com- munity

Congress from this district, be, and they are hereby most earnestly requested, to use their utmost endeavors, as members of the National Legislature, to prevent the existence of slavery in any of the territories or states which may be created by Congress. "Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting, that, as