cost of which helped to pay the salaries of tyrants, would choke any decent American. During the period of the war of the Revolution there were seventeen citi- zens of Donegal who held the rank of Colonel in the army, not to speak of the great number who filled the field and line offices. It is

rivers to be seen anywhere, affording visions of picturesque scenery and beauty ex- celled nowhere, as I believe, on this continent. Around her, beyond her own territorial limits, is spread a country than which the sun in his course shines on none richer or more beautiful, and which vies with the garden

the family, accord- ing to tradition, was a draughtsman of merit, and there has been a disposi- tion to award him the credit of the performance. Another tradition awards the credit to the son of a Moravian Bishop. One thing, however, is cer- tain, and that is, whoever he was, he was a person of no

The Early Settlement and Population of Lancaster County and City. It is to be regretted that our fathers and grandfathers were so indifferent to the important events of their time, to the many stirring scenes and occur- rences of that early period, as not to have put them on record for the in