, 1799. BY LLOYD MIFFLIN. In connection with his paper on "Sally Hastings," Poetess, before the Iris Club, Mr. Hensel read the follow- ing poem by Lloyd Mifflin, which has never besore been published. It was suggested to the author by the inci- dent of coming across some old love letters that passed

thus he became a brother-in-law of that other famous native Lancaster countian, Rev. Dr. Samuel Stanhope Smith, of Pequea, who married Witherspoon's eldest daughter when he was President of Hampden-Sydney and before his call to Princeton. After the death of the first Mrs. Ramsay her bereaved husband

official capacity, participating in a treaty making with the Indians. He resided for some years at Lancaster, Pa. where his second and third children were born. For a much longer per- iod and until 1768 he ma de his resi- dence at Carlisle, and was appointed by Governor Hamilton Judge of the Court of

deputies when he was the Attorney General of Pennsylvania. He died in Lancaster, Pa., on November 28, 1851. Mr. J. Watson Ellmaker, of this city, is a son of Esaias Ellmaker, who was a younger brother of Amos, and the uncle of the late Nathaniel Ell- maker. He came into the possession of much valuable