the roof from the cinders lodging in the joints of the shingles. Great and praiseworthy exertions were made by the citizens to arrest the progress of the flames, but, unfortunately, the scarcity of water very much retarded their efforts. A number of gentlemen from �Marietta, Maytown, Columbia, and

, Mr. Pepin will signalize himself by many feats. He will sit on a chair, jump over the hoop, through a hat and terminate by the great leap through a hogshead. The whole to conclude by the farcical scene of THE BROTHER MILLERS. How long the circus exhibited in the borough, or how many performances

world with impunity." Side by side with the abuse of impressment, which so sorely afflicted the United States, grew up the evil of desertion, which quite as sorely afflicted Great �In June, 1807, the frigate Chesapeake, Commodore James Barron in command, sailed down the Elizabeth river, Virginia, on her

." News of the President's Proclamation of Peace by Treaty Ending War of 1812 Received in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Saturday, February 11th, 1815, the citizens of Lancaster rejoiced over the news of Jackson's great victory at New Or- leans. Ten days later, the announcement of the

the James H. Matthews Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was erected on that part of the venerable building now owned and occupied by The Lan- caster County Historical Society. The exercises incident to the unveiling of the tablet, were in charge of Prof. Herbert H. Beck, president of The Lancaster County

known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

Philadelphia, by particular request, proposes exhibiting a grand display of various curiosi- ties, never seen in this place before. The wonderful power of VENTRILOQUISM will be done. Also the great art of imitating all kinds of birds and beasts, with upwards of one hundred curious feats of ingenuity. To begin

representative. The unequivocal approbation of his public conduct by the great Republican party of the county, which he has represented in the councils of the nation, and its unanimous resolve to promote him, if in its power, to the second office in the Union, must be gratifying in the very highest degree

Public Dinner Tendered to George Bryan Porter, Governor of Michigan, by Citizens of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER G EORGE BRYAN PORTER was born in Norristown, Pa., Feb- ruary 9th, 1791; and died in Detroit, Mich., July 6th, 1834. He was a son of General Andrew Porter, an officer in the

display at the first annual exhibition of Franklin Institute. The hat was made from a species of grass never before used for that purpose. Soon women, and a great number of children at the public school in the city, mastered the art of plaiting the straw. The grass from which the hat was made grew