; and Congress honored General Jackson with thanks and a gold medal. Owing to the slow methods of communication of that day, particulars of the battle did not reach Lancaster until Saturday, February 11th, 1815. There was great rejoicing in the town. The Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser of Saturday

, Francis Keenan and D. B. Vondersmith. The object of the meeting having been stated by Col. Reah Frazer in a brief and eloquent address, a committee, consisting of Benjamin Champneys, Ellis Lewis, C. B. Penrose, Reah Frazer, E. C. Reigart, James Cameron, Robert Moderwell, William Frick and Jacob Albright

July in commemoration of that glorious day on which we were proclaimed a free and independent nation. It gives me "Abbeville, [Lancaster County, Pa.] "July 3rd, 1827. �the greatest pleasure to accept it. I participate warmly in the several motives which govern the citizens of Lancaster on this occasion

legislature of Pennsylvania appropriated ten thousand dollars. A meeting of the citizens of Lancaster was held at the court house on Saturday evening, February 5th, 1820, for the purpose of securing relief for the sufferers. John Passmore, mayor of the city of Lancaster, was appointed chairman, and George B

. Andrew Jackson Invited to Visit Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of friends of Andrew Jackson in the city and county of Lancaster met in the court house in Lancaster on Wednesday, April 17th, 1833. Hon. John Lightner was ap- pointed president ; James Jackson, of Colerain, Moore Connell, of

was cheered down the street to the tavern. In the evening several called to see me and learn who I was. We passed several of these trees on the way, with green boughs on the top." 1 In Reamstown, Lancaster county, Pa., on the day following Christmas, an unusually fine hickory pole was erected. It was