Irish Tract Lane. To this place he often invited the members of Congress to dine and to drink. He appears to have been on very intimate terms with nearly all of them. They were calling on him and he on them almost every day. Many of them were fre- quent diners at his son Christopher's, and here he also

, having enlisted while a student at Princeton. He was the author of the famous "Newburg Letters," which created such a sensa- tion at the time. He was a voluminous author and a United States Senator. The Col. Henry Bouquet who is spoken of in this letter was an Eng- lish soldier, but born in Switzerland

SOME HELFFENSTEIN LETTERS. The Reverend John C. Albertus Helffen- stein was pastor of the Reformed Church of Lancaster from 1776 to 1779. He was born in the Palatinate, February 16, 1748, and died at Germantown, Pa., May 17, 1790. He was the sou of the Rev. Peter Helffenstein, Superintendent of

of Lancaster were vested in the Trustees of Franklin College for the use of said institution." Dr. Dubbs further tells us this "storehouse was situated on North Queen street, near James street, on the ground now occu- pied by Franklin Row." Evidently those storehouses had been used con- tinuously by