lower House, while the Mercury took the side of the Council, the upper house. We will now give some of the im- portant local items from the Gazette: The looseness of government and its inefficiency here on the Susque- hanna, just about the time our county was organized, appears in an item of the Gazette

of Indians." In the issue of June 5, it is stated : " We hear from Wills Creek that the wagons and horses lately contracted for in the county of Lancaster, York and Cumbcrland Counties were safely arrived at the camp and gave great satisfaction to the General and the other officers, being for the

the estate of Sylvester Garland, 700 acres of good land,and grist and fulling mill, For information apply to James Ander- son, minister, late of New York, now �at Donnigal, in the County of Chester, Pa., who has the power of disposing of the same." September 14, 1727 (Palatines): The ship Fame, from