Reidesil as a reward for his services. People excited and had to be convinced to the contrary. Lancaster was the largest inland town in the United States. containing �about 3,000 Germans and Scotch-Irish. Most of the houses had an elevation before the front door and were entered by ascending high steps

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, Sa- quarrisera,a Tuscarora chief,Chenaug- beata, a chief of the Onondaga coun- cil, Tagaaia, a Cayuga chief, and Gaustarex, a Seneca chief; chiefs and �sachems of the United Six Nations, and being and effectually representing all the tribes of the said Six Nations send greeting. Whereas (here follow

not enter into the purposes of this article. Nowhere does the author give credit to any other man in surveying or design- ing the Capital City of the United States. While half a dozen handsome illustrations accompany it, the plot or survey of this French engineer, if he ever made one, is nowhere in

cash," issued paper currency to the extent of six thousand pounds. �Massachusetts and South Carolina were the initial colonies in the United States to introduce the use of a paper currency without a metallic reserve to sustain it, and the others were not slow,on one pretext or another, to fol- low

only, Law School in the United States. The usual course was completed in fourteen months, includ- ing two vacations of four weeks each. The terms were, $100 for the first year and $60 for the second. Lectures were delivered every day, usually occupying an hour and a-half each. Students were required to

- tenant Colonel in the service of the United States , now a prisoner with the enemy. By order of Congress. "CHARLES THOMPSON, "Secretary." He is Finally Exchanged. He was given permission to go to New York on parole, first giving this pledge: "His Excellency, General Washington, having granted me per

April 8th, 1778, with the name Mountjoy in the headline of five of them, and the words "Camp Mount Joy" in the re- maining one. Evidently Rupp thought he had made a very important find when he discovered these letters among the unpublished archives of the State at Harrisburg. Concerning them he says