unanimously approved. It was signed by John Light and the other one hundred and forty-nine officers : "TO JOHN ADAMS, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES : "At a period so momentous as the present, when it but too plainly appears that we must either submit to be dictated to by a �foreign power or resort to

nation;" and "exhorting" Congress to prepare for war. The effect of this information upon public opinion was instantaneous and far-reaching. Marshall's disclosures in the dispatches "produced such a shock upon the Republican mind as had not been seen since our independence." Public meetings were held

body is agreeably refreshed, without being too suddenly effected. Those wishing to favor him with their visits will find very good accommodations at any time of the day. "A supply of his newly-invented and patented bathing machines will be constantly kept for sale and are respectfully recommended as a

ground assumed of defense or exculpation is, that the charter of the church does not permit English preaching, and that as the in- troduction of a clergyman to deliver an English sermon was a viola- tion of the provisions of that instrument, the preventive proceed- ings resorted to were justifiable." A

interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years

of their losses. "Resolved, That to this end we invoke the united and hearty cooperation of those in the different towns and townships of Lancaster county, who are blessed in their basket and their store, not knowing in what hour a similar catastrophe may befall them, appealing to the public

any branch of home manufacture, or who, elevated above the sordid considerations of personal aggrandizement, extends his views to the ultimate welfare and real independence of his country, must feel a deep concern in the prosperity and spread of this society. The close of the late war found the United

measures eight feet from nostril to tail; is of a beautiful dun colour, nearly 8 years old & weighing 450 weight. He is tame as any domestic animal whatever, and is really worth the contempla- tion of the curious. "Price of admittance, for Ladies and Gentlemen, One quarter of a Dollar— Children half price

adopted : "In pursuance of the call published in our newspapers by friends of General Jackson, of the city and county of Lancaster, we assemble for the purpose of appointing a committee to be charged with the pleasing duty of inviting the President of the United States to visit us whenever his high duties

Independence Celebrated in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N June 20th, 1826, Select and Common Councils of the city of Lancaster passed a resolution recommending the mayor to call a town meeting for the purpose of making arrangements for the celebration of the semi-centennial of American Independence