American author, edited and pub- lished the first amateur paper known to have been issued. Mr. Walsh also thought the New Atheneum the best amateur publication from England, in 1881. Local Directory of Amateurs. To complete the above list of papers, I append a directory of Lan- caster county amateurs for

shops all along the frontiers of Pennsylvania and the Southern colonies. Lancaster the Gunsmith's Home. "The New England people never took to the rifle in those days, and when the Revolution broke out there was not a rifle-shop in existence any- where east of the Hudson river. In 1768 Sir William

inconsequential as this letter might appear, it is of great im- portance to a complete biography of Thaddeus Stevens, in that it explains the influences which induced him to come to Pennsylvania; it illustrates the tendency in New England nearly a hundred years ago for young men of promise and education to

belonging to a Fuller, by "WILLIAM CHAMBERS. "Lancaster Township, "9th Day of 10 Month. 1789." It was on the south bank of the Conestoga, between Reigart's and Graesf's landings. Slavery, Jewelry and Storms. On December 9th, 1789, I find a long address to the public by the Pennsylvania Society for the Aboli

Petition. "To the Honorable John Penn Es- quire Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and coun- ties of New Castle, Kent and sus- sex on Delaware, and his Honor- able Council-- The Petition of divers Inhabitants �of the County of Lancaster Humbly Shewetn That the great Road from the upper