of the negotiations with France, and the determination of the business men of Philadelphia to support the government. Following this, a meeting of the select council was held, "expressing to the President of the United States the highest approbation of his conduct relative to the existing differences

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

atlas / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Washington, George, 1732-1799. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1926 Description: 105-106 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

contains an interesting account of a court martial held in Lan- caster borough during the Revolutionary war, at which time two spies were tried, found guilty and executed. From local sources, it is discovered that this trial took place before the middle of March, and yet an account of it did not appear in

recruits arrived here; they also are marching west (on the march in a westerly direction)." This same issue of the paper contains the following: "Pittsburgh. On Thursday, Major General Anthony Wayne, commander- in-chief of the army of the United States, arrived here. On his entry, he was given a salute by

v. A BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LETTER By William Frederic Worner In the Division of Manuscripts in the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C., there is an original letter writen by Benjamin Franklin to Edward Ship- pen, Esq., of Lancaster, Pa. The communication is a short one, and in it the illustrious

obituaries of 86 soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Since that article was written, my attention has been called to a copy of the Lancaster Journal of Friday, March 12th, 1830, in which appeared the following obituary of a distinguished officer: "Died, on Monday morning last [March 8th], in the 77th year of

of General George Washington: Edward Shippen, chairman of the committee of correspondence : Judge William Augustus Atlee, chairman of the committee of public safety: Colonel Matthias Slough, Major John Light, Lieutenant Wilder Bevins, officers in the war: Judge Jasper Yeates, Robert Coleman, Captain

. I believe that the Biblical towns of Sodom and Gomorrah could not beat it in regard to vice." As Captain Wiederholdt was a prisoner of war, the natural impression would be that he was not pressed with burdensome duties, yet according to his own confession letters received by him on the 20th of April