passage for 4 from York to Midcalfe's ... 3.80 " " Refreshments .25 $4.55 Received payment, GEORGE F. GORSUCH. Estate of Edward Gorsuch. To JOSHUA GORSUCH, Dr. 1851. Sept. 10, 11 & 12th. To expenses incurred in accom- panying him to Pennsylvania and re- turning. To fare from Colum- bia to Pennytonville

records of that Congress is an order for the arrest and detention of Louis and Michael Busch, of Lancaster, for 'disregarding the ordinance of the secret com- mittee.' "The foregoing sketch may seem a trifle digressive, but it is less so in a history of Andrew Jackson than in that of any other man. Hardly

without saying that the history of his life and works, published by this society, has quicken- ed interest in and an appreciation of him, as well as much enhanced the market value of his productions. For example, a family portrait has turned up in Denver, Colorado. It is owned by the widow of Leonard Eich

concluded here that they had been drowned in some of the rivulets of Chester county; for it was more than a month before we heard any- thing of them. Within a few days past we have ascertained that they are in the neighborhood of Church- town, Lancaster county, progressing in their surveys. They have found

, and I request you my dear sir, do not give it to anybody. "I hope you are enjoying good health, and that I will be better, of what I am now, in order to be always ready to every order of my good friend. "Yours for ever, "PERSICO. "Mr. B. Champneys, "Lancaster. "Harrisburg, the 20th Feb. 1820." What

jury in- dicted (and among fifteen persons brought to justice for aiding in this escape) four persons were convicted in the Lancaster County Court—Jacob *He was, of course, Captain Andrew Lee, of Colonel Hazen's Regiment, "Congress' Own," that stout Paxtang sol- dier, who rose from the ranks, was

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner

taskmasters, who :figured in much of the anti-slavery fiction, can no longer be doubted. But if the Lancaster County Historical Society exists for any purpose it is illustrated in · its apt motto: "History herself as seen in her own work­ shop." Every such shop must show some chips and filings; and