1,500 to 2,000 arks and rafts and a large number of keel-boats to come to Columbia upon one freshet. A large number of the former, of course, passed down the river. The legal profession has not been neglected, and, for a town not a shire-town, she has had her share of these gentlemen. They were as fol

The Public Career of John Wright, Esq. John Wright, Esq., of Columbia, on the Susquehanna, was the acknowl- edged and unquestioned "father" or Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. By unanimous consensus of authoritative opinion, and by common consent, this name and title belong to him and his memory