. Dear Sir, I wish you to send me a requisition, directed to the Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, for the appre- hension of Abraham Jonson, a free colored man, who recently left Balti- more county, Md., upon the charge of having received stolen goods, the facts in the case are as follows, viz.: Said Jonson

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

the United States in the Eastern District of Penn- sylvania, at Philadelphia. After serv- ing on several juries a fugitive slave case name up that was first tried in Cumberland county several times and was finally heard by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. It decided the State Courts had no

. Samuel Humes; of Dr. Sam- uel Humes, a son, and of another son, William Humes, who married Miss Harriet Church, of Philadelphia, and was a member of the company of State. Fencibles in the War of 1812, commanded by Hartman Kuhn, a Phil adelphia descendant of Adam Simon Kuhn, a conspicuous figure in old

, now the Iris Club house. About the same time his brother, David Rit- tenhouse Porter, was Governor of Pennsylvania from January 15, 1839, to January 21, 1845. Meantime an- other brother, James Madison Porter, �of Easton, Pa., was Secretary of War under President Tyler. A son of Gov. Porter is the

most famous hero of the Civil War, General John F. Reynolds, was born in this same year of 1820. John Passmore was then filling the new office of Mayor, the city having been incorporated only two years be- fore. The Court House was in Cen- tre Square; the county jail and work- house within what are now

Society, viz., the relative social, political and commercial importance of Lancaster and Lancaster county in the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of our country's history. When there was no "Harrisburg, Altoona, Pittsburg and the West," our good city and our excellent county were "there!" Hence it is

by many of them remaining residents and owners of real estate in that lo- cality ever since. Before the Phila- delphia turnpike—the oldest road of its kind in the country—was built, Jasper Yeates, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, had large land ownings in common with the

rapidly increasing development of communication and transmission. If, however, all the great statesmen, economists and churchmen who had struggled with the slavery question since the formation of the Union were unable to solve it, without the awful carnage of a tremendous and long lasting civil war, can