officers who unanimously adopted and signed this address to the President. It seems somewhat sin- gular that a meeting held on the 21st of June, 1798, was not re- ported in a local paper_ until November 12th, 1803—five years and a half later ; and long after Adams had been succeeded in the presi- dency by

acknowledging the commission of an offence — a stipulation for pecuniary compensation ante- rior to the discussion of the causes of discord, are debasements of national dignity, totally incompatible with the sovereignty and independence of a nation. Holding these to be self-evident truths, which men nursed in

perfected or not is not known, as subsequent issues of local papers do not refer to the subject. Seven years later, citizens of Donegal and Mount Joy town- ships met for much the same purpose at Elizabethtown, Lancas- ter county, Pa. On their recommendation, and public notice hav- ing been given, a largely

, "Jacob Albright, Esq., "Mayor of Lancaster, Pa." STANDARD PRESENTED TO WASHING- TON GRAYS By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 26th, 1830, con- tained the following : "The anniversary of the birth of our illustrious Washington, was celebrated [Monday, February 22nd] in

extensive journeys in South America, will, it is believed, be singularly interesting. The great and important portion of our continent is little known to the world, — in respect to either its natural or civil history ; and, therefore, Baron de Humboldt's con- templated work may be expected to yield a large

difficulty, in a trade dispute, for satirizing one of the manufacturers, was imprisoned, and after his release emigrated to America. He landed at New Castle, Dela- ware, July 14, 1794, and walked to Philadelphia. After a few years of weav- ing, peddling and desultory observation, he became a schoolmaster

County, the Eden Spot of Pennsylvania." This was briefly responded to by a member of the Lancaster com- mittee. It would be interesting to know what became of this pitcher. If it is still preserved, it should have an honored place in Lan- caster's museum, when that fire-proof structure is erected. THE

reported a constitution for the government of the 'American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry', which was read, approved and unanimously adopted. Every inhabitant of the county of Lancaster who feels an individual interest in the encouragement of

perils and hardships, his vessel en- tered the Thames at London and Mittelberger landed safely on the same day on which, four years before, he had trod the soil of North America. An African Lion in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A S early as 1727 a lion was exhibited in Philadelphia. (Scharf and

Andrew Jackson in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER INVol.1,page742,oftheadmirablehistoryofYorkCounty,Pa., prepared by the late George R. Prowell, and published in 1907, appears the following : "On Saturday morning, February 13th, 1819, General Andrew Jackson, then the head of the American army