of Charles Dickens, that an American would not accept a place in Heaven unless he was allowed to move West. Their posterity inherited tile habit and followed the course of empire. Few of their descendants are found here to-day; while the South and West are rich in good citizens, splendid men, noble

and heard the men and women who stalked the boards at that time. It may be al- leged that even though we have no knowledge of these things we are not great losers thereby. In one sense that may be true, but it is a short- �sighted view to take of the question. The story of the amusements and pastimes

, there was already a large body of set- tlers around the little hamlet which was made the shiretown, and, perhaps, fifty families in the place itself. Nine years after the county was organized, the number of taxables in it was 2,560, indicating a population of perhaps 11,000. We shall, therefore, be not

- tive States, and vote by ballot for two persons, one of them at least not a citizen of the same State with them- selves. The candidate having the great- est number of votes was to be Presi- dent; the one having the next highest number to be Vice President; but a ma- jority of ali the votes given was re

the three large buildings standing there at the time of his visit were erected in Le brief space of three weeks, and that, too, when the men connected with the Brotherhood did not number more than fifty! All the timbers for these large buildings had to be cut in the adjoining forest, squared and

not tasted food for several days, They pitied him, and he was offered the pipe of peace, and, after the smoke, he was taken to their village and feasted and made comfortable, but his arrival cre- ated a 'great stir, and great numbers quickly gathered to see him. He was questioned closely. Where do you

the most judicious economy; but she did so without complaining, and suc- ceeded not only in raising, by her in- dustry and frugality, a large family, but at her death left to them a small house and lot as an inheritance. When a girl in Philadelphia she was fre- quently employed as a seamstress in

were the Susque- ® I bannocks or Conestogas, Nanticokes or Ganawese,'Shawnese or I � ® I Piquaws and Delawares. Some of these were also known by ! ® � \"OIi other names. They were not very numerous, however, perhaps � i 3,000 or 4,000 in all. As the white settlers. increased they F. R. DIFFENDERFFER

NEW HOLLAND SCHOOL HOUSE One short month ago Dr. Dubbs read before this Society the history of an early educational movement in this city, which not only reflects infinite credit on the intelligent, able and self- sacrificing men who organized it, but which, by a reflected light, sheds a halo of

remained only a short time. Despite Cooper and the "Deer- slayer," they had a bad reputation here. There were four or five large Indian villages in the county and many smaller ones. The dialects spoken were different even in near localities. As already said, the Ganawese and Nanticokes had allied languages