gunsmiths at first protested, but the demand soon created the supply. In a few years the short, heavy, large-calibred Swiss 'Yager' was laid aside and the new, distinctive American rifle took its place. In this the type was sub- stantially uniform, though there were minor variations of length, calibre and

An Anti-Slavery Reminiscence The Society is indebted to Dr. Geo. L. Cassel for the priviiege of abstract- ing from the diary of his father, the late Abraham Cassel, of Marietta, an interesting account of his experience as a juror in the United States Court in a famous civil case, growing out of the

AN ARTISTIC AFTERMATH I am indebted to Mr. John D. Chal- fant, artist, of Wilmington, Deh, for an opportunity to see a catalogue of the "First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Artists of the United States." which was held in Philadelphia, under the auspices of what is now the Academy of Fine

Attorney General of Pennsylvania and a nominee for Vice President of the United States, father of the late Counsellor Nathaniel and Dr. Thomas Ellmaker, was then only eleven years at the bar; and yet he had such commanding position that he gave parental advice to Buchanan when the heartbreak of that rising

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

to the United States Senate. That during this period he made a professional incursion into Kentucky or was a party to any of the incidents above related is certainly apocryphal. We have no diary of his movements in 1813; but there is little probability and no trace in his biographical papers or

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