will immediately abolish the embargo and restriction upon trade and prevent the calamities of war falling upon our common country." It is also interesting to note that a meeting of the inhabitants of Manheim, Lancaster county, Pa., was held on Tuesday, June 16th, 1812, for the purpose of declaring

Rock, about three miles below Columbia, on the Susquehanna. Those that passed earlier than the first of April were not accounted for ; and five arks and ten or twelve rafts passed after July 5th. The Lancaster Journal, of Friday, April 27th, 1827, contained the following: "From the 'Pioneer', a

this season of the year in giving comfort and sup- port to the indigent poor ; such as wheat, rye, and Indian corn meal; old clothes, firewood, flax, potatoes, etc. "The articles received will be distributed under the direction of the 'Female Benevolent Society of Lancaster,' who, in order to prevent

The Saint Patrick Benevolent Society of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N Thursday evening, August 22nd, 1816, a number of Irish- men, and descendants of Irishmen, met at the tavern of Arch- ibald McLenegan on East King street, in the borough of Lan- caster, and formed an association

economy and judicious management, the so- ciety was enabled, with its comparatively small capital of eighty- seven dollars and fifty cents, to give employment to upwards of fifty persons, paying them for their labor about $219.97; which, together with the sum paid for materials, represented an outlay of

between the old world and the new. Yet such was the case, accord- ing to an advertisement in the Lancaster Journal of Tuesday, June 15th, 1819, which was as follows: "From Londonderry direct and back to Philadelphia. The ship Conestoga, William Marshal, master, will sail in about two weeks. For freight or

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

Pennsylvania at the time of their admission, between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, being married men of steady habits and free from all bodily complaint and infirmity, except where the complaint or infirmity may be of such a nature as will not acceler- ate their death. �"Every person wishing to join