- more, ss.: Be it remembered that on this eight- eenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, personally appear- ed before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the City aforesaid, Edward Gorsuch, party to the above manumission or

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

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

house of Eng- land seems to be a little uncertain, but the fact that the portraits are authenticated as the work of M. An- gelo certainly makes them worthy the attention of Mr. Carnegie, now that America's foremost patron of the fine arts has passed away. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal

AN EARLY CANAL PROJECT The writer's interest in the early waterways and inland navigation of Lancaster county was somewhat quickened recently by reading an un- published letter, written at Harris- burg, August 12, 1824, to Richard B. McCabe, of Huntingdon, by Persifor Frazer, of the notable family

postscript that may be os some value to the suture biographer of "The Old Commoner"—sor, it is ad- mitted, no complete biography has yet been published os either os the emi- nent publicists whom Lancaster County contributed to the eventsul his- tory os the Nation during the period that saw the Decline and

- ultingly, under date of March 31, 1837, that the President had ordered the Secretary of State to contract with him for the Columbus group; and from Philadelphia, April 10, 1837, ne communicates to Mr. Buchanan, at Lancaster, his intention to leave for Italy the end of the month to begin his work; and he

he heard "the new or- gan made by David Tannenberg, of Lancaster county." (See Appendix.) Meantime social and political circles in Philadelphia were stirred by the removal thither of the seat of Fed- eral Government. His Excellency, †The original Act "to incorporate and endow the German College and