her husband shall have been a member thereof at least five years, and shall have paid his fines and contributions agreeably to the true intent and meaning of the articles and fundamental rules of the association. "The widow of every deceased member as aforesaid, shall have paid to her out of the funds

nation;" and "exhorting" Congress to prepare for war. The effect of this information upon public opinion was instantaneous and far-reaching. Marshall's disclosures in the dispatches "produced such a shock upon the Republican mind as had not been seen since our independence." Public meetings were held

AFTERMATH SUPPLEMEN- TARY TO CHRISTIANA RIOT, 1851 Since the publication, under the auspices of this Society, sixty years after the event, of the History of the Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851, the author has obtain- ed considerable detailed information bearing on those famous

ground assumed of defense or exculpation is, that the charter of the church does not permit English preaching, and that as the in- troduction of a clergyman to deliver an English sermon was a viola- tion of the provisions of that instrument, the preventive proceed- ings resorted to were justifiable." A

was contributing to the comfort of those who came to do honor to her native city through the Lancaster Fencibles. She would always revert to that occasion with feelings of gratification and joy; and whenever she recalled this mark of esteem from her visitors, it would be to remember with gratitude

refugees from religious persecution settled in what was then known as the 'Conestoga country' of Pennsyl- vania, but now Lancaster. It was a singular dispensation that brought this colony of rifle-makers to our soil under the auspices of the peaceful and non-combatant 'Proprietary' of Wil- liam Penn and

country, call loudly for counter exertions on our part. "Policy, patriotism and self-interest demand effort. The ex- ample set by our fellow-citizens of New York, Philadelphia, Balti- more, Pittsburgh, Washington and other places, ought to be fol- lowed ; and it is anxiously hoped that in the county of

10th, 1832, extended an invitation to ladies and gentlemen of Lan- caster and vicinity, who had a taste for science and art, to visit Mr. King's hotel, in South Queen street, and inspect the most per- fect and beautiful astronomical instrument ever seen "on this side of the Atlantic." The

Ann Moore, Postmistress of Lancaster, First Woman Appointed to Office Under the Federal Government By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XX XIV, pp. 62-3, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled "Post- masters and Postmistresses of Lancaster." In