unanimously approved. It was signed by John Light and the other one hundred and forty-nine officers : "TO JOHN ADAMS, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES : "At a period so momentous as the present, when it but too plainly appears that we must either submit to be dictated to by a �foreign power or resort to

of the negotiations with France, and the determination of the business men of Philadelphia to support the government. Following this, a meeting of the select council was held, "expressing to the President of the United States the highest approbation of his conduct relative to the existing differences

attendance was requested, in order that a constitution might be adopted, a society organized, and such other measures approved as would secure the provisions of the act of Legislature, passed on March 6th, 1820, "for the promotion of agriculture and domestic manufactures." �Whether an organization was

meeting of citizens of Lancaster was held on Tuesday evening, September 11th, 1855, in the city hall, for the purpose of securing funds to aid the un- fortunates. Mayor Jacob Albright was called to the chair, and Francis H. Carpenter was appointed secretary.1 Committees were appointed to solicit

progress of the fire was arrested. The loss was estimated at about $250,000. More than forty families were rendered homeless. Pursuant to public notice, a meeting of citizens of Lancaster was held in the court house on Tuesday evening, June 13th. Hon. Ellis Lewis was called to the chair. Mayor Michael

members were requested to apply to Mr. Joseph Ogilby, treasurer of the society. At the second meeting of the society, held in the court house on Monday, March 17th, 1817, Robert Coleman was appointed chairman, and Samuel White secretary. The committee submitted the constitution, which was unanimously

perils and hardships, his vessel en- tered the Thames at London and Mittelberger landed safely on the same day on which, four years before, he had trod the soil of North America. An African Lion in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A S early as 1727 a lion was exhibited in Philadelphia. (Scharf and

. A meeting for that purpose was held on Thursday evening, June 22nd. Nathaniel Lightner, mayor of the city, was chosen chair- man, and John Mathiot was appointed secretary. The object of the meeting was stated by James Buchanan after which a corn- �

citizens as to the legislature, which then held its sessions at Lancaster, that, on the decease of her husband, she was proposed as a candidate for the vacant place. Although the appli- cation was a novel one, the government was at length induced, by the urgency and respectability of those who pressed the

from his excellency, the Commander-in-chief, a general court-martial was held at Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, when Henry Mansin (who confessed himself an officer in the British army) and Wendal Myer, an inhabitant of the county, were brought before the court and charged with being spies, carrying on a