Thomas Jefferson. The "momentous" period to which the address refers, was the difficulty with France, to which country the Jay treaty had been very distasteful, as the French declared that it favored Great Britain and denied certain rights to them. Happily, war was finally avoided. The Dispensary of St

manner with which you have displayed the fair and upright principles of the United States in the proposed negotiations with that Republic: And for your nomination (as Commissioners to France) of three of our fellow-citizens, whose energy of mind and love of country, have enabled them to resist terms of

this morning. I have this day remitted to R. W. Bowden, Esq., treasurer of the Norfolk Howard Association, fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents, and made him acquainted with your suggestion, relative to its appropriation; the remaining half I have already appropriated in accordance with your

flourishing capital of Lehigh county, in this State, have recently been visited by a conflagration, which in the brief space of two hours laid waste the fairest portion of the town, destroyed more than one-fourth of the value of all its assessed real and personal property, and plunged entire families from the

who may happen to be in town and are friendly to domestic manufactures, are invited to a meeting at Col. Slough's tavern this evening at half past 6 o'clock. "The exertions that are making by our trans-Atlantic brethren to suppress the manufacturing of every thing from a hob nail up- wards in this

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

, April 15th, 1745, Thomas Cookson, Esq., one of the most prominent men in the community, was appointed to receive subscriptions for the erection of a stone church for the use of members of the Church of England, residing in the vicinity. James Hamilton, Esq., granted lots No. 35 and 36 on the plan of the

ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE DETECTION OF HORSE THIEVES By WILLIAM FREDERIC WARNER A MEETING of inhabitants of Strasburg, Leacock and Lam- peter townships was held on Saturday, November 9th, 1811, at the house of David Witmer, for the purpose of taking into con- sideration the wisdom of forming an

Emanuel Deyer were appointed delegates to the meeting which was held in Lancaster on the following evening, June 17th. These delegates were instructed to "concur with the rest of our fellow citizens that may assemble in Lancaster, in all reasonable resolutions that might have a tendency to ward off the