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

adventure which was to determine his career. In 1790, at the age of twenty-four, young Wilson published a volume of poems, the second edition of which appeared in 1791. The following year, he published, anonymously, "Watty and Meg," the author- ship of which was by some ascribed to Robert Burns. He got into

of their losses. "Resolved, That to this end we invoke the united and hearty cooperation of those in the different towns and townships of Lancaster county, who are blessed in their basket and their store, not knowing in what hour a similar catastrophe may befall them, appealing to the public

making the United States wholly inde- pendent of foreign countries in all articles of the first necessity, and in many of mere luxury and elegance. In the hour of war and affliction, the fostering hand of government was promised to these benefactors of the nation; liberal encouragement was unsparingly

is, in reality, a small atlas. lts title is altogether misleading, as one would naturally suppose it to be a biography of George Washington. It was published in con- nection with Chief Justice John Marshall's admirable life of the first President of the United States. Vols. 1, 2 and 3 of this great

Commonwealth of Pennsyl- vania" ; and was addressed to "The Honorable the Congress of the United States." The memorial, which closed with this statement, was published in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, June 19th, 1812 : "Relying on their justice, wisdom and patriotism, we respect- fully pray that Congress

many years ago by the Right Rev. Dr. Samuel Bowman, assistant bishop of Pennsylvania and beloved rector of St. James's Protestant Epis- copal church, Lancaster, from 1830 to 1861. James Damant, organist of St. James's church and an excel- lent scholar, taught a school for young ladies, which was quite

inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as President of the United States, and the triumph of Republicanism in the late election. At three o'clock in the afternoon the company sat down to a bountiful dinner, after which sixteen toasts were drunk, with "soul-inspiring joy."2 A number of "volunteer" toasts were offered

Lancaster Locomotive Works for a job, but owing to the depression in business, he was not employed. Mr. Joseph Clarkson, a neighbor of Dr. Messersmith and organist of St. James' Church for many years, strongly advised Woo to learn the trade of printer, stating that it would be useful wherever he went and

of Lancaster has increased and still daily increases in extent and population, and ought to be able to provide for the order, safety and happiness of its citizens. But the administration of government therein, under its present charter, is inadequate to the advancement of public health and order, to