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

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

interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years

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

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

would give him a practical opportunity of learning the English language. He accepted the advice and became an apprentice in the office of the "Lancaster Examiner and Herald", where he worked for seven years, four as apprentice and three as journeyman. Later, he was employed in the office of the "Daily

"To Dr. F. A. Muhlenberg, Wm. B. Fordney, Esq., E. C. Reigart, Esq., Hon. Ellis Lewis, N. Ellmaker, Esq., Geo. W. Ham- ersly, Esq. and others." It will be recalled that Major Reynolds became a distinguished officer in the Civil War, and was killed at Gettysburg, where he commanded the left wing of

William T. Barry by Citizens of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Hon. William T. Barry, the able and efficient Postmaster General of the United States, arrived in Lancaster on Mon- day, October 17th, 1831, and took lodgings at Graeff's hotel, corner of North Queen and West Orange streets [site of