- bativeness were well adapted. The post of the hardy sons of Ulster was always at the front on the firing line. They were a wall of fire between the savages in the wilderness and the men of peace on the Delaware. They were the advance couriers of civilization and were not deterred when rough surgery was

the planting of a colony of white men �within the present borders of Lancas- ter county. In June of that year, Gov- ernor Gookin and several members of the Assembly visited the Indians at Conestoga, and †he Governor made the following brief address to the red men assembled, after having made them

ELECTORAL VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA IN 1804. There was recently brought to light in this city an official document nearly one hundred years old, which has both a local as well as a national interest. It is the report of the Electoral Board of the State of Pennsylvania covering the eiection for President

assigned. A similar arbitrary order was issued to seize their woolen cloth, of which they generally have a large store; but for- tunately a French frigate arrived in the Delaware before this second or- der could be put in operation. An Englishman Among Them. Ih the course of our walk we met with one or two

brief to a fault, they bear on every page the palpable impress of truth." ¹ Early Explorations and Settlements on the Delaware River. But let us leave our hero, if we may call him such, for a little while, and try to unravel the somewhat tangled story of the early visits of European nations to our

well as those of her husband, now rest in the same burial place, where rests the remains of her two sons, the place being mark- ed with a head and a foot stone. A General Knox Letter.* Our President, Mr. Steinman, a few weeks ago became possessed of the following letter, written by General Henry Knox

centuries more. • i So far as is known with certainty, the venerable structure shown in the cut is the oldest of these I I erections. The legend "17 C. H.-H. R. 19," carved on a prominent sandstone, forming part of the wall, tells � � � u"1