Governor of Maryland, con- firms this, and the statement that Governor Johnson, of Pennsylvania, had refused to honor the requisition for the fugitive. It also illustrates �the manner of obtaining requisition. The correspondence runs thus: Baltimore County, November 29, 1849. Philip Francis Thomas, Esq

manufacture to the Alpine mountaineers of Switzer- land. The Swiss colony that settled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1721, came from the Canton of Basle or Basel. They were all mechanics and most of them gunsmiths. Prior to their advent the only firearms known in America were smooth-bore muskets and fowling

jurisdiction in the mat ter. It was transferred to the United States Court. The plaintiff's claim was for the value of eighteen or twen- ty slaves that had run away from a widow in Maryland, and came onto the property of Mr. Kauffman, of Cum- berland county, Pa. Being entirely destitute, some of them applied

- holtz, who died a year or two ago. It bears the date 1820. The subject is Henry Eichholtz, who was a brother of the artist, He moved from Lan- caster to Downingtown, and there kept the hotel which is adjacent to the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was the father of Leonard Eichholtz, who went to Colorado in

Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: An early canal project / by W. U. Hensel, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Canals--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 101-105 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

West's earlier sojourn; Sully's relations with Lancaster through his distinguished pupil, and the prolific work of Isaac L. Williams, who had Lancaster kinsfolk as well as patrons. Nevertheless, there has always �been a very general appreciation of the aesthetic here; a popular knowl- edge, too, of what

towards Lancaster for their forage and lodging, Whom he met or how he was en- tertained that time in Lancaster this abstract of his diary does not tell. But I fancy he had many congenial friends, and, even if he came strictly on business, he was of the sort who could find and mingle with it moderate

concrete form in Lancaster county , and are ap• proaching a popular celebration which will commemorate and illustrate this mighty issue of American politics in the last century, it is fit we view the attitude toward this question of the two citizens and public officials of Lancaster county who, of all in