. BALTZELL. Again on page twenty-one there is an account of "Abe" Johnson's lar- ceny of wheat from the Gorsuch barn, to which occurrence is ascribed the escape of the four bondsmen whose at- tempted recapture caused the Chris- tiana tragedy. A letter from the slave owner to Philip Francis Thomas, then

boundary between the United States and the Spanish posses- sions on our southern borders. That work accomplished, Governor McKean, of Pennsylvania, in 1801, appointed him Secretary of the State Land Office, which he held until 1808. Lan- caster being at that time the State Capital, he moved to this place

the United States in the Eastern District of Penn- sylvania, at Philadelphia. After serv- ing on several juries a fugitive slave case name up that was first tried in Cumberland county several times and was finally heard by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. It decided the State Courts had no

display 127 works of American artists and among the names since become fa- miliar are those of Rembrandt and James Peale, Wurtmiller, Sully and Stuart. Raphael, Anna and Maria Peale all had works on exhibition. The Birches, Thomas and William, figure in this catalogue, and Denis A. Volo- zan seems to have

, now the Iris Club house. About the same time his brother, David Rit- tenhouse Porter, was Governor of Pennsylvania from January 15, 1839, to January 21, 1845. Meantime an- other brother, James Madison Porter, �of Easton, Pa., was Secretary of War under President Tyler. A son of Gov. Porter is the

All Early Letter by Thaddeus Stems, In an address on "Thaddeus Stevens as a Country Lawyer," which I pre- pared sor the Pennsylvania State Bar Association last June, and subsequent- ly elaborated and illustrated sor publi- cation in the Lancaster County Histor- ical Society proceedings, I avowed

toward the magnificent Congressional Library building. James Buchanan, then a United States Sena- tor from Pennsylvania, and who for a long time had been a citizen of Lan- caster, moved in the Senate to take up the resolution directing the Com- mittee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of

appellation which Buchanan made memorable in Court circles, when he was Minister to St. James, By the way, in 1785, on Mar- ket street, above Fourth, in Philadel- phia, Samuel Nicholas kept a tavern called "The Conestoga Wagon." On June 25, 1783, when Hiltzheimer returned home from his ride, with his wife and