remaininv canvases, one landscape and two portraits, are all the authen- tic material at hand. Facts concerning people are rarely as interesting to us as gossip; because gossip, being more or less personal, must always be related to romance, and hence, in capable hands, some- times rises into the sphere of

possibly remember seeing me at the Phila. Convention, introduced to you as the lone Whig star of Illinois. Since the adjournment, I have remained here, so long, in the Whig document room. I am now about to start for home; and I desire the undisguised opinion of some experienced and sagacious Pennsylvania

common. They had be- come much mixed with negroes, and, in the Nat. Turner insurrection, about 1833, were treated as such and driven off. Captain John Smith, in his History of Virginia, 1629, spells the name "Ac- cowmacke," and says "they use jave- lins, headed with bone, instead of stone, and dartfish

earliest record of his artistic life that I have found dates back to about the year 1820, when, at the age of twenty-two years, he opened a studio in the bor- ough of Marietta, where the late Judge John J. Liebhart became one of his students, acquiring no little pro- ficiency in portrait painting, and one

- praised at 758 pounds, 60 and 8 pence. In the Life of William Henry, by Francis. Jordan, Jr., page 27, we quote the following interesting sketch of the early friendship Mr. Henry entertained for the artist, Benjamin West: "West was then about fifteen, a poor, unlettered tinsmith's apprentice, living in

also regarding the sale of certain lands. In this connection it is interesting to note that the lands of Michael Whit- man, "an Attainted Traitor," who, on May 8, 1778, "was convicted and at- tainted of High Treason by Proclama- tion," were put up for sale on August 25, 1779. They were sold "to Michael

David M. Sensenig A Famous Local Mathematician By C. H. MARTIN David M. Sensenig was born in 1840 at Goodville, East Earl Township, Lancaster County, son of Michael and Barbara Martin Sensenig. When a young man he worked on his father's farm. He was greatly interested in mathematics even as a boy