upon our country- man. But I have a few additional facts to relate concerning the career of Mr. El- licott. In 1792 he was appointed Sur- veyor General of the United States. In 1795 he superintended the construction of Fort Erie, at Presque Isle, now Erie, Pa., and was also employed to lay out the

filled with advertisements, and pretty gen- erally the last column on the third page also,making very commonly four columns os advertising out of a total of twelve columns; sometimes there were as many as six columns. �Advertisements offering farms for sale in all parts of the county, in other counties

that proper persons may be appointed to view and lay out a road for public service, from the town of Lancaster, till it falls in with the high road in the county of Cnester, leading to the ferry of schuylkill, at High street, and that a review may be had of the said public road in the county of Chester

harmony as to give it at once that ease and softness essential to the art. The picture (the one the contemporary describes) is one on rich blue silk, and is intended as a banner for the Washington Fire Company of Louisville, Kentucky. The back of the canvas represents the Washington family, which is not a

dealing with the subject in a paper of reasonable length. there- fore,decided to take up but a single one of these men, and have chosen one who was born in this county, and whose ca- reer was perhaps as notable as that of any other. He was not a politician, like Joseph Galloway, who is, perhaps, the best

districts of Lebanon and Berks. In the red sandstone belt ex- isting there not only was a most suit- able material found in the utmost abundance, but so easily procurable and so easily worked under the ma- son's hammer that the well-to do pion- �eer hardly ever thought of resorting for building material for