were manumitted. Interesting corrobora- tion of this is supplied by the article of manumission of Giles Wallis, of whlch follows a literal copy. It ap- pears the age of thirty-one was the period of freedom: To all whom it may concern, Be it known that I, Edward Gorsuch, of Baltimore county, and State

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

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

stagger the financiers of the Com- monwealth, what would have hap- �pened had a project been started that would to the infant State of that day been relatively commensurate with the Federal scheme at Panama? And yet there is extended historic justification for the survey then ap- parently making in 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

difficult to find even a single great work in any one of the thousands of homes in this city and county which have the char- acteristics of culture, taste and refine- ment. This is somewhat due to the fact that wealth has never centered here; and no pre-eminent artist has ever sprung from or been nurtured

with his guest, Col. Ephraim Blaine, the grandfather of James G. Blaine— who, moving to Carlisle, set up a tide �of emigration that flooded on to Wash- ington county, Pa., and thence surged back to Maine. What would we not give to have preserved the "table talk" of that dinner at General Mifflin's

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