towns of Erie, Warren and Franklin. The Government had con- tinual need of his services, and in 1796 President Washington appointed him the United States Commissioner under the treaty of San Lorenzo el Real, to determine the boundaries separating the United States from the Spanish possessions on our

- tenant Colonel in the service of the United States , now a prisoner with the enemy. By order of Congress. "CHARLES THOMPSON, "Secretary." He is Finally Exchanged. He was given permission to go to New York on parole, first giving this pledge: "His Excellency, General Washington, having granted me per

and Vice Presi- dent of the United States met in the Senate Chamber, at the Seat of Gov- ernment. Present, Charles Thompson, Matthew Lawler, Robert McMullin, Wiliiam Brooke,Thomas Long, Francis Swaine, Henry Speering, James Boyd, - Peter Frailey, Casper Shaffner, Jr., John Bowman, William Brown

Generals which the Quak- er element contributed to the Revolu- tionary War, and one of the two born Generals, besides the Commander-in- Chief, who did gallant service in that struggle of the centuries. No General in the Continental army rendered his country better service. At the Bran- dywine, at Paoli, at

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Wyoming county. He says: "Here at (Thornbottom) we met John Jhones; he gave us all information, and 'seemed an active and intelligent man. He has made hardly any sugar this year—his kettles having come too late—but he proposes to tap 2,000 trees next Spring Mr. Nicholson has 12,000 acres, 3,000 of which

, Samuel Smith, Moses Combs, John Boggs, the Lowrys, Lazarus and John, and Laza- rus' sons, Alexander, John, Daniel and James, John and Thomas Harris, John Galbraith, Col. James Hamilton, John Gibson, and his brother, George, John Kennedy, Dennis Sullivan, Gordon Howard, Simon Girty, the famous renegade

, with a view to procure discharges or furloughs ; and they drew medicines and stores in the most profuse and extravagant manner, for private purposes." In a letter to his brother, he declared the different states nominated officers who were " not fit to be shoe-blacks." In 1777, John Adams wrote : " I

services in disarming the disaffected, but could not get even so much as an interview from him. Even John Dickinson did not seem to know his own mind. Between 1765 and 1775, he wrote much and ably as a Whig, but in 1776, he opposed the Declaration of Independence and was an uncompromising an- tagonist of

indicated that of Colonel Nicholas Houssacker, who, after first serving as the Colonel of a Lancaster county regiment, went over to the British at the battle of Trenton, carrying about a score of his men with him. Since then some facts have come into his possession concerning Colonel Houssacker, and these