not enter into the purposes of this article. Nowhere does the author give credit to any other man in surveying or design- ing the Capital City of the United States. While half a dozen handsome illustrations accompany it, the plot or survey of this French engineer, if he ever made one, is nowhere in

British army during the French and Indian War, and was then a loyal Pennsyl- vanian. Later he became a General in the Revolutionary War and render- ed able service to the cause of the Colonies. His unfortunate campaign against the Western Indians is well known. In a letter to Governor Penn, dated at

cost of which helped to pay the salaries of tyrants, would choke any decent American. During the period of the war of the Revolution there were seventeen citi- zens of Donegal who held the rank of Colonel in the army, not to speak of the great number who filled the field and line offices. It is

, making a total for city and county of 275, a rec- ord which, I believe, exceeds that of any community in the United States, �having no larger population than ours, say, 160,000 souls. The more immediate purpose of this paper, however, is to bring into promi- nence the German press of the county, and its

Reidesil as a reward for his services. People excited and had to be convinced to the contrary. Lancaster was the largest inland town in the United States. containing �about 3,000 Germans and Scotch-Irish. Most of the houses had an elevation before the front door and were entered by ascending high steps

, December 4th and 5th, when the declaration of the vote was made in triplicate, and the copies disposed of according to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and all the other neces- sary accompanying documents pre- pared, signed and delivered. That the copy present to-day is the one

Ephratense it- self, perhaps the most valuable docu- ment that has come down to us of the life led by the Ephrata Community, and it is well worth publishing in these papers. The name of the writer of the ar- ticle now to be read is not known. He was an officer in the British army, and, in company with

country, and related the story of what he had seen of distant regions and of what he had suffered in his journey- ings." 15 "Faust's German Element in the United States, Vol. 1, p. 310. 15Butterfield, p. 98. �Champlain also informed Brulé that he was about to sail for France, and assured him that he would

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