- 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

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

Pennsylvania troops that marched to �the defense of Baltimore, in 1812. He served an appointment as Prosecuting Attorney for Dauphin coudty, and later was thrice elected to fill the same posi- tion. Meanwhile, his reputation was rapidly growing, and in 1814 he was elected to the Congress of the United States