. Dear Sir, I wish you to send me a requisition, directed to the Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, for the appre- hension of Abraham Jonson, a free colored man, who recently left Balti- more county, Md., upon the charge of having received stolen goods, the facts in the case are as follows, viz.: Said Jonson

empires ought to be worth at least one page somewhere in the annals of the nation it has created and defended. But thus far that page has been begrudged. Let us write one. When Brought to Pennsylvania. "The art of making rifles was brought to this country in the year 1721, when a small colony of Swiss

An Anti-Slavery Reminiscence The Society is indebted to Dr. Geo. L. Cassel for the priviiege of abstract- ing from the diary of his father, the late Abraham Cassel, of Marietta, an interesting account of his experience as a juror in the United States Court in a famous civil case, growing out of the

. Broombridge. The feature, how- ever, of special local interest, and re- called now with peculiar timeliness, is the fact that Jacob Eichholtz, then an "Associate Artist," appears in this early exposition with three pictures; one of these, a "Portrait of a Gentle- man," was, of course, the early Nich- olas

, now the Iris Club house. About the same time his brother, David Rit- tenhouse Porter, was Governor of Pennsylvania from January 15, 1839, to January 21, 1845. Meantime an- other brother, James Madison Porter, �of Easton, Pa., was Secretary of War under President Tyler. A son of Gov. Porter is the

- lowed the example of Pennsylvania and have become a free State." He recurred to this view of the sub- ject in an extended letter from Wheat- land, November 19, 1850, addressed to a public meeting in Philadelphia. Like Mr. Webster and Mr. Lincoln, he was chiefiy solicitous about the preserva- tion of the

A BUCHANAN MYTH, A very good illustration of "history as it is written," especially the bio- graphical branch of it, is found in a story sketch by the Louisville Herald, and being widely republished as au- thentic, telling how Ben Hardin's ill- fitting suit of tow linen worn at the Bar of Hardin

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner

Penns:rlvania and put them under its protection. This legislation accorded: with judicial decisions of the highest court iill Pennsylvania. In Commonwealth v. Hallo­ way, 2 S. & R., 305 (1816), Mary, a negro slave of James Course of Maryland, absconded from her master and came to Philadelphia, where, after she

, the Maryland slaveholder, who was killed in what passed into history as "The Christiana Riot," an account of which was the subject of an interesting paper some months ago read before the Society by Thomas Whitson, Esq. '1 he following is a transcription of this in- quest : LANCASTER COUNTY, as. : "An