be one of turmoil. As the campaign drew toward its close, the number of political meet- ings in city and county increased. Just how intense and widespread was the interest will be seen from the list of such gatherings held in Lancaster County in 1860, which we have appended to this paper. Reading the

contained a preface, also in Latin, which reads "With an asterisk are denoted such prescriptions as are to be prepared and compounded in the general laboratory, the others are to be mixed for the occasion at the office of the hospital. There are very many prescriptions 2 Papers Lancaster County Historical

for so long put up at miserable taverns and been among strangers and through such perils to meet so many familiar and kind friends. In the afternoon we journeyed on to my father's. My aged par- ents embraced me with joy, while I felt there is no place like home. Bishop Asbury and my father gave to