incidents in our local history. As matters of ac- curate record, they are fit to be pre- served in our annals and to be chron- icled with the transactions of the So- ciety. On page 20 of the "History," in describing the Gorsuch homestead and estate, it is stated that certain of the slaves attached thereto

refugees from religious persecution settled in what was then known as the 'Conestoga country' of Pennsyl- vania, but now Lancaster. It was a singular dispensation that brought this colony of rifle-makers to our soil under the auspices of the peaceful and non-combatant 'Proprietary' of Wil- liam Penn and

. Edward S, �Sayres, a prominent member of the Philadelphia Bar. He is a great-grandson of Samuel Humes, who ap- pears in the Eichholtz ledger as one of the artist's liberal local patrons. Miss Hamilton, of St. Paul, who is a kinswoman of the Humes family, has four Eichholtz portraits, viz., of Mr. and Mrs

concluded here that they had been drowned in some of the rivulets of Chester county; for it was more than a month before we heard any- thing of them. Within a few days past we have ascertained that they are in the neighborhood of Church- town, Lancaster county, progressing in their surveys. They have found

. Rev. Sample was just at the end of a forty-year Presbyter- ian pastorate, signalized by enlarge- ment and improvement of the church building, at East Orange and Cherry. Jacob Eichholtz was setting out on that career as a portrait painter which was to bring him some fortune and more fame to him and to

stone church at the corner of Market and Marion, and Rev. Otto Krogstrop was preaching to them. The third oldest Jewish Society in America already had a burying ground in Lancaster,and the Quakers, as early as that, had a church on the east side of South Queen street,where the Catholics owned and

no civil rights that the white man was bound to respect. Mr. Buchanan sprang from a race that always respected the rights of property, as well as the rights of man. He was born of a �household and into a church wherein liberty is regulated by law, and whose children were taught obedience to au