pieces. Evolution of the Rifle in America. "At first the Swiss at Lancaster made rifles on the model of their own rather clumsy weapons and carried ounce balls. Their barrels were thir- ty to thirty-two inches long, and were rifled to a twist of about one-half revolution in the length of the bore. The

the United States in the Eastern District of Penn- sylvania, at Philadelphia. After serv- ing on several juries a fugitive slave case name up that was first tried in Cumberland county several times and was finally heard by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. It decided the State Courts had no

ages and despoiled by cellar damp, was sold at a Phila- delphia auction room, to which it had been brought by a colored drayman who rescued it from the basement of an abandoned house. A restorer and fancier of fine arts discerned in it some merit and bought it for a song. The restoration enhanced its

an abundance of water on the summit level, and believe that a canal can be made the whole way from Philadel- phia to the Susquehanna in the neigh- borhood of Harrisburg, at an average expense of $1,500 per mile. The sum- mit level proves to be no less than sixty-five miles in extent. All that is now

All Early Letter by Thaddeus Stems, In an address on "Thaddeus Stevens as a Country Lawyer," which I pre- pared sor the Pennsylvania State Bar Association last June, and subsequent- ly elaborated and illustrated sor publi- cation in the Lancaster County Histor- ical Society proceedings, I avowed

him as an unsenti- mental publicist, fixed only on ideas of disunion and nullification, will find in his contribution to the debate a Southern suggestion of "protection to home industry." He thought Con- gressmen "ought to reserve objects of this description for native artists; one of whom was at that

that great and good man, George Washington, President of the United States, who will retire from office on March 4th, next, at which time John �Adams, the present Vice President, will take his place," The Lancaster guests on that occasion were Richard Keys, Thomas Boude, Abraham Car- penter, Jeremiah

meeting of his fellow-townsmen. In a private and confidential letter from Wheat- land, March 16, 1850, to Jefferson Davis—who advised him that Simon Cameron had revamped them from an old Lancaster newspaper of 1820—Mr. Buchanan rather timidly wrote as fol- lows: "It may be & doubtless was the fact that in

autobiographical notes that he ever entertained any notion of leaving Lancaster or that there was any such incident between his admission to the Bar and his early entry into public life. Moreover, on September 13, 1813, we find his father, writing to James, then at Lancaster, giving an account of how a Federalist