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

notices have, a picture not more than an inch square inserted, representing a woman standing by herself and look- ing somewhat forlorn. �A Navigable Susquehanna. In No. 120, dated December 18, 1789, there is an account, two columns long, of a very largely-attended meet- ing held at the house os Archibald

, 1730, a petition was presented by "the magis- trates, grand jury and other inhabit- ants of Lancaster county,setting forth that not having the conveniences of any navigable water for bringing the produce of their labors to Philadel- phia, they were obliged, at a great ex- pense, to transport them by

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

. Arthur Armstrong, in the Mechanics' Institute 'Mr. Armstrong, we believe, is a native of this city, and if talents of the highest order as an artist, combined with suavity of manners and an exceedingly accom- modating disposition, deserve ample encouragement, then he is richly en- titled to it at the