be erected over the Pequea. �Last Thursday was the day appointed by Congress to deter- mine where the seat of the new government should be situated. Proposals were made by Carlisle, Lancaster, Yorktown, German- town and Reading, in Pennsylvania. Proposals were also received from Trenton, [N. J

German weekly, established August 8th, 1787. It was called Neue Unpartheyische Lancaster Zeitung, and Anzeigs-Nachrichten (New Nonpartisan Lancaster Gazette and News Advertiser). A complete file of this newspaper, covering the first six years of its publication, is carefully preserved in the library of