Q. Did the witness think that the language of the Congress expressed the sense of the people of America in general?

A. As far as this question applied to Pennsylvania, he was sure this was the case; for the other provinces, he replied in the affirmative from information only.

Q. Did he suppose that the Congress contained delegates fairly nominated by the choice of the people?

A. He had no doubt but that the Congress did contain delegates chosen under this description.

Q. In what light had the petition which the witness had presented to the King been considered by the Americans?

A. The petition had been considered as an olive-branch, and the witness complimented by his friends as the messenger of

peace.

Q. Did the witness imagine that sooner than yield to what were supposed to be the unjust claims of Great Britain, the Americans would take the desperate resolution of calling in the aid of foreign assistance?

A. He was apprehensive that this would be the case.
Q. What did the witness recollect of the Stamp Act?
A. It caused great uneasiness throughout America.

Q. What did witness recollect concerning the repeal of that act?

A. The anniversary of that memorable day is kept throughout America by every testimony of public rejoicing.

Q. Would not the neglect with which the last petition was treated induce the Americans to resign all hope of pacific negotiations?

A. In the opinion of the witness, it would.

Q. When the witness presented the petition to the Secretary of State was he asked any questions relative to the state of America?

A. Not a single question.

Cross-examination.

Q. As the witness had acted as governor, he was well acquainted with the charter of Pennsylvania?

A. He was well acquainted with its contents.

Q. Did he not know that there was a clause, which specifically subjected the colony to taxation by the British legislature?

A. Yes.

Q. Were the people of Pennsylvania content with their charter ?

A. Perfectly content.

Q. Then did they not acquiesce in the right of the British parliament to enforce taxation?

A. They acquiesced in a declaration of the right so long as they experienced no inconvenience from the declaration.

Q. Did the witness apprehend that the Congress acquiesced in an act which maintained the authority of the British parliament in all cases whatever?

A. Except in taxation, he apprehended the Americans would have no objection to acknowledge the sovereignty of Great Britain.

Q. Had the witness ever heard of any persons who had suffered persecutions for declaring sentiments favourable to the supremacy of the British parliament ?

A. He had heard of such oppressions in other provinces, but never met with them during his residence in Pennsylvania. Q. In the opinion of the witness, were the Americans now free?

A. They imagined themselves to be.

Q. In case a formidable force should be sent to America in support of government, did the witness imagine that there were many who would openly profess submission to the authority of parliament?

A. The witness apprehended that the few who would join on such an occasion would be too trivial a number to be of any consequence."

Mr. Penn was then ordered to withdraw.

Their happy home long since has passed away
But memory of its household virtues stay,
Within a hundred hearts now scattered wide-
Untrammeled now-they back ward turn with pride,
To the dear home where grandmother presided,

And Seth and Dinah in their age resided-
The spinning wheel upon the sanded floor,

The warming pan that hangs behind the door,

The tall clock ticking on the winding stairs,
The sampler with its motto that declares,

"That virtue brings its own reward to man,"
All this, and more does busy memory scan.-
The high back chairs all standing by the wall
The chest of drawers on legs so slim and tall,
While grandma, sitting in the rocking chair
With upright form and brow untouched by care,
Is now" on hospitable thought intent"-
But knits the stocking heel-her daily stent-
Who can forget the table spread with care?
The solid silver urn-no plated ware!
The china cups with pictures quaint and rare-
The bread, preserves, and cake, beyond compare,
Made by the spinster aunt, whose household ways
Are talked of now on these Centennial days-
Grandma-with lute-string gown of Quaker gray-
And mits that meet the elbow sleeve half way,
Kerchief and cap of India muslin clear,
Treasured within our hearts will still appear—
And in the outline of her head and face,
The Franklin pedigree we plainly trace-
The gentle accents of her Quaker speech,
Her words of kindness and of wisdom teach
Lessons that all may profit by to-day-
And learn from Dinah Folger what to say.
An antique portrait of her honored sire
Adorns the mantlepiece above the fire-
The velvet coat and ruffles of clear lawn
For thirty years at "General Court" were worn,
In old colonial times, before the bell

Of Independence tolled the Tyrant's knell-
Before the fires of Liberty were lighted,
And hopes of all the Royalists were blighted.
When price was set upon a Patriot's head,
Seth Jenkins, and his brother Thomas fled-
"Path finders," in the wilderness they came,
True heroes, tho' perhaps unknown to fame- !
And leaders of a band, who soon apace
Followed-forerunners of an honored race-
The Cofferis, Folgers, and a hundred more
Who pitched their tents upon the Hudson shore-
And as the centuries shall roll away

In the bright light of the millennial day,

Glad memory will recount her blesssings o'er
The heritage of seventeen fifty-four!

Washington, D. C., 1896.

ANNA LAWRENCE PLATT.

TO A PORTRAIT OF DOROTHY SEWALL.

[Dorothy Sewall was the daughter of Judge Samuel Sewall, who sentenced the Salem witches.]

You look so dainty and demure,

Fair cousin of a vanished year,

Your kerchief folds so white and pure,
Your coif half hides a shell-like ear,
Warm, brown depths your bonny eyes seem,
Methinks there mischief lurking gleams.

I doubt me not, in Salem town,

That many a youth gave his heart to you,
That you lured, then refused them with a frown,
These Puritan gallants who came to woo.
Do your eyes half sparkle, you roguish elf?
Methinks you were sometimes a witch yourself!
MARY FISHER BOSSON.

Lawrence, Mass.

ORIGIN OF "YANKEE DOODLE."

It is known as a matter of history that in the early part of 1755 great exertions were made by the British Ministry, at the head of which was the illustrious Earl of Chatham, for the reduction of the French power in the provinces of the Canadas. To carry the object into effect General Amherst, referred to in the letters of Junius, was appointed to the command of the British Army in Northwestern America, and the British Colonies in America were called upon for assistance, who contributed with alacrity their several quotas of men to effect the grand object of British enterprise.

In the summer of 1755 the British Army lay encamped on the eastern bank of the Hudson, a little south of the city of Albany, on the ground then belonging to John I. Van Rensselaer, Esq. After a lapse of sixty years, when a great proportion of the actors of those days have passed away, like shadows from the earth, the inquisitive traveler could observe the remains of the ashes, the places where they boiled their camp kettles. It was this army that, under the command of Abercrombie, was foiled, with a severe loss, in the attack on