- trict, to be composed of parts of Vir- ginia, District of Columbia and Mary- land. The officer selected to command the new district was Brigadier General Wm. H. Winder, lately exchanged and returned from Canada, where he had been kept a prisoner after his unlucky capture at the battle of Stony Creek, in

A BUCHANAN MYTH, A very good illustration of "history as it is written," especially the bio- graphical branch of it, is found in a story sketch by the Louisville Herald, and being widely republished as au- thentic, telling how Ben Hardin's ill- fitting suit of tow linen worn at the Bar of Hardin

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner

towns which now make the Alleys of the Monongahela and the Youghiogany look literally "like hell with the lid off;" but Canonsburg, an ancient seat of learning, with a college commence- ment in progress, afforded a spectacle of decorum in happy contrast with the orgies at Greensburg; and their twen- �ty