, having enlisted while a student at Princeton. He was the author of the famous "Newburg Letters," which created such a sensa- tion at the time. He was a voluminous author and a United States Senator. The Col. Henry Bouquet who is spoken of in this letter was an Eng- lish soldier, but born in Switzerland

well as those of her husband, now rest in the same burial place, where rests the remains of her two sons, the place being mark- ed with a head and a foot stone. A General Knox Letter.* Our President, Mr. Steinman, a few weeks ago became possessed of the following letter, written by General Henry Knox

throughout the United States swung its support to Mr. Buchanan. On January 8 there appeared on her masthead: For President JAMES BUCHANAN (subject to the decision of the Democratic National Convention)3 1 Auchampaugh, "Buchanan a Political Portrait," p. 12. 2 Minnigerode, "Presidential Years," p. 321. 3

lots to the east of him on the block, the one on the corner owned by James Hamil- ton, and the other, next to him, by John Hambright, who had a brewery on it. On the west side, the corner lot on Shipper' street was owned by Rev. Thomas Barton, the Episcopal. clergyman, and the one next to it by Robert

. M. Ensminger, stated quite plainly that 'all letters are required to be prepaid with stamps before they can be mailed.' "The Reading and Columbia Railroad had been completed and was 'in good running order, with first-class passenger cars, and, having made arrangements with the connecting roads North

Library was the only library for the common people of Lancaster. This does not mean that there were no other sources of literature for the people of the community. Gentlemen's libraries grew to a great extent, some of them becoming quite famous. After a call upon James Buchanan, at Wheatland, in 1852, a