read- ily discern that the bow-like detour by which the railroad ran through Lancaster must have been a radical departure from the best engineering device, and a concession to the scheme on which railroads were sormerly laid out, viz., to reach towns instead of compelling towns to come to them. There

preacher in Mercersburg on a first day had deprecated the war with England as a judgment and calamity. Whatever glory attached to Mr. Buchanan's early career—and it was certainly an illustrious one—belongs wholly to Lancaster county. None of it, we are confident, is to be shared by the "dark and bloody