traffic had been completed at Columbia in the form of a cross-river covered birdge. It is well to remember that in southeastern Pennsylvania, mountains and rivers ran at right angles to the main trend of migration, with an east-west trend. With an estimated eight thousand wagons using the road between

and special attention. But we have an inter- esting note on Buchanan's association with the Press. Dr. Philip Shriver Klein, professor of history at the Pennsylvania State College and an authority on the life and career of President Buchanan, expresses the belief that Forney "was set up, as a peace

, this may be made without giving offence." 15 By the end of the month Buck asked his friends to keep out of Lancaster because "every- body is now looked upon with a jealous & suspicious eve who visits Wheatland."16 Howell Cobb, who should have been the first to be in Buchanan's confidence, at last

"Intelligencer and Lancastrian," January 8, 1856. �At Shober Hotel on January 2 at 11 a. m. the opening gun was fired in the local Democratic campaign. It was here that delegates 4 from all over the county assembled to select the county's delegation for the Democratic State Convention. The first order of