, accompanied by two Spanish gentle- men, his fellow travelers, arrived in Lancaster from the Federal City on Friday, the 15th instant, and proceeded to Philadelphia on Monday [the 18th instant]." Public Dinner Tendered to James Buchanan on the Eve of his Departure for Europe By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE

over the Constitution." Buchanan had no direct relations with Lincoln after he left him at the White House. Buchanan wrote to Lincoln, asking him to forward some books given him by Senator Benton which had been left behind in packing his library. No reply came. Buchanan felt hurt but

of the Dem- ocratic Republican citizens of Lancaster county friendly to the election of the Hon. James Buchanan as Vice-President of the United States, was held at the court house in Penn Square, Lan- caster, at the time indicated — Wednesday, March 16th. 1831. James Humes was appointed president

WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN 1908, the J. B. Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia and Lon- don, published, in twelve volumes, "The Works of James Buchanan," the fifteenth President of the United States. The work was edited by John Bassett Moore, counsel of the Spanish American Peace Commission in 1898; and

Buchanan Made a Mason in Lodge No. 43 December 11, 1816 Worshipful Master 1822-1823 President of the United States 1857-1861 Born, Stony Batter, Franklin Co., Pa. April 23, 1791 Died, Wheatland, Lancaster Co., Pa. June 1, 1868. In the winter of 1816-17, Hon. James Buchanan, then but twenty-five years of