special attention. It hap- pened to be typical of similar occasions now taking place throughout the county. The Amish marriage season, now at its height, usually begins about November 1st and runs to Christmas—no one knows why, except that it follows an established custom. It is as good a time as any to

, returned to Pennsylvania and had a small skirmish with the enemy at Princeton, N. J., crossed the Delaware and took about one hundred Hes- sians prisoner. From Trenton, we marched to within eight or ten miles of New York and lay there about a month, taking up supplies intended for the British Army which

discovered letters from Mr. Buchanan in the files of local newspapers which do not appear in this work. As these letters throw additional light on the noble character of Pennsylvania's only President, and as they correct some false impressions about him, it seems but just that they should be given wider