Bear then in mind, my friends, and impress it on the hearts of your children, and upon all that shall nestle in old age under your withered branches, that as all are equally called upon to protect and defend their country, so there is not one of them all but may one day be placed in a situation like John Paulding, to confer a lasting benefit on his country, and like lum, to merit and receive the highest and noblest of all earthly .recompenses -- the thanks and gratitude of his countrymen.

The assembly then separated, deeply impressed with the ceremony and the occasion. All which is respectfully submitted,

Abrm. M. Valentine, John Agnew, John Lozier, Gideon Ostkander, , Jameson Cox.

The Dutch Reformed Church which stands at the corner of Main and Tames streets, is a neat wooden edifice, surmounted with a spire of the same material. Above the entrance is a tablet inscribed : --

TnE VaH Nest Reformed Dutch Church, Founded A. D. 1S39.

THE TOWN OK CORTLANDT.

A union between this church and the old society at Cortlandt-town was effected August 2 2d, 1833. Abraham Van Nest and George Douglass, Esquires, appear to have been liberal benefactors towards the erection of this church. A silver communion service was also presented by the former individual. The first Reformed Dutch church located in this village, stood on the hill west of the Episcopal church, adjoining the Diven property. Nothing remains at present to mark its site, save a small enclosure containing a few interments. In this cemetery is a plain marble monument to the memory of Lieut. George McChain, which bears the following truly clasical inscription, composed by the Hon. R. R. Pray, Chancellor of the State of Mississippi : --