The pay of a private for a year, would not subsist his family for a single week ; nor would the pay of an officer procure forage, or even oats, for his horse.

And in addition to these evils which fell so heavily upon the army, others not less deplorable, had, by reasou of the embarrassed state of the country, fallen upon the community at large. For the aged and infirm, who had retired to enjoy the fruits of their industry, found their subsistence reduced to a scanty pittance : and the widow and the orphan were obliged to accept a dollar, where hundreds were their due.

At this moment when all was dark, our hopes for a successful termination of the war well nigh gone, when the east and the south were in gloom and doubt, and fear-- which " betrays like treason," -- was setting on many an honest face, Major Andre was sent from the British army, whose General then wished to finish the war at a blow, to tamper with the low principles of Benedict Arnold; and by the strength of bribery and corruption, to pluck up his shallow-rooted patriotism at once. The treason had so far prospered, that the delivery of West Point and the army there stationed, was agreed upon. The plan to effect the purpose was drawn up ; nay, more, the victims of deceit and slaughter, were marked out, perfidy and destruction had sharpened their daggers for the march, when it pleased Divine Providence to make three of our fellow citizens instruments in * His hand for good.