His other arts came in aid of his conversational powers, and with ready hand and easy light-heartedness of manner, he sketched his own progress under the rude escort of militia, to their quarters. ' This,' said he to Bronson, ' will give you an idea of the style in which I have had the honor to be conducted to my present abode.' With such pleasantries he passed away the morning unconcernedly, as though he were in no danger whatever. "a

A correspondent of the New York Times (signing himself N. O.,) some years since, relates many of the foregoing particulars in a conversation which he once had with the late General Joshua King of Ridgefield, Conn., (the father of Rufus H. King, a well known merchant of Albany, and also of Joshua Ingersoll King, Esq., who now occupies the family mansion at Ridgefield,) and adds that " Andre eagerly inquired whether Arnold had made his escape, seeming more solicitous for his (Arnold's) safety than his own. They arrived, the same day, at headquarters. Andre, was, of course, closely confined, and he (King) was constantly with him, as a guard, till his execution. He walked with him to the gallows, and when he first saw ths fatal gibbet he gave a sudden start, and said " he was reconciled to death, but not to the mode," and added, " it would be but a momentary pang." On arriving at the spot he mounted the cart, and in doing so, soiled his white dimities, which he quickly wiped off with his pocket handkerchief, adjusted the rope to his neck with his own hands, and in a few minutes the brave and accomplished Andre had paid the penalty of his unsuccessful espionage."