His praiseworthy act was not sustained, which led to the property being resold, and finally to the tearing down of the old house itself -- a piece of vandalism unworthy of our enlightened age and country. When we visited it in 1846, the ravages of time had then made but little progress upon it ; the small room in which Andre was confined, the second night after his arrest, was still perfect with its single door and solitary window looking out upon the highway. On a stone of the old house was rudely cut the initials of its former owner and date

a Life of Major Andre by Winthrop Sargent.

THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO.

J. G., 1776, Congress, (John Gilbert.) The Gilbert powder-horn which was borne through the Revolutionary war, is now in the possession of the Hon. John Jay. This relic is curiously engraved, showing the lines of the American army while stationed at Boston and Charleston, Mass.

Between two and three miles north-west of the village of South Salem lies Lake Wepuck or Waccabuck, (Long Pond,) a beautiful sheet of water, covering one hundred and twenty-eight acres and a half of ground. Near by are two other sheets of water, called the north and south lakes, connected with the Wepuck by a small stream ; the former containing thirty-seven acres, the latter sixty-six and a half, all are fed and supplied chiefly, (perhaps entirely,) by springs and rivulets from the great Wepuck mountain. Near the western shore is located the Waccabuck house kept by Mr. Rockwell Mead. The northern shore of the lake is bordered with hanging woods, and surrounded by rocky mountains of the most picturesque form, presenting altogether an interesting scene as the traveller approaches from Lower Salem. The hills on the southern shore are much lower, but equally attractive ; their bases being profusely covered with foliage to the very margin of the water.