Hermon Dagget, Rev. Abraham Purdy, A.M., Ebenezer Close, Dr. Samuel B. Mead, Rev. Hiram Jelliff, John C. Jones, and G. S. Tozer.

For quite a number of years North Salem Academy held a respectable standing among its sister institutions in this part of the State ; sometime numbering nearly one hundred students, and generally, during the winter sessions, from seventy to ninety. The last annual catalogue contained the names of one hundred and forty-five pupils. We regret

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to say that, for the last five years, the Academy lias been closed for educational purposes and is now occupied as a dwelling house. The last principal was the Rev. Chas. H. Holloway. During the Revolution, die Academy was used as a jail and court house for the detention and trial of refractory tories. Here, one Paine was tried and condemned as a spy; he was executed about half a mile from the Academy, though it appears that circumstances afterward threw some doubt upon his guilt. It is said that .a reprieve was forwarded from head-quarters, and that when the unfortunate man was swung off, the bearer had just reached the Episcopal church, which was a mile as the road then ran, from the place of execution ; he was, of course, too late. When the French army passed through this town in 1781, on their way from Rhode Island to Dobb's Ferry, where they crossed the Hudson to join Washington, they encamped near the Academy two days, and Rochambeau and his officers occupied the building."0 The situation of the Academy is exceedingly beautiful, and the view of the Mutighticoos valley is such as can seldom be equalled.