The Amazons then withdrew, but Colonel Brinkerhoff dreaded their return, and in a few days afterward, sold out his entire stock of tea to some New York speculators, who for fear of another female outbreak, "precipitately forwarded the nefarious stuff," as the patriots termed it, to the North River, where it was put afloat and conveyed to Albany; the sloop that contained it making her escape, although guards to watch over her had been planted by the intrepid tea drinkers, upon both banks of the Hudson. It was a short time after the battle of Whiteplains that the excursion, commonly called the "Westchester tea-party," took place. During the previous summer, a man whose name was John Arthur, and who for some time had kept a grocery store in the city of New York, was induced in consequence of the revolutionary troubles to break up his establishment and re-move to a sequester place in Westchester County, on the borders of Bedford, and of the town now known as Newcastle. He brought with him some articles of merchandise, part of his old stock in trade, among which was a quantity of Bohea tea. Apprehensive of a foray, Arthur carefully concealed from female inquisition, the fact that he had in his possession sun-dry chests of the delectable leaf, but by some means it be-came whispered about, that such was the case. This news was carried from farm house to farm house, until at length it reached the country along the Hudson; where the good housewives had so long abstained from the bewitching in-fusion, that they began to forget its joyous qualities. The information that now came from the direction of Bedford,