Fidelity. -- On the 23d of September, 1780, Isaac van Wart, accompanied by John Paulding and- David Williams, all farmers of the County of Westchester, intercepted Major Andre, on his return from the American lines, in the character of a spy, and, notwithstanding the large bribes offered them for his release, nobly disdained to sacrifice their country for gold, secured and carried him to the commanding officer of the district, whereby the dangerous and 'traitorous conspiracy of Arnold was brought to light, the insidious designs of the enemy baffled, the American army saved, and our beloved country free," &c.

We extract the following from the Westchester Herald, on occasion of raising this monument, June 11, 1829 :

On Thursday last, being the day appointed by the committee of arrangements for the ceremony of erecting a monument to the memory of the late Isaac van Wart, one of the captors of the British spy Andr^, a large concourse of our feHow citizens assembled at the spot where repose the remains of the departed patriot, at the burial place of the Presbyterian church, on the east bank of the Saw Mill River, in Greenburgh. The day was very fine and pleasant, and by 12 o'clock, there was supposed to be present upwards of two thousand spectators, who had convened to participate in the last respects to the memory of their esteemed fellow citizen ; among whom were to be seen a few of the aged and venerable men who had passed through the scenes and perils of the revolution. About 12 o'clock, a procession was formed under the direction of Major John Sing, marshal of the day, the whole in the inverse order of their rank : --