It possessed no political significance whatever -- it was grimly said of it, by a contemporary, "Sons of Liberty great opposers to these Rioters as they are cif opinion " no one is entitled to Riot but themselves "--and it was prcmiptly suppressed, without loss of either juoperty or life. Those who are curious to know more of this outbreak of early ".\ntircntei-s," are referred to the JournuU of Caplnin John Jloulreaor, 301, 303 ; and to the Colonial Manuscripts of that period.

HISTOEY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

chester-county, beyond the very limited circles of those who had held public olBces within the County, of those who had aspired to the honors and emoluments of oiBce which they had not been able to secure, and of those very few who had assumed to be either socially or intellectually or pecuniarily above the general grade of those among whom they lived. Indeed, there had been no good reason for those farm, ers, comfortably situated on their inland homesteads, to take any particular interest in those struggles which, from an early period, the Boston, the Salem, the New York, or any other Ship masters and Merchants had been waging, for the ))rotection of that long-continued and profitable " illicit trade," from which no benefit had ever accrued to any one beyond those who were thus noisily defying the wellknown and reasonable Laws of the Country ; and, in the more recently and more generally created political excitement, it had mattered very little to the thrifty housewives, in Westchester-county, from whose warehouses -- whether from those of John Hancock and the revolutionary Merchants of Boston and Xew York, or from those of the Agents of the East India Company, in those ports -- their teacups should be supplied, since the Tea which had been smuggled into the Colonies, in violation of law, by the former, was quite as expensive, and not always as well-flavored, as that which had been imported, legally and legitimately, by the latter.