The whole subject h;id evidently been considered, informally, before it was laid before the Congress -- in the expressive phrase of practical men, it had been " cut and dried " -- and the Committee " speedily re- " turned and reported" a substitute for the original Resolution, which was more " perfect," more " ade- " quate totheend," and less expensive, although it was, also, less favorable to the Congress -- it did no more than to omit the provision for the employment of a Packer from New York, by whom, also, the quality of the Pork could have been accurately ascertained, leaving every other portion of the original Resolution, in the form in which it had been adopted, five days previously. The evidently i)re-arranged Report and Resolution were promptly approved, without a dissenting voice ; ' and the scheme was, so far, a complete success.

There does not ajipear to have been a doubt concerning the entire safety of such a Magazine, nor of such a series of Magazines, notwitiistaiiding the known hostility of by far the greater number of the inhabitants of Westchester-county, within which they were to be established, against all which pertained to the Rebellion -- an liostility, too, which had become intensified by reason of the repeated and ruinous outrages to which the Conservatives among them, and lew were not Conservatives, had been subjected; and if anything were wanted to establish the fact of the (juiet, law-observing, and upright personal character of those much abused and nuicli persecuted farmers of Colonial Westchester-county, it may be found in that voluntary tribnte to their integrity, thus unwittingly, but freely, paid by their most virulent enemies. A Military Magazine established in the midst of a community who was hostile to those who gathered and establislu'd it, without ample provision for its |)rotecti()n, and dej)ending, largely, if not entirely, for its safety, on the forbearance ol those among whom it was placed, was an anomaly in Military Science; but the farmers of Westchestercounty were not inclined to retaliate; and those who were leaders in the Rebellion could, therefrom, have learned something which would have been useful to themselves and to their "common cause," had not they been besotted in their greed for ()fHce and its emoluments and for the authority and the opportunities for personal aggrandizement which office-bearing, in a revolutionary era, always allbrds to those who are the grc:ater zealots.