The many missed faces, the traces of care and anxiety on those one did meet, the decayed and vacant houses and dilapidated barns, the marked change in the circumstances of the well-to-do families, the alteration in the moral tone, not only of the young, but of many past the years of early life who in them had been most exemplary, the number of diseased and wounded men, many of whom were hastening to their graves, the often felt presence still of the lawless marauder daring enough to follow his once riskless trade -- all this kept up long the general sadness and tearfulness.

This story, indeed, would be incomplete, if mention were not made of the hundreds of excellent people who reluctantly left the county for foreign homes.

But to those who did remain is the credit due that they settled themselves t) their old employments, much impoverished, but with strong wills, and not a

•MtOor Samuel Pell, who before the war had become engaged to his cousin, Mary Pell, seems, from letters of expostulation with him of his brother, Philip I'ell. to have been very anxious, as the contest was closing, to abruptly leave the service. He had so distinguished himself, •specially at the Battle of Saratoga, as to have received the highest encuminnis, and his family was anxious lest he should be a loser by his impatience. But at the dawn of peace he returned home and claimed his affianced, who indignantly spurned him with the declaration that she would not have one come near her, who bad the scent of a rebel. Neither of them ever married.