•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.

Will one wonder at the bitter feelings of an old inhabitant cf East Chester, when he remembered that his mother, with himself an infant in her arms, was compelled to escape in the dead of the night from her burning home- set on fire by the enemy, in pursuit of her husband ? The very man who had informed them of Captain L.'s arrival home, how must he have been maddened in his turn when he remembered that he had been lashed, again and again, to force from him his money, and had sjKjnt night after night away from his homo and family to avoid the violence and robbery of hostile neighbors?

few with great hopes. Patriotic expressions, declarations of the difficulties of the situation, wise counselings as to the public policy, and as to the courses of action in the several industries and interests, mingle in the letters of the day, with the usual detail of incident, and ever and anon with passionate denunciation of the past follies of neighbors bringing so much trouble.