His well-known kindness of heart. ..." The editor, in conunenting on the assassination, admits that if'might i have l)een a wise move at the beginning of the war or during the darker I days of the struggle ;" but regrets it as being so " foolish and useless" at the moment when it occurred. lie pleads for mercy to the South,, and so closes the connection of the l'oiii>Ts Gazette with the history of the war in Westchester County.

There was quite a little excitement after the close of hostilities, when every one was hastening, like the editor of the G-izelte, to addjhiskick to the fallen Davis, as to a plot to blow up the Croton Dam. which was alleged to have been seriously considered in Canada under the orders of the notorious Jake Thomjaon.

A man who claimed to be a government spy, and who passed by the aliases of James Watson Wallace and Sanford Conover, in his testimony in Wellington, swore to having had conversations with the aforesaid Jake in January, 1865, concerning this and other plots.

Later in the year (July, 1S65), in the Toronto Globe, appeared a letter from this sjime Wallace or Conover, in which he, on 20th March of that year, makes to Thompson the proposition to have the dam destroyed, on the ground that " one of my aunts, a Virginia lady, an enemy of everything Yankee, owns the land on which the dam is built, and her residence and out-buildings are only a few rods from the abutments of the work. This will afloid you some idea of the facilities we have at ' command to accomplish our objei t. The necessary men for the business are engaged."