After many romantic adventures in this country and in Europe, he figured in 1775 as an ardent patriot. Washington, however, suspected him, and in June 1776, ordered his arrest. He professed to l)e on his way to off'er his services to Congress, which body ordered his return to New Hampshire. He soon after openly espoused the cause of the King. He was proscribed and banished by his native State, and his subsequent history is unknown. Rogers published in 1765, his "Journals," a spirited account of his early adventures as a ranger, and in the same year, " A Concise Account of North America." In the following year, he published a tragedy, "Ponteach," founded on scenes of frontier life.

LTTERATTIRE AND LITERARY MEN.

Rev. Nathaniel Scudder Prime, D.D., author of a

" Treatise on Baptism " and the " History of Long Island,'' died at Mamaroneck, March 27, 185(). He was born at Huntington, L. I., April 21, 1785 ; graduated in 1804 at Princeton College, from which, in 1848, he received the degree of D.D., and was ordained a Presbyterian minister October 24, 1809.

In the spring of 1830 the Rev. Dr. Prime came to Sing Sing with his family from Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y. He had been invited by the trustees of the Mount Pleasant Academy, in Sing Sing, to be its principal and had accepted the appointment. Having been the principal of the academy in Cambridge, he brought several pupils with him, and a high reputation as a scholar and teacher.