It should seem that it is a position of sufficient importance to secure the services of an army chaplain, as large numbers of soldiers are frequently gathered there, to be dispersed from time to time, as the needs of the government may demand, to all parts of the country. The Rev. Mr. Higbee, of Pelham, has for years conducted occasional services there. In the absence of any clergyman, they are conducted by the surgeon of the station, Major A. A. Woodhull, or by Captain (now Colonel) Trotter.

1 This institution, after a very snccessful beginning, is, for various reasons, temporarily suspended.

PELHAM.

In closing this sketch of the history of Pclhani, T am permitted, by tlie kindness of my friend, the Rev. Dr. William Hague, one of the most eminent ministers of the Baptist denomination in this country and a native of the town of Pelham, to subjoin his very interesting article, jiublished in the American Magazine of History, and entitled " Old Pelham and New Rochelle."

"old i'elham and new rochelle." i!y rev. william iiaciue.

" It was my fortuiio to revisit, lecontly, after a long interval of nbsnnce, two lionies of my cliildluiod, tlio birth bomo at PeUiam, Westchester County, in the vicinity of Now York, and the churcli home at New Kocholle, the town adjoining, originally a part of Pelham, comprised within the area of the manor by the royal charter of liifiG, in the reign of Charles II. That charter was granted to Thomas I'cll, Esq., ' Centleman of the bed-chamber to King (Iharles I.,' and afterwards, in ICiST, was gmnted anew and confirmed to his legally recognized heir, the only son of his brother, the first resident proprietor, 'Lord John Poll,' according to the usage of addres.s hereabouts in the seventeenth century.