"At the date of issuing your writ and for two weeks previous, the city in which you live and where your Court has been held was entirely under the control of revolutionary authorities. Within that period United States soldiers, while conunitting no offence, had been perfidiously attacked and inhumanly murdered in your streets ; no punishments had been awarded, and I believe no arrests had been made for these atrocious crimes; supplies of provisions intended for this garrison had been stopped ; the intention to cai)ture this fort had beeu boldly proclaimed ; your most public thoroughfares were daily patrolled by large numbers iif

The church is built on rising ground near Old Morrisania, and is a handsome Gothic structure of white marble. The rectory adjoins it on the west. This is a list of pastors, -- 1841, Rev. Arthur C. Cox ; 1842, Rev. Charles Jones; 1843, Rev. Charles Aldis ; 1847, Rev. Abraham B. Carter; 1852, Rev. S. Pinkney Hammond; 1861, Rev. William Huckel, resigned.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, situated on Fordham Avenue, near the former town line, owes its origin to the labors of Rev. A. B. Carter, who, while engaged as rector of St. Ann's, organized the congregation on July 8, 1849. It was at first a connection of St. Ann's, the chapel having been consecrated June 22, 1850. In May, 1853, it was erected into a full parish

troops armed and clothed at least in part with articles stolen from the United States ; and the Federal flag while waving over the Federal offices was cut down by some person wearing the uniform of a Mai-yland soldier. To add to the foregoing, an assemblage elected in defiance of law, but claiming to be the legislative body of your Stitte, and so recognized by the Executive of Maryland, was debating the forms of abrogating the Federal compact.