News of the proceedings reached New York on the 12th of May. It was instantly recognized that a like fate was undoubtedly in store for New York, and accordingly a great meeting was held, under the joint auspices of the Sons of Liberty and the more dignified classes of the community, presided over by Isaac Low, a prominent merchant, a leading member of the Church of England, and, although a sympathizer with the cause of liberty, well known for his comparatively moderate principles. Out of this meeting resulted the formation of the Xew York ••Committee of Correspondence," consisting of fifty-one members, which assumed the direction of the popular movement thron ghoul the province, and whence the measures taken for organizing the country districts in behalf of American liberties emanated. From the creation of the committee of correspondence dales the beginning of the tirst established means for bringing the patriotic sentiment of Westchester County into active co-operation with that of tin- American people at large. In that truly astonishing production, the late Henry B. Dawson's •• Westchester County During the American Revolution," ] a labored attempt is made to establish the reasonableness of the author's favorite dogma that the Revolution was a grievous offense to the good and loyal people of our county, and found little or no favor among them, at least in the formative state of things. Mr. Dawson regards it as scandalously improbable that the honest, discreef, humble, and virtuous inhabitants of this strictly rural county, fearing Cod ami loving their lawful king, could have had anything in common with the greedy, smuggling merchants and unblushing political deina1 Although this performance of Dawson's is very elaborate, ii is really Inn a fragment, terminating with tin- battle of White Plains. It was undertaken by its anther as a contributien to Scharfs History, and occupies two hundred and eighty pages of theflrst volume of