It is unnecessary to go into the particulars of the matter here, and indeed we fear that even the brief allusion to it Avhich we have permitted ourselves may wound the sensibilities of some of our readers. It is proper to add that the originators of the monument at Dobbs Ferry acted in entire good faith and with very praiseworthy motives, upon grounds deemed sufficient at the time. 1 The inscription mi the Dobbs Ferry monument is as follows:

Washington's

Headquarters

by Great America

Britain

to the United Washington Rochambeau

States

of

Erected June 14, 1894

By the Here, July G, 1781, the French allies under New York State Society Sons of the American Revolution Rochambeau joined the American army flrstbytwoMr.Paragraphs in the made are 14, 1781, Washington planned Tll(' °.laims Here. August scription shown Van Tas the Yorktown campaign, which brought to a .. in his article referred to in the text, to be triumphant end the war fur American Inde. ,. „ ,. , . . , , ,. as incapable of historical demonstration as pendence thp thh,(1 claim is mistaken. Here. May G, 1783, Washington and Sir Guy ■ The following entry appears in WashlngCarleton arranged for the evacuation of Amer- ton's •< Accounts with the United States," writ" To Expenditures upon ten in his own hand: lean soil by the British And opposite this point, May 8, 17S3, a Brit- an Interview with Sir Guy Carleton at Orange ish sloop-of-war fired 17 guns in honor of the Town exclusive of what was paid by the ConAmerican commander-in-chief, the first salute tract," etc., £24 9s.