It was done quietly, if it was not done secretly : it was done quietly, without inviting any others than those of their own faction, to assemble with them: it was done quietly and in a manner which clearly indicated that something else than an untrammeled and unbiased expression of the will of all those who were present-- carrying with it, also, the assumed acquiescence of all those who were not present -- concerning the Morrises and the questions which were propounded in the Notification, was chiefly desired, and must be procured, " by fair means or by foul :" most evidently, it was done, quietly, with an inclination and a hope that it might accomplish all the purposes of

directly opposite to the old Court-house. We remember the old houBe, very distinctly, having often seen it and, more than once, at least forty years ago, having Blept under its roof. It i B said that it was burned, about 1868 ; and that the Bite remains unoccupied.

The old Court-house, the scene of many an adventure during the later Colonial era, occupied the site of the present residence of W. P. Fiero Esq., on the West side of the stage-road to New York.

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those who had originated and promoted it, secretly and rapidly, without alarming those who were assembled at Cap'tain Hatfield's, and before they could be brought to the Courthouse, to defeat those purposes and to relegate the Morrises to that political obscurity in which, very ungraciously, they had so long and so ingloriously rested. It was, in short, nothing else than a political coup-de-main; but, unfortunately for the honor of those who participated in it, it was not as respectably successful as those who had contrived it, had desired. 1