Whether Paulding really exclaimed, " My God, he is a spy, ' ' or whether the question of ransom was ever seriously discussed, are matters that will probablv never be settled. What is important is that the men

In the Land of Irving- 237 who captured Andre did not conclude any bargain for ransom, but actually held their prisoner till they had turned him over to some one who had official authoritv to hold him, and that they were honoured by the Commander-in-chief of the army and by Congress as the saviours of the State. The dispatching of Andre to Washington, tmder guard, and the sad termination of the life of the active and popular young Englishman, belong to one of the most familiar narratives of American history. Among the legends that are famous wherever the English tongue is familiar, or its literature known, that of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow has been read. To attempt to retell a story so intimately associated with the fame of Washington Irving, savours of effrontery, and we can only regret that the length of the legend, as accepted, forbids its insertion here. Among the famous men whose homes were, for a longer or shorter period, at Tarrytown, Commodore Matthew Galbraith Perry, to whom the world owes the opening of Japan to Western influences, must not be forgotten. His house was to the north of the estate of Mr. William Aspinwall, now owned b>' Mr. William Rockefeller. Not far away was the cottage in which Captain Alexander Slidell Mackenzie resided, after the distressing episode on the brig Soiucrs, when he caused the son of the Secretary of the Navy to be hanged from the A-ard-arm for mutin\-. General James Watson Webb was also for vears a resident of Tarrvtown, his