She was the traitor's second wife, and the daughter of Mr. Shippen, a loyalist of Philadelphia ; and she was only eighteen years of age at the time of her marriage to Arnold, while he was military governor of that city, in 1778. The child abovementioned was named James Robertson Arnold. He entered the British army, and rose to the rank of Colonel of Engineers. He was at one time the aide-de-camp of her Majesty, In 1841 he was transferred from the

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Engineers' corps, and in 1846 waa a major-general and a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. J

Mr. Arden kindly took us in his carriage from Beverly to Indian Brook, a clear mountain stream that makes its way in rapids and cascades, through a -wild ravine, from the hills to the river. It falls into the deep marshy bay between Garrison's and Cold Spring. "We stopped on the way to

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view the river and mountains below "West Point, from the residence of Eugene Dutihl, Esq. His mansion is upon a point of the plain, shaded by a grove of pines, overlooking a deep dark dell, with a sparkling brook in its bosom, on one side, and the river and grand mountain scenery on the other. The view southward from his piazza is one of the most interesting and beautiful (though not the most extensive) among the

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Highlands, comprehending the site of Forts Clinton and Montgomery -- the theatre of stirring and most, important events in the war for independence. From thence we passed along the brow of the declivity next the river, to the mansion of Ardenia, from which one of the finest views of "West Point may be obtained ; and then rode to Indian Brook, passing, on the way, the ancient Philipsburg Church -- in which the officers of the Continental Army had worshipped during the Revolution -- and the grounds and mansions of wealthy residents in that vicinity.