Such is the sad story, in brief outline, of the closing days of the accomplished Andi-e's life. Arnold, the traitor, was despised even by those who accepted his treason for purposes of state ; and his hand never afterwards touched the palm of an honourable Englishman. In his own country, he had ever occupied the " bad eminence " of arch traitor, until the beginning of the year 1861 ; others now bear the palm.

Upon a high and fertile promontory below Tarrytown, may be seen one of the finest and purest specimens of the Pointed Tudor style of domestic architecture in the United States, the residence of Philip R. Paulding, Esq., and called Paulding Manor. It was built in 1840. Its walls are of the Mount Pleasant or Sing Sing marble. The whole outline, ground and sky, is exceedingly picturesque, there being gables, towers, turrets, and pinnacles. There is also a great variety of windows decorated with mullions and tracery ; and at one wing is a Port Cochere, or covered entrance for carriages. It has a broad arcaded piazza, affording shade and shelter for promenading. The interior is admirably arranged for convenience and artistic effect. The drawing-room is a spacious apartment, occupying the whole of the south wing. It has a high ceiling, richly groin-arched, with fan tracery or diverging ribs, springing from and supported by columnar shafts. The ceilings of all the apartments of the first story are highly elegant in decoration. " That of the diningroom," says Mr. Downing, "is concavo-convex in shape, with diverging ribs 'and ramified tracery springing from corbels in the angles, the centre being occupied by a pendant. In the saloon the ribbed ceiling forms two