It is about eight miles from the heart of the city, completely embowered, and presenting a pleasing picture at every point of view. ("This was the home of General Alexander Hamilton, one of the founders of the Itepublic, and is one of the few " undesecrated " dwelling-

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places of the men of the last century, to be found on York Island. Near the centre of the ground stands the house Hamilton built for his home, and which he named "The Grange," from the residence of his grandfather, in Ayrshire, Scotland. Then it was completely in the country -- now it is surrounded by the suburban residences of the great city. It is

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situated about half-way between the Hudson and Harlem Rivers, and is reached from the Kingsbridge road by a gravelled and shaded walk. Near the house is a group of thirteen trees, planted by Hamilton himself, the year before he was killed in a duel by Aaron Burr, and named, respectively, after the original thirteen States of the Union. \ All of them are straight, vigorous trees, but one, and that, tradition says,' he chanced to name South Carolina. It is crooked in trunk and branches, and materially disfigures the group. It well typifies the state of South Carolina in its past history as represented by its ruling class, which was composed, to a great extent, of professional politicians, who were arrogant, narrow, opposed to simple republican institutions, and longing for an alteration in the fundamental principles of their government so as to have political power centred in few great land and slave holders. This class was always crooked, always discontented and turbulent, and fi.nally, in the year 1860, disgraced their State and made its name a by-word for all time, by an attempt to overthrow the Eepublic, and establish upon its ruins the despotism of an irresponsible oligarchy, whose basis should be HUMAN SLAVEET !