[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ish and Tories had driven off the whole stock belonging to the widowed mothers of these boys; for if fame speaks true, neither of the three were of age; and according to the usages of war, they were justified in a re-capture. It is evident they were not thieves for gain; 'else would they have taken the price which Andre offered for his ransom, which was more than would have sufficed to purchase the whole stock of cows, sheep, and oxen which belonged to Job, when he was in the land of L"z. " In my humble opinion, Mr. Editor, (in which, as a native of Knick-erbocker, I am sure you will join,) every New Yorker should be proud that he was horn in the State which produced three such men; and the fact of their being boys, and poor boys, adds very much to the glory of the act. Had this been done by a Van Cortlandt, a Philips, a Van liens-BeUer, or any three of the 'Lords of the Manor,' on the Hudson river, the act would have been engraven on the rocks with the point of a diamond. But it was done by three cow-herd-boys: and there is not a stone to mark the spot where this important event took place.1 " In 1821, when the remains of.Major Andre were placed on board the British sloop-of war which had been sent to convey them to England, and while she lay in the North Uiver awaiting a wind, I had an ardent desire to handle the skull that had once contained such mighty pro-jects. " I obtained an order from the British Consul, and repaired on board,