[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the consideration of the national financial system, and one of his ablest speeches was delivered in the House of Representatives January 15, 1885, on "Refunding the Bonded Debt of the United States." Fie was also influential in extending the free-delivery system, thus adding greatly to the usefulness and efficiency of the postal service; and in short it may be justly said that during the whole of his congressional career he was the worthy representative of the class to which he belongs, the eminent and successful business men of the great metropolis. The scenery at Sing Sing, indeed, from the hills and terraces of every portion of the tows of Ossining, is extremely beautiful. There is no portion of the valley of the Hudson River more picturesque than this. The broad expanse of the Tappan Zee, and of the Haverstraw Bay, divided by the long and narrow peninsula known to the world as " Teller's Point," of Revolutionary fame; the Palisades, far to the south; the triple-headed mountain, known as the "High Taurn," rising eight hundred and fifty feet above the river level, in the northwest; with tin' distant domes of the rugged Highands far to the northward, em-braces a stretch of over thirty miles, with flourishing villages and hamlets here and there, all in full view; the bosom of the noble river is whitened with the sails of a multitude of craft of every sort, from the delicately modeled private yacht, the fishing smack, the plain, old-fashioned market sloop or schooner, to