[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] that party was in existence, and afterwards for some time advocated the principles of the American, or Know-Nothing party, as it was nicknamed. The de-cease of this party caused the Register to join the Democratic ranks, where it has remained continu-ously ever since. It is an eight-page paper, and is published every Saturday. The Ancient axi> Honorable Order of Free and Accepted M Asoxs established their first lodge in Sing Sing, about the year 1812. This lodge had a very brief existence. Its meetings were held in a hall in the upper part of the old Union Hotel, the dilapi-dated building which still stands on the corner of Highland Avenue and Church Street, once the old Stage Line Hotel, that numbered among its distin-guished guests Napoleon III., late Emperor of Prance. A lodge, known as the '/.arndotha Lodge of Masons, was instituted in 1840, with " Dolph " Beckman as Worshipful Master. Its meetings were held in the old Franklin Academy, at that time also occupied by