general, Sir Henry Clinton, made arrangements with the infamous traitor,
Benedict Arnold, for the surrender of West Point.

On returning from his interview with Arnold at Stony Point, André was
arrested at Tarrytown and taken across the Tappan Zee. He was tried by
court-martial and sentenced to be hanged as a spy. The sentence was
carried out in October, 1780.

The tavern was used as a prison, and the room in which André was visited
by Alexander Hamilton, and the window from which the doomed man was
supposed to have looked out on his place of execution, are still in good
preservation.

G.H. ROSENFELD.




THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.


On Monday, December 6th, the first regular session of the Fifty-fifth
Congress began.

At twelve o'clock precisely the Senate and the House of Representatives
were called to order by their respective presiding officers.

The usual form of business was then gone through.

After a prayer by the chaplain, both bodies appointed two members to