The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-04-27

He afterWard spent a considerable time in
Germany. just before he sailed tor Phil
adelphia in IVA (o observe the move
menls of the Continental Congress,) to
Join his regiment in Canada, he made a
farewell visit to Miss Seward, who pro-
posed to introduce him to two of her liter
ary friends, Cunningham, the curate, and
Newton her minstrel, as she called him.
On the night before the introduction Gun
ningham had an extraordinary dream in
two acts He saw in his vision a great for
rest, in which he was alone. Presently a
horseman approached at great speed. AS
he drew near the dreamer, three men sud-
denly sprang from some bushes, seized
the rider, and bore him away Mr.. Gun
ningham awoke, and falling asleep again.
he saw in a vision a great multitude of
people near large city, and while he was
looking at them young man, whom he
recognized as the horseman who had been
seized, was brought out and hanged upon
a gibbet. Mr.. Cunningham repeated these
dreams to his friend Newton the next
morning, and when, the same day, Miss
Seward introduced Andre, who was then
captain. he recognized in his face that
Of the unfortunate rider of his dream.
Captain Andre, as we have observed.
was made prisoner by the Americans at
st. Johns, and sent to Pennsylvania. Con-
cerning his capture, he wrote to friend l.;
II have been taken prisoner by the Amer
leans, and stripped of everything except
the picture of Honora, which l concealed
in my mouth. Preserving that, l yet think
myself fortunate" That was written more
than two years after Honora's marriage
to Mr. Edgeworth On his way down the
Hudson Valley, Andre met Colonel Henry
Knox, then on his way to select cannon at
Ticonderoga for the siege of Boston. They
were young men of about the same age.
In a cottage they spent a night together in
the same bed, and were charmed nearly
all night with each others conversation,
for Knox, as bookseller, was we'll ac-
quainted with English literature. AS a
member of the board of officers that tried
Andre at Tappan about five years after
ward, Knox had to perform the painful
duty Of pronouncing his doom.
Captain Andre was exchanged, and next
appears conspicuous at Philadelphia as a
chief actor IN planning and carrying out
the imposing entertainment given in hon
or of Sir William Howe, called "The Mis-
chianza.'' There he became an aid-de-
camp to Sir Henry Clinton, Howe's sue
cessor, and was such an active and useful
officer that he was soon made assistant
Acknowledgements! of the army, with the
rank of major. He was serving in that
capacity when CLIFTON captured Charles
ton, in May, 1880. and made General Lin
coin and his little army prisoners of war
DR. Emmet possesses an autograph letter
of Andre written at that time to Assistant
Commissary-Gener George Townsend
There seems to be good authority for
believing that Andre was in Charleston
during the siege, acting as a spy, in the
came to Lincoln's camp as driver of cat
tie. Colonel Hamilton Ballendine was
another. but who less fortunate than An
Dire was arrested and hanged.
The scene of the majors career was
now shifted to the Hudson River. He ac-
companied Clinton to New York in the
summer after the capture of Charleston
There he was active in correspondence
with the leading Tories IN lower Pennsyl-
yania and Delaware, and with General
Benedict Arnold in relation to his propos-
ed treason.
1t was during that summer when events
occurred which inspired Andre to write
one Of the best known of his poems, 1.-The
Cow Chase" In July the American army
was stationed in the upper part of Bergen
County, New Jersey, and the Pennsylvania
line was in command of General Wayne.
With its two brigades, Moylan's dragons
and some guns of Proctor's artillery, the
whole force amounting to something less
than two thousand men, Wayne started
from camp on an expedition to worry the
British and tories on Bergen Neck, break
up garrison of block house at Bulls
Ferry near Fort Lee, that protected British
wood-cutters in the ighborhood, to seize
cattle, and to disperse any armed forces
ed at the block house, chased towards
his lines, and some of the cattle and other
spoil which he had gathered were rescued
by the pursuers, while some of his strag
Cling soldiers were made prisoners An
DIRE wrote humorous satirical poem. in
three cantos. giving an exaggerated de-
scription of the affair, in the measure and
style of Chevy Chase" 1t was written
partly for the fun Of the thing, and partly
to retaiate in kind for satirical assaults
made by the other side upon Andre and
his friends. The first canto appeared on
the 10th of August, the second canto on
the 3Oth of the same month, and the third
canto on the 23d of September-the day
on which Andre was arrested. Between
the appearance of the first and second can
tos an intercepted Letter from Tabitha
in New York." appeared in print, written,
it is believed,b Miss Susannah, daughter
OF Governor William Livingston, of New
Jersey, who in time became the mother
in-law of President Harrison. In it she
made some allusion to Andre, and he, in
the third canto, after noticing Lafayette,
touched Miss Livingston gently, in this
wise:
And all the land around shall glory
To see the Frenchmen caper,
And pretty Susan tell the story
In The next Chatham paper"
Andre ended his poem with the following
lines;
''And now I've closed my epic strain
trembe as show 1t,
Lest this same warrio-drover Wayne
Should ever catch the poet"
Under the signature of Andre to copy OF
these verses some one wrote these lines
"When the 'eplc strain was sung
The poet by the neck was hung,
And, to his cost, he finds too late
The dung born tribe decides his fate"
The secret correspondence between Ar
mold and Andre began early in l779, when
the wrath of the former was kindled by
disgrace brought upon himself by his own
bad conduct. In June, 1873, he had been
appointed military governor of Philadel-
phia, where he lived in an extravagant
and ostentatious manner. He married the
beautiful young daughter of Edward Ship
pen, a leading loyalist of that city. with
whom Andre had been intimate during
the British occupation, and who figured
conspcuously as one of the ladies Of the
tournament Of The Mischianza." How
far Gf at alD she promoted the correspond
ence between her husband and Andre may
never be known. Arnold's extravagant
living soon involved HIM in debts, and to
extricate himself he became guilty of NAL
feasance in office. Official complaints were
made to the Congress of his dishonest
practices. He was tried and found guilty
by a competent court, and was sentenced