ARNOLD,S TREASON.
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Connected with the sublime mountain scenery of the highlands, there is d tale of treason that will remain indelible as long as history shall repeat the story of the fortune of the new world. West Point still shows frownng parapet-still holds in firm em- brace the venerable ruins of Fort Putnam, which base traitor had bargained away to the enemies of his country.

 The story of Benedict Arnold is full of that species of instruction derived from tales of warning. Here, as i'll a glass, the young may sec the end ofiniamy.

 Arnold was born in Connecticut, of poor parents, and had never good early educa- tion.-He was at first a trader i'll horses, and failed in business.

 Enamored of military glory, he took com mand of company of volunteers raised in New Haven, and made many flashing and successful expeditions against the English. lie was at the capture Of fIlconderaga; tra- versed the wilds of Maine, and was present at the assault upon Quebec; was present at the bloody battle that sealed the fate of Bur goyne; and suddenly resigned his command at Philadelphia, when he found that 1t was determined to bring him before court mar tial on the charges of extortlon and prodi- gality in that city. He was sentenced to be reprimanded by Washington. was at this moment that t Is supposed he formed the design of betraying his conntry.-Ie immediately sought and obtained the best command which he could-it was that of the important post of West Point.

 Arnold took good care that his real inten- tions should not be known to the subaltern English agent but there was, at N. York, man whom lie thought he could trust This lis was Gi,arles Beverly Robinson, an 4 merican by birth, and Colonel i'll the Brit ish army, all of whose landed property lay in the United States His mansion, situa- ted on the Hudson, lay within the Ameri- can lines, three miles below West Point, on the opposite shore. The commanding ofli- cers at West Point, having found Ii deser- ted, made it their quarters. Arnold wrote to this officer that his counrymen had been ungratefuI to hirn-that a change had been produced in K1+-FoHssseassl sentiments fl that, in consequence, he wished to open 8 correspondence on the subject with Sil

 Henry Clinton.-This was well received ] ] pv the British. Washington having con