Traitors Detected By Their Boots

We have already no'.iced tho fact that the treasou of Bcnediot Arnold was diseovered iu tbe boot of Mujnr Audre, and that t was the samo appendade thatenabled the troopers of Colonel Piitohard to detect tbe clovtn foot of the great traitor of thu present ccntury, under the petticoats of his wife; but we have nowhere seen it stated that Aaroii Burr was eaptured under almoet similar circumstances ; and that but for tbe shape and appeaianco of his boot he might have coutrived to escape the public humiliation which aided to cousign bis name to eternal infamv, and thereby to omplete the trium vírate of American apostates and iügrates, namely : Benedict Arnold, Aaron. Burr and Jefferson Davis. We cxtraut from Partou's 1 Life of Burr," page 444, as follows : " On a cold evening in February, two youug lawyers were playing baok-gam niou in a cubin of the villagtt of Wakefield, Washington Co , Alabama. Tbe hour of to'i had arrived and they were still absorbed iu the gaine, wheu the distant tramp of borses arrested their attentiou. The travelers rode up to the door, one of whom, without dismouuting, inquired for the tavern. It was pcinted out to him. He theu asked the road to Colonel Hinson's, a noted resident of the vicinity. One of the two luwyers, Perkins by uame, replied that the houóe was seven miles distaot, tbe road exceedingly difücult to find, and there waa a daugerous craek to be crossed. " While he was esphuning the road, the light of tbeir pinewood Bre flashed occasionally upon the eountenance of the traveler who had usked the questions. The eyes of ttie stranger gparkled like diamouds as he sat coinposed and erect upoQ a euperb horse, botter caparisoned titan was unual in the wilderness. His drcfrs was the rudb home-spun of the country, but the quick eye of Perkins observed that his boots wer far too ehgantly shaped, oí' materials tnuch too fine, to aocord with the coarso, ill-cut pauta loons from which they protriuio'i. The travelors rodo on. Perkins' 'suspicions were uronsed. The slnkiug leatures oi the man with whom he had convcrsed, tbo inoongruity of bis dress, his superior air, the lateness of the hour ior strangers to be abroad in a región so wild and unknown, all confirmad tbe impressim which had been left in his niind. liushing into the cabin he exelaimed : ' ' This is Aüron Burr ! I bav read a doscription of him in the proclama'ion. I cannot be mistaken. IjGt us follow him to Hineoti's aud tako moasures for his arrest.' " His compnnioD, oot so easily moved, ridiculod the project of puisuiug a travelor at so late an hour, tuerely on a conjfictiire, and, in short, rofased to go. But Perkins, not detened from his purpose, ha.stened to a nciahboiÍDg cabin, ronsed the shoriff of the coutity, and told him his story. In a few minutes the two men were erjuipped, and off at a rapid paoo throi!L;h the pine vvood." Aud upon the inforcnation given, Burr and hia oomf'atiiüiis were tubsequently arrested. Archhishop Leighton faid he lovcd a lifo divided between ascendin np 'co heaven to procure lilessiiifta, and descendiug to diffuse theuj upon earih. Avoid argumcut wiiii a porson if hr direotly opposes you ; if he luis a miutl of his own, he csn not be convinocd, and if he hÜ9 iti raind he is a poor (ASnvèri ; it is not onlr n lofs of tira, but öftW uífricL!:;r '