Smith was vexed at her doubts; but his entreaties had no effect on her resolution; and disappointed at the illsuccess of his effort, he rode away. The result proved that he had no authority to make the application ; and it was subsequently ascertained that, at the very time of this attempt on his part to secure the uniform, Andre" was concealed in his house. After Andre's capture, the Lieutenant called in person for his valise, and bore a message from Washington, thanking Mrs. Beeckman for the prudence that had prevented an occurrence which might have caused a train of disasters, for Webb and Andre were of the same height and form ; and, beyond all doubt, had Smith obtained possession of the uniform, Andre would have made his escape through the American lines.""

" It was in this church that the never-to-be-forgotten Yankee pedagogue, " Ichabod Crane," in rivalry of the old dominie, led off the choir, making the welking ring with the notes of his nasal psalmody. It was, too, in the ravine, just back of the church, that this redoubtable hero, Ichabod, had his fearful midnight encounter with the headless horseman and forever disappeared from the sight of the goodly inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow.*

The following notice of the death of " Ichabod Crane " appeared in the Westchester Herald for Nov. 3o.th, 1852 : -- Jesse Merwin died at Kinderhook on the 8th instant, at the age of seventy years : Mr. Merwin was well known in this community as an upright, honorable man in whom there was no guile. He was for many years a Justice of the Peace, the duties of which he discharged with scrupulous fidelity and conscientious regard to the just claims of suitors, ever frowning upon those whose vocation it is to a foment discord and perplex right." At an early period of his life, and while engaged in school teaching, he passed much of his time in the society of Washington Irving,