the refugee if he was faithful, as soon as they effected their purpose he might go, but if he had deceived them they would kill him on the spot. They then placed the refugee in front of two soldiers, one behind the other and Oakley behind them that they might appear as one man and ordered the refugee when hailed to answer but press forward and seize the sen-try, which they did with his gun on his shoulder. The party then marched in front of the house and close to it when Oak- ley and Dyckman went on to the piazza to get a peep into the room through the window shutters (which were old). Oak-ley discovered four men sitting around a table in the middle of the room playing cards. Wishing to get a view of the situation of the men and where their arms were placed he put his fingers between the shutters and pulled them a little open; they made a creaking noise which startled the men. Oakley thinking there was no time to be lost dashed open the shutters and jumped headforemost against the window taking the sash with him and fell full length on the floor threatening at the time if they made any noise he would kill them on the spot. Before Oakley could get on his feet, Dyckman sprang in over him at the same time the soldiers burst in the door and they took 24 prisoners and one of them was a cornet in De-lancey's Horse; their surprise was so sudden, that but three or four of the enemy had time to seize their muskets. Oak-ley hurried off the prisoners and had gone three miles, when the alarm gun of the enemy was fired. They hurried on the prisoners and reached the American lines in safety.