Arnold rode through Peekskill to Verplanck's Point on the morning of the 21st, and Colonel Livingston handed him the letter which he had just received from Andre. Arnold then crossed the river and went to Joshua Ilett Smith's house. Prom Stony Point he dispatched an officer in his own barge up the river to Peekskill Creek, and thence to Canopus Creek, with orders to bring down a row-boat from that place, and directed Major William Kierse, the quartermaster at Stony Point, to send the boat the moment it should arrive to a certain place in Haverstraw Creek. Near midnight, Smith, in the boat thus obtained, rowed by two of bis tenants, Joseph and Samuel Colquhoun, with muffled oars, proceeded on ebb tide to the " Vulture " and brought Andre on shore, where he found Arnold awaiting him in the darkness among the hr trees at a lonely unfrequented spot at the foot of the Long Clove Mountain south of Haverstraw village. He had ridden on horseback from Smith's house to the place of meeting, attended by one of Smith's negro servants. Here, in the gloom of night, and until the approaching break of day, the conspirators conferred. The negotiations not having been completed, they, in the gray of early morn, rode through Haverstraw to Smith's house, three miles distant, Andre expecting to return to the " Vulture" on the next night. Smith, his servant, and the boatmen returned by water. Andre had scarcely entered the house when booming of cannon was heard, causing him considerable uneasiness, and with reason. The Americans at Croton had not been idle. They had sent a delegation to Colonel Livingston to inform him that the "Vulture" was within cannon shot of Teller's Point, whereupon Livingston sent a party with a four-pound cannon from Verplanck's Point in the night.