Rut on leaving Smith's house for his hazardous journey he carefully disguised himself, took off his uniform, and put on an under-coat belonging to Smith and a dark oreat-coat with ik a wide cape and buttoned close to the neck." The sufficiency of his disguise was soon to be put to a startling test. Scarce had he left the post at Verplanck's Point when he came face to face with Colonel Webb of our army, whom he knew perfectly. His heart gave a great leap. But Webb did not recognize him in the darkness, and passed on. The incidents of Andre's itinerary from Verplanck's Point to the place of his capture are sufficiently told in Mr. Couch's narrative. The spot where he was halted by Paulding was just beyond a little stream which still bears the name of Andre's Brook. There has recently been published (1809) by Mr. William Abbatt, of Westchester, under the auspices of the Empire State Society Sons of the American Revolution, a work of eminent literary and artistic excellence, entitled "The Crisis of the Revolution; being the Story of Arnold and Andre, Now for the First Time Collected from All with Views of All Places Identified with It." Illustrated Sources, This is theandfinal authority upon all the details of the capture of Andre. The number of the original party is often erroneously stated as seven. Mr. Abbatt shows that it consisted of eight, whose names are accurately given by Mr. Couch. Mr. Abbatt says that "the party was actually under the direction of one of their number, who was a veteran," and that " he alone of the party was not a private " -- Sergeant John Dean. The part of Dean in the affair is overlooked, or only very inadequately referred to, in most accounts of tin1 capture of Andre.