the General Orders of the day, the Commander-inchief ordered Colonel Bailey's Regiment to join General Clinton's Brigade, and Colonel Lippet's Regiment to join General McDougal's Brigade -- each of them "to take their tents and cooking utensils, "and to lose no time;" -- the two Connecticut Regiments, commanded, respectively, by Colonel Storrs and Major Graves, were ordered " to be in readiness " to march into Westchester, at a moment's warning;" and Generals Putnam and Spencer, the former commanding Heard's, Beall's, and Weedon's Brigades, and the latter commanding Lord Stirling's, Wadsworth's, and Fellows's Brigades, were ordered to remain on Harlem Heights and to continue the works of entrenchment thereon. General Putnam on all those proposed defensive works which were above Head-quarters, including those of Fort Wiishington :^ those below Head-quarters, immediately in front of the enemy's works, which were occupied by Lieutenant-general the Earl of Percy and three Brigades, having been assigned to General Spencer.^

As General Heath was continued in the command of all the troops within Westchester-county, until further orders, notwithstanding the assignment of General Lee to the same command, the former instructed General Nixon, who had been ordered from New Jersey, with his Brigade, to " have the troops "which have mnrched, this day, to the eastward of " the Bridge, by Williams's," ' [ Williams' s-bridge,] "comple.ely ready to turn out, in case the enemy "should make an attack, that night;" instructing him, at the same time, "should the attack be made

unscnipulous critic of everything and everybody, unless of himself and of those who were pandering to his unholy ambition and applauding even his scurrility. He wieJded a very glib, but a very poisonous, tongue, and a sharp and venomous |>en, both of which were ready for immediate use, whenever his paiixions or his interests reipiired their co operation.