While the military authorities were thus engaged in preparing to meet the enemy, in arms, whenever the latter should endeavor to move from the Neck on which he was then quietly encamped, the Convention of New York, by its Committee of Safety, as we have already stated in our review of the proceedings of that Convention,^ as soon as information could have possibly reached it, that the enemy had moved towards Westchester-county, provided for the immediate disposition of all the- Cattle, Horses, Hogs, Sheep, Grain, Straw, and Hay, on the well-cultivated farms throughout that County, in order that the enemy should not secure them for his Commissariat ; and the careful reader may gather from that decided action of the Committee of Safety, how completely desolated all that flourishing County must have become, before that enemy secured a foothold on the main-land -- indeed, before that foothold had been secured, all that portion of the County which was below Tarrytown, the White Plains, and Rye had, probably, been generally stripped of the various agricultural productions of that season, excepting only the Potatoes, the Buckwheat, and the Corn ; and, of the Live-stock, of every description, it is scarcely probable that any remained, within that portion of the County.

In connection with this notice of the removal of the Live-stock and Crops, we may properly mention that, very largely, the inhabitants of those portions of the County which were likely to be exposed to the depredations of either of the two Armies -- and one of these Armies was quite as bad as the other, in the work of plunder and devastation and outrage -- removed from their several rural homes, with as many of their effects as they could take with them, to places of supposed greater safety and it is scarcely proba-