Two guides have recently been called from the North with whom Captain De Vries was sent, on the 22'' instant, with a party on an expedition in that direction. They killed eight* but as the saying is -- " Whenever we lay one enemy low. On the morrow another returns the blow." With those raw and naked soldiers who have resided for so many years in warm climates, we shall have to wade in frost and snow through rivers and creeks but shall probably survive ;

this and sneak back again into our shells from the winter. We are again in want of powder. Including that of Peter Wynkoop, it is estimated that 2500 weight was received in the cellar up to this date, five hundred pounds of which have not been used in that period, against the enemy. The country here is no longer of any or much account. Every place is going to ruin ;

neither counsel nor advice is taken ; the only talk here is of princelypower and sovereignty, about which La Montaigne argued a few days ago in the tavern, maintaining that the power of the Director here was greater, as regards his office and commission, than that of his Highness of Orange in the Netherlands. For the sake of appearances, Twelve men were called together here, in November, 1642^ pn the subject of the murder of Claes, the wheelwright; the Director submitted to them whether the blood of the aforesaid wheelwright should not be avenged? Whereupon divers debates arose on the one side and the other, as the document will show; for at this time a hankering after war had wholly seized on the Director. But the aforesaid 12 men could not continue to meet any longer than the 8"" of February following; for such was forbidden on pain of corporal punishment.