I arrived at this Post on the ev’ning of yesterday; with the Army & Stores.—I left Capt. Hale of the 2d with a command of Fifty men at Zubly’s, to cover the removal of the Corn Meal, &c., under the Direction of Col Wylley D. Q. M. General. I am sorry to observe that that Gentleman overtook the Army at Alleston’s on the march, where he inform’d me that he could not obtain the Ox teams & carts, and doubted of means to bring the Corn Meal on.—I have sent off Capt. Spencer (of the Q’r master’s Department) with orders to collect what carriages [carts] he can on his way to Zubly’s ferry and Directed him to bring off the Corn Meal if possible so far as Mr. Heyward’s plantation, from whence it may after be brought to camp. I have posted a strong Picquet at Port Royal ferry & such other Guards as our safety required & number would afford. The large Boats at Zubly’s ferry are sunk in a deep lagoon on the So Car’o. side a little higher up the River—have decided that the Boat which brought the Corn meal be sunk in like manner. The prisoners are this hour brought by an officer of Col. Garden’s, taken at Hilton head & General Bull’s Island; the officer reports that the Enemy have removed the Sick from a board the Vessells to the last mentioned place, that they[49] * * * * * * (Pendarvisses)—that on the night of the 21st five white men and four negros landed upon the main, about 3 miles above Colo Garden’s command of Militia (and) took off 5 Hogs & some cows. I have now to renew my request for your leave of absence from Camp, I could add many reasons to those before offer’d; as the necessity for the good of the Service, I hope it will suffice when I assure you it is not to withdraw myself from Duty. Your compliance will oblige Sir, Your most obedient B. BEEKMAN. HISTORICAL SOCIETIES THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.—At a stated meeting held March 7 a letter was read from Governor Higgins, acknowledging his election as an Honorary Member of the Society. The paper of the evening, entitled “Unpublished Papers of the Revolutionary War,” by Baron von Closen, Aide to Count de Rochambeau, with stereopticon illustrations, was read by Mr. Clarence Winthrop Bowen. Several views showing the progress in the erection of the new building of the Society were shown. At the April 4th meeting the Peter Marié Collection of Miniatures, 284 in number, was presented to the Society by the residuary legatees under the will of the late Peter Marié. A daguerreotype of Washington Irving was presented by Mr. Walter L. Suydam. The thirteenth of the illustrated series of papers relating to the City of New York, entitled: “Memorials of the Revolution Within Our Gates,” was read by Mr. Albert Ulmann, author of a “Landmark History of New York.”