SUFFERINGS OF THE ARMY AT MORRISTOWN.-RIGOKOUS WINTER.-DERANGE
MENT OF THE CURRENCY.-CONFUSION IN THE COMMISSARIAT.—
.-IMPRESS-
MENT OF SUPPLYES.-PATRIOTIC CONDUCT OF THE PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY.
-THE BAY OF NEW YORK FROZEN OVER.-LORD STIRLING'S EXPEDITION
AGAINST STATEN ISLAND.-KNYPHAUSEN'S INCUESION INTO THE JERSEYS.
-CALDWELL'S CHURCH AT ELIZABETHTOWN BURNT-CHARACTER OF ITS
PASTOR.-FORAY INTO WESTCHESTER, COUNTY. BURNING OF YOUNG'S
HOUSE IN THE VALLEY OF THE NEPEKAN.
HE dreary encampment at Valley Forge has become proverbial for its hardships; yet they were scarcely more severe than those suffered by Washington's army during the present winter, while hutted among the heights of Morristown. The winter
set in early, and was uncommonly rigorous. The transportation of supplies was obstructed; the magazines were exhausted, and the commissaries had neither money nor credit to enable them to replenish them. For weeks at a time the army was on half allowance; sometimes without meat, sometimes without bread, sometimes with