Annual Report: The Director 23 Our collection of eighteenth-century newspapers was improved by additions to the files of the New York Gazette, the New York Daily Advertiser, the New York Packet, the Lansingburgh Federal Herald, and Backers Philadelphia Aurora. We also picked up a good run of the Utica Daily Gazette in the 1840s and'50s. Broadsides, though brief, often have a more dramatic sense of immediacy than books or pamphlets and, to the collector, they have the added merit of rarity. Our large collection grows healthily with such additions as the first Boston announcement of Bur- goyne's defeat at Saratoga in 1777 of which there is probably but one other copy; the ballad on the death of George Washington: Lady Washington's Lamentation, 1800; the mock obituary notice at the end of the Civil War entitled: "Died ... on Sunday April 9, 1865, ... the Southern Confederacy, aged four years"; and a splendid collection of over 200 newspaper carriers' addresses, 1846-1870. BOSTON, September^, 1777." JL*Jl E:*«tng 1 C<«tlma» atrixcJt htrt frmftniitxce, »/»**»«# Frcfli ADVICES from "the' Northern' ARMY. PROVIDENCE, September M 17 77- The following Intelligence was htft Night received here, is * Hand-Bill, from Connecticut. Norwich, Tuclday Evening, 7 o'clock. In Council at Labanon, Sept. 23. fey Mr. Brown, ibis Moment arrived from the Northern Army, we have (he following authentic Intelligence. ON Friday the 49th ittft. the American army Uy encamped four miles above Stillwater, on Behtaai't blights, the weft fide of Hudfon's river; the enemy >£tt Van Veghten's mills, feven miles north. At one o'clock, ■P. M. the advanced guard of oar army, compofed cf Mor- 1 Jgtn't corps of riflemen from Virginia, and detachments front 'the other corps, polled about one mile and an half in front of 'the army, were attacked by three regiments of Ufitifh troops,- *nd after an obftinate difputc obliged the enemy to gave way, \vith eonfrderable lots, At three o'clock, the enemy being Vein forced, "renewed the attack; our troops being at the fame Vtme fupportcd by the left wing of the army, conGfting of 'the whole of Gen. Arnold's divifion, received them warmly [ 'and 'though the enemy brought on their whole farce, agalnft not more than half ours, maintained their grouud till nighr, 'when both parries retired. The toft of the enemy In killed, wounded, and prifonerB ■ (who arc about 50) amounts to near a thoufand. Our killed arc loo, wounded 160, prifoners none. The enemy had two •pieces of artillery In the action, one ot whkk wat taken by V*,' and retaken four different times, the enemy Anally keep", j og it. A general engagement was expeflcd the next day, hut diet Vto't take place. Deferters lay that Gen. Burgoyne it woun- tied in the fmall of hit back. They likewife fay, thttt they were informed in general orders that Gen. Lincoln had arrived at Fo'rt-Kdward w»h 6000 men, by which, ill hopes of retreat being 'cut oft) it remained ibr them only to conduce . t« perilB. A detachment of coo men Were lent, the 13 th, from Gen: Lincoln's divifion, lying then at Paulct, nearSkccnfboro*. under . the ■command of Col, Brown, to attack the enemy at the landing of Lake George, 3 miles from Ticonderoga, with a view to retake our prifoners, and deftroy die enemy's floret ; Another detachment of equal number, under the command of Col. johnlton, marched the lame day for Mount Independence, to ■divert the enemy'i attention from Col. Brown ; thefe parties; l»ve orders (if they find it practicable) to attack Ticondcrogx and the Mount, and endeavour to poiTcG thcmlelvcs of them. Cot. Woodbridge, with an equal detachment marched at the feme time for Skecnfoorough, Fort-Ann, and Fort-Edward; «ll which places the enemy had evacuated, and collected their whole force at the grand army. The day after the action near Stillwater, General Gates vu Joined by 300 Oncidt Indians.'who, with the riflemen, were /ktacbedthe evening of the aoth, to give information of the ' enemy's situation, and to attack their out polls. The whole army expefted to follow then early the sift. Lieutenant-Colonels Adams and Colbourn of our troops, were kilted, and fevetal other officers of inferior rank. Tbe militia from this State were In tbe action, and it is with pl-a- fure wcire informed, that they behaved on the occtfcm with k bravery becoming freemen. Published by order of the Council, BROADSIDE: FIRST NEWS OF THE OPENING ENGAGEMENTS AT SARATOGA The Abbott-Lenox Fund