Writes from the camp at highlands of York that he obtained permission to resign and waited for money from the State of Connecticut to arrive so that he could collect his dues and pay his debts, but it is with the utmost trouble that a discharge can now be obtained without some disrepute, except in peculiar cases; he has concluded to stay in the army this campaign and at the close of it shall immediately leave it, which should not be more than 5 months; if his father thinks it advisable to leave the service his father should write him; situation of Ens. McDowell who has resigned; the enemy at Kings-Ferry; nothing new in camp but good news from the southward.