THE PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST,  Philadelphia, October 5, 1776  The front page includes a letter signed by G. Washington concerning his testimony on a legal issue involving a person giving testimony to the enemy. Other items concerning this subject on the front page as well. 
In fact text on matters of Continental money and public debt take all of page 2 and most of page 3. Half a column of the back page has news items from Boston, and another half column has an "Extract of a Letter from Ticonderoga dated September 23, 1776" which includes: "Our sick decrease fast and the army is in high spirits but whether we shall have the pleasure of giving Burgoyne a rap upon his knuckles is uncertain...he heard the officers compute their army at 7000...There are none of the Canadians in the King of England's service...They universally wish we were in possession of their country again declaring their eyes are now fully opened. That Burgoyne had a few gondolas, two sloops & a floating batter building at St. John's. That he frequently heard it said they were to cross the lake to Crown Point...That the troops in general were very sickly...that fifty of the soldiers had signed an agreement to desert together..." and ends with: "A letter from General Gates at Ticonderoga to the Hon. Governor Trumbull of Connecticut mentions that our army at that place consists of 8500 men fit for duty & in high spirits."
Complete in 4 pages, 8 by 10 inches, nice condition.