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Sljc Wcckln (f oiistitutioiuilist. BY JAMES GARDNER. A NEW WEAPON. Tne Marion (N. C.,) A’.rj’wss says that Dr. J. G. Patterson, of that place has invented a pis tol which may be regarded as the ne plus ultra of revolvers. The editor says: It is a twenty-four shooter, constructed upon SO neat a plan, that we can carry it in our vest pocket, with little inconvenience. It has two liars of tribes with twelve tubes in each tier, and so arranged that ail the chambers can be fired | without halting, except to depress the barrel, which is done in an instant, preparatory to the discharge of the second circle ot chambers. The Doctor has determined to put up a rifle on the same plan, which in the absence ot can non, could never be conquered. Each soldier might catrv two er three loaded cylinders in his pocket, and when one round of 24 shots was fired, be could attach another cylinder in a mo ment, and continue his tiring. J The Atlanta Confederacy of this morn ing contains the following private dispatch to E. M. Bruce <fc Ca.: Memphis, April 9.—Billy Bell was badly wounded. Island 10 is surrendered. The right has ceased at Corinth. 1 leave for that place in the morning. A. J. Armstrong. A Terrible Rain.—Night before last we bad a ram storm in this vicinity which may be well called terrible. Incessant thunder and lightning pealed and flashed during the whole night, and the rain poured down literally in torrents, for at ie&st eight or ten hours. The wash in the streets and roads has been great, and travel has been in terrupted on all the railways, except the Macon and Western. The Southwestern and Muscogee « trains were stopped by washes a few miles out of town, a dup to ten in the morning no Central train had arrived. We doubt if such a ram has fallen within the last fifty years. if aeon Telegraph VLfh,. Corinth.—A gentleman just from Chattanoga. who was able to obtain some items of interest from the battle of Monday, informs us that Buell’s armv numbered some 65,000 men, and ours 35,- 000, u at we took between 6,000 and 7,000 pris oners and all the batteries of the enemy on Sun day ; that the fight on Monday was furious and desperate tor a time : that the right wing of our armv forced a whole brigade into the Tennessee River, a la Lees/urg, but our left wing was over powered with overwhelming numbers, and had to fall back, when our whole army was ordered to retreat, without being pursued. In this retreat we lost some four pieces ot artillery, and all the commissary stores we had captured. Atlanta Confederacy llfi. THE GARRISON OF PULASKI. In connection with the painful news of the fall, of Fort Pulaski, the following list of the officers and companies composing the garrison, will be interesting. We copy from the Repub lican, of the 1 Ith : The Fort is commanded by Chas. H. Olmstead, of this citv, Colonel of the First Volunteer Regi ment of Savannah, now in the Contederate service. He is ouite ayoung man. biting about 26 years of age, vet a proficient in judgment and well skilled in military science. He graduated with the first distinction at the Military Academy at Marietta, and has since devoted much attention to arms, i His sagacity, courage, and coolness are undoubt ed. he will never surrender so long as he has a gun on it*.carriage and the ammunition to tire. ~ The second officer in rank is Mai. John Foley, lor manv tears Captain ot the Irish Jasper Greens, one of the favorite companies of our city, and au officer of much experience and undoubted gallant- . IV. ' The third in grade is Capt. John H. Stegin, of ■ the Geeman Volunteers, also an old and skilful I commander. j AH three of these officers have been in the Fort I almost from the date of its occupation in January | 1861, and their commands have much experience ! in gunnery. The companies which compose the garrison are j as follows: _ , _ _ . 1 German Volunteers, Capt. John H. btegin. Oglethorpe Light Infantry, Co. 8., Capt. F. W. Sims. Washington Volunteers, Captain John McMas ben. , „ ■ T t Montgomery Guards. Captain Lawrence J. Guilmartin. Wise Guards, 25th Ga. Regt., Captain McMullin. BREAD -EXTORTION. Flour is now selling in this market at eight dollars per hundred pounds, and meal at one dol lar and a quarter per bushel. We were informed last fall that there’ was plenty of grain made in ■Georgia for home consumption. We have been told that there is an abuodance of wheat in this county, and that there is no cause for the high prices 'or bread stuffs, except the spirit of extor tion, which se-ms to have taken as much hold upon ‘’the honest farmer” as upon the merchant.* . and s ecoiar-irs. whom they (the farmers and the people; have beencursing and denouncing so long. It it is wrong tor merchants and grocery men to demand extiorbuant prices to- w bat they have to sell, is it not equally wrong for farmers to ex tort upon starving humanity in all they have to sell? We would like to enquire how many ot the farmers in Troup are holding back their breadstuff* in order to secure higher prices ? How many ot them have discovered, since prices have run up, that they “ have a few bushels of wheat or corn to sell?” If merchant’s and deal* | ers groceries are to be held up to indignation and contempt for demanding high prices, are not the far mers equally guilty of the same spirit ? These are patent questions, and worthy ot constd eration by everybody. Tbe truth is, speculation and exto r tion are abroad m the land fighting the people of this gov ernment with a two-edged sword. If we tail in this struggle, our fate will have been brought about tbe riAyfccis of the country, who go prow ling about, “ seeking whom thev may devonr.” [Lagrange Reporter. Hand Grenades.—The Richmond Dispatch savs: , _ In tbe great deficiency of arms iu the southern States, it has been suggested that a company of each regiment, composed of the most powerful men, might bearmed not only with pikes, resem bling ship’s boarding pikes, but hand grenades, after the fashion of the first grenadiers. Each man could carrv some half dozen of these formida ble shells, and hurled by strong arms into an ad vancing body ot horsemen, they would scatter to tbe four winds any bodj of cavalry that ever took tbe field. It will be remembered that the famous grenadiers ot the great Frederick first used the band grenade, tbe term grenadiers being derived from their employment of that misile. The eug* gestion strikes us as a valuable one, and we hope it will not be overlooked. The war tax on quota money of Virginia to the Confederate States, was paid over to Mr, Mem* minger on the Ist of April. Allowance was made for that portion of the State now overrun by the enemy, and no taxes required, on its account. This discri minatic n was made in anticipation of the action of Congress in the passage of a law exempting invaded districts of the several States from taxation. CAPTAIN MORGAN, THE GALLANT SCOUT. The Atlanta Confederacy gives the following account of one of the late exploits of this gallant partizan : After having taken 98 prisoners near Nashville with his 25 men, Captain Morgan started them back in three different detachments. While, subsequently, returning alone with the intention ot overtaking them, as lie was crossing the pike, be observed some distance in advance a Federal officer. Accosting a countryman who was ap proachirfg him from that direction, Captain Mor gan ascertained that the I ankee was a Lieuten ant Burnes, with a picket of five men, who, at the time, were in a house at the side of the road. Instantly forming bis purp- se, Captain Morgan loosened his revolvers, buttoned his Federal over ■ coat so as to conceal his own uniform, and gal loped up to the picket. ‘‘How are matters, Lieut, Burns?” said Captain Morgan, addressing the Yankee officer. “All right, Colonel,” responded Burns. “Where are your men?” asked Morgan. “In the house there,” replied Burns. “Nice way of attending t« your duty, sir. Con sider yourself under arrest, and hand me your sword and pistol,” said Capt. Morgan. His order was promptly obeyed, and Capt. Mor gan then directed Burns to call out his men singly. Alter requiring them to hand to him their sabres and guns, he ordered them to march. “We are going the wrong direction, Colonel,” said Burns, after they bud started. “No, it’s all right. I am Captain Morgan!” said the brave partisan to his now thoroughly frighten d captives. At this juncture Capt. Morgan was joined by one of Lis men, Mr. Spaulding, who had with him four of the prisoners taken earlier in the day. After marching all night they safely reached their command with the ten prisoners. All this but goes to show what can be accom compitshtd by a daring, courageous, yet prudent aud discreet man. We should have a Morgan with his band, to cut off and destroy supplies, burn bridges, tear up roads, and harrass, annov and cripple the vile Hessian invaders, on every toile of road between the Confederate lines and the Gino river. LAST MOMENTS OF GEN- JOHNSTON. The Atlanta Confederacy publishes the follow ing, which purports to be from one who was well posted as to the incident alluded to : The death wound ot Gen. Johnston was in flicted on the calf of bis rigot leg, aud was con sidered by him as only a flesh wound. Soon after receiving it,he gave an order’toGov. Harris, who was acting as a volunteer aid to him, who, on his return to Gen. Johnston, in a different part ot the field, found, him exhausted from loss of blood, and reeling in his saddle. Riding up to him, Gov. Harris askei: “Are you hurt?” to which the now dying hero answered : “Yes, and I fear mortally,”’and then, stretching out both arms towards his companion, fell from his horse, and soon after expired. No other wounds were discovered upon his person. The New York Herald says that the late “Union victories” have produced an almost magical effect upon every phase of society and life in that city. The opera has been revived; society has again to its gay whirl; and Broaaway “blooms' like UpChterr'e <ST choice fruits and flowers. ;x, ~The news rrom Corinth, however, will mar this pleas ant picture, and put rather sudden end to this carnival, which the Herald so joyously describes. The commissioners appointed to examine the western department, under General Fremont’s ad ministration, have made a report, exposing gross frauds and wide spread demoralization among the official circles and their dependents in that department. •ivGen. Johnston was in his 50th year ; leaves be hind him two sons, one of whom is a Lieutenan t Colonel in a Confederate Kentucky Regiment. He was related by marriage to the Prestons of Virginia. The United States Senate has passed the i House resolution—ayes 32, navs 10 suggested by : President, declaring’ that the United Slates'Ought ►to co-operate, by giving pecuniary aid, with any Siate which may adopt the gradual abolition of slavery. It is certain, says the Richmond ■Eratjtinez’, that McClellan is at the head of the Northern troops in the Peninsula. It is also certain that instead of attacking Magruder’s lines he is fortifying his own 1 To be Shot. —It is annotideed, in the Louis ville Democrat, that Col. Ebenezor Magoffin, of Kentucky, has been sentenced at Louis, to be shot for an allege violation o his parole. He is confined at Alton. He was tried on another count —the Murder of a U. S. soldier, but was acquit ted of that charge. Theweakneed Governor *>f Kentucky will feel a consolation in knowing that bis Federal allies are exceedingly gracious to wards some of his family, altho’ugh they have little respect for him. The bells of the Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal and Cumberland Presbyterian and Baptist Churcbesin Huntsville have been taken down and directed to the Contederate founder-, ies to Se cast into cannon. They have hereto fore been used to ring up sinners to the house of worship, and in future are to be used to ring the knell of tbe invader of our country. J. W. Mann, aged 62 years, a resident ! of Muscogee county, but now a private in the ! Columbus Rebels, Capt. G. W. Atkinson, has ! eight sons in the Confederate army. Morgan Rivaled.—On Sunday last, one man, armed with Sharp’s rifle, two repeaters, and sa bre, arrived in Fayetteville, Tennessee took breakfast, stated that he belonged to the 44th Ohio, that plenty more were at the toll gate, let his rifle be examined, he removing the cap. He then enquired for three bacon wagons belonging to a Mr. Tally, rode off’, overtook tbem this side of Wells’ bill, 24 miles from Huntsville, burnt the wagons and bacon, visited a church asking for our soldiers, and then took a circuit through the country and returned into the enemy’s lines! He appeared to know all the by-roads in that re gion. A bolder feat has not been performed by tbe foe.— Huntsville Advocate. The Richmond Enquirer learns that Prince Po* lignac, who has been for some time on Gen. Beauregard’s staff, has, under the act of Congress, taken the oath of allegiance to the Confederate States, and become a citizen of Virginia. * Vandalism in Florida.—The Floridian says: “We hear it from what we deem reliable authorie ty, that an extensive ‘grab game’ has been played in some parts of the East. Thousands of the rifles have found their way into the hands of private individuals, who seemed to have helped themselves without let or hindrance. Os the 12,000 brought by the Carolina on her last trip, it is supposed that less than three thousand re main !” It is to be hoped that the Government will hold those who had them in charge to a strict accountability. AUGUSTA- GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL IG, 18G2. IJThe Charleston CVuwr, of the 11th, says that Colonel J. Johnston Pettigrew, who declined the appointment as a Brigadier General, has been in duced by the advice of friends and indications of duty and public service, to accept the appoint* ment. NEGRO HUNG. We are informed by Mr. Medlock, of the Central Georgian, that the npgro boy Irve— belonging to the estate of Richard Worthen, of Washington County—who killed Mr. Railey, his overseer, was hung by the people of tbe neighborhood on Monday. A jury of twelve men was selected, and the negro was executed in accordance with their verdict. FEDERAL CAVALRY AT HUNTSVILLE- The following private dispatch appears in th e Atlanta Confederacy of this morning; Stevenson, Ala., April 11. Suraeor Johnson-, The Federal cavalry reached Hnntsvi.le this morning—will telegraph you again. 6 C. Dupree. We have reason to bell ve that the above dis* patch is reliable, and we fear that tbe next intel* ligence we receive from that quarter will be that Railroad communication is cut oft. FROM CORINTH. We are without any papers from Memphis since Sunday, and can therefore give no par ticulars of the battle near Corinth beyond those sent us by telegraph. The Atlanta Intel ligencer has seen a gentleman who ’.eft Corinth on Wednesday night last. The information he imparts differs but little from our telegraphic reports. He says that the prisoners taken at the battle of Sunday and Monday, with the ex. ception of some 800, who were at Corinth when he left, have been sent to Memphis—that in tho latter place, when he left it, the wharves were crowded with people, waiting the arrival of Van Dorn’s and Price’s retaiorcementsfor Beau regard—that large reinforcements had already passed on the line of the Tennessee Railroads to Beauregard, estimated at 12,000. Tuesday and Wednesday were devoted by both armies to .the burial of the dead. Some little skirmishing only had taken place. Buell fought his fresh troops on Monday, some -10,000 strong. Tbe report at Corinth was that ho was killed. Our informant says that much which he has heard reported is unreliable. His opin ion is there will be no fight for some days. YANKEE ACCOUNTS FROM CHARLESTON. The special, corresw t -.if the New York Tribune, writing from Tort March 26th, gives a long account of the cond.tion of affairs in aud around Charleston. He professes to have ob tained these details, which the Mercury says em body truth and glaring falsehood strangely ins terwoven, from a party of five escaped contra bands. We give his statement in full: The English iron steamer Commerce, nineteen days from Liverpool, arrived at Charleston, March 10th, having run in by Rattlesnake Shoal, and so through Maffit’s channel to the harbor. It is to be remembered that this is the point at or near which the second stone fleet was sunk, in order to prevent vessels from availing themselves of tbe passage, between tbe shoal aud Long Island, where it was hazardous for blockading vesseles to lie, both on account of the shoal and the batteries on shore. The Commerce brought a cargo of woolens, shoes, arms, and ammunition, and is now loading in Charleston with cotton, and eXs pecting to run the blockade and return to Eng land. The Catawba arrived three weeks since, and is now loading with cotton, hoping to do the same thing. The ship Mackinaw is in port, loading with cotton, and’bound for an English port. One brigand two or three schooners, destination uno known, are taking in the same cargo. On the 23d : mst. tbe steamer Carolina ran in about 11 ©’clock jat night from Nassau, with an assorted cargo.— ; The pilot boat Chase arrived on the same day from the same place, loaded with salt. The Cecil and the Ella Warley are daily expected, also from Nassau —the Ella being the old Isabel, and having run in and out within two months, escaping the squadron when she last entered hy the help of a fog, but getting a shot in her stern from the Mo hican. It need not be supposed, however, that the blockade of Charleston is entirely ineffective.— Th# number of vessels that have succeeded in gettiug in is an evidence of the great difficulties m the” way of making it peifect. Tbe Florida, James Adger, Sumpter, Flambeau ana Onward are tbe present blockading squadron—the Flambeau being here only lor needed repairs, and to return iu a day or two. No vessel or any draught enter tbe main ship channel, where the first stone fleet was successfully sunk, and is still an effectual barricade. But tbe skill and ingenuity of the Charleston pilots are very great. Whenever a vessel is running out, small boats precede her with lights along Maffit’s channel; while for her vessels from the outside signals are arranged, or they have pilots on board woose knowledge aid ed by darkness and fog, enables them to baffle the vigilence of the blockading squadron. Nor i s any blockade often, perhaps never, so effect© that no vessel eludes it. Two lines of entrenchments entirely surro the city of Charleston. The nearest at a dis xance of two miles and a half, tbe outer five mile s from the citv. Extensive fortifications hav t been erectedon Ashley river, three miles dis‘ and strong works also on Ceoper river, miles from Mount Pleasant. James Island, considered to command an important approach t A the city, is Strongly fortified and numerously gs j-risoned. It has long been known that the river ir-in Stono to Charleston is obstructed by pilf Every effort has been, and continues to be m 4 de to strengthen the defences on ail sides and iu we harbor. The famous floating battery, built aud used for the at* tack on Fort Sumter, now !\es moored near Fort Johnston, which is only an open earthwork for its support and protection. There are but two armed steamers m Charles ton harbor—tbe Lady D avis and a tug. Th© for® mer came down to Port, Royal at the time of the bombardment, and, bying obliged to return by tbe inside passage, was lightened by tbe removal of all her passengers, stores, coal, and, finally, even the machinery, in order to get her over a shoal in one of the inlets. Strenuous efforts are making to build an iron.elad gunboat, and every means is resorted to in order to raise money.— Concerts and theatricals are trade to contribute, and exhibitions of negro minstrelsy, in which the'.performers have no need of charcoal to appear in character, has been given for the same object. Even slaves are solicited, for offerings. The ves sel was commenced, one of the negroes thinks, three or four days since, and is expected to be ready within a month. When the iron steamer Commerce arrived, as above stated, on the 10th, it was proposed to purchase and' plate ber, but she was found to be too light. An offer was then made tor her boilers and machinery, which her agents refused. In some Charleston papers, found at Jacksonville, Florida, I suw numerous appeals to patriotic citizens to contribute to wards the building of gunboats, though nothing was there said about iron plating —a change of plan, no doubt, due to tbe Monitor-Mernmac tight. Concerning this latter, the Charleston pa* per* admitted that twelve men were killed on board the Merrimac, that her smoke stack was shot away, and that she went into Norktolk in a sinking condition. The first report stated that Commander Buchanan was wounded ; the second announced his death. Provisions of nearly every kind are extremels scarce and high. Common coarse salt, worth 2y or 30 cents in New York, was sold at sls a sack! tea $4 50 a pound, bacon almost impossible to be had at ariy price. The mistress of one of these slaves bad paid $lO the day before for a small ham. The commonest brogans. ordinarily worth 75 cents a pair, sold for $4 and ss, while for boots the price was S2O. Two regiments from North Caroliua were sent home a tew days since. They were so pressed by hunger that they broke into the bakeries and seized their contents, offering North Carolina money iu payment, and when that was refused as worthless they carried off the bread defiantly. Many of the country troops had died from the use ot army biscuit, and the Commissary Depart* ment was obliged to issue corn for tbe soldiers’ rations. Cotton thread is 25 cents a spool; needles a hundred times the usual price; matches one cent each. Very little business is done in the city. Stores are mostly closed, the stocks of goods being exhausted without means of rene-val. Families are constantly leaving the city for the interior, and others preparing to move at. the moment’of assault. It is universally asserted and believed that the place is to be attacked by a Concerted movement on all sides on* the 15th of April, with overwhelming land and naval forces. The necessity of surrender, and the policy of giving up the place without fighting, s nee it must eventually fall, are openly discussed in trie city; and it is not long since a party of officers came to blows on the question in a public conversation. Troops have lately been sent from Charleston to Georgetown, South Carolina, in expectation of an attack. On the line or road from Charleston to Savannah are about 3),000 troops. In thereat of the city are very few cannon, and only two have been mounted. The Emily St. Pierre, a ship of a thousand tons, from Calcutta, with 2000 bales of gunny bugging on board, was captured by tbe James Atlger, trying to get into Charleston, about ten days since. Her register was British, and her crew the same. She cleared from Calcutta for a port in New Brunswick—the Captain alleging tnat he had orders to stop at Charleston ana go nif the port was not blockaded. When taken, she*was standing straight in for ihe bar, with mainsail set and spanker furled, hidden from the blockading vessels by a thick fog until she was within three miles and a half—a tolerably clear case of attempting to run the blockade. A prize crew was put on board, and she was sent to Philadelphia, with her own officers aud crew as prisoners. She had no colors aboard when taken, but the officers boarding learned from tbe crew that she had the rebel flag flying (fifteen days before leaving Calcutta, and that when chased threw them overboard, tied to the lead. Information .was also obtained that, when the Emily left, three other vessels were at Calcutta loading for Charleston—one of them a ship of 2000 tons. For an account of the passage of the Flora through the blockading squadron, and her extia traordinarv escape, 1 am also indebted to Captain Upshire. This Vessel was despatched from New York, in the revenue service for the use of Colo« nel Reynolds in collecting cotton at Port Royal. Bv an error of her compass she got far in shore ofl Charleston within the lines of the blocka ding squadron. Th? Augusta brst perceived her, firea three musket shots, and hoisted tne lights for her to come within ho.il. A 8 the signal was disregarded, and the Flora was stan'. <ID S' straight in for tho habor, it was of cour.-e sup posed she was a rebel steamer endeavoring to run the blockade. ThejAugusta firedthree 32 pounders at her without effect. Short.y after siie altered her course, and steered directly for the Flam bau, w’hose attention had of course been raised by the shots and signals of the Augusta. As the Flora earned the white, green an \ re( ] lights forward, and on her starboard.„ ort beam, it was at once seen on board the flambeau that she was making directly for ‘ >Qat ghlp and she was, therefore, supposed to au arined ves _ se>, and intending to run dow Flambeau. All hands were at quarters, guns run out, and as the Flora approached captain of the port quarter gtin, a heavy rifle'J cannon, and the only one bearing on ;ne Flora, was ordered to fire. By a singular accident the ’ /rimers usually carried in the belt had been misla and the gun could not be fired without them, jjo primer could be found, and the Flora was within thirty yards. If tbe gun had been disclu ,rged the shot would Aave gone through and through her weak huiq ma chinery and all. a r /d the vessel very likely might have gone to the bottom with all on board. She is a very light u jd small North river steamboat. When hailed b y Captain Upson, tlie mistake was at once discov gfed, but her commander, Lieuten ant Coffin. 1 , a d no better excuse to offer lor his blunder, wb had come so near a frightful dis aster, than tsjs own confusion and want«of pres ence of m : 2ll d. ' Jorresporitience of the Charleston Mercury. Richmond, Friday, April 4. A traveler (ex-Senator Gwinn) just from Wash ,nf/-foa, via the Underground Railroad, gives s ‘ /me interesting news. He says McClellan has ' army of 130,000 men, fine looking, well drilled and equipped, and 400 pieces of artillery. But 1 both the young Napolean and his men have been disconcerted and almost demoralized by John ston's evacuation, of Manassas. McClellan knew of the evacuation, but after it had taken place the force of public opinion compelled him to .dvame. The consequence was, that his men got to Manas sas ahead of the provision trains, and, owing to the State of the roads, it was impossible to feed them. They became mutinous, and finally Mc- Clellan was forced to tell each man to take care of himself and make his way back to the Pctomac as best he could. A stampede equal almost to that of Bull Run ensued. The people in Wash ington thought the army had been whipped again. McClellan at once fell in the public estimation and lost ground with bis men. Thus the high blown reputation of Napoleon No. II collapsed, and the morale of a splendid army, eager for fight and confident of victory, was seriously ini., paired. •'Our traveller thinks the grand “on to Rich mond” byway of Manassas, has been abandoned, and that the attack in tremendous force will take place on the Peninsula, combined with a naval attack on the James and York rivers. The Yan kees aer determined to have Richmond at any cost. Nobody at Washington seems to enter tain the doubt of speedy subjugation of the South. The expenses of tbe Lincoln concern amount now to four million a day,but the Treasury notes sell at par. At signal victory will bring them down “by the run,” as sailors say. Old Scottis in New York city, neglected by the Yankees themselves. This is a resume of the traveler’s news; no doubt he im parted still more valuable information te the au thorities. Hence, probably, tbe protracted con sultation between the President and Gens. Lee, Loring and Johnston. The uncertain man is a wave of tbe sea, ror ever tossed to and fro. VOL. 4,—No 16 A LETTER FROM THE NORTH. The Petersburg Express publishes the following interesting extract from a letter written by a Southern sympathiser at the North : The terrible storm wjjich has prevailed at the North in the last twelve months seems to have swept away every vestige of reason and religion from the great mas* of the people. Past favors and obligations of the most sacred kind due to Southerners residing in the North were in a mo ment forgotten by these crazy hyenas. Men who had grown rich through Southern patronage, aid ed in the acquisition of this patronage by Souths era young men residing at the North, at once be* came our fierce and relentless foes. Some of the most disgraceful exhibitions of such ingratitude came immediately under my own observation. Many of those who had been the loudest declaim ers of Southern rights, in an instant and became our most implacable foes. We have still, however, in tbe North, quite a number of warm friends, though I regret to say there are few, very few, among the business men; indeed the bar of Philadelphia is much more largely rep resented by Southern sympathisers than the mer cantile community. I only know six wholesale merchants in Philadelphia, of Northern birth, . who feel an interest in the Southern cause; and I am acquainted with double that number of laws yers who boldly avow their sympathy tor the South. lam well acquainted with a retired mer chant in Philadelphia who numbers his wealth by millions, the most of which was realized by business transactions with the South; and he is now one of the most liberal contributors to the Northern Government in a pecuniary way, to cur ry on this unholy war. ’Of the six merchants above alluded to, who sympathise with us, only two ever did a Southern business. The reason why those who have grown rich by Southern trade against us is, that thev are accustomed to test all matters by “gain. They knew well that tbe separation of the North and South was the death knell of Northern prosa perity, and when hostilities were first inaugura ted they foolishly imagined that a ninety days campaign would settle it all. Why, 1 saw a band of men (?) in Philadelphia, many of whom were fresh from prison, under the lead ot an. Alderman from the low part of the city, lhey talked as confidently of tbeir march through Virginia to New Orleans, as if they were going on a pic me up tbe Delaware, and many sensible people in Philadelphia had every confidence in their abil ity to perform their threat. 'But the war has gone on from month to month every day Seward promising that in thirty days all would be over and the South would be crushed. Now they have debt, the terrific pro portions of which is kept concealed from the people ; it is, however, every dime of fifteen hun dred millions of dollars. To pay the debt, per mit me to give rou their programme : Subdue and disarm the South, not permitting, you to keep a fowling piece, no not even a pocket pistol; garrison at your expense each large town, with brutal soldiery, take your cotton, tobacco and grain to pay their debts; in many instances con fiscate real estate property, upon which they will settles Yankees to aid in your oppression. That they believe themselves competent, to the perfor mance of this task, lam not able to say. Cer tainly many do. Whether tbe inventor of the new saddle'entertains such views, 1 know not. I mean McClellan. Like all new brooms, he made a clean swtep at Washington. When he first took command everything must be changed. The noble bearing and brilliant charges of Southern .cavalry at Bull Run induced him to increase that arm of the service until he bad horses enough to carry nearly all hia infantry, but then came the rub. His men could not ride, so he caused to made several thousand saddles, alter a new '.jtan of bis own. The idea was to fix the ride”- secure ly upon the horse, by elevating thq po mme i anc j and the hinder part of the s^ d( }le—forget its name—s line 12 or 14 inche gt Y’ou know few northern men understand .horseback riding. This plan was to keep the rider secure. The first rew iew o f 6,500 men caused some cases of severe hernia. THE YANKEES AND THE NASHVILLE PEO PLE. A correspondent of the N. Y. after rela ting minutely tne recent exploit of -"P r #aP at Gallatin adds: Iu this new exploit’there is left no room to doubt that the rebel Captain has been materially aided by rebel sympathizers in this city as well as in Gallatin. There is no doubt of the prevs aience of a Southern seiftinient here, which. so streng as to lead the persons holding to those ideas to indulge freely, in the treasonable, and dangerous projects of aiding these men.— The rebeyion has been too profitable to Nash ville and Nashville people. I will endeavor to show how in a future letter. Tbeir interest bound them to the Confederacy, and that is the strongest inducement ■ with which it is possible to tempt human .nature to be base. General Buell has been too kind. Good men have not been rewarded, nor have bad men been punished. The people laugh at General Buell’s efforts to conciliate. They treat him and bis men with open disdain and scorn. The lines are too loose. A wholesome fear would benefit them. We want here a little more of the strin gency of General Halleck. I see no remedy for the.harshness here but a little less coaxing and more punishment. Within the last few days, since the movement South became general, the people have been particularly impudent and of fensive. Meu do not make anv demonstration publicly, but it is plain by whom women, girls and boys are pushed in to offer the grossest insults to officers and men. Any one of tbe. demonstrations made by the ladies would appear ridiculous if mentioned, but it is certain that, though harms less, their actions are very aggravating to the meu, particularly to the whole army which has beencareful to appear, if not in reality, polite as myLord Chesterfield. Let me mention an instance of the means employed by the fair dames of Nash ville to insult our officers. Some of our generals were standing yesterday on the sidewalk in front of tbe St. Cloud Hotel. While the were conversing a couple of ladies, in full dress of gaudy colors, approached, they fol* lowed by a great fat, dirty and slovenly negro wench. As the ladies neared the generals, they changed from lines of battle march to a single file, although there was plenty of room. At the same time they carefully drew their dresses aside, to prevent their coming in contact w’ith the generals—ten feet distant—and placed their h rndkerchiefs upon their diminutive nasal or gans. The negro wench had been well drilled, and it was with the most serious face and ad* mirable delicacy that she drew her boopless skirt to one side, aud put a great red bandanan to her nose. One general scratched his pate with a puzzled air, another swore iu “approved German style," while a third appeared to enjoy the joke of the ladies and anger arid chagrin of his friends. The Richmond Dispatch says that some whisky seized by the military police, when poured into the street, split the cobble stones for a quarter of a mile, and produced a sound like repeated claps of thunder. People thought a general engages ment was going on at Yorktown. Henry Ledbetter, of Anson county, N. C., living near Wadesboro’, is worthy of honorable’ mens tion for steadily selling corn at 75 cents after tbe speculators had placed it at $1.15.