New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-28
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
rRem WARRINGTON.
yrou Our Own Correspondent.

Scott nreseDts to you his kind compliments Ills
stock of merchandise is not yet complete, ana
his store room and fixtures not fully ready Tor
general wholesale business. After October j,
he wiz be ablo to supply you in package
and bales; but Just now he is only dong htiie
in the retail way. If you wish a pattern OF
ehiptz for a breakfast robe for the mistress OF
your seragl o, or a piece OF kersey to make Jchn,
tho diDing.rOOm servant, pair OF pantaioons,
we can ill your order. BY and by you shall have
all you want, and possibly little more than you
wish in our line. Terms as usual, very favor
abe, on good paper, with the usual discount Tor
approved city acceptarees, or ready money.
Tbis last however, seems to be q sDperiiuous
suggestion. No Southern man, We believe, was
ever known TO pay cash for anything but juleps
or perhaps another class Of entertainments which
need not be miou;ely particularized, and for
which an eight months note is never taken,
even if it bo what is professionally termed gilt
edged" or "freprOof."
Yesterday scos a pleasant day; the sun sbone
ont and the sky was clear; and If rim OF binck
was on its lower edge for the death of the gal
liant Ellsworth, joy aud graduation was the pre-
mems leads were at ensign peak, and did not
drop as they met in genial greeting.
There have been since 1870 five hundred crises
IN the country, aud think have been present
as resident or accidental visitor at say three
hundred of them, but I have never witnessed
1sy Of wilder and more anxious excitement tnan
yesterday. Ordinarily l can get from The foot
of the staircase to the outer door in fifteen lin
uies with a fair head Of stcam-nOt rum but
rotary power--but then, from the best data
now have, | compute it at full half hour. |
did not gauge myself by watch, for prudent
man here VIII keep both time piece and wallet
under buttons, but ! think my judgment, If rot
nfaIlble, is accurate.
There was, too, an influx of strangers in the
city. The 9Th Regiment went TO Virginia, aid
seven regiments from New-York came in, armed
with busters, 0vercOats, and hand baggage. There
were ladies, too, to astOnishment. As L
wormed my way down to tea aud cold bread
very ike cork-screw going through the porous
wood, l gave sidewalk to marching file of
balfa-dozen who were making their way 10 the
uDoccuped female ward.
Hitherto, at meals, you would have supposed
that you were in the mess-room If q monastery,
or the reiectory Of seminary Of Jesuit priests,
so exclusive was the male gender. The alarming
increase of population can also be measured by
Wizards dining-room, three hundred feet long,
which, half filled three weeks ago, now s@els
from the loftiest wave at the entrance TO its un-
spent force on the walls Of f street.
If Won 90 in at three o'clock, which is high
shanee and look the long distance to the uppos-
sessed territory, you invountarily stop TO iooh
far an omnibus. Ii would be capital specula
ton to get charter for horse railroad from
the New-York Legislature, ct its next sessions
and if you can buy it through both branches fol
half a milOo, take hold Of it, and We will share
the profits. Servants attendance is also scarce,
and difficult to be had. Yesterday, at dinner,
should certainly have passed, in stfict confidence,
o quarter into tae gripe Of the Hlbernian Pat
rick the Abyssinian Peter, had l not had q
wholesome fear Of the two JOhns-JObn Sherman
and John CoyOde, and a Special Committee of
Five to investigate and report on the last case OF
attempted bribery. TIE bar also has sustained q
most tremendous run. As passed the door, on
my way 70 Commons, l saw thirsty sOul wait
ing his turn, suffering, and very impatient. He
had not had plain brandy for half an hour, and
Tas neatly perishDg for lack Of moisture.
While knots were gathered oil over town,
giving the most absurd accounts, and adding
wonderful addenda TO wonderful exaggeTatiOns,
sl the information was of the most uncertain
character. Through the day, there were rumort
that battle was goiDg on at Alexandria; the
report If cannon and the rattle OF smalarm'
sOuld be heard disiinctly at the White House;
accounts had jast come in of desperate fight;
o large number had been killed, ond the sur
geons were busy with splmters and saws; thou
tands of troops had been captured; ten thousard d
we're on march to Richmond; Harper's Ferry
was to be carried by stOrming party, and
Norfolk to be made the frst grand bonfire OF @
purgiDg lussratOn.
But the capture OF Alexandria ,caS neat job,
and most cleverly accomplished. One man alone
gave CLEAN Of hcroism TO the dastardy sub
mission of garrison and field troops. One would
have supposed, to take their braggadocO, that
ouly with the last lnan, and he the Minoti sur
viying to fire the mine, would let the town pass
into the hands of ccnquerors. Not gunshot,
not a Craze, beyond the fatal slug which let out
the soul Of hero, saddened tire all hail of con-
guest. They deserved a harder chasti5emcnt.
A huddle Of dingy bricks aud dirty mortar with
dlapdated roofs and desperate iumates-streets
ia which a new mich COW could fodder and fare
% sumptuOusly Us to furnish family butter and