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that the contractors are "loyal," and anxious for the war to continue. Among the common people and the middle classes, who are working for their bread, the irrepressible conflict does not seem so popular. In Baltimore negro regiments are being formed from slaves seized from the slaveholders of Maryland, without notice or compensation. In the trip through Ohio and Indiana with Morgan our men underwent great hardship, but enjoyed the sport. None of them fed a horse, as there was no time for that operation, but as soon as the horse they were on got broken down and hungry, he was turned loose and the saddle removed to some of the fine animals grazing in a field near by with which Southern Ohio abounds. In getting across the bay a Federal tug overhauled the canoe containing Mr. Grasty and his companions--one of them Wm. Jones, of Danville, also an escaped prisoner — and sunk it with a cannon shot. The party inside, however, leaped out and succeeded in escaping to shore.