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cceeded in getting nearly enough arms and ammunition to equip those now in camp but failed in getting additional troops immediately, though the hope was held out to him that it might not be long before they would be forwarded. He sent word back to this effect to Colonel Williams and Bob Woolly, who left on Friday last to make arrangements to have them shipped. We got this from a man who was in camp, knew Williams well, and had it from his own lips. A one-legged fellow by the name of Menifee, and John P. Ficklin, of Bath, are the drill Colonels. Before Williams gets back, it is understood he will have his commission as Brigadier-General of the forces — The men are represented as a motley crew, copious in blasphemy, desperate of character and fortune, recklessly brave, fond of cards and whiskey, combining men of the highest intelligence with a mass of besotted ignorance, that talk about the Abolitionists waging this war to steal "our niggers," yet one half of them couldn't buy