Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
the Federal troops of Ohio — their Inefficiency--Major Anderson, &c.
There are three encampments of men in this vicinity. At two of them — Camps Dennison and Harrison, on the Little Miami and near the Big Miami rivers — there are about 7,000 or 8,000 at each place. Just above this city, in Fulton, on the Ohio, about 1,000. The men on the Miamis are totally undrilled and unarmed, or but partially so.
I see it stated in the Gazette here that the inhabitants at Memphis are much alarmed, for fear of an onslaught from this quarter. I inform them that there is not the least danger. They are not prepared to fight here — I mean in this State generally.
You will have seen a statement in the papers that the ‘"Hero of Fort Sumter"’ has arrived in this city. You are aware he is now much lauded for the valor he displayed in getting out of the way of bomb-shells and cannon balls, in that Fort, whillst it was being taken. Most valorous Major! Thy name is already immortalized for that one act of more than Spartan bravery. Henceforth he will be regarded as being beyond ‘"all Greek, beyond all Roman fame."’ It was reported he was about taking the command over his old friend Breckinridge, and head the Union men of Kentucky against their native State. At least, so said by that very decent sheet, the Gazette, which publishes a number of truthful sayings, one of which is stereotyped, namely; that insurrections are about to take place in Louisiana, in Virginia, or somewhere within the Confederacy. Its sympathies are strongly enlisted in behalf of the poor South. Doubtless, its editor warps oceans of tears in this regard. I will write you again. Cosmopolite.
P. S.--There are only 5,000 stand of arms belonging to the State of Ohio. This is the most vulnerable, important point in the five border States.
