Matters in Suffolk.
--Since Col. Taliaferro's visit to Suffolk and the capture of seven Yankee pillagers, the citizens have suffered many indignities at the hands of their invaders. All the roads reading into the town have been blockaded, a gunboat has been brought up to the wharf, and threats are made that in case of another attack on the part of the Confederates the town will be burned. Citizens are not allowed to pass in or out of the town. The Petersburg Express says:‘ It is a memorable fact that notwithstanding the long-continued efforts of the vandals to break the spirit and subdue the people of Suffolk, only two citizens of the town have ever taken the hated oath of allegiance, and neither of them were men of any character or standing. Charles H. Kelley, formerly the editor of a political paper at Murfreesboro', N. C., and at the commencement of the war the printer of the Christian Sun, sometime since deserted from the 13th Va. cavalry and failed to return a suit of clothes borrowed from a soldier in Isle of Wight, went into Suffolk, took the oath, and, with his Yankee wife, went off North--not, however, until they had sold and pocketed the money for many necessary articles for housekeeping, which had been kindly loaned them by the wife of one of the clergymen of Suffolk, who had been forced away from his home. Kelley, however, could hardly be called a citizen of Suffolk, having lived there only a short time before entering the army.
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