The Times new correspondent in the North, who has been
hitherto decently fair, draws a melancholy picture of the condition of Baltimore. As this city is hostile, and commands the best line of communication between Washington and the North, it has all along been necessary to hold it down by military force, to threaten the city with batteries and place gunboats in the river. Unfortunately, the Government en- trusted the necessary power to General Schenk, who uses it like an Austrian, punishes opinion as well as revolt, and lets friends of the Union do pretty much as they like. The extraordinary latitude allowed to women in America makes this absence of justice all the more bitter, as this shocking anecdote proves :—" On one of her late visits, the wife of a Yankee schoolmaster walked into the ward of the Confederate wounded with a Federal flag in her hand, and held the obnoxious stars and stripes over the bed of a dying sufferer, saying, as she waved the rustling silk in his very face 'There, my friend, you were loth to live -under this glorious banner; it must be refreshing to you at least to die under it!'" The story will, we trust, be refuted ; but enough remains to show that in America, as in Europe, the least just of Governments is that of a military satrap.
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