cavalry will come down there to-morrow he will show them how to take Morgan.  The cavalry go, and are taken by Morgan.  So the story goes.  An equally successful feat it was, to step into the telegraph office in Gallatin, Tennessee, at a later date, as he did, dressed as a Federal officer, and there learn from the operator the time when the down-train would be in, and arrest it, securing many thousands of dollars without loss of men or time.  Another anecdote of his cool daring and recklessness is this.  Riding up to a picket post near Nashville, dressed in full Federal uniform, he sharply reproved the sentinel on duty for not calling out the guard to salute the officer of the day, as he announced himself to be.  The sentinel stammered out, as an excuse, that he did not know him to be the officer of the day.  Morgan ordered him to give up his arms, because of this breach of duty, and the man obeyed.  He then called out the remaining six men of the guard, including the lieutenant who was in charge, and put them under arrest, ordering them to pile their arms, which they did.  He then marched them down the road a short distance where his own men were concealed, and secured all of them, and their arms and horses, without resistance.

In an engagement Morgan is perfectly cool, and yet his face and action are as if surcharged with electricity.  He has the quickness of a tiger, and the strength of two ordinary men.  One cause of his success is found in the character of his chargers.  He has only the fleetest and most enduring horses; and when one fails he soon finds another by hook or by crook.  His business in his recent raid into Kentucky (July 28th), seemed to have been mainly to gather up the best blooded horses, in which that State abounds.

Unless in some fortunate hour for the loyal cause he should fall into the hands of the Federal forces, Colonel John H. Morgan will become one of the most potent and dangerous men in the Rebel service.

So far as my observation extended, the Southern cavalry are superior to the loyal, for the kind of service expected of them.  They are not relied upon for heavy charges against large bodies of infantry closely massed, as in some of the wars of the Old World during the close of the last century and the first part of this; but for scouting, foraging, and sudden dashes against outposts and unguarded companies of their enemies.  In this service, fleetness, perfect docility, and endurance for a few hours or a day, are requisite in the make-up of the horses used.  And in these traits Morgan’s blooded horses are admirable.  And then, with the exception of some of the Western troopers, the Southerners are more perfect horsemen than our loyal cavalry.  They have been on horseback, many of them, from youth, and are trained to the perfect control of themselves and their steeds in difficult circumstances.  In addition to these causes of superiority, they have a vast advantage over the Federal troops in the present