[correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]
Things in Charleston.
Charleston, S. C., Jan. 29.
We are having here the early vegetables.--green peas, and other eatables of the kind.
They are now to be found in considerable abundance in the market, while the budding trees and the green clover in suburbs indicate that balmy spring is about to revisit us. With more than ordinary pleasure, we look forward to the return of warm weather, as it will doubtless send sickness and death among our ‘"Northern friends,"’ who are awaiting at Port Royal, hoping to pay us a visit.
I went to-day to see a large shoe factory recently established by Mr. Reynolds.
All his shoes have wooden soles, and answer admirably, especially for the soldiers on the coast, as salt- water soon destroys leather soles.
The ladies of this city have formed a Christian Association, through which they are doing a blessed work in caring for the bodies and souls of our poor soldiers.
In no city in this country are our noble women more untiring in their efforts for the army than in this city.
As their husbands, fathers, and brothers were the first to move in secession, they seem to feel that they should be second to none in labors of love for the men who are making good the position of our young Republic.
Much solicitude is being felt for Savannah since the information received this morning of its being threatened by the Lincoln gun-boats. 