DESTITUTION AT THE SOUTH.—A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing under date of Chattanooga, Dec. 9th, says ; "A visit to the provost-marshal of any post in this vicinity, or indeed anywhere along the border, is sufficient to satisfy any one that the stories of southern destitution have not half been told. At Bridgeport, a few days since, there were forty-seven applicants for food, only three of whom proposed to buy, the remainder being entirely destitute—alms-seekers. They were followed in some instances by a great number of children, half naked and half starved, whose features appealed to the sympathy far more, effectually than words. Some of them, though under five years of age, had not tasted a morsel of food for thirty-six hours, and had been living on little for months."