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Tall Swapping.

--A letter from a private soldier, on picket duty in Gen. Bragg's army, states that a short time since he exchanged with a Yankee picket a solitary biscuirior a silver dollar, and that a Yankee Captain had made the magnificent offer of a fine overcoat for two biscuits.

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