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cted on Bowling Green--Gen. Floyd's brigade, &c. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Nashville, Dec. 27, 1861. The activity displayed by the enemy a few days ago near Green river, threatening apparently Bowling Green, has resulted in nothing but to cause us to strengthen our position more, and to make greater preparations to meet them. When the report came first of the immense force of the Federals, estimated as high as sixty to seventy thousand men, prepared to march on Bowling. Green, and as a large column of it having crossed to this side of Green river, some uneasiness was felt. We believed that Gen. Johnston, with inferior numbers, could whip the enemy, but felt that against such odds the accidents and chances of war might place our brave army in a trying or critical situation. No one doubted that a battle under such circumstances, would be most desperate and bloody. We might have lost thousands of the best and bravest men without producing any other resul