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my of the Potomac. The latest advices from the Army of the Potomac indicate that active preparations are being made in view of the commencement of the campaign. Large numbers of the sick have already been transferred to Washington from the hospitals in front, and all the sutlers, twenty eight hundred in number, have left the army, in accordance with orders to that effect. An addition of 15,000 beds is about to be made to the present hospital accommodations at Washington, and, finally, Gen Grant has established his headquarters in the field. Deserters from the army of Gen Lee report that his whole force on the Rapidan does not exceed sixty thousand men, divided among two army corps, but that reinforcements were constantly reaching him. Longstreet is said to be moving from Charlottesville with 12,000 of the troops he had with him in East Tennessee, in the direction of Staunton — his supposed intention to march down the Shenandoah Valley. Among the reinforcements on their way
re sent to New Orleans. All the white troops from New Orleans, Baton Rouge. Natchez, and Vicksburg, have been sent to Virginia; also, all troops belonging to Grant's army now on furlough were ordered to report to the Army of Virginia Brig Gen. James M. Tuttle, in command of Natchez, has broken up all the negro schools th M. E. Whitehurst, for expressing rebel sentiments. All of them are of the most respected families of Natchez. Deserters entering their lines are, by order or Gen. Grant, compelled to take the oath and go North or return to the Confederacy Grant had also issued orders that all cotton coming into their lines shall be paid oGrant had also issued orders that all cotton coming into their lines shall be paid one third on delivery and the other two thirds shall be paid after the war, on condition that the parties prove their loyalty to the United States Government. No one is allowed to go in or out of Baton Rouge without taking the oath. Cotton is quoted in New Orleans at 40 cents in gold, or 70 cents in greenbacks, but the dif