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edition and what a failure it has been: General Sherman is reported at the War Department as having arrived at Selma, in Alabama. --This is in accordance with his instructions. He left Vicksburg with twenty days rations, in light marching ordeodgment on the upper Alabama river. It was left to the option of Gen. Sherman whether the depot should be established at Selma or Montgomery. He chose the former position, on the northeast bank of the river. It was agreed that General Logan shoulMobile and Polk's army, and falling on the forces of the mitred General, scattered his army and moved directly forward to Selma. The War Department has trustworthy information that Logan's cavalry has made a junction with Sherman's forces at Selma.Selma. Gen. Johnston, being alarmed for the safety of Mobile, sent one division of his army to that city. As Sherman's orders are to destroy the Mobile, Montgomery, and Atlanta railroad, it is patent that Johnston will also be cut off from Mobile, a