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horough reconnaissance of the neighborhood, and acquired much valuable information concerning the reads and other avenues of approach. Gen. Floyd had not joined Gen. Lee up to the time our informant left, having been detained by high water, but is doubtless with him at present. A Mississippi regiment had searched Big Sewell, and the men seemed to be in fine health and spirits. Gen. Loring was at Lewisburg on Sunday last, on his way to join Lee, with 4,000 men including 1,000 militias and probably reached Camp Defiance on Monday. This would give Gen. Lee a force fully able to cope with the enemy, and it was believed he would offer battle without delay. We may thus expect stirring events from that quarter in a short time. The Central train yesterday brought down fourteen "loyal citizens" in the Lincoln of Boone county, who were captured by Pate's Rangers, while on a scouting expedition. These Union men of the West are hard-looking specimens, all ragged and all unwashed.