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death. We have published a brief notice of the execution of Captain Lawrence Williams and Lieutenant W. G. Peter, of General Bragg's army, by the order of Gen. Rosecrans, at Franklin, Tenn., on the 8th instant. They entered the Federal lines dressed in Federal uniforms, with their Confederate caps covered with white flannel hcter, sent a message for them to return, as he wished some further conversation with them. This they politely consented to do, and were thus made prisoners. Gen. Rosecrans was then telegraphed, and replied that there were no such officers in his army. From a letter written by the Surgeon of the 85th Indiana to the Nashville Preon their persons.--Lieut. Peter was found to have on a rebel cap, secreted by the white flannel havelock. Col. Baird immediately telegraphed the facts to Gen. Rosecrans, and asked what he should do, and in a short time received an order "to try them by a drum-head Court Martial, and if found guilty hang them immediately." The