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nder the command of Gen. Sherman, whose force is pretty certain by this time to have reached Knoxville." The retreat of Meade across the Rapidan created great dissatisfaction at Washington. His defenders contend that it would have been impossible for him to have moved Lee from his position, which was impregnable; and his assailants assert that if he had attacked Lee the first day he would have whipped him. One of his corps commanders (probably the one that Johnson's division whipped) is to be court-martialed. Schuyler Colfax has been nominated by the Abolition caucus for Speaker of Congress. There is nothing from Grant's army, its movements being contraband. A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune, writing from the Army of the Potomac, states that Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher was captured during the late engagement, and is now in the hands of the enemy. He was not on duty, but was visiting the army in civilian's dress. Gold rose in New York, Saturday, to 152½