...here was great excitement in Nashville on the 19th, on the reported approach of Van-Dorn. The ordnance department have issued arm; to all the employees in the quartermaster's department by order of Gen. Recessus . A letter in the New York World, dated before Vicksburg, the 17th, says: "We grieve that we cannot find more words of comfort, but to our eyes the fail of Vicksburg looks further distant...