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vice, and will seize the first opportunity to escape. Columbus is defended by eighty pieces of ordnance, commanding the river, the largest a 128- pounder. The submarine battery is planted three miles above Columbus, and rifle pits extend back from the river for a distance of three-quarters of a mile. At Memphis business was comparatively prostrate, and large fires were of frequent occurrence. Stanton, the New Secretary of war, in Buchanan's Cabinet[from the St. Louis Republican, Jan. 20. A year ago, when Gen. Cass--grieved and indignant — left Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet, Mr. Attorney-General Black was transferred to the portfolio of State, and Mr. Stanton, then absent from Washington, was fixed upon as Attorney-General. The same night he arrived at a late hour and learned from his family of his appointment. Knowing the character of the bold, bad men then in the ascendancy in the Cabinet, he determined at once to decline; but when, the next day, he announced his resolution