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sion of the Shenandoah Valley or Maryland, while, with the main body of his army, he took a position on the south side of the James river and operated against Richmond and the communications of the rebel capital. The rebel papers report a defeat of General Bur bridge at Saltville, in Southwestern Virginia, and state that he has been operating in that quarter with a force of six thousand men. This shows that he has penetrated the designs of General Grant, and has sent a large force, under Echols and Breckinridge, to check the movement on Lynchburg, by the line of the Virginia and Tennessee road. General Sherman's presence in Nashville at this time, however, and the movement of this force under General Burbridge, have great significance; and the readers of this correspondence will remember that the plan of operations revealed by secret occurrences was fully foreshadowed some weeks ago by your Washington correspondent. The advance of General Burbridge may be considered merely in the