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to the effect that the enemy are evacuated Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, leaving only a small garrison at Chattanooga, is without foundation, as are ninety-nine out of every hundred of the reports taken to the rear by "officers just from the front." Our scents and pickets have not been within sight of Chattanooga since the battle, and our only information from that point has come through prisoners, and citizens who have escaped from the lines of the enemy. These parties state that Grant has sent off large bodies of troops to other points, principally towards Knoxville, but they bring no such intelligence as that he has withdrawn his forces from Lookout and Missionary Ridge. The report here alluded to reminds me of another which has been put in circulation outside of the army, to the injury of a very worthy officer. I refer to the statement, said to be circulating generally through the press, that Capt. Bain, Chief of the Signal Corps in this army, had deserted to the

Gen. Grant. Reports from the Southwest indicate that Grant is to take charge of the Army of the Potomac, and that heavy reinforcements from his own command are coming in the same direction. We know not what truth there is in these statements. If true, our Government will probably follow the same plan of concentration, butGrant is to take charge of the Army of the Potomac, and that heavy reinforcements from his own command are coming in the same direction. We know not what truth there is in these statements. If true, our Government will probably follow the same plan of concentration, but will not change its commander. In such a juncture Robert E. Lee cannot be spared from his post. We have no disposition to underrate Grant. He seems to be a man of military ability and prompt action, but he need not expect to find Virginia a smooth road to travel. We look upon his approach without dismay.--He will find men hereGrant. He seems to be a man of military ability and prompt action, but he need not expect to find Virginia a smooth road to travel. We look upon his approach without dismay.--He will find men here the like of whom he has not often faced, and a General such as he has never yet encountered. Above all, that Providence which has so often guarded our citadel from the enemy's grasp, and put a hook in the nose of that leviathan which once encircled our city, is still our abiding trust, and, if we are true to ourselves, will prove

Cotton excitement. --There was considerable excitement among the cotton speculators at Memphis on the 2d inst. The price was getting lower and lower, and the reason of it was that it was understood there were about two million bales of the staple at Atlanta, which place was expected to fail into the hands of Grant within a short time. In addition to this, correspondents in Banks's army at the month of the Rio Grande, had written that 250,000 bales were there awaiting shipment. Of course the natural result was a decrease in price. Two million and quarter bales of cotton thrown on the market would be likely to overstock it, for the moment at least.