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port for duty at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 11th. Three thousand laborers were ordered to commence work on the trenches. A dispatch from Cincinnati Wednesday night, at 10 o'clock, says: A train of thirty ambulances, with a flag of truce, left here yesterday afternoon, for the use of our wounded at Richmond. When they were twelve miles distant they were ordered to halt by the pickets of General Ewing. They did so, and the officer in command of the ambulances was taken before General Heath, who informed him that he could not pass the train, as he was not receiving flags of truce at present. An appeal was then made to General Kirby Smith, who promptly allowed our ambulances to proceed. Our scouts report that the rebels are moving in two divisions, numbering 16,000 men. Early this morning a large rebel cavalry force attacked our pickets on Licking river, driving them back a mile, several of whom were wounded. Our whole force over the rive was drawn up in line of battl