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ves, who could not successfully oppose the brawny arm of the unchained negroes of the North. Black regiments will not be opposed in the army. The soldiers grow more bitter against their enemy as their absence from home is prolonged, and are willing to resort to any and every means to secure peace. The Chronicles, Press, and Baltimore American are freely circulates in the army. [Surely this correspondent "Now and Then," is the biggest fool that ever wrote for a newspaper.] Rear-Admiral Porter instructed the Captain of the gunboat Indianola, as he was on the point of starting down the Mississippi the other day, to visit the plantations of President Davis and his brother Joe, and carry away every bale of cotton and every able-bodied male negro he could find. Thomas Hays, 17th Va., and J. Conway, Trip Lett's battery, deserters from the rebel army, were forwarded from Alexandria. They will probably be released on taking the oath of allegiance. --Large numbers are constan