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ovement was given up. The copperhead party from Neoga, twelve miles below this place, have returned home, telling their neighbors that there are five thousand Federal soldiers in Mattoon, and that it is no use to try to release the prisoners. A wise conclusion, but accepted a little too late for some of those fellows. The 4th Indians, ordered here from Indianapolis, have left for Cairo, en route for New Orleans, there being an adequate force here without them. The 41st Illinois, colonel Pugh, who were ordered here by telegram from camp Bever, have gone into barracks, and will constitute the "garrison" for a short time. There is no doubt that the thirty copperheads now in custody will not only be held, but will have plenty of company. Prisoners are continually coming in. Everything indicates the murderous and rebellious intent of these men, who lacked only numbers to continue the open war they had begun. Last night the body of one of our settlers was found on the railroad t