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Gunter. Earthworks had been erected a short distance below New Madrid. Jeff. Thompson held no command there. St. Louis, Feb. 24 --A special dispatch from Cairo to the Democrat says: "The latest intelligence from the Cumberland river is that General Buell's forces occupy Nashville, and that Governor Harris has called in all the Tennessee troops; and that a strong reaction has occurred among the people." St. Louis, Feb. 24. --Cairo dispatches say that the rhas been withdrawn, and from present indications they evidently intend making a desperate stand there. Cairo, Feb. 24. --Everything is quiet here. The rebels before evacuating Clarksville fired the railroad bridge crossing the Cumberland river at that point. Recent Nashville papers advise the undermining of some of the bluffs on the Cumberland, and blowing them into the river on the approach of our gunboats, either to destroy them or obstruct the channel! An expedition
hree wounded. "the opening of the cotton Market." Under the heading, the New York Herald, of the 27th, says: The Government is still receiving small supplies of cotton from Port Royal; but in a very short time we shall be in possession of from a million and a half to two millions of bales. Savannah and Charleston will soon be in our possession, and at least half a million of bales are stored there. The Burn side expedition may be relied upon for another half million. At Memphis all the cotton grown along the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, in Northern Alabama, and in part of Arkansas is centred, and will be captured with the city. The Southern cotton will reach New York very quickly and the Western cotton will be transported here by the railroads. We expect then to be able to give Europe the usual supply of cotton this year, and at the usual time. We think, also, that the price, now risen to an average of twenty-four cents, will then fall to the usual amount.