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of the river, and to pursue and destroy Johnston and Kirlty Smith's armies, and to maintain a strong garrison at Vicksburg and at other points. He can get no reinforcements — he has exhausted all these. Banks has not 15,000 all told, to hold Louisiana, and he haste garrison New Orleans, Port Hudson, Donaldson and the forts. The force in the field does not exceed that which Taylor and Magrader can bring to bear against him. Those Generals already hold the western part of Louisiana; if Banks a, and he haste garrison New Orleans, Port Hudson, Donaldson and the forts. The force in the field does not exceed that which Taylor and Magrader can bring to bear against him. Those Generals already hold the western part of Louisiana; if Banks pursues them to the interior he leaves a weak force on the river and our light troops can operate with great effect. Whilst our armies must increase, those of the enemy must diminish.--Vicksburg has already cost General Grant half his original army.

tes from New Orleans: The Federal officers who came down by the Saltie Robinson last evening, say that Thursday morning the farm house, two or three miles back of Baton Rouge, in which Neal Dow was convalescing from his wound, was surrounded by Confederate cavalry, and Dow was carried away a prisoner. The World has published a portion of Neal Dow's history in this department. Every statement sent by your correspondent with regard to Dow's systematic course of plunder and pillage in Louisiana and Florida can be substantiated by affidavits sufficient to fill two copies of a triple-sheeted World, with a quarter supplement to each. He has been convicted of theft in a Federal court of justice in this city. There is a mass of evidence against him in Washington, which in Russia would remove the Colonel of a Corsack regiment and send him to Siberia for life. As a General he was actually rejected as worthless from one division after another, and literally "struck into" the division

From Louisiana. Atlanta, Aug. 8. --A special dispatch to the Appeal, from Brandon, Miss., 6th inst., says: "Ransom's division of Grant's army, with seven "mosquito gunboats," descended the Mississippi and opened fire on the bayous of West Louisiana. " A heavy Yankee force ascended the St. Charles river, in search of West Louisiana. " A heavy Yankee force ascended the St. Charles river, in search of our force in Arkansas. Dunt, brother in law and partner of Grant in negro apprentices, was recently captured near Lake Providence, La., by Col. Matt. F. Johnston's guerillas. The Confederates recaptured several thousand slaves with Dunt. The Yankee force is at Montcastle, on the Big Black, except the expedition to West Arkansas. Dunt, brother in law and partner of Grant in negro apprentices, was recently captured near Lake Providence, La., by Col. Matt. F. Johnston's guerillas. The Confederates recaptured several thousand slaves with Dunt. The Yankee force is at Montcastle, on the Big Black, except the expedition to West Louisiana.

Court of Inquiry on the Western Campaign. --A Court of Inquiry has been called to meet in Montgomery on the 15th inst., charged with the duty to inquire into the events of the campaigns in Mississippi and eastern Louisiana during May, June and July, and especially as to the surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. The Court will report the facts, together with its opinion on the merits of each case.