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ebels from the entire State of Tennessee, and from the States bordering on it southward to the Guff of Mexico. Next to Eastern Air, ints, this region is both militarily and politically, the most important part of the rebel country. If the mountain lands of Northern Georgia and Northern Alabama are held by our troops, we will, with the foothold we already have in the mountains of Tennessee and Virginia, virtually have military control of all the vast slave regions sloping for ward from the Alleghenies. If the line of the Mississippi be in our hands, we likewise control the States bordering that great river on both sides to its mouth. In a political view this region is to less important. The original school of Secession conspirators looked almost entirely to the establishment of a great slave Empire in the seme-tropical regions bordering upon the Gulf of Mexico. The Border State, to which we have thus far confined our military operations, were not expected of desired to join the b