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sas frontier. McCulloch has only 3,500 men. He proclaims that he needs three regiments of infantry immediately for twelve months service and calls urgently for a general rally for the defence of the State. Gen. Harder's command. The Memphis Appeal, of Saturday, says: We learn that a portion of Gen. Hardee's command, heretofore stationed above Pocahontas, Ark., has been moved over to Point Pleasant, Missouri, a place twelve miles below New Madrid, on the west bank of the Mississippi river. The balance of his forces, with the General himself, were to have arrived at the same point yesterday, his purpose, as is understood, being to co-operate with General Johnston's army in Kentucky. The recent series of brilliant successes that have attended our arms in Missouri, resulting in driving the enemy up towards St. Louis, is no doubt the cause of this move, Pocahontas being no longer a position of any great strategic importance. The Lincoln troops in possession of S