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Latest from Columbus, Ky.--more troops for Feliciana — Federal Movements at Cairo, &c. The Memphis Avalanche, of the 14th instants learns from a gentleman who left Columbus at 9 o'clock on Thursday night, that there was great commotion and expectation outside of official quarters there on Thursday. At an early hour Thursday morning an order was received from Gen. Bowen for another regiment at Feliciana. Gen. Polk sent him two regiments, one from Mississippi and another from Louisiana Later in the day, a courier is said to have arrived with information that they were fighting at Feliciana, and immediately Colonel Wright's regiment was dispatched to Union City, and no train was allowed to depart with passengers for Memphis. On Wednesday night he gun-boat Manassas was ordered to New Orleans, but on Thursday she was ordered back. The Baltic and Millaudon passed down yesterday morning, having run the distance between Columbus and Memphis, 240 miles, in less than eleven hours