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Situation in East Tennessee.
--From the intelligence which we publish in another part of this paper, coupled with an inspection of the map of the country around Chattanooga, we are inclined to think that the army of Rosecrans is in a very critical situation.
His railroad communication with Nashville is cut off by the movement of Gen. Longstreet, whose corps occupies Lookout Mountain, below Chattanooga, and on the right of the Yankees.
The railroad runs at the base of this mountain, between it and the river, and is therefore completely in Longstreet's power.
The only means which Rosecrans has left of communicating with Nashville, therefore, is by wagons, on the ordinary roads of the country; and in the presence of such officers as Forrest and Wheeler, who are already over the river, this is rather a frail dependence.
It appears evident to us that he must either attack Bragg's position, (in which case he will be awfully beaten,) or surrender, (which he will hardly think of doin