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nnessee. Atlanta, Dec. 11. --A special to the Intelligencer, dated Dalton, to-day, says: The enemy have fallen back from Chickamauga; heavy pickets at Missionary Ridge. Two corps had crossed the river at Bridgeport. The track of the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad has been torn up between Whiteside and Shell Mound, a distance of 8 miles, and the railroad bed used as a wagon road. Three small boats are running up the river to Chattanooga. Indications are apparent of an intention on the part of the enemy to go into winter quarters in Tennessee, and to send thirty thousand men as reinforcements to the army of the Potomac. Gen. Grant, it is said, will supersede Gen. Meade. Direct information from Longstreet has been received. He was at Bean's Station, 56 miles from Knoxville, on the 8th. Col. Ives, one of the President's aids, has arrived here. It is supposed that the object of his visit is to report upon the condition of affairs in this army.
r. Washburn, (Rep.,) of Ill., submitted a substitute, namely: That this House approve of the constant statesmanlike and humane-efforts of the Administration to secure an exchange of our prisoners now in the hands of the rebels. This substitute to Mr. Cox's resolution was agreed to by 94 to 73, and the resolution as thus amended was passed — yeas 106, nays 46. Miscellaneous. The news from the army of the Potomac indicates that Gen. Pleasanton will be appointed in place of Meade. The Yankees captured the Confederate signal station at Thoroughfare Gap, but did not get any men with it. About $300,000 worth of shipping was destroyed by fire in New York harbor on Wednesday last. A bill has been introduced in Congress to make Grant a Lieut. General. The bogus Governor (Pierpont) of "loyal Virginia" sent in his message at Alexandria Wednesday. He says "free the slaves and when the State is fully restored there will be no bone of contention." Gold was