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of a decisive character, and immediate, is an absolute necessity. It can be so for no other reason than that the State of the finances requires it. Before the battle of Chickamauga the Herald, and other Yankee papers, believing the success of Rosecrans absolutely certain, hesitated not to declare that it was absolutely necessary to secure the country from a general crash. --The cotton of Georgia--rated at four or five hundred thousand bales--was expected to postpone the evil day. Unless that could be obtained, it was plainly intimated the end was near at hand. Rosecrans having been defeated, and the cotton not having been captured, the evil day was on the point of coming, when it was averted for a time by the defeat of Bragg. But for that defeat we have no doubt that it would have arrived before this time. The eagerness of Meade's correspondents — some of them, he tells us, men in high stations — to hasten his march, even at the cost of his entire army, proves the desperate stra