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army. A letter from Nashville says: Gen. Grant has the repairs of the Memphis and Charleston railroad in most earnest progress, especially that portion on the south side of the Tennessee river, between Tuscumbia and Decatur, around Muscle Shoals, and that between Bridgeport and Chattanooga. The latter is nearly ready, only waiting the completion of the important bridges of Whiteside and Bridgeport. Contracts for the bridges of the former (Tuscumbia and Decatur) were given out some few weeks ago, amounting to $600,000, and twelve large saw mills in Southern Illinois are engaged day and night in sawing out the materials. Bouts have lately passed up over Muscle Shoals, some of which will remain on the Upper Tennessee, to carry supplies to Chattanooga, Knoxville, and all intervening points. Grant also holds the railroad triangle formed by Chattanooga, Dalton, and Cleveland, and will repair and rebuild the bridges of that important district between this and February, a