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been sent back to their respective regiments. Scouts report that Long street, with the greater part of his army, has reached Richmond. It is reported, on what is said to be good authority, that all the officers in the army of Gen. Lee were ordered to send their baggage to Richmond before the 16th inst., as the road would be needed after that date to bring up reinforcements. Dispatches from Cairo, 12th, state that Forrast, with a large force, was again advancing from May field on Paducah, and that Federal troops had been seat from Cairo to meet him. The pickets at Columbus were driven in on the 11th. A Yankee scouting party was surprised by guerrillas on the 7th inst, fifty miles below New Madrid. A lieutenant and sergeant were killed, and nine others wounded. All who could escape ran to the river, and calling the steamer Darling got on board and returned to New Madrid. The negotiations between the Emperor of Austria and the Archduke Maximilian in regard to the s
met at Knoxville on the 12th. Delegates from nearly every county were present. Tom Nelson made an explanation of his compromise with Jeff Davis, and denounced the President's acts as unconstitutional. Wm. Helskell was elected President of the Convention. Daniel Trenbite made a strong speech, denouncing spectates in the bitterest terms. Andrew Johnson made a strong anti slavery speech, in which he said if we had no slaves there would be few traitors. A dispatch from Washington, 12th, states that the railroad bridges destroyed by the freshet had been replaced. New Orleans advices say that a large side wheel steamer had evaded the blockaders at Galveston, getting in four thousand stand of arms. It is reported that Bishop McClosky has been appointed Archbishop of New York. A telegram from Cairo, the 19th, reports that the rebel Forrest, with a large force was advancing on Paducah last night, in four directions. Reinforcements have been sent there from Mayfield.