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in his movement; also, that Stephens desired to meet a commissioner from the United States in Canada. The Evening Bulletin, in an extra, announces that Sherman has captured Macon, with many prisoners. The War in Kentucky and Tennessee--Hood marching on Pulaski. A dispatch from St. Louis, dated the 23d instant, says: A Paducah dispatch of yesterday says military affairs in this district are active. Every rebel move on this side of the Mississippi is now known. The whole coille. The rebel General Lyon, in command of that district, has orders to watch the river closely and blockade it. Transports will begin running again soon. Forrest has a pontoon across the river at Chickasaw. Deserters and scouts report Hood's army at thirty-five thousand strong; with thirty-seven pieces of artillery. He intended to operate in Middle and Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky. He was marching on Pulaski, Giles county, Tennessee, and expected ultimately to seize Cumberland g
rce is amply sufficient for any purpose — that the rebels have three thousand men at Savannah, and about the same number at Charleston, besides militia, which he does not value highly; that there are no others to meet him without weakening Lee, as Hood could not overtake him if he were to try. Besides, the latter has as much as he can attend to, watching Thomas. Sherman is to move in two columns, one by way of Macon, and the other direct for Augusta, at which latter place the two will concentrath manufacturing towns. Jeff. Davis, in his speech at Macon, said Augusta furnished powder enough for the whole Confederacy. But the chief advantage consists in the destruction of communications, whereby it is expected to isolate the army of General Hood, separated as thoroughly from Lee as the troops west of the Mississippi are. Savannah will be no longer valuable as a blockade-running port, Charleston will be cut off, and Sherman's army of 55,000 men will be on the seacoast, so that they can