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nlow, who is expected here in a few days. The rebel General Forrest, commanding the District of Mississippi, West Tennessee and East Louisiana, has established his headquarters at Jackson, Mississippi, and is conscripting guerrillas and sending them to Richmond to be put into the Army of Virginia. The steamer Dove was captured and burned near Helena by the rebels.--The Fifty- sixth--regiment were taken prisoners, and Colonel Dean, commanding, killed. The credentials of a Virginia Senator. It is rather mortifying to the people of Virginia to find that Mr. Joseph Segar, their representative to the United States Senate, has been denied a seat in that august body by a very decisive vote taken upon his "credentials." The rejection appears to be based upon the fact that Virginia is "a State in armed rebellion"--a little circumstance that probably Mr. Segar, in his hurry to take the boat for Washidgton, had overlooked. Mr. Charles Sumner, a citizen of Massachusetts, who i