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Later from Knoxville.

Knoxville, Nov. 17.
--We have advices from Memphis to the 10th inst., inclusive. It is said that Porter's fleet will attack Vicksburg as soon as it can pass the bar at President Island.

Gold is selling in Memphis at 40 per cent. prem over ‘"greenbacks."’ About 800 bales of cotton per week were being sent in from West Tennessee--none from Arkansas or Mississippi.

Western men in the Abolition army are said to be anxious for peace.

All the negroes in the vicinity of Memphis have left their owners. Every Abolition officer has a black servant. A gunboat guards the weekly steamers to Cairo.

The order expelling certain families of Confederate soldiers was not enforced.

Gen. Price's troops are in fine spirits such eager to avenge the loss of Corinth.

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