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Exchange of prisoners. --A correspondent writing to the Memphis Appeal, confirms the statement in regard to the exchange of prisoners between General Pillow and the Federal commander at Cape Girardeau.
Tennessee from that direction. He has been thus effectually checkmated by the vigilance and energy of our Generals. We hope to see our cause pressed with equal energy in other quarters. The Memphis Appeal, of the 8th inst., says: General Pillow, having returned from Missouri, took charge of the Confederate forces at Union City, and being joined by a portion of his command from Missouri, on yesterday advanced upon Columbus, Ky., which place he occupied without resistance. The Federatheir stand opposite, on the west bank of the river, a few days since, apparently with the design of fortifying themselves there; but are understood to have moved higher up in the direction of Norfolk, Missouri. The number of troops under Gen. Pillow we, of course, do not deem it prudent to mention; but the mere fact of his advance we think proper to publish now, instead of copying the same intelligence from the Cincinnati or St. Louis papers, which we may receive on to- morrow. Hickm