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Important letter from General Seigel. We have been furnished a letter written by the possession Dutch General, Seigel, to his wife which was captured among others at the battle of Brighton, Arkansas. The letter is written in German, and contains disclosures which will probably not meet with the raliest approbation at that cart of Abraham . After alluding to the reception of types from his wife, for which he thanks her to the honest sincerity of his German heart, and in which he pledges her that he has put her picture in the best and safest place — to the left pocket of his fur coat — where it rests peaceful and soft on his heart, he tells her, that in consideration of the great pleasure she had conferred upon him by these presents, he has entirely forgiven what he terms her "Curtis Saxeville." It will be recollected that Curtis commanded the Federal forces at Elkhorn, and that division composed a part of that command, and we refer from this generous tender of forgiveness