orses, without sending his foraging parties more than thirty miles from Atlanta.
He could manage to live for six months without communication once with the North.
In reference to his cavalry, he feels certain of his ability to obtain horses enough to keep good his original stock; and perhaps he may be enabled to mount some more men.
Kirby Smith crossing the Mississippi.
The New York Times says:
A rumor prevailed in St. Louis a few days since, that Kirby Smith has crossed White river with a force of thirty thousand men, and is advancing on the southeast.
It is disbelieved at headquarters, but has had considerable currency.
Price told his friends in Boonville that a heavy force of rebels would prevent Steele from attacking him in Missouri, and the inference is that Kirby Smith has been making some movement to divert attention from Price, though the probability is strong that there are no rebels in force north of the Arkansas river.
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rom President Lincoln to bring twenty thousand bales of cotton into the Union lines.
The large supply of cotton recently stopped by the rebel authorities on its way across Texas to Brownsville has been released.
The House of Representatives of the Louisiana Legislature has authorized the issuance of bonds to the amount of two and a half millions of dollars for the purpose of carrying on the State Government.
General Canby was rapidly recovering from the effects of his wound received on White river, Arkansas.
Miscellaneous.
Gold was quoted in New York on Friday at 220 1-4.
The Yankee Congress meets next Monday.
A Washington dispatch states that Attorney-General Bates has decided to retire from President Lincoln's Cabinet; but that the time of his resignation is not fixed.
Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, D. D., Episcopal Bishop of Western New York, preached a sermon in Brooklyn, a few days since, in which he proposed a Union of Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Meth
