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re is less cause for uneasiness, than there was when they threatened to do so a few days ago. General Floyd's brigade is expected in Nashville to-day, en route for Kentucky.--The people are prepared to give a hearty welcome to this noble corps. No troops have done better or suffered more in the war than General Floyd's. The number of the brigade and its destination is not made public. Wherever it goes it will do good service. It might be rendered most efficient in cooperation with Zollicoffer and Marshall in a movement towards Lexington and Frankfort. The line of communication to Nashville by way of Bowling Green is well defended. The active campaign should be in the Blue Grass region and most populous part of Kentucky. Reports continue to come in, which appear well founded, that General Crittenden, with twelve thousand Federals, are threatening Hopkinsville. It is stated that this force is divided into three columns, to march from Clinton, Greenville, and Madisonville
it of habeas corpus, but Deputy U. S. Surveyor E. H. Samuels, who had the matter in hand, had anticipated the movement by taking them over to Cincinnati, where they were placed in the custody of U. S. Marshal A. C. Sands, and the probability is that the prisoners are far on their way to a place of perfect security. The Prospect of a fight. The Frankfort correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial says: As I ventured to predict several days back, there will be no fight between Zollicoffer and Schoepf until the latter is strong enough to make the attack. One of Z.'s objects is to hold quiet possession of the river until the coal, provisions, and produce have been boated out to Nashville, and this would be defeated by bringing on a fight. If two or three more regiments are given to Schoepf, he can and will drive the rebels out; or if a force of six thousand will move down from Columbia and get in his rear, the whole party can be captured. This is the opinion of those at S