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One day later from the North.

A flag of truce boat arrived at City Point on Sunday night, with 1,000 Confederate exchanged prisoners. She brought, also, copies of the Baltimore Sun and Clipper, of the 19th inst., one day later than the news given yesterday. The latest news from Pennsylvania is a dispatch dated Harrisburg, 18th, which says:

‘ The reports from the border line have been very conflicting to-day. The operator at Chambersburg, at 6 P. M., reports as the latest that a scout just in reports being eight miles from there, but saw no rebels and heard of none.

Accounts from Greencastle, seven miles from Chambersburg, confirm the report brought by a hand car of a body of 200 rebels being there at noon, and dividing there--one body going towards Waynesboro' and the other towards Mercersburg.

The exchanged prisoners report the excitement as being great throughout Pennsylvania, and that they were fortifying in every direction and guarding bridges.

Gold in New York on the 18th was quoted at 143½ to 144½

A Fortress Monroe correspondent intimates that important movements are in progress in that vicinity.

The Baltimore Clipper, of the 19th inst, has some further accounts. Yankee telegrams from Harrisburg, 18th, state that a Confederate force was north of Greencastle, Pa., and that six regiments of mounted infantry were encamped at Williamsport, on the North side of the Potomac, and four regiments at Hagerstown, Md. Mosby's cavalry was eight miles below Chambersburg. A portion of the Confederate cavalry which left Greencastle in the direction of Mercersburg were at McConnellsburg, going towards Hancock. The Confederates are paroling all the citizens. Fresh troops are arriving at Harrisburg, but not so rapidly as the State authorities wish.

Vicksburg telegrams to the 15th state that no change had taken place in the position of the lines. Everything useful has been destroyed in the country around for thirty miles. The rebels are believed to be erecting an interior line of works. The superintendent of contrabands is making arrangements to withdraw to a safe place the large number of negroes collected there.

Murfreesboro', June 18.--Bragg has received three brigades of reinforcements, and now has eighteen brigades of infantry and cavalry. The indications are that he is about to assume the offensive and invade Kentucky. Buckner is organizing a large force in East Tennessee for offensive operations, and the Union men, in despair of reaping their wheat, have turned their stock into the fields.

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