Show general news NEW YORK 17 ali the heralds special says the pol icy of extending the presidents amnesty to colonels is much talked of by rebel prisoners refugees state this would cause whole regiments to desert IlAnT ITAR roRD TronD 1701 11 ali union state convention to today day nom for election reelection re the whole of tai the e present state officers PRON IDI NCr cr R I 1 ith I 1 gov smith annor announces inces that the quota horn this tin s state under all calls is full ful NEW YORK feb is 18 the heralds nashville letter says of chattanooga is preparing 1 fur for immediate operations ch chattanooga at banoo a is well stored with munitions 0 of war ivar the roads in georgia Z are improving the writer thinks gen logan with the army corps which moved from would strike for rome georgia to operate on oil johnstons flank assuming that if lie attempts logans destruction grant will march against z him with eighty 0 thousand men A correspondent of the herald at Galli gallipolis polis ohio writes that lie had an interview with M mr r Wyli art an escaped conscript biorn near JeX jeferson erson north carolina and that mr W gives important information as follows about three weeks ago ago 0 over thirty now new long narrow open boxes caulked caulker caul ked tarred handmade and made pointed at one end were sent to IV Wyth y thoville th ville these boxes were styled pontoons pon officers had arrived and sent out men inon to collect strong 0 light wagons and 0 good horses from fa farmers in the neighborhood bo it was whispered among military men that would soon be a raid made into ohio and that the pontoon red to would bo be drawn overland to either cither new or banawa river and marked floated down the ohio and that river be crossed at two points one column going by way of barkerville barberville Barb Bar orville berville and wyandotte it was rumored that troops would arrive for concentration from both eastern and western rebel armies in regard to the above report the correspondent says rumors havo have been in circulation for somo some time past of mysterious ions movements cin 0 n the line of tho the virginia and Titon tec rail raid row Ls |