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ore delight at the news of our recent victories in Tennessee than Senator Andy Johnson, of Tennessee, and Emerson Etheridge, Clerk of the House of Representatives. They have been busy explaining to Senators and Representatives the strategic importance of the acquisition of Forts Henry and Donelson. The possession of these defences not only cuts off the communication between Bowling Green and Columbus, but opens to Federal authority and protection a tier of counties extending along the Tennessee river to Mississippi and Alabama--a corner in which large majorities were cast against secession, and where thousands of Union men are still loyal and ready, if provided with arms, to fight for the maintenance of the Union. Gen. opinion of John. McClellan, In a speech delivered at a supper in Wheeling, Va., on the 6th inst., Gen. gave many reasons why he has him as a student, and he had known him as a practical military man, and in both relations he excelled. He had always exce