Alexandria Gazette

The Washington Chronicle has the following remarks in reference to the situation of affairs at Chattanooga and in that direction, and the purposes of the Confederates:--

"We have information from the most reliable sources that, while Lee was making demonstrations in Virginia last week, he was sending away veterans to Bragg and receiving in exchange conscripts, militia men, and the rawest kind of soldiers in the persons of old men and half grown boys. They will attempt to turn the Federal flanks at Chattanooga if everything is favorable. Should the Tennessee river rise, they are making preparations to crush the Army of the Cumberland by force of overwhelming numbers. In the next battle, Bragg will command the right, Longstreet the left, and Joe Johnston the centre- the whole to be under the eye of Jeff. Davis, and other efficient Confederate luminaries. We are certainly impressed with the idea that the splurge of Lee last week was a strategical stroke for the benefit of the army in the Southwest."