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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 108, 30 October 1863, Page 6

A rumor prevails; that General Meade has resigned the command of the army of the Potomac, and that either General Grantor General . Bosencrans will be aj>pointe to succeed him. . The army of the Potomacd is to be reorganised. Drafted men and substitutes are'now reinforcing it. It is reported that 8000 Federal reinforcements arrived at Charleston on August 1. Despatches from Memphis of the 3rd August state that Generals Pricej Marniaduke, and Dobbins were at piss, Jacksonport, and Morean, Arkansas, with 25,000 men. .

The Baltimore correspondent of the New York, Herald says that by the middle of August General Lee's army will be reinforced to the number of 150,000 men, with 300 pieces of artillery; andif by that time Meade has not advanced, Lea will assume the offeusive, and move from Fredericksburg direct on. Alexandria, by way of Banks' Fojd, Dumfries, arid Oceo-. quan, or else by way of Mariassas Junction, Contre ville, and ; Fairfax^ to : Harlingtbn^ Heights „T^e Richmond papers istate that; General Meade. liais been, reinforced by 15,000 men from Grant's army. ■■; Letters from Northern Mississippi dated the 27th July to the St. Louis Republican, relate that the Confederates are applying the torch to every blade of cotton that can, be found, and that the. whole couhtsy south of the Tallahatchie itiyer is one vast cotton conflagration. '"..'..' : General Johnston's arniy.was at Enters prize, and Brandon, ... Mississippi, on Aug. 2, under the command of General Harder;