Yazoo Pass

CorreBpoDjW'nce of tile ClziCiaaatJ azette Ilolena, Ark., March 1. General Pretitiss, as you have been informeel, assumed eotatnand liero soma days ago. He seeiis to be a quiet, unaBurning gentleman, and there are iudications (iiut lio will cominand well Gen. Ross lias gone in cominand of the expediticu thrmigb ' Yazoo Pass." Tilia Pass is a narrow outlet, opening from tlie Mis-issippi Kiver a few nile below Helena, 011 tlie Mississippi Kide, and fl.iwing tbrough " Mnon Lako," tlience into the Ooldwategr Kiver. It wag oompletely elogged up witli drif and tree, and was diunmod by a verj stroni; luvee I5uí under thu directioo of Geuerais Gorman and W.isliburn, and Lieuf. Col. Willson, of General Grant' Eiigineer Corps, bravo Huldier speed i ly rt'movc'd'all tliese barriers, and un last Tlmrsday tlie ' Mosquito Fleet," 'ed bv the iron ciad gunboat Chillicothe, ana followed by a formid.ible foree of infantry in traosports, went sifely throub into tlio Cold water, and are now, doubtIos3, o their distaut and dangerou j nirney General Alrin P. Ilovey. of Indiana, i the absence of General Gorman, is in co:n mand of the forcea here. Gei.s Fisk and Solomon are aleo ia coinmand of brigades ber