Just as the Star goes to press to day, the General-in-Chief has received a dispatch from Gen. Buell, announcing that his advance, under Gen. Mitchell, reached the river opposite Bowling Green yesterday by a forced march.
The enemy fearing the passage of his force across the river by the remaining bridge there, burned that immediately, or sufficient of it to render it impassable.
General Mitchell at once set about constructing another, under the protection of his guns.
The enemy thereupon last night evacuated their Bowling Green stronghold, of which General Mitchell is now doubtless In possession, as no enemy was left to resist him in raising the Stars and Stripes over it, the river being but to cross.
Gen. Buell had for some days past been concentrating a large force In the neighborhood, with which doubtless to march directly on Nathalie after having reduced Bowling Green.
It Is the impression in military circles here, that on evacuating their Bowling Green stronghold last eight, the main body, if not all the rebel army, tied directly towards Nashville; as, to attempt to reinforce Fort Donelson instead, would be well-nigh a hopeless undertaking, and would Inevitably be followed almost immediately by the fall of Nashville before the main body of Buell’s army, and the fall of Knoxville before the division of Gen. Thomas. Neither Buell or Thomas can meet with any resistance to speak of in marching directly on hose most Important strategic positions, if the army running away from Bowling Green has failed in its retreat to aim to cover Nashville; which, by the by, Is the main object of the effort of the enemy to continue to hold Fort Donelson
The Evening Star, Washington, DC