Submitted by James M. Burton

The New-York Times.
VOL. XI - NO. 3284.
NEW-YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1862
BRILLIANT AFFAIR IN TENNESSEE.
The Rebel Force at Union City Attacked and Dispersed.
A LARGE AMOUNT OF SPOILS CAPTURED.
CHICAGO, Tuesday, April 1,

A special to the Chicago Journal, from Cairo, April 1, says,

Col. Buford, yesterday, accompanied by the Twenty-seventy and Forty-second Illinois, and a part of the Fifteenth Wisconsin, from near Island No. 10, with a detachment of cavalry and artillery from Hickman, under Col. Heg, made a descent upon Union City, after a forced march of thirty miles, and fell upon the rebel encampment at 7 o'clock in the morning, dispersing the entire force stationed there, under Clay and King, consisting of of both cavalry and infantry. They fled in every direction.

Several of the enemy were killed and a number taken prisoners.

A large amount of spoils was captured, including 130 wagons, filled with commissary quartermaster stores, &c.

Our loss is one man killed from an explosion in a burning tent.

The rebel force numbered 700 infantry and between 700 and 800 cavalry.

IMPORTANT FROM PRICE'S ARMY.
Price and Van Dorn Moving Eastward Toward Memphis.
ROLLA, Mo, Tuesday, April 1

Letters from our army in the Southwest say, information has been received there that the rebels under Generals Price and Van Dorn are moving toward Memphis, in response to a call from Gen. Beauregard for help, and all the rebel forces in the West are ordered to concentrate in Western Tennessee, for a great and desperate struggle.