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succeeded in effecting his escape, reports that there were not over eight thousand troops in the city. Parties along the line of the State road, between Atlanta and Marietta, represent that the trains go up to Marietta daily heavily laden and return empty. Two corps were at Powder Springs under marching orders. The Yankees were sending off the negroes and prisoners to that point. Their movements are involved in mystery. The last foraging expedition went out two weeks since under General Gerard, with eight hundred wagons, foraging in the vicinity of Stone mountain and in Gwinnett county. They carried off large numbers of beef cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, corn, fodder, peas, potatoes and household furniture, and returned with about six hundred and fifty loaded wagons — the balance empty. They were considerably frightened, and sent for a corps to reinforce them, which marched out to Decatur. Two or three thousand Confederates, under a skillful leader, could have captured the