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were killed and four wounded in that engagement. He saw Major-General Pat. Cleburne's body. He was shot through the heart. The whole rebel loss at Franklin, on the 20th ultimo, was six thousand. Ours is officially reported at one thousand and nine hundred. Stoneman has given Breckinridge a cleaning out in East Tennessee, near the Virginia line, routing his army, killing, wounding and capturing a large number, and getting most of his artillery. General Edward McCook is after General Lyon in Kentucky, and he cannot escape. Murfreesboro', Bridgeport, Stevenson, Chattanooga and Knoxville all right. Another telegram, dated the same day, announces another capture of three thousand men, which is, without doubt, the same made of the wounded at Franklin. It says: Our forces are advancing. This morning, at about 8 o'clock, they captured a body of rebel prisoners estimated at three thousand in number. Among them are one general and a number of commissioned officers.