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From Georgia. Atlanta, August 19. --There was heavy artillery firing on the centre last night. This morning the enemy's batteries in front of the city opened a heavy fire, which exceeded anything yet witnessed. A forty-two pounder Sawyer shell exploded in a house, killing Captain Jarson, of the Fourteenth Texas cavalry. Two children and several ladies were wounded. No further damage was done. Kilpatrick is moving after Wheeler. As is supposed, he turned towards the Atlanta and West Point railroad, which he struck at Fairburn, where, having cut the road and telegraph, he has gone in the direction of the Macon road, and, it is supposed, thence to Andersonville, for the purpose of releasing the prisoners. His force is estimated at from twenty-five to thirty thousand. There are reports from the enemy's rear to the effect that Wheeler had burned the bridges at Etowah and Resaca and Dalton, between the up tunnel.--[The enemy, then, is undoubtedly on half ration.]