s give us some intelligence of military affairs in that State.
No movements seem to have been made recently.
We take some items from them:
It has been rumored that General French's division was cut off from the main body of the army above Acworth, on Friday, and forced to cut its way out, with a loss of six hundred.
That the division was engaged with the enemy we are assured, but are inclined to doubt the truth of the statement which has passed current.
General Beauregard was at Taof corn a day if General Hood will only keep them going forward, and that they will whip Sherman if he dares to attack them.
Three hundred and seventy Yankee prisoners, captured on the 3d and 1st instants upon the railroad at Big Shanty and Acworth, arrived at Newman to-day.
They belong to the Seventeenth corps, (Blair's) and had never been to Atlanta.
They comprise men from Ohio, Illinois and Missouri, and are, generally speaking, fine looking soldiers.
General Beauregard, in Mille
d that both armies are in North Georgia," says:
Hood is reported to be rapidly moving down Brownstown Valley to Jacksonville and Talladega, where he strikes the railroad to Montgomery.
Sherman's army, stripped of every pound of superfluous baggage, is in hot pursuit of the enemy, who has so much start and flies so fearfully that his capture is not assured.
A train came up to Tilton from Atlanta to-day.
A small party of rebel cavalry attempted to tear up the track below Acworth yesterday, but were driven off by the train guard.
Otherwise all is quiet along the Atlanta road.
The war in the Southwest--from Mobile.
They have had another fright at Memphis — this time from the report that General Dick Taylor was advancing on the city.
General Dana is in command there.
There has been some light cavalry skirmishing around Little Rock, Arkansas.
An arrival at New York from New Orleans gives the following intelligence from Mobile and other quarters:
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