Middle Tennessee--from the front.
The Chattanooga Rebel, of the 22d contains the following budget of news from the front of the army:The enemy is advancing. At least he has thrown forward bodies of troops to a formidable number in two directions, the one towards Wartrace, the other viz McMinnville. The place was occupied on Tuesday by a body of eight thousand infantry and cavery with artillery. The vicinity of Wartrace is also reported to be infested by the enemy.
In taking possession of McMinnville, the only left to be destroyed or captured was an engine the further aids of Hickory Creek, which could not be removed because if the bridge lately burned . This, with one or two cars, all old and in an different , were blown up or otherwise rendered unfit for further use. What treatment was pursued toward the town and citizen has not yet to light.
persons believe these operations to indicate a general advance, but, if a movement of the hind is it will not be made by McMinnville and Shelbyville simultaneously leaving a distance of nearly fifty between the extreme wings of attack, and dividing a large force into a pair of armies. We regard both the demonstration on Wartrace and the occupation of McMinnville as affections of strategy.
