Lieut. Gen. Hood in the saddle.
--The Atlanta papers publish the following extract from a private letter from Lieut- General Hood to a friend in that city:‘ "I am told some of the old women in trowsers in our country fear I am not in good health, and that I have to be tied or fastened on my horse, etc. Since I came here I have been riding all over this country with Gen. Johnston and have been in the saddle every day enough to have fought two or three battles, without feeling any inconvenience from it whatever. I ride with perfect comfort to myself, and expect to walk with a cane before long. I tell you I am in good health and as young as ever, and am as ready and in as good condition to fight a battle as I ever was; so do not trouble yourself about me."
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