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From Georgia.

Macon, July 28
--Latest advices from Atlanta by train and telegraph are to yesterday evening.

We learn by the train which left at night-fall that the enemy attacked our left, extending from the city towards the Chattahoochee, yesterday, and were repulsed and driven about a mile. Late last evening orders were received by telegraph to send cars and bring the wounded to the rear.

A telegram from a high officer to General Johnson, dated Atlanta, yesterday, has been received here, stating that fighting is now going on, and we have driven them. Details not known. Gens. Stewart, Walthall and Loring are reported wounded.

Private telegrams from Griffin report Gen. Wheeler also wounded. A cavalry force the enemy, strength unknown, struck the Macon and Western Railroad below Jonesboro', this morning, and are reported to be tearing up the road in this direction. Another cavalry force of the enemy is to day reported near Clinton, advancing toward this place.

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