The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Affairs in the Southwest.

In alluding to the condition of affairs in the Southwest, the Chattanooga Sentinel says that parties who arrived direct from Murfreesboro' on Wednesday represent that firing was heard throughout the previous day, along our entire line between Lavergne and Nashville. It was also rumored, upon rather doubtful authority, that a force of the enemy, estimated to be ten thousand strongness penetrated through Wilson county, and in the direction of McMinnville, with a view of compelling our forces to fall back from their position in rest of Nashville. This rumor is not credited, be the enemy have not transportation for ten thousand men for such a journey, nor the troops to care for such an expedition. A flank movement of the kind it is believed, would expose the parties attempting it to certain capture among the hills and passes of Warren. White and Cannon counties. Similar expeditions were attempted last summer by Gens. Dumont and Bull Nelson, both of which resulted in complete failures. The journal alluded to think it is quite possible, however, that the ball has opened around and about Nashville and below Murfreesboro' in sober earnest, and that henceforth its crack of the rifle and the note of the cannon will be heard daily. The expectation of the arrival of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was having an enlivened the country reinspire, and the campaign bids fair, if not to be very brilliant, at least any hold and stubborn.