--A letter received in
Atlanta, dated
London, October 31st, states that all the
Yankees left on the 28th.
A few of them are over the river yet, making a feint.
They destroyed one little engine and a few flats by running it over the bluff into the river.
They cut the pontoon bridge loose on this side, and, when it swung to the other side, hauled it up to the bank to the railroad and put it on the ears.
They will use it perhaps in crossing the
Clinch river.
All the
Union citizens left with the
Yankees.
About a dozen Southern females are all that are left.
Gen. Vaughan has returned to
Sweetwater from a scout in the mountains, bringing with him as prisoners one captain and seventeen privates of
Bryson's command.
They also killed seven, making twenty five, which was about one-third of
Bryson's whole force.
There are now no Federals this side the
Tennessee river in that section.
We also copy the following from the
Register: ‘
Gen. Reynolds now commands in
Athens, Tenn. He has turned his attention to the civil administration of the district which he governs.
The storehouses that were filled when Federal legions occupied the place are accessible to Southern soldiers, and Confederate notes supplant greenbacks in the marts of trade.
His men strut through the streets arrayed in all the toggery of Yankee vanity and splendor, and a commissariat which a Sybarite might have enjoyed opens its stores to the hungry soldiery of the
South.
’
The operations of
Gen. Reynolds are not confined to these minor matters.
He is collecting supplies to sustain the army during the winter, and by reference to his order, published in another column, it will be seen that he is gathering the soldiers, now exchanged, who were furloughed after the
fall of Vicksburg.
Of all
Generals who have received a thorough military training,
Reynolds is perhaps the most democratic in his manners and bearing.
His popularity is boundless, and his conduct at
Vicksburg and everywhere throughout the war has demonstrated his fitness for the position he occupies.
