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From East Tennessee. Dalton, Dec. 4. --The latest accounts represent that Longstreet, with a portion of his forces, had made an unsuccessful attack on Knoxville. His loss was very small. He then raised the siege, marching towards Abingdon, Va. Gen. Bushrod Johnson had succeeded in effecting a junction with Longstrements, were at Charleston, Tenn., trying to make their way to North Carolina. Our forces are in possession of Ringgold. Nothing from the front. Bristol, Dec. 4. --The siege of Knoxville is progressing, and the cannonading is represented as being very heavy. Gen. Ransom is reported to have captured a large ammunition train en route to Knoxville. The railroad will be opened in a few days to Strawberry Plains. Atlanta, Dec. 4. --A special to the Intelligencer, dated Dalton, Dec. 4th, says that Gen. Ledbetter arrived yesterday from Knoxville, which point he left last Sunday. Gen. Longstreet had the same day made an unsuccessful
From the Rapidan. Orange C. H., Dec. 4. --Two hundred and fifty more prisoners were received here last night, picked up by our cavalry in their pursuit of the enemy. They represent five corps of infantry and three divisions of cavalry. Our scouts report that the enemy's infantry have fallen back to Fauquier, behind the Rappahannock, leaving only cavalry in Culpeper. They burnt and destroyed everything in the country occupied by them on this side of the river, reducing nearly all the inhabitants to beggary.
From Charleston. Charleston, Dec. 4. --There is nothing new this morning. No further firing on the city. [Second Dispatch.] Charleston, Dec. 4th. --A slow fire has been kept up to-day from Gregg and Cumming's Point alternately on Sumter, Sullivan's and James's Islands. No casualties reported. The enemy have not renewed their fire on the city. Gen. Beauregard and Col. Rhett visited. Sumter last night, when the band mounted the parapet and played Dixie and other tunes foDec. 4th. --A slow fire has been kept up to-day from Gregg and Cumming's Point alternately on Sumter, Sullivan's and James's Islands. No casualties reported. The enemy have not renewed their fire on the city. Gen. Beauregard and Col. Rhett visited. Sumter last night, when the band mounted the parapet and played Dixie and other tunes for about an hour. The Yankees ceased firing while the music was going on. They are mounting more guns on Wagner bearing on the city, and have also unmasked a new battery.
Northern Items. Mobile, Dec. 4. --A special to the Evening News, dated Grenada, Miss., Dec. 3d, says that the Memphis Argus, of the 2d, has a dispatch from Cleveland, confirming the escape of Morgan and all his staff from the Ohio. Penitentiary, by digging through the walls. One thousand dollars reward was offered for Morgan. Guerillas are numerous on the Mississippi. The steamer Black Hawk was fired into below Red river, and the pilot killed. The Texas had been burned. Hurlburt has issued an order that all military goods not in the Yankee regulations be shipped north from Memphis. Ten or twelve houses are named and required to ship their goods North.
Georgia Legislature. Milledgeville, Dec. 4. --The Senate postponed indefinitely, by a large majority, the bill restricting the planting of cotton to one acre. Both branches of the General Assembly resolved to adjourn on the 12th.
From Mississippi. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 4. --The enemy's cavalry crossed the Big Black yesterday enforce' ranging towards Canton.