The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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From the Southwest.

Our latest advices from East Tennessee indicate the near approach of stirring times in that quarter Rumors from Nashville state that the traitor Andy Johnson is about to resign his position as military Governor of the State of Tennessee, and anticipates a return to the Yankee Senate by the bogus Legislature of the State. It is said he will be succeeded as Governor by Wm. B. Campbell, who has the rather doubtful merit of having been on both the Northern and Southern side in the present contest. Many hundred hands are said to be still employed in the erection of fortifications around Nashville, and it is supposed to be the indication of the enemy to girdle the city with permanent fortifications. The ablest of their engineers are superintending the work.

About six thousand Federal troops are believed to be at Beard's Mill, which is between Murfreesboro and Lebanon, and about ten miles South of the letter point. Rosseu's division, (Federal,) consisting of ten thousand men, is still at Galla in. On Thursday last Gen. Wharton's brigade was engaged in a series of brilliant skirmishes in the neighborhood of Mill Creek, about eight miles from Jurville, in which one hundred of the enemy was killed. There was also extensive skirmishing on Friday and Saturday by the same forces. Our troops still occupy Mill Creek.