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Confederate guerillas Hovering around Nashville.

--A telegram to the Rebel, dated Decatur, the 18th inst., gives the following account of the performances of the Confederate "guerillas," as the Yankees call our detached cavalry, in the neighborhood of Nashville:

Hawkins's scouts have captured another sutlers' train on the Murfreesboro' pike, and, instead of falling back, allowed the pursuing party to pass them, and then made a dash into South Nashville, driving the pickets and bringing off captures in safety.

The Yankees attacked Hawkins and his men while firing a bridge on the Northwestern Railroad, but the bridge was burned, Hawkins losing but three men.

Stokes's cavalry and Peters's East Tennessee cavalry are in Hickman county, swearing terrible vengeance on Hawkins, of Wheeler's mounted scouts. He attacked the armed negroes on the Northwestern road, killing thirteen, and wounding a number. Hawkins's men ambushed the command searching for him, but an accidental shot sprung the ambush and provoked an uneven fight, in which Hawkins lost two men killed and eight prisoners. He is recruiting rapidly and has been joined by Jack Hinton.

Capt. Ray, of Hawgins's scouts, and Jack Thompson, the guerilla, both Kentuckian, had a fray, in which the latter was killed. Hawkine has had three spice and Union informers tried and executed. The Yankees in a raid after him caught J. O. Griffith.

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