From the Army of the Tennessee.
--The Atlanta Appeal of the 15th contains the following from the army near there: In Front of Atalanta. Thursday Morning, July 14, 1864.
Since my last there has nothing occurred to break the monotony of our front save the usual lazy popping of the sharpshooters, and an occasional shell, sent by the opposing armies as a reminder that they are still confronting each other.
The troops are lying around loose beneath the pleasant shade of the dense forest, and one to pass along the hot and dusty roads, would come to the conclusion that both armies had concluded it was too hot to be dodging through the woods for the purpose of getting a chance shot at a foeman, and had resolved to suspend further hostilities until the great battle comes on.
I am truly glad to see that some of the troops are being paid off during the temporary lull, as many of them have drawn no pay for several months, and were sadly in need of funds to purchase many little indispensable articles; and, in this connection, I would say that, so far as I can see, there should be no delay in promptly paying out the small mite to the soldier at the moment it becomes due — although it is not much, yet such a pittance was never more nobly or better earned.
Many of the officers are in straightened circumstances, in consequence of the shortcomings of the pay funds for their commands, as they are not a lowed to draw theirs before the men shall have been paid.
This is probably owing to the temporary derangement of the money machine, caused by the resignation of Secretary Memminger, for conscience knows we had a superabundance of it before that event occurred.
The enemy are also paying off a portion of their troops who were even more in arrears than our own, merely from the fact — as a Yankee colonel informed me at New Hope — that the men would be more apt to desert and straggle if they had money.
The body of the enemy on the south side of the river, near Roswell, are perfectly quiet so far as is known, and have made no demonstrations that would indicate their intentions.
Their cavalry on the left, however, are scattered through the counties of Cobb and Campbell, committing every species of vandalism, and literally stripping the country of everything.
One brigade is at Villa Rica, and this is the largest body known to be at any one point.
Notwithstanding the silence here there are indications that the great struggle which is to decide the fare of the Cate city is near at hand, and no one in the army believes for a moment that the city will be abandoned without a blow being struck in its defence, and the result no one doubts 