Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-04-11
RELIABLE INTELLIGENCE FROM THE FRONT"
The scetious editor Of the Chattanooga Rebel dishes


up the following palaabe feast for sensatiOnmOngers
The celebrated gentleman from the 'front.' has arrived
He is a first cousin by marriage to the individual
seldom alluded to by the situation writers as 'the
liable gentleman" He is recently Through from Nash
vile" Il is a mystery to the uniniated world, how he
got throughput it is shrewdy OWNED by the shrewed
est that R1secrans any other man put him through
He saws the Federals have undoubtedly evacuated MUIR
reesboro' He goes far as to says he them
doing it, with his two eyes They are falling back
towards Nashville In Short they are in full retreat on
Bowling Green. The anxious South may rely upon it,
that thew have been falling back for nearly week
Al the present rerograde speed it not at all unlikely
but they will fall back by this tune next year. so far
that thew will have circumy ented the globe and
up on the other side Of the earh TO take US in the
Gentleman from the float also assures us that one
half if not three-fourths of the army will desert and
20 home as soon as they are paid eff Rosecrans, &C
eordugly with that foresight which has ever character
lied his military career has suppressed the further ssu
Of "Greenbaoks" TO his troops. The demoraliza
ton of the Yankee army is terribly beyond description
Not having been paid anything for months, and not
having had anything to eat but dead mules since they
came into Tennessee, they naturally attenuaed in
frame aud in frame Of mind to pursue the rebellion
anv further "Our informant" has talked with three
fo1rhs of the Yankees and they all tell this thing not
by way of joke, but as meanchoy uuIo' IN strict
" confidential way"
Five hundred regiments of the sweet Wcserners laid
down their arms ehave since been informed that they
took them up again. Three or four dozen lnois regi
ments are men under arrest for INSTRUMENTATION, and are
cosely confined in the cupalo Of the State Capitol
"Genieman rom the trout who, by the way is as far
seeing and sagacous gentleman from the front, as
the 'front.' has yet produced, Is satisfied IN his own
mind that while the army Of Rosecrans is thus terribly
depleted by deserton and the mutinous conduct OF the
troops disease has also been making sad havoc. Five
six hundred die daily They die SO fast 1t Is imposs
BILE TO bury them and it is sight to see
the public square strewn with dead bodies for long
a week at time. They die off in the ranks al
dress parade The habit Of dying in the ranks has be-
come such anusal that the commanding General has
found il necessary to put the next on ten days
ira duty who amuses himself by dying parade with
out permission Of his officers.
With the lights before lights by the gentlemen
from the ront1 we are satisfied Of the rapid process:
Of dsntegration in the Yankee army. The public may
rest assured that our Especial gentleman from the
front" will get through as rapidly as possible, and We
hope to have the pleasure to announce in few days
that the entire army has dissolved and nobody LETT bu
: Rosecrans, whom we will surround and capture.