Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
From Chattanooga.
Correspondence of the Knoxville Wing.

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brief items and an ardent admircr of your
course, and the sentiments of your jour
nal | deem it a plaSure to tender You
a communication embracing the news circu-
lated in this department up to present wri
ting, trusting that your paper may occasion
ally be seen in this city, which, up to this
time, has not been the case. Upon the ar
rival of the steamboats, from above, | rs
we'll as others assemble at the landing, hop
ing to procure copies of your paper but
have never yet been enabled to do SO.
JOHN MORGAN At ATLANTA.
( l learned from rebel paper Of the 10th
instant that General John Morgan had ar
rived at Atlanta, Ga, few days before and
that upon the 10Th he made speech from
the steps of the Washington House, in
which he announced his intention of max
ing raid against the Yankees, which
would be followed by the evacuation of
Chattanooga Subsequently | met desert
ers from the rebel army who confirmed the
report of his arrival and speech, and who
favored me with the additional information
regiment, the ID Kentucky cavalry, three
Alabama regiments of cavalry, and i num-
Der of regiments Of mounted infantry. He
informed officers at Dalton, as we'll as at
Atlanta that he would cut the railroad be-
tween Nashville and Chattanooga, and
would turn up, too, in place in which the
yankees would little expect to see him.
WHEELER ALSO GOING ABOUT.
1t is also reported, by those who should
best know, and believed at. headquarters,
that the rebel General Whecler, who is the
superior Of Morgan in every particular, is
upon an excursion of the like nature. and
it must not astonish you if he should make
his appearance somewhere upon the Ten
nessec river above Chattanooga
LARGE NUMBERS OF DEsERTERs ARRIVE DAILY.
The cry of assertions from the rebel lines
has been very general of late, and can as
sure YOU that there can be no eXaggcration
III it. Yesterday thirty-two arrived from
the neighborhoOd of Tunnel Hill, most of
whom belonged to Kentucky and Tennes-
see regiments. They tell hard stories of
the cOmmissary department, half of which,
if true would tend to show that the rebel
. General Starvation had taken the field
| These poor fellows whom | cOnversed with
said that the risk run by those who desert
ed prevented hundreds from running away,
as if caught in the act, hanging immcdi-
atcly, followed, without even the apology
of trial They spoke quite sensibIy about
the Presidents amnesty proclamation, and
said that there were but very few who were
unacquainted with its tenor. The whole
party were fearfully ragged, their dilapida-
ton extending from the crowns Of their
heads to the solcs Of their feet. Their boots
and shoes were in "horribe state Of pres
ervation. and their hats were too shock
ing to describe. | could not help plying
these poor dcIuded sons of the South, who
seemed panied with their own condition.
One hundred and fifty of these fellows were
sent to Nashville to-day. Deserters have
the liberty of the city and many Of them
visit the hospitals, where they use every
exertiOn to persuade their wounded COM
panons to Join them in their wholesale de
sertiOns
THE wHER EAEOUTs OF Harry wATTABSON.
l suppose all of your citizens know
Harry, generally known us Onc-eyed
Wattarson,' the quondam editor of the
Nashville Banner. Harry, YOU know, has
been since the evacuation of Nashville by
the rebels, some two years ago, the editor OF
the Chattanooga Rebel He is an able fell
low, and therefore makes a grand rascal.
At the commencement of the war he was
the Washington correspondence the Phila
deIphia Press, and even after the battle Of
Bull Run, endeavored to get situation I'M
der Father Abraham But the President
could not quite satisfy himself with the
LOYALTY of Harry. and he declined placing
him in the departments. Since then he has
earned for himself the chief of slanderers
Of our Government, and from his over
earnestness in the cause of Bragg he has
been dismissed from the editorial corps of
the Rebel. and is now the editor-in-chief of
the Atlanta Conftderacy. As brief per
sonal item | will add that he is making love
to Miss Rebecca. daughter of Andrew
Ewing.
THE RELEASE OF DOCTOR HUNT.
Surgeon Hunt, of the 9th CoyaD Tennes-
see regiment, has been released from
prison, and returned here a few days ago.
Maybe, however, you are not aware that
he was captured But he was, at his home
at Cleveland, whittier he had been permitted
to 90 by General Thomas for the purpose
of removing his family. He. and several