Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-01

II stated that the latest dispatches received BY the
War Department from Gen. Sherman show that active
operations in progress at Atlanta and that Gen.
proposes to remain quiet and await tho result OF
movements elsewhere.
The Chattanooga of the Cnoinns Gazette
says that neither Gen. Steedman nor Col Streght were
injured in the fight at Dalton, and that both are we'll
The latest unofficial report from the army in front Of
Atlanta is the following from the Of the Gin
cinnat Commercial: ana1 iJes b.
ONE AND HALF MILES SOUTHWEST OF
East Point Aggust l8.
At present the situation 10 greatly devoid Of interest
when regarded propheticaly. The army has at length
stretched its great length about the doomed city, extend
ing Itself to the utmost extent and yet the enemy
'front.' US the entire ength-neary fourteen mies-wth
defiant line of whatever strength aud the huge walls Of
their earth aud their timber still keep bay all thrus
and passes at Atlanta Not only this but as have said
previously their lines extend beyond our own to and
probably around East Points and behind this Ia
tive safety their railroad pusales with the bread add tho
bacon OF LIE TO the rebel armies and have yet been
able TO raid It In two 50 that it would stay thus
All The movements and the engagements since the Sd.
when the Twenty third Corps first sent ia on the ex
teme right rather since first the Army Of the Tenues
see, on the 28th of July round the right wing
have been directed solely with to driving in the enc
mys flank and reaching the railroad default Of that
compelling him to develop his main line Of defence. The
former of course has failed thus far but the latter has
been accomplished; and sharply have we pressed them
and persistent has been the Fiction against that have
In than case well nigh rasprd it through with the
skirmish line and artillery alone. The daily this
sort of lighting tedious to make and scarcely edyng to
read the history OF day, with few bottngs aui In
terlineaOns is the history Of tho next The brave but
unsuccessful charge of the Twenhird Corps on the 9Th
traced in boodier lines than the ordinary wont
but since then till the has been Invested of
prominent incident As division after division awnings into
position the right it encounters daily less of cavalry and
more OF Infantry The latter under Wheeler was massed
northwest of East Point till the l0b when body of it
moved out on bis current raid Still it remarked by
old campagners that the fighting by rebel cavalry
at this point by fer the stoutest speu that
they had ever known rebel cavalry to wage They iuva
raby dsmounted and putting four horses charge of one
man. advanced 10 strong skirmsh line aud furnished aa
many Of them were, with Msslssppi rifles and Spencer
seven captured from in suoh quantities Of ate
they offered resistance by be despised But
they could only prolong the battle little aud our infantry
drove them continually while the little oavary we had left
followed up to protect the right flank, was gradually
lett uncovered. On the llth the extending was
exhausted. ,@ss
The rebel breastworks about Atlanta and all the wsv
aopg the front to East Point appalling strength
In nothing the desperate determination of their leaders
to hold the place unmstakaby set forth than in tho
powerful forts aud parapets which they caused to be
constructed with much labor and pansakng about the
city. Our lines closely approached to theirs at
many points, that their skrmshers cannot live between
them except the night but where they do the works
they occupy are every whit equal in strength and sodty
to the held by our main force Behind this ia their
main line of worksthe back bone of their hope-whioh
8 like a chain linked with great forts very towers
Of strength and behind this STILL Hood only knows what
and how much Against such flesh and blood argu-
ment
Since the rebels have reached the confines of Atlanta
they have grown strangely profuse OF their artillery
comparison with their former caution and Of
solid shot they throw than we and shells fully
many The former 10 the circumstances which surround
u.s. are particularly pestferous When aimed at the works
ana Tue rebel gunners have grown esruly accurate in
their aim they demolish them much eectuay than
Shells and mperl the in the trenches by throwing
down upon them the head logs and other tmbers of tho
works Besides this our men are compelled to camp al
most without interruption in dense woods and the rebels
know well that BY smashing these balls through the thick
Trees they can harass US almost without limit with falling
limbs aud jagged splnters.