The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-01-19
Affairs in East Tennessee. /.

FROM parties who have reached Atlanta from
Knoxville, and who left there since the first, Of
January, the Register optans some interesting par
uculafs Of affairs In that unfortunate section The
condition Of the city IL represented as gloomy In
the extreme. The are not only disgustI nsly
filthy, but Are literally alive with The vermin ssl
ken from the persons Of the beastiy invaders. Al
the fencing and many Of the shade trees have been
destroyed by the Yankee soldieriy for fuel. The
ci'izens are suffering for food. The seanty sup
plies brought in by the neighbosing country people
being insufficient, many families are dependent
tor subsistence on miserable rations doled out TO
them by the Yankee military authorities. These
l2tpr obtain their supplies from Chat tapooea via
Kingston. The Register adds:
The Yankees have five small steamers runnin,
on the tennessee river, and say they have four
more building in Nashville tor the same service -
-Four OF these boats convey supplies to Kingston,
{at the junction of the fIolston aud Tennessee y
from thence one of them plies 10 Loudoun, but
can 90 no farther at present, owing to the shells
which Gen. Vaughn sunk in the channel of the
river, and which they dare not attempt To drag out
Tor fear OF xplodng them. The river at this point
Is further Obstructed by the wrecks OF the engines
and cars which were run into 1t when last evacu-
ated by our forces. They have the railroad in Op-
Grafton, however, between i.pudor and Knoxville
and are running two broken down trains, which
are their chief nIeans OF transportation for sup
plies.
There are four army corps at Knoxville and VI
ciNity, nOminaiiy under the command of Foster.
who pleads i'll health for not reporting for duty
Grant, in person, visited Knoxville about the last
OF December, AID then went TO the front, near
Biain's Cross Roads, To direct the movements in
opposition to Gen Longstreet.
The authorities at Knoxville have thus far re-
fused 10 permit Southern men. or the families Of
rebels, to pass through their lines South but have
to so North. As their policy is to devas,ate the
country so as TO render it untenabe by forces,
they thus allow Southern Inen no alternative be
tWte" starvation and emigration to the North
Nhrh our ihiorRaat left they were preparing list
OF such families as would be unable to contribute
either able boiled maD other aid and comfort 10
the southern army, and these they intend TO drive
withih our lines, in furtherance of their humane
scheIne OF 'starvIng out the rebellion -
Forage is difficult to procure that their starved
horses and mules are daily dropping dead in the
streets. Many of these Wretched animals have
been given TO the stolen negroes who thronp he
city, who take theL; to the country and beg or
steal forage for them and after sufficiently recruit
ing thelr strength, cara a precarious subsistence
by hauling In wood and snch provisions as they
can obtain 10 the furnishing citizens.
The infamous BrownIow had returned and was
making preparations for the reissue Of his scurri-
ions Journal but is less rampant than upon his fir t
advent, having lost east" both with the Yankee
s0idiery and his tory neghbors.
Our intOrmantS report but few Yankee froops on
this side OF the Tennessee ver-atOut two thou
sand only in all scattered from Loudon and King
stoh ~ Cic'ciaiti-aud tltSc are sleeping nightly
on their arms, In perpetual terror of raid by John
Morgan, oi whose safe arrival in the Conedcracy
they have learned.
The damage done by their incendiarism while
they were Deseiged in Knoxville is estimated at
two millions of dollars. About l50 houses, com
prisng the whole of ihe city north of the rarond
were burnt. Both the depots and the machine shop
oi tie Virginia and Tennessee railroad are uUin-
jurcd. Only two houses Were destroyed on the
south side of the railroad
The enenay's programme for the future. as far As
our ni0fnants cou!d learn it, Is to avoid fighting
As much ~ possible, in order to have leisure TO
perfect their communications with their basis of
supplies, and with the opening uf the spring cam
paign To huG two immense columns one from
Chattanooga into Georgia, aud one from East Ten
ncssec into Virginia Oh Richmond. 1t Is to be
hoped orr Government Will be prepared for them
In both directions.