, 1864-12-09

Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.l
NASHVILLE, Thursdny, Dec s, 1854.
The ereny's lines still enclrcle the city.
The general situation Temaius unchanged.
The feature of to-day was another reconnois-
sance On our left, By colored troops, under
Col. 7. j. MOI gan, the 18th Coiored 1nfantry
and 10th Indiana (disnounted) Cavalry, and
6sth Indiana, commanded By Col. James Bid
die.
About II P. m. they moved out Of their in
trenchments, Aorgau's men on the left and
Biddle's On the right. The enemy occupied
some works which had been thrown up by
our men and afterwards abandoned, near the
Musfleesboro turnpike, The fourteenth and
forty-fonrtt [co1ored) formed strong skirmish
lines with the sixteenth and parts
Of the two regiments 1 have named
as the eccond line, and 18th in reserve.
After pretty severe slirmishing the principal
line moved up, ard, in company with the
10th colored, on the right, drove the rebels
from part Of their works. As the rebels
were seen massBg their forces to oppose
OFT further progges, the right and center
did not advance, and the whole line, in &C.
cordance with orders, fell back, satisfied that
the rebels on this part Of our front were in
pretty strcng force. The Gsth Indiana adj
ranccd simultaneously with the coloEed
troops. The GSth had quite gallant contest,
disturbing the rebels considerably, unti; they
we're ordered to fall back. The colorcd brig
ade lost on man killed end eight wounded.
Col. johnson Of tho 9TH was alishtiy
wounded.
LOUISVILLE, Thursday, Dec. 8,-Ycstcrday's
-L,.f11s tt,a
lines and their working parties, was kept up
On the 9th, but hardly SO vigorously Of per-
sistently rs the day before.
Forrest, with his command, Is said to be
across the Cumberland. We caunot vouch
for the truth Of the statement, but give it Us
we hear it.
The impression gains strength among both
soldiers and. citizens, that tile Confederatc3
are cyacuating. # this be 30, the march On
Kentucky may be said to hnye commenced
We think 1t quite possible-indeed. probable.
4 Nashville dispatch Of last evening gives
The following news summary:
Matters ut the front present no change
from that of several days previous There
| Was less cannonading today than usual.
4 nebel battery is established on the bluff
seven gnnboats vent down and engaged the
batteries, but without dislodging them from
| thei. position. The boats returned yesterday
| morning, one of them considerably damaged.
| A reconnaissance wns made to-day by our
| forces between the Lebanon nnd Natanyil:e
enemy were discovered In considerable force
Our tloops CHI: :ged upon the hill, which they
occupied, and drove them of. Two or three
men were killed and Eeysh severely wounded,
| and few slightly.
Colonel johnson, who escaped from Block.
houee No: so providentially, was slightly
| wounded By 4 bullet Of rebel to-day.
Two prisoners were brought in bcs4nging to
Tennessee and Arkansas regiments.
4 REBEL VIEW OF TIE CAMPAIGN.
New York, Thursday, Dec. 8.-T1e Rich
| mond Entinfl, Of the I'd, says OF the campaign
| in Tennessee: It would be small thing tvr
Forrest to do to swing around Nashville, and
cut its Northern communications. Hood has
probably but to plnce that city in bis rear to
very clear that Rood has already accomp-
llshed enough to restore almost the whole OF
Tennessee to our side Of the military lines.
He bas but to march to East Tennessee TO re-
gain complete possession there without loss
Lest by the treachery Of our commander at
Cumberland Gap, it may soon he ours again.
1solated, cut oil, and unsupported. Chatta,
nooga would then become utterly untenant
able by the enemy. This would restoEe oaz
line Of railway through Knoxville and Chat
tanooga to tue southwest. The campaigr
would, indeed, be glorious, TINT should clost
| Win sUcu AufauLalEEc ~ puT G0llSS. uu4 yek IL
ccnsnmmations seems within our grasp. It lnaJ
be Tint Hood is striving for still more 1t maj
BE- that Nashville Is TO be rcgained, and thai
the feet Of his soldiers will press the soil o
Kentucky, too, ere a halt Is ordered.
l We cherish large hopes from this enterprise
but trust that what Is nnw in our grasp vii
not be too much impcriied in the effort 3
more. Ifit shall please Heaven to favor u
/ with SUCCESS which 1t now seems REASONABLE
to expect in Tennessee, 1t will be an over