The military news to the 11th inst. is not very
important, except indeed an "unofficial "statement received through the Rich- mond papers at the very hour of the mail's leaving that General Sherman had taken the great railway junction in South Carolina, Branchville, and so broken the line between Augusta and Charleston. We should attach no importance to this rumour, had it not professed to come through Richmond. On Sunday, the 5th4inst , General Grant had moved a force further to his left towards Weldon, and experienced what the Times calls "a bloody repulse," but what the Confederate General Lee supposes to be "no great loss," on Monday. The real loss of the North was 1,180 killed and wounded. On Tuesday, 7th, they retook the ground lost on Monday without opposition, and the left is now advanced some six miles beyond its extreme limit on the 4th, cutting off the waggon road into North Carolina and approaching nearer to the Danville line. General Terry is said to be advancing from Fort Fisher on Wilmington, and General Thomas with 40,000 cavalry and armed infantry to be attempting a raid from Tennessee into Alabama, to assail Selma, Montgomery, or Mobile. These statements, however, are tither rumours than facts.
