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CHARLES HOLES, •
BALER IN CLOCKS. WATCHES, AND JEWELRY.
P
us waft on I n notkc and ntoonable terms,
'77.0t Mac Public Avinitut In F. B. Changlersa Mtge.
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K. W. SMITH,
k 'noway • coußrumon AT LAW and Lareamed Claim
Mete- dlee over Los'
_store ,
eeuepsdounis O Depot Janos* . 'J5 ." 1154
DA. D.per A. LATHROP,
MON It Post,Ooo_ , Colt old Banking noun oppotta
Isdnill9,
ll %12s. 1 Mers3tare. EIUMMILY Parllenisz.
uzsznaz.....
liontrom „...MarS y ullSellllpne. Bouts at flsub's Hotel.
K BURRITT,
DLULL'S In ne a t! Taney Dry Moods, emetery, Hardware,
Stoves Otln. and Pants, Boob and Shoes, Hata
Onn, Fun, Bunt* bes, Grandes, rrovnton. ac.
Neur MMus% Pa-,"Apnl 111,54.41
B. H. SLYRE & BROTHERS,
ANUFACTURZRB of XIII of oil kin&
PI Moves, lin %Wilbert Iron NW, Zig= /mOrzarark.
icri Marmot Dry trooda,Orocertee, Crockery, &c.
Moan's., Po, February 29,1864.
f w. F.. &J. a KIRBY,
rcr comlantly on bead good saaortment of GROCERILES ;
also. kgood alsortuaeut of FRESH MEAT. gbop under W.
rd's Tin Shop.
Mon vow, February S, ISK
BELLENGB 'STROUD,
AFID LITZ IMIURAIME WHOM Mbar InLah
r roo). builillay„ &PI old of Ma Block. In hie at bud,-
am at the aloe will be tiansucted by C. L. Brown.
beetroot, February 1. 19114.--tt
J. D. VAIL, IL D.,
•
OM
160PATTII0 PEITBICIILN, has permanently located
H himself in Montrose, Pa., where be wild promptly attend to
al fills In his proftaslon with which he may be favored. 011103
Itealdence W eat of the Court Holumotaar Bentley &jades.
Brad:roan. rebnary I. 1284.-0,1.216 1661.
A. 0. WARREN,
TTOKNAT AT LAW BOUNTY . BOUNTY. BACH PAT and PEN
&lON CLAD( AOVNT. All Penslot Clams carefully pre
wed. Offloe la room formerly ocomlal by Dr. VAIL toW. ii
Lord's budding, below Searle. Hotel.
Mootrom, Tx— Feb. 1. I.96i—tebnyl 1863.
S. S. ROBERTSON,
At aziumurtrazn of
.6jo S 1300treet '1 , Mo S &
ontrose, Int.
Montrose, January 111, MLA(
CHARLES MORRIS,
FesaioNAßLs RAILIIRM and limn DS EWES, over
Weeks's b'hse Store. Montrose. Hair Onttles, Shamßoo •
Murree. and Whisker Coloring done In the DES 1' STYLE.
Mrs' Hair Dressed In the meet APPROVED FASILION.
Montrone, dept. 11,1868.-31
LEWIS KIRBY & R. BACON,
ESP constantly on hand •• MI supply of MUT variety al
K
GROO WILES and OONFECTIONMRISS. By strict attar
los to business and fairnsasln deal, they hope to merit the liberal
patronage of the public. An OYSTER and EATING SALOON Is
!attached to the Grocery. where bivalve/I.ln smarm. are served In ev
ery etvie that the team &the palate demand. Remember the lace,
the old flat Grocery stand, on Main Street, below the
Montrose. Nov. 1T,1883.—mch17,0.-tf
DR. ceLvra C. HALSEY, '
YBICIAII AND MURGEON, EXAMINING BUR-
P
ICON for PENSIONERS. OM= over the store of J. LYtt.
lk Bon, Public Avenue Boards at Br. Etheridge's.
Yoram*, October. 18511.-11
D.-A. BALDWIN,
A TTIMISET AT W, and Pension, Bcamt_y, and ears rs)
Oret7Great Bead. Sosixtetuums Ocnalty, I.
4er.d. Antall 10, 1e61.-17
BOYD & WEBSTER,
PSALERS to Stoves. Stone Pipe, Tin. Copper, and Sheol
Imo Ware' Wan, Window Sash, Panel Doors, Window
ods, Lath, Rue Lumber, and all lunds of Bel'Moo ILateriala
71. Shop south of Searle'. Hotel, and Carpenter Shop neu the
Yethodha Church.
Mormon. Ps, Jalmsry 1. 18644.1
Dn. JOHN W. COBB,
"DEormaten 1111 d SURGEON, rexpectfolly tender. Me Weeks.
GO the Gildulug f name bad altrratAG
1/..." . 11 =pal.. o
tnie United States ArGay. inpUrreoll,o9.l.lll
10.1.411Alein WM be riven to SURGICAL OPERATIONS..
nr Residence on Maple Street, East of J. S. Tareelil Rotel.
Montrose, Snol. County, Ps., Jane 14.18A3.-tf
Dn. WILLIAM W. SMITH,
SUMMON DENTIST. Ottice over Um Danlam
Ilia OLIMe of Cooper & Co. AU Dental 0 .peratlour
&
be performed In his usual rood style and
erarrantut. Reromnber,ofllee formerly of R. Smith & Son.
11=trosa. January 1. 11364.-0
B. J. ROGERS,
trAtrurkortrasa of all deacrintione °VW/LG.
TA ONS. CIA.IIIIIAGES, SLEIGTIS, Ge._. In the
beeteryle of Wlrkmanahlp and of the best material's.
a the well lowa rand of E. K. 1100 E R.S, a few rode ea".l
or. besrles of
In Idenrtrese, where he will be happy to re.
cel•e the call. of all who want anything in his llne.
11 outran, Jane 1, 1818.-tf
BALDWIN & ALLEN,
DSALICRS 111 FLouit. Salt, Pork, Flab, Lard. Oren. Teed.
Candles, Cam= and Tbnottry_ Seed. Also OSOOSIUSS
•oub ns Sonars, Molasses, Syrups, Tea and Coffee. West side of
Poollc &venue, coss door below J. Stherldce.
Itootrame, January 1, 11164.-41
WILLIAM W. SMITH, /AI
MOM= /NM CHAIR MANP.
fedora. K constantly on band all
ktntis of Cs ome t Prearroan. or fur
atsbed at abort notice. Shop sad Ware Rooms foot of Main 51.
Montrose, Pa., March 8, 1561.-tf
F. B. WYPKI3,
FACTIOAL OT 8110 E MAKES; ain minx to
Hints, Mon, Leather, aid Sine Mann. itemising Eons
orlth neatness end dispatch. T doors above §oorle . • Hotel.
Monteme, January 1, 11164-11
-
JOSEPH RICE,
IiKAISIITTACRIETEER and DEALER:II all iltolsof •to:
at Shop Paw miles azat of New Milford Borough.
New Milford, October L 1861-11
Dna PATRICK & GARDNER,
oHMICIAIig AND SHBOEONS, 8111 attend falthfhllyanC
punctually,...) all btunneasttat may be entrusted to their cm
J termscomisetiouratt with the tangos. Diseasee and dffonoltle,
of
the St E. Surgical Operation; and all Surgical Dlseaaraparuca
nrlattended to. Office on, Wubb's Store. 0111 ce bourpfrato a.
S. 8
Montrose. January 1.1864.-tt N. L. GARDIn.r./t.
WDL & WIEL it, JESSUP,
A TTORNETP AT LAW, Montirone, Pa. Practice in Swipe
,101. banns, EitinitnnL Wayne, Wyoming and Luxe= Ocrtalt
ilantrow, Pa., January tat, 1861.
BENTLEY It FTTGEL
A'MINIMS AND COUNCEI.OIII3 AT LAW. Office wal.
of Ile Court Home, .I.Lontrose. rm.
11. G. lIIIMSIar
M 0111"... JIIIIMITY 1, MO,
ALBERT CRAMBERLIN,
IIkISTRICT ATTORNEY AND ATTORNEY AT LEIL—
A" ORM: enter Ite Rtore formerly occupied by Pod Brotherl.
Yontrore, Ps-January I. j.tat,
J. LYONS & SON,
11LICALLESS IN MT GOODS. Oroceria.Crockfory.Thriftwsre
Tinware, Books. idelodaans, rlsfros. sod Liods of MP°
eta Instrument; Sheet Basic. dm. Also Cain 011 Is Book Bind
to business to all Its branches. A. .foL50.0•01.
moatro.c. January l a 1844. 2.
ABEL TURRELL,
aISALLE lA LRAMs, atEDICIT4 CIIEM/CALS.
Palnla. OWN Dye stuffs. VarsJahee, Windom, Glaze,
Liquors, Onxerlea, Cnxkery, Elias/mare, WaLl-riper, Jew-
Cep. Fancy Gonda. Perthmel7. &rreenllnearemente, True
ea, Otholeaßruakee. A:roe—and Agent for ela of the moat
Ipopu
ar Patent Miallicinea. Montane. January 1. 1861.
C. 0. FORDILtiId,
111. s A Y rr op
_ol°Tll.*.rE,B7if SHOP r.V7Merai
,and reparLog done neatly. Wor k done when prom.
Nod. Montrose. Zril 1. 1241.41
CHARLES N. STODDARD,
121SALTA to BOOTS & MOTS, Leather and Find
84 , on Mate et. third door below Fwarles Hotel. 11".
. B. Work nurse co order. and mulling done neatly.
Montrose. Pa- Beoetnberl.2.
B. R. LYONS & CO.,
DCALI= InDIST GOODS, 013.0t7ERIE& BOOTR, RlllOll ll .,
Lathan . eater, QtrOnla, 011 Olotba, Wall and Window Po-
Per, Pain% 0114 ao bunt on the cant glitz of Public Manic.
Montrose../.rutry 1.1661..11
READ, WATROUS, kt FOSTER,
rI C A LERSIN Dlllr (1 . 00D21, Drags. 11 , ...licium raw,.
.oil
. 14 . 4=rta. Ilan= Jruck . ez1r 3 .31.4 1 =11 1 the.., jew.
O. I/. AZAD 111 .4.11:200S al- O. 1 1 9•232.
Aloutroar.. Januar/ 11.
PHILANDER LINES,
ILleaittioN&ULE TAILOR; Brlrelt rote. crrer Bead,
Walsers dt Foster's atom *Matzos% is. v
ignatmee, Pa. July T. IPOS.
JOHN . GROVES,
mlentionstLa TAILOR. ehop oppeelle the
BePa l
licau Steam reaps Omee.
llontraie. Pa., October IS. 1259.-if
•
WILLIAM 11. COOPER & CO.,
DeN H g 69, office Its A. Lathrop's brier oo the tooth
/ rhie of •Zuroplko fate. (Mon hours Rom 1110 . clOct a. m.,
to t o'clock, p. to.
Montrose. ,RtetVol. RS.
ittoraY
- L YONS,
AEALZWID Dry - Goctett., Groccrin, Finr. Crocked. Hardwire, ft, &Are on' 11.469 hiavet. ' -
my bolus EkToli Fetrpuirr ,
JV BEAumorrr WARD',
veg. casmisom th D A rl ar d Mantietureis.. at the
W Y " E I ELIArcaI. - icang lansalle4
-Sria It 19h
TEM LESSON OF THENTATEMILL
Listen to the water-mill !
Through the,live•long day,
How the cllnklug of its wheel
Wears the hours away._
Languidly the autumn -
w .
Stirs the gieeolri
- 1110
wading up their sheaves.
And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell it east
- " The mill it cannot grind
With the water that Is put".
Autumn winds revive no more
Leaves that once are shed ;
And the slekle cannot reap
Corn once gathered.
And the ruffled stream flows on,
Tranquil, deep, and still,
Never gilding back again
To the water-mill.
Truly speaks the proverb old,
with a meaning vast—
" The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."
Take the lesson to thyself,
Loving heart, and true!
Golden years are fleeting by,
Youth is passing too.
Learn to make the most of life,
Lose no happy day ;
Time will pever bring thee back
Chances thrown away.
Leave no tender word unsaid,
Love while love shall last—
" The mill =not grind
With the water that is past"
Work while yet the daylight shines,
Man of strength and will !
Never does the streamlet glide
Unless by the mill.
Wait not till to-morrow's sun
Beams upon the way ;
AU that then can'st call thine own
Lies in thy •to-day."
Power, and intellect, and health,
May not always last—
" The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past"
Oh, the wasted hours of life
•
'That have drilled by !
On, the good that might hose bag,
I.ost without a sigh 1
Love that we might once have saved
By.a single word'
Thoughts conceived, but never penned,
Perishing unheard.
Take the proverb to thine heart,
Take, and bold it tag—
" The mill cannot grind.
With the water that is past"
PTMI7WW I TIITZW*4I
Complete Description of the Grand Expedition;
Wo copy from The Nail York .iileniog liar, the fol
lowing very intemting account of Shen:lama's march,
by an officer who accompanied the enteditionl
Naas AnAicrA, Oct. 14th, Mt
The last few days havebeen full of excitement and
deepest Interest. The strategic combinations of Get.
Sherman, which have mystified many and called
forth the anxiety and curiosity of all, are beginning
in part to unfold, revealing a plan of operations con
ceived upon the broadest scale which, it is not ex
travagant to say, has ever been known in milltatl
science. We begirt to understand now why the ar
my was in our late campaign moved to Home, after
passing through the Allatoona Hills, instead of
marching direetcly on Resaca. Hood at that time
was three days march in advance of us. Gen. Sher
man knew very well that In no event could Hood be
overtaken should he - continue to advance, and he
much preferred that his swift-footed foe should pass
to the left, rather than to the right. If Hood had
gone cast he would have damaged the railroad again
near Atlanta, and then kept to the southward when
be would have been In our present front, offering ob•
starriensowrinnv-.P•N•10.4.4.4... ...
movement now in progress.
flow Mood was Baited.
Shernum's rapid wheel to the left, through Snake's
Creek Gap, forced Hood either to proceed directly
South toward Montgomery, or westward. The con
queror ot Atlanta, prodigal hi his well-won wealth,
offered the golden applo of West Tennessee, with
its richly-stored alike, alla prize easily gained, with
a vista of glorious probabilities opening up in Ken
tucky, and it might be he and the line of the Ohio.
Well might the Rebel, General gladden his heart
with the anticipations of riot and plunder, and he
thought he saw clearly In the Immediate Muth the
fulfillment of Oc promise and prophecy of his mas
ter, that Atlanta should be evacuated in thirty days,
and the dreaded Sherman, with hts Yankee bond.
follow - Mg fast in his footsteps, to save the North
front invasion and pillage. And thus, giving no rest
to the naked weary feet of bibs soldiers. be moved of
once in the direction of Florence, on the Tennessee
Meer.
Meanwhile Sherman had arrived at the foot of the
Chatanooga Valley in pursuit. Retaining his main
force at Gaylesville, throwing out strong reconnois
sances in the direction of the enemy, until ascertain
ing beyond a question that Hood had gulped down
the bait, he detached Stanley with the Fourth Corps,
sending him to the North toward Bridgeport.
" Ala," chuckled Hood, " this is as 1 hoped; my
strategy suceeedse Following the dcparturn of
too Pcmrth thwart:Ps su-my arcrrcd beet
to Rome; Schofield, with a portion of the Army of
the Ohlo, was at once sent to Chattanooga. These,
with Stanley's troops, furnished Gen Thomas, who
held supreme command, and who had full instruc
tions from Gen. Sherman covering every contingen
cy, with n veteran army of some thirty thousand
men, which, with those already in the department,
and recruits coming into the field, composed a force
'sufficient to demolish Hood, if they should meet ;
an event which will take place at Gen. Thomas's op
tion, and not at Hood's, if that person remains much
longer at the river's bank, where he has halted his
columns, as if doubtful what course neat to pursue.
Preparations for the Tharchl
Gen. Sherman has called to him from Atlanta his
Chief Quartermaster, Gen. 'Easton, and Chic! Com
miseary, CoL Reekwlth—men of great eoneeptive
and executive capacity. In four days all that Rome
contained of sick and wounded, stores and machin
ery, was removed, and the city evacuated ; a few ,
days more, and the vast amount of provisions, for
age, machinery, store', of all kinds, with the invalids
and incompetents, which had geeUUndated at Atlan
ta and along the railroad, the surplus artillery, bag
gage and other useless wagons, everything, in truth,
which would impede the celerity of Movement of
the army, was gathered up and sent safely to the
North.
On the - 12th Instant the last train of ears whirled
rapidly by the troops moving south, speeding over.
besdees and into the woods as if they feared they
might Deicrt Inapinns In the dam - rand land. At
I Ravine the last communications with the North were
severed with the telegraph wire. It bore the mes
sage to Gen. Thomas. " All Is well." - And so we
have cut adrift from our base of operations, from
our hue of communications, launching out into un
certainty at the hest; on a Journey whose prcqeded,
end only the general in commad knows. I
013=21
As foe the army ' they do not stop to ask queitions.
Sherman says "Come," and that Is the entire 'vce
cabolary to them. A mast eheerfal feature of the
situation Is the fact that the men are healthful and
jolly as men on be, hoping for the best, willing to
dare the worst.
Behind us waleave a track of smoke and flame.—
Half of Marietta was burned up, not by orders,
however; for the command Is that proper details
shall be made to destroy all property which can ever
be of are to the Rebel armies. Stragglers will get
Into these places, and dwelling houses arc leveled to
the ground. In nearly all macs these arc the de
serted habitations formerly owned by "Rebels, who
are now refugees. •
Yesterday, as some of the men were marching to
ward the Chattahoochee river, they saw ,In the dis
tance pillars of smoke rising aloe" g the banks—the
bridges were in flames. Says one, hitching his mus
ket a bit on his shoulder In a free raid easy way, " I
say, Charley, I believe Sherman bas set the river on
arc." "Beckon not," replied ,the other, with the
same indifference. "If ho has, it's all right." And
an they pass 'along, obeying orders, not knowing
what Is before them, but belleveing in their leader.
Destruction at the Ralissuid.
yrota Kinn ton to Atlanta the rails have bent ta
ken up on tie road, tires hat about them, and the
iron twisted into all aorta of corms ; thus they are
left, never to be straightened again. Me secesh In
habitants are in agony of wonder at all This queer
maneuvering. It appears as if we Intended CC9CII2-
tlng Atlanta, but our troops are 'taking the wrong
direction for the hopes and purposes of these people.
Atlanta is entirely
. deserted of haulm beings, ex
cepting. a few soldiers hero and there.. 'The - bonsea
are vamnti -there le no trade or trellis of any kind;
the streets are empty: iteattliful rosin bloom in the
gardens of tine houses, but, a terrible stillness-and
solitude cover it all, depressing the ;hearts even-or
those who ure glad to destroy it,. ; Id your , peaceful
homes at the North you cannot conceive how these
people have angered to! thelterimei..
A.thgatA
ULM*, Night of the tun Norraim
Agniadsatinifal eratacle,tf. pew* to, th e
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MONTROSE, SITSQ. CO., PA., tuiSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1865.
beholder In this beautiful city, now In Baines. By
order, the Chlet-Engineer has destroyed by pnwder
and fire all the storehouses, depot buildings and ma
chine shops. The heaven Is one expanse of lurid
tire; the air 1s filli.•d with fl ilg, higrelnz
34Y --- .coYeripgTitcres are In ru-
4.
~rniistantthere is a atm de
iunatinn or the smothered burning sound of explo
diug shells and powder concealed in the buildings,
and thenthe sparks and flames shoot away nia into
the black and red roof, =altering the cinders tar and
wide. '
These are the machine-chops where have been
forged and cast Rebel cannon, shot and shell, that
have carried death to many a brave defender of our
nation's honor. These warehouses have been there
ceptacle of munitions of war, stored, to be used for
our destruction. The city, which next to Richmond,
has furnished more material for prosecuting the war
than any other in the South, exists no more as a
means for the enemies of the Union.
A brigade of Massachusetts soldiers are the only
troops now left in the town. They will be the last
to leave It. To-night I Imairi the really fine band of
the Thirty-third Massachusetts playing " John
Brown's soul goes marebing on," by the lights of
the burning buildings. I have never beard that no
ble anthem when it was so grand, so solemn, so
inspiring.
The March to Milledgeville.
Muzurtaevrtia, Nov. Sith, 1861.
We are in full possession of the capital of the State
of Georgia, and without firing a gnu in its conquest
On Friday last the Legislature, which bad been in
Reston, hearing of our approach, hastily decamped
without any adjournment. The legislative panic
spread among the citizens to such an extent as to
depopulate the place, except of a few old gentlemen
and ladies and the nog - rocs ; the latter welcoming
our approach with ecstatic exclamations of joy :
"Brass de Lord! tanks be to the Almighty God, the
Yanks is conic ; de day ob jubilee bob arribed ;" and
then accompanied their words with rather embar
rassing hugs, which those nearest the sidewalks re
ceived quite liberally.
Gen. Slocum, with the 30th Corps, first entered
the city- arrived by way of Madison, having accom
plished Ida Mission of destroying the railroads and
valuable bridges at Madison. The fright of the leg
islature, as described by witnesses, must have been
comical In the extreme. They little imagined the
movement of oar left wing, hearing first of the ad
vance of Kilpatrick on the extreme right toward Ma
con;
and supposed that to be another raid. What
their opinion was when Howard's army appeared at
McDonough it would be difficult to say ; and their
astonishment must have approached insanity when '
the other two columns were heard frotn—one di
rected toward Augusta and the other swiftly maretr
ing straight upon their devoted city.
It seemed as if they were surrounded upon all sides
except toward the east, and that then- doom was
weird. With the certain punishment tar their
crimes looming np before them, they sought every
possible means of escape. Private effects, house
hold furniture, books, pictures, everything was con
veyed to the depot, and leaded Into the cars until
they were filled and heaped, and the flying people
could not find standing room.
Any and every price was obtained for a vehicle.—
A thousand dollars was cheap for a common buggy,
and men rushed about the street' in agony of fear
lest they should "fall victims to the ferocity of the
Yankees."
Several days of perfect quiet passed, alter this exo
dus, when, on a bright, sunshiny morning, a regi
ment entered the city, with a bandplaying nation.]
airs, which music had many a day since been hushed
In the capital of Geergia.
What Sherman did at Milledgeville.
But few of the troops were marched through the
city. Some two or three regiments were detailed
under the orders of the engineers to destroy certain
property d es ignated by the general commanding.—
The magezines, arsenals , depot buildinga, factories
I of one kind awl another, with storehouses contain
ing large amounts of government property, and some
1,700 hales of cotton beamed. Private horses were
respected everywhereeven those of noted Rebels;
and I heard of no Instance of pillage or insult to the
inhabitants. One or two of the latter, imown as h.av
lug been in the Rebel army, were made prisoners of
war, but the surgeons at the hospitals, the principal
of the ituftemu . is 2251Mt i l l ata
Laammtaita
throughout the city.
Gem Sherman is at the Executive Mansion, its for
mer occupant having with extremely bad grace fled
hisdistinguished visitor., taking with him the
entire furniture of the heeding. As Gen. Sherman
travels with a mtnage, (a roll of blankets, and haver
sack full of hardtack,) which is as complete for a life
out in the open air as la a palace, this discourtesy of
Gov. Brown was not a serious inconvenience.
Gen. Sherman's opening move in the present cam
paign has been successful in the highest degree. At
drat moving his Army in three columns, with a col
umn of cavalry on his extreme right, upon eccentric
fines, he diverted the attention of the enemy. ea eses
he concentrated his fon...at catrettle points, Macon
ertaa.eensta, leaving unimpeded the progress of. he
main body. In this campaign-4h° end of which
does not yet appear—it is not the purpose of the
, General to spend his time before fortified cities, nor
I yet to incomber his wagons with wounded men.—
His instructions to Kilpatrick were to demonstrate
I against Macon, getting within five miles of the city.
A Fight.
The roads each column was to follow were care
fully designated, the number of miles each day to be
traveled, and the points of rendezvous were given at
a certain date. All of these conditious were fulfilled
to the letter. Slocum, with the Twentieth corps, ar
rived at Milledgeville on the 22d instant, preceding
Davis, with the Fourteenth corps, one day. On the
1 same Kilpatrick struck the Macon and Western road,
destroying the bridge at Walnut Creek. The day
following, Howard, with the Fifteenth and Seven
teenth corps, arrived at Gordon, and began the de
struction of the Georgia Central railroad.
It aide near here that the most serious fight of the
I campaign occurred to this date. Gem Wolcot, in
command of a detachment of cavalry and a brigade
of infantry, was thrown forward to Griswoldville,
toward Macon, for demonstrative purposes merely.
I The enemy, some five thousand strong, advanced
upon our troops, who had thrown up temporary
breast - Works, with a section of a battery in position.
The cavalry fell slowly back on either flank of the
brigade, protecting them from attack in fl ank and
rear. The Rebels are composed of militia chiefly,
although a portion of Hardee's old corps was pre
sent, having been brought up from Savannah.
With that ignorance of danger common to new
troops, the Rebels rushed upon our veterans with
the greatest fury. They were received with grape
shot and musketry at point blank range, our sot
diem firing coolly, while shouting derisively to the
quivering columns to come on, as if they thought
the viable thing a nice joke. The Rebels resumed '
the attack, hat with the same fatal results, and were
soon in full leaving more than three hundred
dead oh the field. Oar loss was some forty killed
and weemded, while their killed, wounded and pris
oners are estimated to exceed two thousand five hun
dred. 'A pretty severe le s ion they have received.—
It is said, "Ce ri cot quc premier pea qui conk."—
This that, step has been a most expensive one, and
mag,lng from the Met that wu have not heart from
them since they seem to have interpreted the pro
verb ellisrwise than In the recognized sense.
Marching On.
NEAN TONNILLE STATION, ON TUE
GEOI7.OIICILVOLAL RAILROAD, Nov. 27.
Since writing the above the army has moved for
,
ward all along the line. The Rebels seem to have
I understood, but too late, that ft was not Sherman's
intention to make s-serious attack upon Maeran.-
1 They have, however, succeeded in getting Wheeler
across the Oconee at a point below the railroad
bridge. We first became aware of their presence in
our front by th4struction of several small bridges
across Buflalo k, on the two roads leading to
Sandersville, or which were advancing the Twenti
eth and Fourteenth corps.
We were delayed but a few hours. The passage
was alto contested by the Rebel cavalry under Wheel
er, and they fought our front all the way and Into
the streets of Sandersville. The Twentieth Corps
had the advance, deploying a regiment as skirmish
ers, fOrmhag the remainder of a brigade In Rue of
battle on either side of the road. The movement
was executed In the handsomest manner, and was so
effectual as not to impale the march of the column
in.the slightest degree, although the roll of musket
ry-witti oncoming. Our loss was not serious, twenty
odd killed and wounded.
Near the Oconee.
As the Twentieth Corps entered the town they
were met by the Fourteenth, whose head of column
arrived at the same moment. While these twoto*s
had met with the obstructions above mentioned, the
army under Gen. Howard were attempting to throw.
a pontoon across the Oconee at the Georgia Central'
Railroad bridge. Here they met a- force under the
command of Gen. Wayne, which was composed pf a
portion of Wheeler's cavalry, militia, and a band of
convicts who had been liberated from the penitenti
ary upon the condition that they would join the
army::
The moat of these desperadoes have been taken
prisoners, dressed in their Cate prison clothing.—
"
Gen. Sherman has turned thentloose; believing that
Gov. Brown had not got the full benefits of his lib
erelity.•• The Rebels did net ;make a remarkably
Stem defence bridge, for, Iloveard was able to.
cress his army yesterday,' and commenced breaking
railroad again to•day.- fact, till of the army except
one corps, are engaged ha this tame -work. allergen,
With bit array, was - hardly able to, reach , this point
when he met Gen. Hardee, who has wunati„oed to get
around here from Macon. -- Otif troopo, struck the -
Mil station few Mari lifter , the filiti!.-1
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The Army.
" Fre
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[Thanksgivln' Day Kept.
We had been 61d that the eonntry was Vary poor
east of but - our experience has been a do-.
nafati ilig'aronlamic contradiction of the statement
The cattle trellis arc getting so large that wo find
difficulty In driving them along. Thanksgiving Day
was very generally obsereltd In the army, the troops
scorning chickana in the plentitude of turkeys with
whith they hare supplied themselves.
Supplies Abundant.
Vegetables of all kinds, and in unlimited quanti
ties, were at band, and the soldiers gave thanks as
soldiers may and went merry as only soldiers can be.
In truth, sitfar as the gratification of the stomach
goes, the troops are pursuing a continuous thanks
giving.
In addition to fowls, vegetables and meats, many
obtained a delicious sirup made from sorghum,
which Is cultivated on all the plantations, and stored
away In laves troughs and hogsheads. The mills
here and there furnish fresh supplies of flour and
meal, and we hear little or nothing of " hard - tack"
—that terror to weak mastication. Owes the sec
tions of country lately traversed I find very little
cultivation of cotton. The commands of Davis ap
pear to have been obeyed ; and earl ergo droves of
cattle are turned nightly into the immense fields of
ungathered corn to eat their till, while the granaries
are crowded to overflowing with both oats and corn.
We have also reached the sand regions, so that the
fall of rain has no terrors, the roads are excellent,
and would become firmer from a liberal wetting.—
The rise of the rivers will not bother ns much, for
each army corps has Its pontoon, and the launching
of Its boats is a matter of an hour.
Howell Cobb'. Plantation.
Just before his entrance into Milledgeville General
Sherman camped on one of the plantations of How
ell Cobb. It was a coincidence that a Macon paper, '
containing Cobb's address to the Georgians as Gen
et commanding, was received the same day. This
plantation was the property of Cobb's wife, who was
a Demar. Ido not know that this Cobb ever claim
ed any great reputation as a man of piety and many
virtiles, but I could not bele contrasting the call tl [t
on his fellow-citizens to " rise and defend their lib
erties, homes, it e, from the step of the Invader, to
burn and destroy everything in his front, assail him
on all sides," and all that, with his own conduct
here, and the wretched condition of his negroes and
their quarters.
We found his granaries well tilled with corn - and
wheat, part of which was distributed and eaten by
our animals and men. A large supply of sirup made
from sorgum (which we found at nearly every plan
tation on our march) was stored in an out-house.—
This was also disposed of to the soldiers and the
poor decrepit negroes, which this humane, liberty
' loving Major-General left to die In this place a few
days ago. Becoming alarmed, Cobb reat ao fa.'
, pram and rentOeed an uortnne-vomettllMles, pones,
cows and minces. He left here some fifty old men—
cripples, and women and children—with clothing
scarce covering their nakedness, with little or no
food, and without means of procuring any. We
found them cowering over the fireplaces of their
miserable huts, where the wind whirled through the
crevices between the logs,frightcned at the approach
of the Yankees, who, they had been told, would kill
them. A more forlorn, neglected set of human be
luga I never saw.
General Sherman distributed to the negroes with
his own hands the provisions left here, and assured
them that we were their friends, and that they need
not be afraid that wo were their foes. One old man
answered him : "I sposo dat you's true ; bet mama,
you'll go 'way to-morrow, and anodder white man
will come." He haft never known anything but per
secutions and fears from the white man, and had
been kept in such ignorance of us that he did not
dare put faith In any white man.
Rebel Lies to Negroes.
This terrorism, which forms so striking a feature
Of Slavery, has hod marked Illustrations ever slum
we left Atlanta. The ncgroes were told that as soon
as we got them into our clutches they were put into
the front of the battle, and we killed them If they
did not fight; that we threw the women and chil
dren into the Chattahoochee, and when the build
ings were barrio' in Atlanta, we filled them with ne
grim to be roasted and devoured by the flames.—
These stories, widellampear so absurd to us, are not
4allafigaWrittiliiiPAlWllliiMarifitYit6 cti
superstition. In most any other Instance, such
biody tales would have frightened them entirely
meat our eight to the woods and other biding plac
es; but they assert, with much earnestness and glee,
that " massa hates de Yankees, and he's no free ter
we; so we am de Yankee bas fren'a." Very simple
logic, that; bat it is sufficient for the negroes.
What the Negroes Think.
Near Covington, one Judge Harris has a large
plantation ; before we arrived It was well stocked ; I
can't answer for Its condition afterward- A jollier
set of negroes I nave. 1a... than hi. .....n. ...bon the
OHM coats came along. Horrible stories of their
cruelty to the negroes were also told by their mas
ters to frighten them, but the negroes never put one
word of faith in them. I asked Judge Harris's head
man: " Well, how do you like the Yankees?"—
"Like him! bully, belly, belly. rise wanted to see
'em long time; heard a heap 'bout 'em. Say, Sally,
dese here be gentlemen data 'lamina" A compli
ment to our soldiers, which they DO doubt would
have appreciated coned they have heard Mr. Lewis.
" Yes, ear, I'se hope de Lord will prosper dem
and Mr. Sherman."
" Why do you hope that the Lord will help the
Yankees?"
aßecanse I tinks, and so we all Units, dat you're
down here In oar Interests."
" You're about right there; did yon ever hear that
President Lincoln freed all the slaves?"
"No, sar, I never heard such a tine ; do white
folks nebber talk 'fore black men ; day mighty free
from dat."
In other parts of the South the neemes I have
seen seem to understand there la a man named Lin
coln, who had the power to tree them and had ex
ercised it. We have reached here a stintum of Ig
norance upon the subject. All knowledge of that
nature has not only been kepi from the blacks, but
only a few of the whites are well Informed. The
lieutenant commanding the cseart of Gen. Sherman
was born and has always lived in Milledgeville, is an
officer in the first Alabama cavalry regiment, tells
me that he never saw a copy of the New- York Tri
bune until he joined our army. His history, by the
way, is a most Interesting one, and will one day be
wo'rth the telling. Ills adherence to the Union ar
my grew out of his natural silhorrence of Slavery,
whose errors he had wltnessid from childhood.—
Ills name is Snelling. A young man of good educa
tion, of high Integrity, simnlahearted, brave, and
has been most useful to the came of his country.
Gen. Sherman Invites all 14h-bodied negroes (oth
ers could not make the march) to Jobe the column,
and lie takes especial pleasure When they join the
prcicassion on Wine occasions letting them they are
free ; that'Massa Lincoln has given them their liber
ty, and that they can go wherethey please ; that it
they earn their freedom they, should have It—but
that Massa Lincoln had given ft to them anyhow.—
They all seem to understand that the proclamation
of freedom had made them free, and I have met but
fel instances where they &loot say they expected
the Yankees were coming dawn sometime or other,
and very generally they areposseased with the Idea
that we are fighting, for theinand that their freedom
is the object of the war. Thh notion they got from
hearing the talk of their =stirs.
"Stick in dar," was the entry exclamation of one
of a party of negroes to anotttr, who was asking too
many questions of the °Mao - who had given them
permission to join the coleys'. "Stick In dar, it's
all right; we're gwine along we're free."
Another retitled to a question, "Oh yasa, mama,
de people hereabouts were heap frightened when
dey heard you'se coming; dry dusted out yer sud
den."
Pointing to the Atlanta tad Augusta Railroad,
Which bad been destroyed, the question was asked,
" It took a longer time to build this railroad than it
does to destroy it?" ,
"I would think It did, maeia In dat ar woods ov
er dar is buried ever so waxy ' black men who were
killer!, ear, yea, killed,a working on dat mad—whip
ped to death. I seed 'em, sat"
"Does the man live here who beat them?"
"Oh no, ear; he's dun go rat Meg time." ,
Destruction of Railroads.
By the way, the destruction of railroads in this
campaign has been most thorough. The destruction
of such lung lines of road necessarily requires time,
which in an expedition of thla kind Is valuable In
the highest degree. The ordinary method of sit.-
truction was to place the rails across a pile of burn
ing sleepers, their own weight bending them:
Method of Destrtertion. -
But this does not injure the Mil so much but that
It may be heated and straightened again.. Instru-.
Mesta have been made • one Is I clasp, which locks
tinder the rail. It Pais ring in the top into which
Is inserted a lang lever, end the rail Is thusdipped
from the sleepers. When the Mil has becomd heat
ed a wrench is applied, whith tits close over the
ends, of the full • by turning them hi opposite dime-
Gotta the ' milis so twisted that even a rolling ma
chine could trot bring it back into shape, -In this
manner have been destroyed settle thirty miles of
rails which lay hi the city of Ailanta,and also all the '
tails on this Augusta and Atlanta road from the last.
amed plate to Madison ; and thus far the Georgia
Central road, from ii few miles east of Macon to Ter
ryville Rhttion, where I am now writing.
• ')lhe Muth to tile Ogee. , a.
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JORitSON'll ON THE Bourn t.DH otorjez t ,
Alaortau Rattail:Ma), Roy. ;0, 1864, - , - I
the Deitti
We bi, e ..uot beard - 6ota th 9 tlcAlf On , .
aide of the 111/road - &Lae it =as at Bandersviliss;
' nor tona !Wield* ma tot% sY44 t4ou Inaufsq
Tharp di
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tbrouitili f...negro. who:reports that the son of his
insister rode tile irsv from Louisville in great
.haste reporting that Wheeler' was Sgbting the Yan
kees, whet weft advancing on Augusta. Veit fillet--1
man's second step in this campaign will have been
equally successful with tHe first, if be Is able to cross
the Ogeekbee to-morrow, without ranch opposition.
Davis and Kllpatrick's movement has been a blind
In order to facilitate the passage over the Ogeechee
cif the main body of the army, which, for two days
past,_ half been =arching on parallel roads south of
the railroad.
Thus Sr we have reason to believe that the Rebels
are Ignotant of our principal movement, and are
trembling with fear that Augusta is our object,
Kilpatrick is doing 'the same work he ac
complished with such high honor when covering
our right, flank in tha early days of the campaign.
His column now acts as a curtain upon the extreme
left, throtigh which the enemy may in vain attempt
to penetrate.
The most pathetic scenes occur upon our line of
march daily and hourly. Thousands of negro wo
men join the column, some carrying household truck;
others, and many of them there are, who bear the .l,
heavy burthen of children in their arms, While older
boys and girls plod by their aide. All these women
and children are ordered back, heartrending though
it be to mime them liberty. They wont go. One
begs that she may go to see her husband and ehildretti.
at Savannah. Long peens ago she was forced from
them and sold. Another has heard that her boy was
at Macoti, and she is "done gone with grief goin' on
four years,"
But the majority accept the advent of the Yankees
as the fulfillment of the millenial prophecies. The
"day of jubilee," the hope and prayer of a lifetime,
has come. They cannot be made to understand that
they must remain behind, and they are satisfied only
when Gen. Sherman 'tells them—as he does every
day—that we shall come back for them soma time,
and that they must be patient until the proper hour
of deliverance comes.
Thu other clay a woman with a child in her arms was
working .her way along amongst the teams and
crowds of cattle and horsemen. An officer called to
her kindly: " Where are you going, aunty."
She looked up into his face with a hopeful, be
seeching look, and replied:
"'lse gwine velum yOu'se gwinc, massy."
At a house a few miles from Milledgeville we halted
for an hour. In an old hut I found a negro and his
wife, both of them over GO years / old. In. the talk
which endued nothing was said which led me to sup
pose that either of them was anxious to leave their
mistress, who, by the way, was a sullen, cruel-look
ing woman,whon all at once the old negress stmt' iat
ened herself up, and her face, which a monacnt be
fore was almost stupid in Its expression, assumed a
tierce, almost devilish, aspect.
Pointing her shlet,g u.tays.- rmger to the old man
crouclmdlto Dm cooler of the Ilre-place, she hissed
out: " What for you sit ear; yon spose I wait sixty
years for Mitten? Don't yer see de door open. Pee
follow my child; I not stay. Yes, nodder day I
goes long wid dese people; yes sar, I walks till I
drop in my tracks" A more terrible sight I never
beheld: . I can think of nothing to compare with it,
except Charlotte Cushman's Meg Merrillies. Rem
brandt only could have painted the scene, with Its
dramatic surroundings.
It was Mar this plac.t that several factories were
burned. It was odd to see the delight of the negroes
at the destructlon of places known only to them as
task-houses, where they had groaned under the lash.
Areros.tlas agatelime.
SawrnforoF Gnoaomeesmat. RAILROAD, I I
November 80
With the ei'reption of the Fifteenth corps, our
army Is across the Ogeeettee, and without fighting a
battle. This river is a lino of great strength to the
Rebels, and they might have made its passage a cost
ly effort to us, but they haVe been outwitted and
outmaneuvered. I am more convinced than ever
that if Gen_ Sherman Intends taking his army to the
seaboard, It Is evidently his policy to avoid a,battle,
or any contest which will delay him in the estab
lishment of a new base of operations and supplies;
If he is able to establish a new base, and at the same
time destroy all the lines of communication from
the Rebel armies with the great cities, so that they
will he as much Isolated as if those strongholds
were In our hands, we wiffhave aceorteithed,the
.4 . • ~,areiraeitiles&'- --1 76ioriatignata;
Savannah or Charle s ton are of no special value to us,
except that either one of the latter may be useful as
a base of supplies. One andall of them are of the
most vital importance to the Rebels, as the source
from or through which they draw their stores or
ammunition and the largest part of their supplies.
We have heard bp-day from Kilpatrick and from
M lieu. Kilpatrick made a splendid march, fighting
Wheeler all the way to Wayne:thorough, destroying
the railroad bridge across Briar Creek, between
Augusta and Millen. ,It is with real grief that I write
he was unable to accomplish the release of our prison
r, .I t appears that for some time past the Rebels
have een muerte, prisoners from Millen; the
officers have been sent to Columbia, month
and the privates further south, somewhere on the
Gulf Railroad.
Tbe Paseage of the oga:oboe
We have had very little difficulty in crossing the
Ogeechee. The Twentieth corps moved down the
railroad, destroying it to the bridge. The Seven
teenth corps covered the river at this point, where a
light bridge was only partially destroyed. It was
easily repaired, so that the Infantry and cavalry
could easily pass over It, while theFlnts and ar
tillery used the pontoons. The 0 ee is about
sixty yards in width at this point. tis approached
on the northern and western side through swamps.,
Alllich would be impassable were it not for the sandy
soil, which packs solid when the tv , ter covers the
roads, although in places there are treacherous quick
sands which we are obliged to corduroy.
Ina Fog .
sonn the fog, which settles like a blanket over the
swamps and forests or the river bottoms, abut down
upon the Beetle, and so dense and dark was it that
torches were of very little sae, and men were di
rected here and there by the voice.
"Jim, are you there?" shouts one.
"Yes, I am here," is the impatient answer.
"Well, then, go straight ahead."
"Straight alumdt 'where in thunder Is 'straight
ahead?' "
An Original Character
At this station we came across an old man named
Wells, who was the most original character I ever
met. Ite was depot-Chaster in the days when there
was a railroad here. He Is a shrewd old man, and
seemed to understand the merits of the war question
perfectly. He said: '
" They say you are retreating, bat it I/3 the stran
gest sort of a retreat I ever saw. Why, dog bite
them, the newspapers have been tying in this way
all along. They ears are whipping the Federal
armies, end they alters fall back after the battle is
over. If was that aeldee that first opened my eyes.
Our army was oilers whipping the Feds. and we
alters fell back. I alters told 'em it was a d—d hum
bug, and now ,_by —4-, I know It, for here you are,
right on old John Wells's place: hogs, potatoes
corn and fences all gone. I don't find any fault. l
expected it all. ,
" Jett Davis and the rest," her continued, "talk
about splitting the Union. Why, if South LUrolina
had gone out by heraelf, she would have been split
to four pieces by this time. Splitting the Union I
Why, .d.-n it, the State of Georgia is being split
right through from end to end. Ills these rich fellows
,who are ms - this , war, and keeping their precious
bodies out of bargee way. There's John Franklin
went through here the other day, running away
from your army. I could have played dominoes on
his coatrtalls. There's my poor brother, sick with
smallpox at Macon, workin. , for 511 a month, and
hasn't got a cent of the d—estuff for a year. 'Leven
dollars p month and 11,000 bullets a minute. I don't
believe in it, Sir.
"My wife came from Canada, and I kind o' thought
I would somethne go there to live, but was alters
afraid of the lee and cold; Nit I can tell you this
country is getting too cussed hot for me. Look at
my fenee-ralls a-burning there. I think I can stand
the mild better. g
" I heard as howthey cut down the trees across
your road up-couutiy and burnt the bridges; why,
(dog bite.thelr h ides.') one of you Yankees can take
up a trte and carry.it off, tops and all; and there's
that bridge you put kerma the river in less than two
hours—they might, as well try to stop the Ogeechee
as you yantmes. ' -
"The blasted raseala who burnt this yere bridge
thbnght, they did a big thing • a, natural born fool
cut in two tied more sense in'either end than imfor
them. ;
"To pring back the good old times," he Bald," it'll
take the help of Divine Providence, a heap of rain,
and a deal Of elbow grease, to fix things up again."
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glysrruaa'alfaaeamers.
SeAsnonovon, GA., Dee. 3, 1964.
_ . .
Pivoted upon Millen the army baa swung slowly
mund,from its eastern course and is note moving In
six coluninti upon parallel roads southward. Until
yesterday U was impossible for the Rebels to decide
whether ornot It was Gen Sherman's Intention to
march upon Angasta. Kilpatrick had destroyed the
bridge aboye Wayriesborough, and failing back had
again (trained, supported by the •Fourteenth Army
'Corps, under Gen, Davis. South or this column,
moving eastward thretuth Birdsville, was the Twen
tieth Corps, commanded by Oen. ulocurn. Yet far
ther 'sauth the Bthrenteentit Corps; Gen. Blair In
command, followed the railroad, destroying it as he
advanced.!Plod , and south of the Ogeechee the
Fifteenth Corps, Gen. Osterhaus in immediate cow.
mend, bat. under We eye of Geu, liowar‘tuta moved
In two cologne:
trllA t nor' vorti i to tql pi pa ti#4,l4Toinm so!cy
and shield to the real movements!las,
it been Valuable for Hardee to interPeikegir - soottaiti
obstacle to the advance of the mitiaasaurai" Qu i r.
V.lrnyALPl.r_l4l2Lio,g_hes - siWaYs been a strong arm thrust Out In advance, rally to put in chancery,
any•lbrce which: might attempt to get within its
guard.
The Rebel councils of war appear to have beet
completely dedeived, for we hear it reported that
Bragg and Longstreet *re at Augusta,wtth ten than-.
mad man, made up of militia, two or three South
Carolina regiments and a portion of Hampton's Lei
&In v -sent. there for one month. It is possible, novt
that the curtain tins been withdrawn, and as irmay
Aln,.*....rthrit we are marching straight for Savannah;
their gener-...., with th eir tsn thousand,- issiy-attema
to harms our rear, butileyittraccomplich nothq
but the
lose of a few lives, without checking out
•
work 60 admirably performed by our left
wing, BO far as it obliged the Rebels in our front
to retreat, by threatentnei their rear, now becomes
the office of the Ffteenth Corps, our right wing, off
the right bank of the river. Its two cob: mad ate
moving one day's march in advance of the main body
of the army, utdrchhig down the imolai/1a between
the Savannah and Ogetcheu rivers. Tim nee .Intelti'
and value of these flank 'movements first or the light
wing with Kilpatrick's cavalry, then of Dada and
Kilpatrick on the left, and now of Howard on out
right, is because we cannot run over and demolish
any and all the Rebel force in Georgia. They could
not for a moment stand before this army upon any
ordinary battle ground, but a very small force of in
fantry or cavalry at a river could delay a column.
half a day, and Iterchance longer, and as our soldiers
have got tired of chickens, sweet potatoes, sorghum.
itc., and have been promised oysters on this halfsheg, oyster roasted, stewed, &c., in short, oysters,
they don't care to be delayed.
The Georgia Railroads.
The railroad which has been receiving our Imme
diate attention within the last week, is altogotlier
the best I have seen In the State, though the rail
[had( Is not so heavy as the T on the Augusta
and Atlanta road The rail on the Georgia Central
Is partially laid with the U, and a portion of light
T rail, but it Is all fastened to parallel stringers,
*bleb are again fixed to ties. The station-trouscs
are generally built of brick, In the most substantial
Manner. The very large depot at Millen was .a
Wooden building of!Mal form, and admirably
Ovule. It made the b gcattlre I have seen since we
left Atlanta, and deli ghted the soldiers amazingly.
The taste fer conflagration has been so cultivated In
this community of late, that any small affair attracts
very little attention. An. Irishman, the other day,
while engaged in the useful occupation of twisting
rails, remarked: •
over, Geri. Sherman will buy a
coal mine in Pennsylvania, and occupy his spare time
with smoking , elgars and destroying and rebuilding
railroads.'
Great corn Field*
We daily traverse Immense corn•flelds covering
from one hundred to one thousand acres. These
were once devoted to the cultivation of cotton, and
It is surprising to see bow the planters have car
ried out the wishes or order of the Rebel Govern-
went In this respect.' There has been a largo amount
of cotton destroyed in this campaign, but it must
have been hut a small portion even of the limited
crop raised, as the destruction has chiefly been
away from the railroads. As near ea I can learn two
thirds of this has been sent over the Georgia Central
Railroad to Augusta by way of stuteni from thence
a limited amount has been transported to Wilming
ton for trans-Atlantic shipment ; the balance yet re
mains in the vicinity of Columbia, South Carolina.
It is well ascertained that the country west of Sa
vannah river is expected to furnish soppUes for the
Rebel armies in the, west., although corn and beef are
sent from this district to "Lee's army, yet ho draws
the bulk of his supplies 'from the States east of the
Ravannah, and there is no region so prolific as that
about Columbia. I have digressed thus far from the
history of the Georgia campaign, because I wish to
correct the impression so general at the North that
their Eastern armies are fed from the South West.
One thing ha most certain, neither the West nor the
East will draw any supplies from the counties in
this State traversed by our army for a long time to
come • our work has been the next thing to annibi
anassossexhriserii it signets.
As mentioned above, this place is five miles above
Millen Junction. A space of ground some SOO feet
square, enclosed by a stockade, without any cover
ing whatever, was the hole where thousands of our
bravo soldiers have been confined for many mouths
past. F.xposed to heavy dews, the biting frosts, the
pelting rains, without so much as a board,or tent
even, to protect those poor naked fellows, who
were almost always robbed of their clothing when
captured. Some of them have adopted a wretched
alternative, and dug boles In the ground, Into which
they have crept at times What wonder that we
found the evidence that 750 had died there!
From what misery did dcall release them! I can
realize it all now as I could not even when listening
ry mo .tory of prisoners who had fled from this hell;
escaped the davits b, hot pursuit ; foiled the keen
scent of the track-hounds put upon timir path. Here
is the uselessly cruel pen where my brothers ba•o
been tortured with erptisnre and starvation. God
certainly will visit the authors of all this crime with
his terrible lightning. Jeff. Davis knew that the
Northern people would see the condition of the
victims of Belle Island. How fearful must be the
condition of those who are removed far from the hope
of exchange! You at the North may not feel the
' necessity of retaliation, •and may continue to clothe
warmly, feed plentifully, and comfortably house the
Rebel prisoners, who are happier far than If free
with their commands; but you must not expect those
who have and those who may endurp those agonies,
to feel or act with the earns extravagance of gener
osity.
Concentration at Ogeechee...A
Ocieecetr.e Cuenca, Dec. 6, 1861.
The army for two days past has been concentrating.
at this point, which is the narrowest point of the
peninsula. Den. Howard is still on the west side of
the Ogeechee, but is within supporting distance, and
has ample means of creasing the river should it be
necessary, which Is not at all probable. Kilpatrick
has again done noble work. On • Sunday last, while
marching toward Alexander, for the purpose of more
thoroughly completing the destruction of the rail
road bridge crossing Briar Creek, be found Wheeler
on his way near Waynesborough. Ito fought him
oweral thous punishing him severely in each instance,
i
driving his infantry and 'Cavalry before him through
Waynesborough and be and the bridge,..whlch he
co npletely destroyed. He rejoined the main. ody
of our army then marching southward.
lulling Bloodhounds.
A significant feature of this campaign, which has
not before been mentioned In this diary, received a
marked Illustration yesterday. Except In a few In
stances, private residences have not been destroyed.
Yesterday we passed the plantation of a Mr. Stubbs.
The house, cotton-gin, press, corn-ricks., stables,
everything that cfluld burn, was in flames, and in
the door-yard lay the dead bodies of several blood
hounds, that had been used to track and pall down
negrocs and our escaped prisoners. And wherever
our army has 'passed, everything in- the shape of a
dog has been killed. The soldiers -and Officers am
determined that no more flying fugitives, white men
or negroes, shall be followed by track-hounds that
come within the reach of their powder and ball:
A Bold Movement.
Gen. Howard has just returned from a. very one-
cessful movement. Fearing that we shotdd detach
a force for the purpose of destroying the Gulf Road,
which they arc using to its utmost capacity Just now,
they pushed a force across the Ogmbee.. While this
'body were covered by a strong riverside line, Gen.
Come, of Altoona memory - , showed his division be
tween the Little and Great Ogeechee, thirteen miles
in advance of the main column to the canal, which
rues from the Ogee chce to the Savannah River. Re
bridged the canal, crossed it with his division, and
now holds a position out of which Rowi'lt army
could not drive him.
This bold step has forced the Rebels to evacuate
the line of worhs stretching from river to river, and
they have now fairly sought refuge In the fortid
catiens proper to Savanna h
Cknlng In Upon Savannah,
Daemons 9.—One officer and *several men were
severely wounded by the exploetou of sliel wh a ic hijd tor
pedoes burled and concealed in the road, nh
was
an attempt at cowardly murder. In tho'' entrance to
forts, or In a breach made in a line of Works, such
implements may be used to defeat the assault, but
the laws of war do not Justify an attempt !of the
kind which has been so disastrous toil* • The pris
oners were marched over the road and removed
two of these treacherous, death-dealing instru
ments.
Strong Linea of Rebel Work,.
Maus= 10.—The army has advanced dome alz
miles taday, and have met everywhere A stro ng
rgn line
of works, which appear to be held by ale force;
with thittptwo pound guns In oposition; their line,
although extended, is more cagily defended, because
of is succession of Impassable swamps Which • stretch
across the pelnsula. All the openings between these
morasses and the roads which lead through them are
strongly fortified, and thin approaches Wive been con
tested vigorously, 'but with little loss to !up, Gen.
Elherrnan seems fs. avoid the sacrifice of life, and
doubt his making any serious attack ,until he has
communicated with the fleet.
Lupins* of Fort ItleAlllster.;
Diciesima 13.—AtFort McAllister. TO:day I have
been si spectitor to one of those &riot& eights
where the actors posing tbraujith the ittottleadul
orded of Are which - WIWI the Nagler Ornit r ians
Cf!Klaa WPM" IMP OW
_ - . • - ••Z'
02.00 per ann 'ln Fidlrout.'L-
The Second Division of, tb.r, 7,:ift e e n th cokin.,b2 T o
marched to-4g. ..file,tarmlles; and, without. the as.
• u!'" 2 .7:iritillery, have crossed an ppm:fawn: of
six hundred yards, under a fierce fire of twenty
heavy guns, crawling through A thick abatis; crossed
a ditch of great depth, at whose bottom WerB:drirm
thick palisades, torn them away, surmounted tho
crest and palisades, shot and bayoneted the gannets
who refused to surrender at their poets,,. end_ planted
the Stars and Stripes upon' the work in. triturrPh.
The assault was made by s single line, 'which ltP" .
proachr4l the fort from all sides but that Of the river
at the eama' instant, never foray instant wasering,,
no man lurking shelter, but acing the Are =ray. •
The explosion of torpedoes at this point did: he:
deter them. General Sherman'a
_9l4"...entkin and
.Mates harri-te ue sd mid, "Carty the
place by assault to-night, if possible," they resolted
to fulfill their old commander's Irish, and they dhl it.
Perhaps in the history of tilts war there bin not, been
a more strlkZ i l example of the • evidence of quick
determined on. Had we wailed, put 'up en
trenchments, shelled the place, and made the tuitral
approaches, we should have lost maisy mom !lives,
and time was invaluable. As It ls, our entire loss is
not more than ninety men killed and wounded, and
are haves }mined a necessity, is brad of supple& Our
whole army are eager to emulate such a glorious ex
ample, and their eaprlt du corps has been raised to the
grandest bight.
MR. RAMEY PROPOSES THE MUM=
OF THE SENOR=
BADrel; REV, Welt is in tho stet
uv Noo Gersy,) Nov. 37th. 1
I reed in the Scepters, (a book I alluz perooze
whenever I'm bad rick) .ettlain about ten tribes of
farel that wuz lost . A lies struck me. I see a way
by with the present unholy, devastatln war kin be
stopped, and niter given the matter doo cotudders
awn, I'm conwhast uv Its kezihility. It Is
ESIIGRASIIEN I
The &intern branch nv the Dimocratic party
ought to be convinat, by this time, that theyski a
match for the Abliahnists a tightln, jest ez the No t
r
thern wing hen desidveted that it rant no match far
cm a votin. The fact iz the entire 'plan nr repalrin
the old temple nv Dintocrisy with seciesshentnorter
hez very much the appearance tar a faleyoor. My
father, (a Noo Gersy Dimokrat,) wont spilled lamp
Ile on a 1100 kote. lie aakt a nabor, who mut mac
hos, wat wood talk Lt out, and ho told Wei sulphuric./
acid. The ole man got some, and poured thou,
The next day ho went over to his adviser In great
wrath, with the remnant& lithe teaks. ,
wee sue No gen men, S yOO tell
me that this yore acid wood enulikate grease frtim
kote?"mi
" Certainly ; didn't It ?"
"John, why didn't you likewise tell me that it
wood also cradikate the kote 1"
Alas the remedy Dimoemsy swallowed to cant
the cramp colic it got In 1860 Ia =win. Its bowils.—
I t is cane its ilia ea stryknin doz hyderphoby in a
dorg.
tesoom. 311 lice Jr Mcziko. Leta be
made, the terms uv which air that }at nv the
people nv the ole Yoonithi Stets en heti nudd up
tiler Individjlle!! minds that they can't live under
Ablishlon tyranny, abel her the peel* uv leevba
with all thergoods andehattels. Then we'll go to
Mexiko, upset that offshoot nv European monerky,
Maxemtlyen, and set up pure Democrisy, with Ekel
Rites and !Revery ez the corner stunts. Sum may
obgeet on the Ground that mavemllyen is by this
time 2 hefty 2 lao Meld. Here la the Lame we kin
kalklleit on: •
Northern dimokrata in' Sandy in corm
uv deans, • Z:10,000
'No k r e the n=
rn 43Imokrats at home who !peek,
°Ms under Mick Lel" 1,460,000
Eintluirn army, say 200,000
Grand toile, 4E60,000
Cood Marhnilyen stand afore deb a array ez that?
Not enny.
Bat see won, ov wet loose wood them peese dim
okmts and draft skeedaddlers be to a mllltery_ expo.
dishnn—they won't nth- MI gentle trend, Jerson
D. blows biz biznis. Let him whisper in 2 ear ears
"PAM grziplatfu Pox thmttaw'
Oit wood a cheerio site 9 see them a chargln up
the steeps or Shipultepce, with the insplrin cry,
" Post steep s
!" Every won of them would bee ho
ro.
There we'd set up Dtmocrisy agin.The country
ov coarse we'd divide; North and South, Free and
Slave, ter a Northern Dlmokrat wood feel oneasy in
his mind, et he hadn't a south to serve. We'd hold
Nehnel Convensinms in the halls nv the Monte
moment, and oh woodcut it be soothln 2 agln beer
rooms and Nett, and them high-minded feller' a
bully-ragin nv as! Methinks.
Ea every wnn uv us wood be offla-holders where
wood we git constitoomee P Nacher hen perwided.
The natives nv that country wood serve admirably.
But tha coodcnt understand poor speekent. Troo,
but them Meanies wood soot us all the better for
not noderstandin English. Whenever a Dlmokrat
got cense muff Intl him 2 comperhend our talk, he
annr left the party. Giv me the voter who talked
his faith on trust—Ws your inquirin mind Chet hen •
played the devil with us.
1 shel immejltlp perpose the matter 2 President
Davis. - Pernoutum V. Nagar
Latt /Leer lie the Church ex the NooDirpewasilen.
The following touching story is told by the Mel-
bourn (Austinlie) correspondent of the London
Tirncr
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"Some weeks back, at the station of Mr. Dugaid
Smith, at Horsham, two boys and a girl, aged re
spectively the eldest boy nine, the girl seven and the
youngest boy five, the children of a carpenter named
IDinfr, wandered by themselves into the bush and
wore lost They bad been sent out by their mother
as they had often gone out on the the same erran t
before, to gather broom, and not returning before
dark the parent became alarmed, and a search com
menced. The father, misted by Mends and neigh
bors In large numbers, scoured the country in every
direction for nights and days in vain. At length, in
despair, the assistance of some aboriginal blaclus.
was obtained, these people possessing an alraoit •
bloodhound instinct in following up thevery , faintest
trucks. The blacks soon came upon tho trams of
the little wanderers, expatiating, an thesetrackere al
ways do, at every bent twig, or flattensitn ft of grass,
on the apparent acting' of the objects of their search.
" Here, little One tira , . • sit down, Big one • kneel
down, carry him along . ' Here travel all night ,• dart;,
not see that bush ; her fall on him." Further on,
and more observations. " Hero little one tired again_ ;;
big one kneel down ; no able to riuo , it on Ws
face." The accuracy of these readings by the blacks
waa afterwards curiously corrobated toy the children
•
themselves.
"On the eighth day after they were lost, and long
after the extinction of the - Witted hope of their ever
hid= again seen alive, the searching party came
on them. They are described as having been found
lying all in a row on a clump of broom among some
trees, the youngest in the middle, carefully wrapped,
in his sister's frock. They appeared to be In aeleep
and not unpleasant sleep. On. being awoke the.
eldest tiled to sit ups-but fell buck. Ills face was so
emaciated that his lips would not cover his teeth,
and he could only just feebly groan " Father."" Tho
youngest, who had suffered least, woke up as from,
a dream, and childlike demanded "Father,why
. dn't you come for us sooner? - we were coeying ,
for you." The slater, who was almost quite
when lifted up could only mormur, "Cold,M
No wonder, at the little creature had stripped her.
self of her frock, as the elder boy 5 a 1(1 1 "to corer
Fmnk, for he was crying with the cold.'' • . _
" The children have all since done well, and ira
rapidly recovering. They were without food, and.
by their own account, bad only one drink of water
during the whole time they were out, and this was
from the Friday of one week until the Saturday of
the next week, in all, nine days and eight ulf,htaP
A Thom: Anvols.—Adam Slomaker, a , number
of years ago, came to thunlingdon Forma and tor
tug there for the drat tlino a - pair of antank be oak"
ed :
..What's them fort" .- k
"To 'snuff tho candle." ~ • - '-- • .
The candlejot then needed attention, and Adam
with hie thumb and finger plriched oil Itio =ad. au&
carefully poked it Into the imagers, 14 1 3i11g :
" Well, now them': handy." -
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eW" la death's door opened with a - *detail t
Would you say a lady was dintaesillotut who was'
covered all over vrltlr Wks ,
Is there say troth In the report that the Ants
who live Itt the desert h 2 0 .0 11114 3 1 hair?
rff•A Denzocrstro tiotinipontry consoles Itself as
follows: "It is no shame to beWng to the tqlnorl ,
ty, Noah and , his family ware In. lho, minority, ,
while the vast nasjottty wen t to s dtstntotlo4•'!, •
W.-The water Wit 'meat; , the ilr w
that•hsa no odor is freshest; and of sit the modifies•:
lions of meaner, - thoprost generally Itleasolt
There to a man la Boston so' ient's that hie;
viire.truthufecturee all the buttatit Atli!? o=4 TAW
4pm Alm' cream of hle jokes . -
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