Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-02

GENTLY large to prevent the advance d
lSherman'sc columns.
The Augusta COnstitutionalist of the
22d says: A raiding party of the enemy
tapped the road five miles eastof Macon
and destroyed aMmber train. Freight
trains We're turned back in great haste
Heavy cannOnading and musketry
firing were heard east of Gordon, and il
was supposed that Gen. Wayne, at Cor.
don, had been attacked.
| Milledgeville had been entirely evac-
luated by our forces before the enemy
entered. Everything of value was
brought away. 800. f. .. ...
The Augusta Dispatch of the 2lst SAYS
the movement of Sherman on Milledge-
vile was a feint, for the purpose OF
concentrating our forces there, and the
raid on the Central Railroad was for the
purpose of keeping them there whilst
the whole force of the enemy moves
upon and captures Augusta or savan-
nah.
The Augusta Consttuli0naIist gives
particulars of the progress of column
under Slocum.
About 1000 cavalry visited Madison
on the Georgia State road, and burned it
on the 10Th.
On the Goth, an engine sent up the
road found the enemy at Buckhead, i
miles nearer Augusta. i- 5 ag.,
| On the 18th, some of our men We're Is
miles from Augusta, probably a raiding
party.
The Augusta Chronicle of the Goth
says large cavalry force leftGreenville,
5. c., and are bound across the country
in the direction of Atlanta, with view
to cut off Yankee column moving
down the Georgia road in this direction.
1t is said Breckenridge was to leave
| Upper East Tennessee with his troops,
on the 18th, for the Georgia line. With
Hood in his rear, Breckenridge on his
flank and 10000 veterans on his front,
Sherman cannot escape.
| The Augusta COnStitutiOndiist says, as
We write the glad and familiar shout of
veteran troops, just arrived from the
South Carolina depot, come up from the
streets. If Sherman's men retreat this
way, they will hear the whistle of bull
let's from tho trusty guns which have
often been pointed at fanatics ON the
banks Of the Potomac and James. Be-
fore our readers see this, other glad
shouts will be heard in our streets.
The Macon Confederate of the Goth
says Gen. Hardee arrived here this
morning. Gen. Beauregard will proba-
| bly, be here tomorrow
I On the same date of the above. COM
munication with the east had been cut
Off by Sherman, and both Hardee and
Beauregard are left far in the rear of
Sherman.
Gov. Brown, Dick Taylor and Beau
regard were reported at Macon on the
22d.
| Richmond papers of the 25th and 26th
that fhnv hoVa me- ma
| from Georgia, but will not print it
Still, they assure their readers, that the
official news from Georgia is as fayora-
BILE as they could expect.
! NEW YORK, Nov. 29.--The Reyoid's
Washington special says that inforna-
ton has been received there of the for
nation OF a peace party in ALBANIA,
Georgia and Mississippi, for the read
mission of those States.
| A small engament took place on Sun
day, at Moorfeld, West Virginia, in
which the rebels lost twenty men.
1t is also said that fifteen hundred re-
bells had made their appearance at New
| Creek. This is very doubtful.
! The Times Washington special says
Col. Baker, on the 4th inst, informed
Gen. Dix of the plot to burn New York,
and a man named Ward, cogni2ant OF
the plot, was arrested and sent to Fort
Lafayette. The day after election he
was released. and has not been seen since.
| NASHVILLE, Nov. 29.--No dispatches
from Hoods armies, or our front, since
yesterday afternoon, wires being down.
| Hood made an assault on Columbia,
south of Duck river, on Saturday, and
was badly repulsed.
4 small portion OF the rebel cavalry
succeeded in crossing Duck river.
| Hood has made no other deve!ope-
ments of his plans thus far be has ac-
complished nothing further than con
so:ipting some Of his dear friends.
| There is 10 foundation for the ruinor
Of the evacuation Of Johnsonville, eX-
cepting proper preparation for possible
contingencies.
The military situation is satisfactory
to the authorities s.~ae3...ss -..., s.
! The impression is gaining ground that
Hood will go east across the ChattaEoo-
"a road possibly with the hope of ac-
coma lishing something there, by coop
Grating with Breckinridge
/ WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.--The rebaI
eX-Gen. Roger Il. Pryor, serving as pri
vate soldier in the Confederate army
WAS captured last Friday, by o.;r sipl.ets
while attempting 10 exchange papers.
This WGa done iii retaliation for the
recent capture OF Capt. Burbridge by the
rebel p;ckets. s.t... t.....
Pryor says Lee issued an order for the
return Of Capt. Burbridge: on Saturday
and Pryor will be probably returned 4:
jsoon rs Burbridge arrives
Since PrY0r's capture Burbridge has
been dismissed from the army for dis.
oI II. rlntA
papers or holding intercourse with the
lenemy under any preteNt. Pryor is aow
in Old Capitol prison. -....... 81.
News from; the army OF the Potomac
up to Sunday evening states that tht
usual amount Of picket firing was going
on. Everything else quiet. There is
considerable cannonading and picket
firing in Buffers department. ~.
NEW York, Nov. 29.-Tho CONNER
Glars Fort Monroe correspondent says
1t has become known to Gen. Grant that
an entire rebel corps has been detached
from Lees army, and sent south, prob
ably to meet Sherman. Its place has
been taken by two divisions OF Eariy's
army. .rr.l.t
BALTIMORE, Nov. 29.-The evening
edition OF the american publishes the
following:
'The city is full of rumors to-day in
regard to the raid on the line of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad but up to the
time of going to press. we have not been
able to ascertain any thing definite. One
of the reports is that New Creek has
been captured by the raiders, and ano-
Their is tn Piedmont is also in their
hands. We only give these reports as
current rumors, and cannot vouch for
| their correctness.
d" New Creek has been, for some time,
strongly fortified, and if 1T had been cap
tured we should have heard some Of the
particulars by telegraph
The Commercials Washington special
says Roger a. Pryor has just been es-
corted along Pennsylvania Avenue, I'M
| dor .r,1nrd To Old ltanitnl Prison lie