Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-11-28
Associated Press Report,
sHERMAS,s MOvEmENTs.
NEW YORK, Nov. 81.

According to the latest rebel paper:
| ShermAn's demonstration toward Macon
was a feiHt No attack had been made on
that place up to Wednesday, but when a
short distance from it he turned northeast
toward Milledgeville, the capital Of the
State, which town it isreported his cavalry
captured last Sunday night, subsequently
burning the Capitol building and the Pen
itentiary. It is also said strong force oi
his army made a demonstration on Angus
ia, within twenty miles of which place his
right was repulsed with some loss.
This movement on Augusta is also con-
sidered a feint to distract our attention
from Sherman's first and real objective
point, which Is said to be Savannah. It is
prophesied that he viii move rs directly
as possible on the latter city from Mil
ledgeville, and the belief is expressed that
the large Union feet which has been col
lected in james river is destined for Sa-
vannah, and will meet Sherman there.
The Augusta Chronicle, of the 18th inst.
stated that large feet of Union transports
had already arrived off the Georgia coast.
The same paper abuses in strong language
JEFF. Davis and the other Richmond
authorities for not sending troops into the
State to impede Sherman's movements,
CRYING in despair-"Is Georgia to be left
to take care of heIself."
The Richmond ErGnsi1aeT says that the
reckless conduct of the great National ar
my will tend to cement Georgisns IN sup
port of the Confederate Government, and
cause the lukewsrm and hating army to
take up arms and become,its most uncom-
promising defenders and that the State,
after passing through the ordeal OF fire,
will come forth purified and purged of her
love for the old Union.
The Richmond Wing though is not SO
hopeful as its contemporary and says:
We cannot say that we feel an absolute
conviction, although indeed our hopes are
strong that Sherman will fail in achieving
his final object.
1t says that Sherman is man of un-
doubted ability, and that he would never
have commenced his march from Atlanta
had he not believed he could finally reach
the coast in safety.
The papers show the division of senti-
ment, distraction and panic which Sher-
mans operations have created in the South
and authorize US in anticipating the most
decisive and glorious results from them.
Late rebel papers are filed with articles
illustrating the bitterness of the different
factions of the chIvalry toward one an
other, and their instructive divisions, de-
nouncing JEFF. Davis, the rebel Congress
and the whole mushroom Government ct
Richmond.
JEFF. Davis wholesale consumption has
stirred up storm of Indignation. he is
aoarrso1 ,0c. AnoTrrr 70 lre. h1unna1f
restrained dictator, and it is prophesied
that ere long he will reap the whirlwind.
A Convention of Editors is called for to
protest against his attempt TO muzzle the
press.
Mr.. Foote, of Tenn, made an attack on
JEFF. Davis, few days since, for granting
exemption 10 a rebel Irishmsn, named
McMshon, and had to take it back day
or two afterwsrd. He challenged the
whole rebel House OF Representatives and
Government, and was laughed at for his
pains.
The Richmond Egghire7 called him a
reccnstructionist on account of his Monroe
doctrine-anti- Mcclellan Union resolutions
and challenges the supposed orator, John
Mitchell On the 23d instant, Foote had
a fight with William G. Swan, member
from Tennessee whom he denounced as no
and the trio, Foote, Swan and
Mitchell, figured in the Richmond Police
Court on the same day.
The Richmond Examiner, of the oath,
gives dispatch from General Lee regard
ing the late reconnaissance up the Shensn-
doah Valley Of Powell's cavalry, and their
engagement with Esrlys army at Rood's
Hill on Tuesday last. Ofcourse it was
rebel success. The two divisions of Union
troops, according 20 this official document,
we're pursued by one brigade of rebel cav
airy for eight or ten miles and compelled
to leave behind all their killed and
uyoIlnded