The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-10
WEEKLY SUMMARY or TEur.
GRAPHIC NEWS.


There Is nothing of importance from Can
GRANTS army later than the official dianatch
of Tuesday. The newspaper reports refar 70
the fighting of Thursday and Friday of which
official accounts have been previously received
They are only valuable for incidents, and can.
not be relied on for results.
The Baltimore Convention assembled
Tuesday, but we are not in possession of any.
thing but the details of its preliminary organi-
zation.
Secretary SrANTON's bulletins show that
our army continues its generally successful OPP
erations, and is crowding LEE behind his
earthworks on the Chickahominy. Our loss
in the three days fighting of last week around
Cold Harbor is stated at not exceeding 5000
The last rebel attack, made Saturday night
upon HANCoCK's line, was repulsed, and HAN
COCK held his position within forty wards of
the rebel works.
SHERMAN, by another demonstration of
passing JoHNsToN's flank, has gained impor-
tant advantages and his army is moving on.
Acworth mentioned in the dispatches, is sta
ton on the railroad, about ten miles north Of
Marietta, and about thirty miles from Atlanta.
The latest news from GRANT is dated Fri
day morning. The attack on the enemy's
works at Cold Harbor was successful. They
were carried and held, with several hun.
dred prisoners No estimate Of the loss on
either side is given. We get no idea from
the dispatch of the positions of the armies,
or of GRANTS future movements. General
GRANT is now very nearly, according to our
judgment, in the position Gen. Mcclellan,
was before the commencement of the seven
days battles, or at any rate but a few miles
north. Many of the Eastern journals express
the opinion that GRANT would transfer his ar
my to James River, in order to effect juno
ton with BUFFERS forces, but these opinions
were uttered before it was known that General
SMITHS corps had joined GRANT. We find by
reference to MCCLELLANs report that he pre-
ferred the James River as base Of operations,
but was prevented from doing so by a sugges
ton of the President that if he kept the road
open on the North MCDOWELL would be al
lowed to join him. Gen. GRANT is in a very
difficult position where he now is. He must
cross the Chickahominy in order to get to
Richmond, and that is not an easy mat
ter, at this season, when sudden rise
may overflow all its approaches. But as the
campaign must soon come to q head, and its
strategy become developed, it is rot profitable
to indulge in too many speculations. however
enticing the field may appear.
"A Tribune correspondent tells how BUTLER
was about to take Petersburg when the order
will do to tell the marines. The statement that
5000 men have gone from Petersburg to LEE
don't tally with the dispatch of BUTLER of the
10th of May, that ''Gen. D. H. Hill had been
whipped at Petersburg, that BEUREGARD was
cut off below that city, and that GRANT would
not be troubled with any further reinforce
ments to LEE from BEAuREGAR's forces
Now it is well known that BUTLER never whip
ped anybody, and never cut the direct line of
railroad between Richmond and Petersburg
and that BEAuREGARD's forces" passed up
to the latter place without interruption, after
Buffers advance.
Gen. SHERMAN is moving on rapidly to-
wards Atlanta, and compels the enemy to evac-
uate the strong passes on the line by flank
movements. HOOKER and SCHoFIELD were
pushing towards Marietta, which is only twen-
ty miles from Atlanta. Marietta is flourish
ing and handsome village, the capital of Cobb
county, and situated on the Western and At
lanta railroad, northwest of Atlanta. The site
of Marietta is higher than that of any other
~ is Hod nv
rich farming and mining region. 1t contains
the State Military Academy, four churches and
three newspaper offices. Two and half miles
from Marietta is Kenesaw Mountain which is
1928 feet above the level of the sea- and af-
fords an extensive and beautiful view.
AS SHERMAN is steadily and rapidly nearing
Atlanta, the objective point of his campaign,
the annexed description of the place our read
ers will find interesting. 1t is from the Saint
Louis Republican,:
Atlanta has population of twenty-six thou
sand inhabitants, among whom are liberal
sprnkling of NOrtherners, who are the most
demonstrative and extreme secessionists in the
town. 1t is located in an elevated and salubri-
Gus section of the State, upon the dividing line
in Fulton county, between the cotton growing
and grain producing regions and is three hun
0reQ ana ten miles 1rOm savannah, three num-
bred and seven miles from Charleston, one
hundred and seventy:fve miles from Mont
gomery, Alabama, one hundred and thirty-six
miles from Chattanooga, three hundred and
twelve miles from Knoxville, and seven hum
bred and ninety miles from Richmond. Four
railroads communicate with Atlanta, and form
q junction there-the Western or Georgia
State railroad, the Macon and Western rail-
road and the Atlanta-Montgomery railroad.
In the spring of 1850 John c. Calhoun, on
his return from the Commercial Convention at
Memphis, stopped severaldays at Atlanta, and
predicted then that it would be the greatest
inland city of the South, and at no distant day
the capital of the Southern Contederacy-the
corner stone of which, he maintained, would
be African slavery. Although the reDel capital
is at present in Richmond, the public senti-
ment of the South has already located 1t per-
manently at Atlanta, provided the Confederacy
There are ouarries of the very finest granite
Of Stone Mountain, sixteen miles from Atlanta.
on the Georgia Railroad, and the people of
that civ determined, when this cruel war is
over !" ~ rear structures more magnificent than
thoss Of ancient Greece or Rome. tall as the
Tower of Babel, and more durable than the
Pyramids.
dom. and it is here that the naval supplies are
stored. There is an armory at Atlanta. a
chemical laboratory and sword factory.
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