Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-10-22
THE WAR;

camp, even picket hring having tof lne
time ceased. II is reported sthal General
Grant has relieved Generals Meade and
Warren from command They were or
dered 10 attack the strong Confederate po.
sitions near the Weldon Railroad they
protested agains, il, as ii would cause an
immense loss OF lite, and mos, probably be
unsuccessful and Grant removed them
Hancock, it ia rumored, will be Meade's
successor. Whether these reports are true
we cannot say, bul all the old cabals against
Meade, which once were so strong, have
been revived Brney is still in philadol.
phia, very low with fever. IT will be a
month before he can resume his command.
Sheridar's tarbarons devastation in the
Shenandoah Valley has already borne its
irnils The euetrllas are 40 numerous
aud so savage in their attacks upon hit
rearguards aud supply trains, that he finds
himself rrable to hold a position 50 far ad
vanced as Suasburg His rains from Har
per's Ferry are intercepted, and Mosety
will not allow his gangs Of Iaborers 10 re.
pair the Manassas Gap Railroad. So Sher-
inan has ro alternative but 10 abandon
S,rasSurg, and retreat northwatd towards
Winchester. II is said he will bring his
army all the way back 10 CharIeslown and
Harper's Ferry. As he retreats, his devas
ta,ion is as universal a. that made in the
Valley south OF Srasburg Desoa,lon
feians supreme. The result OF il all is,
that never since the war began has guerrilla
war been so bloody as it is now in the
Shenandoah.
I The New York Independent states tha,
General Sherman will make no attempt this
year 10 advance south OF Atlanta For ovef
three weeks we have not had line OF
news from his army. The railroad and
telegraph connecting Atlanta with Chata-
nooga Rre still broken, and the COniederales
have their own way On Saturday last,
Wheeler captured Rome, town in Geor-
ola east of Shermau's supply railroad, aud
took three ihonsand negro troops prisoners.
On the same day. he dashed njO Marietta,
near the keneS,w Mountain aud on the
railroad, and spiked the canuo1, Hood is
near Marietta, where the bulk OF Sher-
mans troops are. Ihe two armies are
resting on their arms, watching each other
All the Federal troops have been driven
from Southwestern Virginia. One body
was followed rs General Bteck eurldGe al
most 10 knoxville, IN Fast Tennessee -
Burhridge, whose command is now neal
Lexington, Kenlacky, reports that he los
heavily on the retreat.
The deeat OF Washburne's commanc
near East Point, Alabama, by Forrest, j:
confirmed. All Washburne's artillery
eight euns-waS captured. Two oil his
cassons were exploded, ard one OF hl'
transports Disabled oy the Confederate
shells. Washburne has has reir reated.
Genera, Price has made III, hcadquar
, tets at B,nnevllle, Missouri lsl south o
the Missouri RIVER Norm OF the river lht
, Federal troops have abandoned nearly al
the Stale, and are concentrating AT Alacol
City, northwest OF ST. Louis
In trout OF Petersburg, there is the nsua
: picket and artillery firing. A reconnois
sance seut out b, General Butler. on Thurs
day last, advanced about two and hal
miles IN the direction OF Richmond, aut
alter 6Ume rkirm..hing with parties oi Goa
Iedera,es, returned. they dId not find lh
enemy ii iofce. The Confederate csvalrl
, are reported concentrating on Grants lett
apparently 10 make a rad on his raliroat
communicalion. Preparations were ma
S king TO prevent this. Secretary Stanton an,
other gentlemen connhclpd with the Ad
minlstra ion are ON a visit 20 the front.
, General Schotield has arrived al Chata
. nooga, and taken command there. FIN
place is to te strengthened in anlicipalIo
OF an attack hy the enemy. Hoods arm,
s reported at Dalton, aud Sherman va
said to ne close in his rear Dalton is nea
the Teune-sre iue. The ConIede;a,es,
y appears are sill beseglug A'aloona, as
| despatch says that the garrison al th'
- place were making an obstinate deieuse.-
J., It now comes out that III the recent altac
on Aa,ooua, the Nouiederhles capture
i two Federal regimens.
GeupraI Pt,ce, IN Missouri, has lr
Boouevll'e, and moved hI~ army towdTt
= Lexington. The Federal cavalry undt
, General Sanhorn, met wiih IA defeat q
Wednesday last, AT prsGah. GeheraI Rose
G Grams has arrived at Jefferson CITY.
o General \ A,holh's expedition in FIorldi
y, has caprured The town OF Marianne. III
- Federal loss was small
= We have accounls OF varInus cavalry es
o. pehitions in Louisiana in all Of which lh
g Contehesalrs we're deed'ed.