The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-07-21

ticEal sum OF $75,O0o. The mill has employed ore
hundred white hands and like number Of negroes
This mill Is the only in the South with acccmmods
tions for rolling railroad or this work, however,
has done lc, its full capacity being used in the rolling
OF gunboa plates and great has been the demand for
for that purpose that all unused rails from the d
OF the South have been brought here TO te
into for gunboas Even roads moi part OF
a chain OF communication between two important
points have been torn up and tho irun sp'
proprated TO the purpose mentioned. The
mill furnished the iron for the Merrn,ac, Arkausas The
boat Mobile bay and In fact nearly oil the iron boats
that the rebel has built have received
plates works This fact alone rendered Atlanta
good point destruction But It's usefulness to the
South did net end hero From the rolling MILL following
the railroad towards the depot. short distance
Is afoundry ard machine shop for the manufacture 81
shot and shell exclusively. Further on and The same
aide ofthe railroad, is pistol factory. This establish
msns is owned by spilkr Eurr, and wa,
reconstructed lu isea Il Is lnr.o onlla
as grisi mil Il was buii, by Richard Peters, OF AZ
snta Tho machinery uxed for the purpose OF manufec
turing pistols removed from Holly Springs shortly
before lie capture by our forces This work has given
employment 70 nearly three hundred bands.
or the other side of The railroad near the pistol fac
tory, Is government srsens rbs has been huit since
the var and has been IN vigorous operation sncc
repairing and making building gun carriages, and
This establgbn,snt employed about two hundred hands
A short distance hrlhcr up the railroad, tho west
side are The machine shops round house, 30, Or the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. Thcse works
very extensive and have done The repairing Of engines
aud cars OF Tue Macon road.
Near the depot on ono 81 ,ne main sirees OF the town
Is tho military storshouse Hero large stock II small
articles used 6y tho government was siered issued
az ordered by tho proper authorities
Three miles east Of the city the government ah0ra
tory nere manufactured percussion caps fuminst
log powder f-es, acobol, chemicals NC In tbis cstab
bnhnep large number Of both sexns and oil AGES end
colcrs wore employed. North q the depot are tho
machine sopa eud round hCusn OF the Western ard AT
lanllc Railroad, aud opposite tho Naval Laboratory
Higher m aud on the wcst side o he railroad are Wind
has aired some q the lsrses. government, contracts and
kept "a CONSTANT emglryment large number OF hands
dreront kinde. all recently engaged in the manufacture
OF supplies for the rebel gcvcrnmeut.
rhereafe besides the works enumerated, large sum
ton factory Many buildings the town were used
by the rebels FOR d,neIeut purposes, such as chinna,
shoe, artillery harness, &c. manufactures.
siK cffI,kn IN CsAroE.
Major " IT. wright of Nashville, renp, hal Tor some
time been In charge cf tho worKs nj Atlanta assisted by
q number Of subordinate onlcers, who ssercisod an
authority and severity tho employees OF the shore
which can ouly DO found in men unaccusscmei tc lls
The railroad shops of which we have spoken
Inferior 10 any tho South. The occupation of toe roAds
north west Atlanta drove immense number or
locomotives and cars 70 tina, pout and there
Gently thousands of them collected there.
After The surrender OF New Orleans thero slowed
awey, u h said m Auenia az much specie "a ihroe To-
Thero was great quantity ~ nnsmrloyoa machinery
Ia Atlanta, tagtn there al dnorent unes, upon tho
cApruRa ArrAsrA
II viii DO seen, 10 addition to us Importance ~ key
70 tho network of railroads extending 70 oil portions Of
tho Gull States that Atlanta eas had greater yilue
or its nsnuao,ortos Tho very existence of tho
Southern arules, such, mas been largely dcI cndonl
hbra,orics cf A'iann w. when tho opportunity for
merry olored strong column been pushed through
VI. counsr 90 new beng dOas, and Atlanta had sssa