Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-21
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Special to OlesveIand Leader.


Rebel papers of Tuesday 18th, have been
received here.
The Richmond Examiner has nearly a
column of news from the armies in Geor-
gia.
The Montgomery, Alabama, Appeal
says that Beauregsrd and staff passed
through Opelika, Alabama, on the sth, on
his way to Tennessee to assume command
of the army there. 1t further SAYS that it
is able to state, on good authority, that he
will personally direct the movements and
operations of the army until the fall cam
Paign shall have been fully closed.
Georgia papers think that theree3s no
doubt of the fact that Shermau's comfnun-
ications are cut.
A correspondent ofthe Augusta Sentinel
says:
1t is now well known that General Hood
is in the rear of Sherman's army, and thst
no car has passed over the State road to
Atlanta within the space of ten dsys,
and that he has completely cut off Sher-
mans supplies by that route, that his for
midable foe is doomed to destruction, and
regard as inevitable, go where he may
now he cannot feed his army.
OF affairs at Big shanty and AlatoOna
the appeal says:ii
Report reached Newman by a courier on
Saturday, that our forces had succeeded
in completely destroying the railrord for
the distance ofscventeen miles from Big
Shanty. The track was completely de-
molished, embankments undermined and
Oaved down, cuts filed up and bridges
burned.
On Friday we still held the road above
Big Shanty.
Through the same channel rumor cana
that French's division was repulsed in an
attack on Federal force posted on the
Alatoona heights, with loss of 800, but
another version received here, is, that
General French, while engaged in destroy
ing the road, was cut off from the MAN
army, but succeeded in cutting his way
through with some loss.
The Richmond EranaiSser says the most
interesting question connected with the
situation in Georgia is, What is Sherman's
true condition at Atlanta Can he subsist
MS o4.y ~ Vr
cut2 What quantity of supplies has he
there. These, it says, are important ques-
tions and much depends upon them. Tho
Georgia papers are quite contradictory in
answering the important questions put by
the Examiner.
The Savannah NesOs says:
We have just seen a gentleman who
left Atlanta on the 7th. Hesays the Yam
KEGS have nothing but hard-tsck to eat
that the whole of their army except one
fourth have left the city, and they are very
uneasy in reference to their situation. No
trains were arriving.
He says the tale of large quantities Of
supplies having been accumulated, is with
out foundation. The retels labor
hard to show that Sherman is short of
provisions. This seems to be their only
hope.
The Macon Confederate says:
Reports all concur in representing that
with the exception of single article,
hardbread, Sherman's Commissary is In a
desperate condition. He has been indus
triously engaged in foraging through all
the neighboring counties, but it is believed
with no important results. Mest fresh
and salted, -four, meal and corn are COM
1nodities exceedingly scarce, if not alto
gether exhausted in Atlanta. Draught
and cavalry horses are subsisted wholly on
forage obtained from this vicinity, and
this must be quite insufficient
Our scouts are close to the environs
of the city and out as far as Decatur, and
forces which were detached from
atlanta crossed the river al
Sandtown, and are north of the Chatta.
hoochee and west of the railroad Thepo-
sition which they occupy has cut off Gen
Sherman. A letter, describing the situa'
tion at Atlantis, and the recent movements
of Hoods army, says; Atlanta is now gar
risoned by one corps. The enemy's line
of defense have been greatly contracted, SC
as not to embrace the whole city limits