The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-19
News from the South.
LEE RECEIVING LARGE
REINFORCEMENTS.
Devastation of the Shenandoah
Valley.
LATE REBEL CAVALRY REVERSE
large ReinEOrccments OF Detailed Men
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large ReInTOrccments OF Detailed Men
sent tO Lee.
From ne Richmond RHgarCr, O,iabSrH.
The United States, with the markets Of tho
word open 10 thom, employ 10000 mon In the
lu,I ess while under the charge Of the Nitro aud
Mining BurCau Of the Confoderacy, II employs
but 10000. These employees Of the Nitre and
Mining Bureau are composed Of near 600
negroes and 1900 whites. Its operations on the
frontier, and often within the lines OF th, enemy
have compelled its officers to withhold facts that
| would have corrected misrepresentation and often
| prevented gross injustice. This bureau wl9
called upon by US TO revise is list of details and
| send all Il could spare 10 the front.
We are advised that out of its conscript force
| Of four thousand men over one thousand i've
| hundred are, and for a month have been, doing
service at the front. At Satyille they fought AMI
| won the commentator Of their officers for good
conduct. In Tennessee, Georgia, and Alablml,
! they have repeatedly responded 20 the call for
| troops, and have invariably done the service
credit.
The locality where the principal operations Of
this bureau most extensively carried on will not
permit The employment of slaves, and every effort
to procure free negroes has failed, nOtwithstInd-
ing repeated acquisitions made for them. Our
! purpose was not 10 intimate even thatthis bureau
| was Withholding men from the front Improperly,
but merely TO impress upon its intelligent chief
| the necessity Of the most careful scrutiny aud
rigid inspection TO see II he, too, could not render
| additional service to the city to those Invaluable
| and indispensable services he and his subordi-
| mates have rendered TO the whole country. We
| are most gratihed 70 bo able TO announce th Il
| fifteen hundred men have been sent TO the front
| from the employees OF this bureau, and the public
will understand that the necessities OF this service
| require that no greater drain should be made
| upon it's employees.
| The prompt response which all departments
| and bureaus arc making to the call for men has
! already changed the aspect Of affairs below Rich.
| mOnd The activity, zeal, and energy Of Major
! General KCmpor has already hurried TO the front
| a strong reinforcement of men and daily almost
| hourly, the tide of defenders pressing to the
| front flows steadily by. The list Of "ndSpcnsa.
bles' has been contracted throughout all the de-
| partmlnts of the Government; and IL is sur
| prsing TO see how few men arc absolutely neces-
| sary out Of the army when tho enemy arc
| thundernR at the city gates The people, too
are alive 10 the occasion they come forward with
| alacrily and soon the country behind the army
will be too hot for dcscrtors, stragglers, and
skulkers to hide from duty. The noble women
| of the country are the best police 10 send back
men to the army. They will not permit strag-
General wicIGham's Farewell Address TO
IHis brigade.
| From he Richmond Wtiy, Osioberl5.
The Lynchburg T0ginian has been furnished
with a copy Of General Wickham's farewell ad-
dress 10 his brigade preparatory to taking his seat
in Congress, which assemblies next month -
| HI geTAErEHs LrEa CwHEy DIVISION, october g.,
| cuucd previous TO my appointment your commander
impose upon me duties which can no Longer with pro-
ITS win sincere regret that sever my connection with
mmand thai has rendered such ecient service 10 tho
country and attained such env!abe reputation. shan
watch your future cneGr Wlh as much Interest a. u stl
commanded you, and shan lock for repetition Of those
deeds q vao and skl which have already rendered your
Il dimni'Les 4 regret that foel at leaving you to
Eno" that 20 toa sphere IN which, familiar wltl your
the cavalry service, and procure legislation TO wRch
iGbdjns on farewell, It is with the klndost wishes for
yop and Win the earnest hope tnat lt 40 distant day
Hes reap those rovaids and enjoy that rost which you
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Affairs Ina the shenandoah Valley.
From he Richmond Di'Patch, Octo5erl5.
Passengers from tho valley by last nights train
| report no news whatever from Sheridan. Every
| day, however records some new development Of
| his informal actions.
The iron works Of John T. Lewis, near Browns
| Gap, were destroyed by Sheridan's troops, and
| d. 5. Lewis, son OF the proprietor, and all per-
sons counectCd with tho works. were taken
| prisoners.
| From ne Ri.1lsoad Examiner, Oslolsr u.
The Charlottesville Chronicle gets somo par
ticulars of our recent so.caled "reyerse" in tho
| valley
LOmax (exccptng Imbodens Brigade) was on
the main pike, aud BOsser, commanding FiL1
| Lees Division, was On the middle road, parallel
| with the pike, near the base OF North Mountain.
| Each division was driven back, and each los,
some artillery. Rossers command fell back in
good order. The enemy did not come further
than Mount Jackson.
IT, the fight of Friday last VIC learn that Rosser
fought Ou,ier's Brigade. He captured htCy six
prisoners, nine fOrges, three wagons, three ambu-
lauces, and killed and wounded an unusual pro-
portion for u running lght.
The Yankees told the citizens in the valley
that they would go back TO Harpcr's Ferry, and
thence send of the army of the valley, forwarding
One corps to Grant, one 10 Missouri, and another
10 Washington.
The Devastation OF the Valley.
From the Richmond Whig, Osia1erl5.
| Sheridan reports 10 Grant that in moving down
the valley 20 Woodstock be mas burned over two
thousand barns filled with wheat, hay, and farm
ing implements, and over seventy mills filled
with -four aud wheat. This was done by order
of Grant himself commander OF all the Yankee
armies. IL Is only the execution OF part Of the
order TO destroy everything in the valley that
will sustain life. The fell work Is still going on.
Now, it is an idle waste OF words to denounce
this sort of war,
We have simply 10 regard 1t as q practical
matter, and ask ourselves how Is TO be met
There is one efiectual way, and only one we know
OF, TO arrest and prevent this and every other
sort Of atrOcity-and that is to burn one OF the
chief cities OF the enemy, say Boston, PnhHdel-
phia or Cincinnati, and let its fate hang over the
other as q warning OF what may be done, and
will be done TO them, If the present system OF
war on the part Of the enemy is continued.
If we are asked how such thing can be done,
we answer, nothing would be easier. A million
OF dollars would lay the prOudest city Of tue
enemy In ashes. The men to execute the work
| arc already there. IhCIb WOulu DC no ultnculJy
/ in finding thoTe, here, or in Canada, suitable
| persous 10 take charge Of the enterprise and
arrange its details. Twenty men, with plans all
prcconcerted aud means provided, selecting some
dry, windy night, might fire Boston In hundred
places and wrap il In flames from centre 10
suburbs. They might retaiate on Richmond,
Charleston, &c. Let them do 50 IL they dare.
| II Is a game at which We can beat them.
| New York is worth twenty ltichmonds. They
have a dozen towns 20 our one and in their towns
Is centred nearly all their wealth. IL would be
! immoral and barbarOus. IL is not immoral or
barbarous TO defend yourself by any means, or
with any weapon the enemy may employ for
your destruction. They choose TO substitute the
torch for the sword. We may so use their own
weapons as TO make them repent, literally ia
sackcloth and ashes, that they ever adopted it. II
The Executive Is not ready for this, we command
the matter TO the secret deliberations OF the Con-
gress about 70 meet.
Hoods InvRsIOu 20 Affect the Resutt OF
che Election I'm November
Prom fbe Richmond EnqidJer. October H.
On the Tuesday next after the first Monday in
November, which will be the 9th OF that month
an election for President OF the United states
will take place. At present all the indications
that usually precede such elections point 10 the
election OF Mr. Lincoln. The Pennsylvania
elections, which took place on Tuesday last, the
IItb Of the month have not yet been heard from.
For twenty years as the October elections in