The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-19
Ereuins Trlearaph
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1894.
FROM THE SOUTH.

Raid on SaIivtiie-Hshei News run :
sbe,man-Stor rning Of Fort NC N'l-'er
-DphIgrr"'s FIe't OF savannah "''
NneniOi.ncy Of the Co"HcTipuO"'
~, m bs Richmond Dispaich " frtdd"
= n,b,ns worthy OF notice has occurred on the
..,,,.rg I,og nortn OF tho James Riyr. Fo1r-hilA
NJ CpAHr,s army Is now on the south siuo' iuo
Sixtb and Ninth Corps arc at fho rom, nnu , .'
Second and Fifth arc IN reserve On ''o mus "O'
=, ,ho Appomattox All intercourse between inc
s,oto,. NJ the two armies has boon stopped Dy
or,,tory orders IRON their respective GeneIaa'
warren's Troops,
prirc II cir expedition to androlurn rom h'uuou,
treated the couttry people with the mTshhess Anu
cruelty now commonly Dracuced by hNec la'uO.', a'
Mo.t OF the dwelling houses ON ther Iou'o "o'o
y,,,r,od and tho owners beaten and oiherWi'e mA-
tro.ied As the raiders were much more savage On
their retreat than ON th3ir ou. ward mp u Is 10 10
presumed they sought TO pun ish the doiehsel'sS
country people Tor the injury inh ced on themselves
Nv General IAMPTON's told troopers.
1be Er4p,ner says-Tho lines of Richmond ana
Petersburg remain quiet. he whole force OF the
enemy from Fort darr son to tine river now con'l''s
OF negroes, with the exception OF two companies ol
white mon TO work Tho cannon IN fort ha'I'ao"
itsolt Our men do not fire on them at present"
The Advance on Kinston
Tho Coldsboro state Journal OF the 18th says that
She enemy VINO were announced on yesterday as au-
yancing upon X nstOn, wore mot on ye''oruaf Nv
dAyurnt and after bri k engagement were urVen
foroements nave been sent to Kinston amply sum,
ctsnt for any orce tho enemy can bring to bear at
that point. Iieutcuant-C Colonel SrARRs prompt
nos and COURAGE has thus easily frustrated an at
taok upon XII ston, which, If successful might nAVo
resulted in serious consequences
Sturrs Report.
rrrssro, Dec T. lsG4-IIavnE been reinforced
let the brenstworks day yht 70 find the enemy
and discovered him in considerable iorco on the
Mouse road two mio5 from town, lie showed TWO
pieoes artillery and hyo or SIX hundred lh."huy'
Atter n bris. engagement of thirty minutes ne was
,,rivep actoss the southwest bridge, DESTROYING II
behind HIM Our cavalry and infantry are shll
Trossino MN. }, b. STARR,
Colonel Commanding.
From Enst TennessGc-A Proclamation Oy
General BreckinriuSc'
From, ns Richmond Whig
On IN, 10Th General BRECKTNRIDGE issued the
fOllOWnn pTOclamat on;-
ProtectiOn having been guaranteed 20 all cuzcns oil
Fest Tennessee who having entered the Fedora SER
wee snal IN good faith return nome an ehi1r spoa
their pursuits as poac able cll1esi is asd " IL y
Tic Con edorat' army have gone within tle llncs .
tle to avoo service or lor o, n.I W & III
such "a are above below the military are shAi
not be required 10 perform mi ltary DUTY ana al
shall be iree IRON nlshment, except sueA as ha'
cir, 1s and so dlors arc requested ana enjomed t
receive W tn ndnoss those VINO avail thomse YES 9
M end U 10 he internal STRIFE and domosic warfal
w zen has so Iong desolated TINS portion OF ~
u.
From Middle Tennessee.
Con.ain REYNOLDS, oil the army, who has ju
reqched Montgomery in orin3 the MohtEoet
Advertiser tlat the day he ict Cherokee Roma
,iop vaa recaIyod rom Genera RoDDT tBndge- |
Chat ali the Federal posts southeast e1,orter has
thad been cal ed in including Chan tarrolltOn, /
bort and Stevenson. The Ian yam Wort was /
information IRON genb' OF last week, who .
whose brothers ncignbeank either IN Cha ia
In Chattanooga on was IL believed there were .
states that there VIE
nooya or BudgsO AtInntn.
anv This .oe egiSter has learned through gem |
lOm Atlanta that dive ling houses in |
Tho e lett N much better condition than was
fer.ed. Itis only the business potion OF the
s,ihat was demolished. The CITY Park has not
en- converted INTO a cemetery as has been reported
nor were vaults IN the cemetery desccTatod. The
Yankees erected monument IN the Gem terry, bear
Z ing inscrpuCn TO the m mory or the ga liant |
Twentieth COrls. hey shot down their ofn-out
horses in the streets. As reOOrted the enemy |
burned all tho unoccupiod houses between Atlanta
and Decatur Decatur was not much injured. The
Court House and other public bu dings were lett
standing, with the exception OF the depot.
Calling Out the AIil.tia
Governor CLARK OF Alssss PM has issued his
proclamation calling upon & G militia OF NOxubee
Winston Holmes and Yazoo counties and all south
OF that line to assemble without delay at summit
Brandon and Meridian Persons just from Corlnth,
Mis-. state that soldier route for the Army
OF the Tennessee is detained at that place. An
office IL OTms &C laToh" that tho troops collecting
there be ng organized into regiments, in anticl-
pat ON of any rad tn t nay be at .empted Oy the
enem TO cut the Memphis and ONO Railroad A
train OF arms and ammunition iOr ,hc Trans d,sss-
sippl DE arlment was recently captured near Jack
son by the Yankees.
From North Georgia.
Tho Ubiq says information from North Georgia
say th Iai road is ofecually destroyed Tho
Ya KEGS however, did not destroy the Etowah
bnt ge, cOntcnung themselves with hall saving in
two some OF the umbe g.
II eTels no lOnger a Yankee garrison in Northern
Geo GA. An army officer who has been in Decatur,
AlaI anna since the evacuation oil that post by the
Fed raj Orces, il is the most strongly fortified
posi- ion he ever inspected
The sloimiug of Fort McAllister.
The EramiRer says;-An official despatch from
General BEAuREGAHD Iecellog yestorda states
that the enemy stOrmed and carried Fort HcAlIst3r
on Wtdle esday. lie same despatch mGnhon3 the
al pea auCr an increased number OF the euenly's
Yesse 3 nj the mouth oI the Savannah River,
he fail OF ont McAlhsicr docs not by any means
inYOyo IT, loss OF savannah, nut viii Ccs-i'atc
the reinforcement of troops d"icndilg the city,
1h,re VAS some heavy artillery on the tort, and 1t
wi lie remembered that an experimental attack OF
the Yankee IrOu-c'ads ON this post on about fifteen
months ago success q ~ rcpused. Fort Meal
and has prevent the enemy heretofore trom
Ascending the river.
We ohevc here are other " forks further up the
stT,am which would reI der the nav CATION oi the
sheam by tie enCmy extremely ul comfortable
flh ais the very latest rom savannah, received
here uI to Sunday 4. NJ. and beng two days later
than the trluspOr TdrTHd'S departure from ha les
ton, slows the story BROUGHT By returned prisoners
to be mere cam rumor.-hD. lNQUmERl
Raid on saltvilIe.
The EEdBliner says, speaking OF the Union raid on
bavle, General BRECKfN RIDGES Iorce We're,
when last helI from at Bulls Gap, in tennessee
with BURBRIDGE in nj neig bOrhOOd. IL appears
that BuBBRlDGE sent his whole mounted IOrce
around towards southw ,st ,rn Virgiuia, without
n % hyrn 4fpl