Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-10-22
, honor to be cir,
Your obedient servant,
LATER FROM THE UNITED STATES.

i half Ia iengtn.
LATER FROM THE UNITED STATES.
We received last evening full supply Of New York
and Washington papers Of the ls:h inst, from which
We take the following extracts:
YKoM IoRfHERN aloRaIL-HooD RIPoRfID TO N RI
| TREATING.
The acting Secretary Of War at Washington has pub.
shed the following dispatches, with an explanatory
typographical noe:
NASHVILLE, Tenn, 0ck II, ls64-4P.M
The following de,patCh has been received from Gen.
Sherman;
sHrPs Gar, 0Jk 1875 P. M-We took Ships Gap
e-dsy, cap During part OF the "a North Carolina
Two corps are repressrted to be at lafayette and one
went south from VillsuoVR Plain. They obstIuoted
Snake Greek Pass to delay trains, but by to.mor
row can novel in any direction.
W.T.. sHIRxAE, Hsj. Gen.
D.serters from Hoods army report his force at 30 =
000 Toe streDgtl OF his cavalry is not known. There
u no additional from the Tennessee river, except
that Roddy's forces moved from Tuscr mba yesterday,
g. H. THOMAS NJ jor G,n.
CHATTANOOGA, OGL lT-l0P NJ
The rear Of Hoeds army left Lafayette 60 ng Sou b,
| at daylight ths NOR ipg.
J. n. soHurIELD, Msj. Gen.
The country south and south vest Of Lafayette IN en-.
coed ngly cult for an Inferior army vigorously pu.
sured, consisting of narrow valleys, parallel to the
ranges Of a,ofs Ridge and Mountain, broken
by rough bills and desue of food for man or beast,
until you reach the Coosa River, Q distance equal to
| three days forced marches.
Another official spatch, dated at Chattanooga yes-
| terday, is as iollows:
Il left General Thomas at Ship. Gap, in Taylor's
Ridge at dark last night. Toe general aud army are all
right and In the best spirits hood won't fght though
offered repeatedly. HIS dreadful repulSe &C Allatcona
| has made BIN very caution.
Gen. Slsolm 10 all right ct Atlanta with plenty of pro.
| visions and iofage.
floods raid has produced no military result as yet.
at no wants to invade Tennessee as be has promised
his men, he VII lose By desertion twice many he
| has captured.
"rhe losses In men thus far have been in our favor
"Hood demanded, over. his signature, the sur
render OF Resacs and DIlon, and said that If
dered the white of,ers and men would be psroed In
few days. but that IL the poet were carried by assault
mo pri:cnsrs would be taken
Rome Is ell right"
Toe Herald publishes map Of " Hoods strategic
march" aud gives the following statement Of tho pre-
cent roIition Of the opposing armies:
Our latest ndvices report bin cncamped Liay-
etts with Sherman at Ships Gap of Tsyos's dye, IL
miles southeast of lafayette. II Hood permits Sbe-
man to pass through Ships Gap aud get ino the
valley Of the OhickamAuga t will be too small 10 hold
both pe,csiuly. Hood cannot well so further west,
the Lookout Mountain range at whose feet he now lice,
canL DO crossed by large army without special pre-
paraton. Many days would be consumed II crossing 1t
wtb:so large army as Hood bo'st'o having Should
he advance further north in the valley he will be nev
by hsmmsd in and forced to surrender. Hood will, in
ali probability, hold CONTROL he do, of Ship esp
until bis troops well south Of Lafayette IN the valley,
and then allow Sherman to cress the mountain. Is vi
have easy route south by way of Spmervie but H.
taking such route he abandons all attempts to cut
Sherman's communications. Hood may be !oolbardy
enough to hold Sherman in check at Ship Gap long
enough to enable him to crcss Lookout Mountain, in
| the hope Of making q successful movement sgaintt
Bridgeport Ala and the railroad between that poiut
and Chattanooga. he could here totally destroy the
road in short time, as it PAGES through very noun
famous country and bridges aud tress works very
numerous He viii how yer, run great risks In mskog
this movement of being followed aud attacked b. S1sI.
man. whose army Is able at any time to defeat that of
Hood. II is than probable that the of
him will place him the retreat via S)mervils into
Alabama. We sha be greatly and egreeably surprised
IL he Lookout Mountain In q movement farther
west and forth.
TRoM THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says:
gentleman who left Winchester last Saturday re-
ports that there was good deal of diminishing with
gueas In the Valley; but nothing serious had occur
red, and tie supply trains vera moving regularly with
strong eScorB
On Friday last our pcke:s at Martinsburg were driven
| In by guerilla foica.
Eeyen guns, captured from the Rebels by Sheridan
| had arrived at Winchester and on Friday tws
came 10. Taey were formerly United s ates guns, and
we're probably obtained at the OF our arsenals
| forts, g., by the Rebels.
Sheridan was sending 10 large droVes Of captured
oxen, sheep, 81. Tee destruction Of mills, barns &C.
was going op that the bells will no longer be able
| to maintain themselves in the Valley.
large force Of troops had been sent to Front
Royal to guard the railroad which ia to be opened to
Alexandria. The repairs Of the road have already been
| completed to RsctortoHn.
FROM The MISSISSIPPI
A telegram, dated Cairo, 18th, says:
Three steamers have arrived from New 0.leans with
abcu so bales of cotton.
Great e1ctems mt prevailed at Memphis, Sunday
ming, In consequence of on expected attack the
city by strorg body OF Forresls forces, reported to
be only short distance from the city, Every prepare.
| ton was being made 10 defend the place.
The steamer Oily Of Memphis fred into from the
Missouri Shore fourteen miles below here, but nobody
was hurt
1. Is estimated tina! during the past eight months
10 500 refugeer-meD, women end children have
arrived at Memphis, 800 of whom have been s,nt 10
OsiIo,
They have been received here by an agent who pro-
vdts them with food and shelter and transportation to
sny point north OF the Ohio which they may select for
home OF those received o. Memphis 1850 we're
the sse Of fcurteer 6400 undernearJ every steamer
4 ON belos brings up number OF that clasa.
General orrest is reported to have been seen Asy
miles back OF P4ducSh on Sunday.
FEoM KENTUCKY.
The New Albany (nd Ledger Of the is b, pulls shes
q report which !. de' reliable, that trcm coo 10
1900 guerrilas under Kinds, who made raid into l.
sGe, near Lasvsnwortb, last year. have conceR!raed
near Brand nburg Ky, and portion of them had en-
tered the town and robbed the citizens Of large amount
! of valuabl, property.
TIE iame paper sSys the steamer J. Swan, on Sur
day morning, while yil a; Sc whesd, on the Cumbtr
Ind River, exploded her boiler, snd became tonl
wreck large lumber of persons we're Had.
from GRLEfs ARMY.
There IT, OF couree, no news Of interest," from Grant,
A paragraph In the situation eolumn Of the Ruald
says