Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-21
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ATLANTA, GA, Tuesday, Sept. 6.

Correspondence Of the N. Y. Tribune.
ATLANTA, GA, Tuesday, Sept. 8.
The goth Corps is now located in the
famous city, occupying the forts aud earth.
works go recently filed by the rebels, The
city was captured by Col. Coburn, SD Indi-
ana. on the ID inst, who was sent by Gen.
Slocum from the Chattahoochee river on .
Reconnaissance The same day the Corps
followed 10. The WoIka of the enemy are
Of the most formidable character, embrac.
tfngIG circuit OF some twelve niles. The
abatis, palisades, rife pits, ramPArts, lu-
nelis, redoubts, redans, and varied forms
Of earthworks, exhibit every variety Of de.
fensiv0 expedient used in modern warfare.
Nothing in military experience has sur
passed the industry OF the enemy, IN this
fcampaign, except that OF our own. Here,
however, the enemy had some l, 800 negro
men constantly at work, and marched them
of, with tools on shoulder, when he left.
The hills at all points around The city at
forded good positions for such works.
This Is peculiarly situated and built
city, with streets diverging from the centre
and running out upon ridges while the
intervening spaces are not built upon, just
as If the map were a,wagon wheel and the
business houses were near and around the
hub and the residences were built along
i the spokes to the onter rim. Many of these
residences are elegant and convenient, with
large lots and fne shrubbeTy. The native
growth is a mixture of, small oak and pine,
while the hand OF eulture has interpreted
the China tree, Grape, Myrtle, Rose, Lau-
rel, Holly, Honey suekle, Sentative plant,
land q multitude of the most beautiful
shrubs, full ofodors and rich colors. To-
deed, .noIhipg can exceed the beauty Of the
plants and trees Of this REGION. i'i-af 4
The city has contained population OF
eighteen thousand Inhabitants, (About six
thousand are here now and on account
of the salubrity of the climate aud purity
of its waters, It being on the dividiOg ridge
between the Gulf and the Atlantic, has
become place of residence to many veal
A thy persons.
Here figs are now ripe aud hanging on
the trees, this being the second CROP
| Grapes grow in abundance, aud wine is
made of delicious flavor.
| The houses are, many of them, dis6gured
with marks OF our shot, splintered cornices
aud doOrWays-shattered rods and chim-
neys, perforated walls and torn fences
show the frightful look Of these swift
messengers whirliDg! night aud day over
the doomed place. Every tenement has
its underground retreaii some were lined
with cotton bales, some With timbers, and
some banked around With earth.
i Nutu luz GuGuJ hGIO hUOub " lGaNtY
they set FIRE to immense trains Of cars and
wagons, loaded with army stores and am.
munition. More'th a hundred cars were
burned at the Augusta depot, shells, tor
| pedoes, freballs, and boxes Of ammun milton
popping; blsE,Dgs and roariugs shook the
city and were heard by US at the river.-
| When Col. Coburn entered the city they
/ were exploding in the forts, and sounded
like1the continual discharge OF ARTILLERY.
1 What machinery has not been removed
has been destroyed. The great rolling
mill has been taken TO Augusta, and it lie
said will be taken to Deep River, North
| cuts the enemy OF from his greatest iron
works in Northern Georgia. There are
some of considerable extent yet used by
them near Selma, Alabama. We see ere
| brick here which are made near Augusta,
the bed OF clay having been discovered
since the war; before that time they were
procured in the North. We see also 10 the
ruins Of the rolling mill here a quantity Of
| gunboAt iron five inches thick, ready rolled
for plating. This place furnished most of
the guuboat iron. vs. .. 81
The surrounding couutry-is billy aud
poor. South Of this the water is not good,
aud the land is much lower and richer
To the East about fifteen miles is Stone
Mountain, a grand elevation OF more than
two Thousand feet, affordipg a prospect of
uuequalsd extent and beauty. ..I aaG.t-
1t is solitary sugar loaf, and looms
up from the horizon gray and grand
North, some eight miles, is the Chatta-
hoochee river, yellow muddy and
swift>running stream, some two hundred
yards wide. Chattahoochee means bios.
soming rock-'' The Cherokees so named
it from great ledge of beautifully col-
ored rock on its banks, which resembles
flowers. The river of 'blossoming rocks
is anything but a beautiful stream
Peach Tree creek, the now famous scene
of the battle of the Goth of July, is three
miles north, a muddy, deep, Shiny stream.
Its true name is pitch Tree from a
great pitch-pine tree on its banks. The
Indians called it Pitch Tree.'
The whole face Of the earth is marked
and SCARED for many miles around with
rival Notifications, and two hundred
years will see strange ridges and wrin-
| kles upon it