New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-22
GEN. smERuAN's MARCH.

journals Of this city. received dispatch from
Cincinnati containing news from Sherman's AZ
my, which had that morning been prh'cd III INC
| Cincinnati Times. Shortly after came tcie'
graphic reoucs. from the War Office to suppress
that dispatch. We complied with mat request,
albeit unable - comprehend how news That had
been all day in print in Cincinnati would De
deemed contraband the following morning III
New-York. Indeed, with that effort OF vigil
aues the War Department seems TO have
been quito exhausted. FOX tho papers mere
and elsewhere have since abounded, un'
ircbuked. with all sorts OF statements
about Sherman. The amount OF Gen. Sher'
mans forces. the immediate direction OF his
march, the quantity Of his supplies, and his
ultimate destination, arc differently stated in
different papers, but it is unnecessary at present
TO settle details. What the public cares to
know in general way is literally clear. Gen.
sherman with powerful army has cut loose
from Atlanta, ind is making liz way to tho sea-
board That he marches in two columns Is
probable enough, and that wb,ther by one route
or another he will finally arrire in The neighbor'
hood Of Savannah, we have little doubt. Nor In
military point Of view do we consider the
dissemination Of this intelligenc, in the least
important The enemy are undoubtedly IN
formed long before we are Of every step in Gen.
Sherman's progress.
Against this tremendous demonstration. the
Confedcracy, we need scarcely explain once
more. il powere3s There ap but two armies
within its limits able 70 confront or delay Cen
Sherman. One Of these armes was hundred
and fifty miles to the northwest Of Atlanta
when sherman started The other lies in the
def,nses of Richmond, aud cm neither 20 as a
whole nor spare any considerable part of its
force without surrendcring that for which ii had
struggled oil Summer. AID since there are
neither natural nor artificial lines of defense
which might with a small number Of troops ar
rest or delay the advance OF either of Sherman :
columns, the march Of each TO Augusta must
be unopposed
Sherman is said 10 have sixty days nations
with him. but that is very unlikely. train
would be too unwieldy for sach O march as
this and is unnecessary. ftbe country has han
the resources it is represented 10 possess there
is no need Of great supply train. The cavalry
will keep the army in commissary stores. But a.
. measure Of prudence a considerable amount q
supplies has doubtless been taken-perhare Tor
twenty or even for thirty days. We're the
Rebels in Central Georgia disposed 20 abandon
their county and homes at the aproach oil thiS
invader, and destroy their s''ics Oh ioou' ohcf-
man would find it necessary to be able to rely
TO some extent on AIS OWN resources. Bnt
that is very Improbable contingency. In
North. Western Georgia, when Johnston forced
the people to fly. they left their homes
most nroillingly, and ii is not likely that where
lbera are under no cOmpulsion from a general
18th power to enforce his demands, this people
will resort to measure Of absolute despair.
Sherman therefore, whatever be his own snp-
plies may reckon confidently on abundant food
and forage from the country which he traverses.
West Of the Savannah River his advance will be
through a country which is Of great fertility,
and which is inhabited by population possess.
ing more than average intelligence, industry
and wealth. Such country always can be
made to support an army Ill motion; the Diff
Guilty Of foraging beginning only when a large
force comes to a heightened halt
The location of the prisoners, whom it is hoped
Sherman may release, is uncertain If Rebel
statements can be trusted at all, they were
weeks since removed from Anderaonyillc 10
points nearer the seaboard, probably toward
both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Gen. Sher-
mans letter to Mr.. Yeatman has been misap.
pretended He says that he "may have TO 90
himself" to carry the supplies Of tho Commits.
sion; but he clearly inlimates that Anderson
vile is not his destination. Things have
changed" says Gen. sherman. We do not think
it probable that a column has been dispatched
south of Macon, for that would be TO send it on
TOO wide detour, and to delay the main col.
umn too long after it shall have reached Au.
gusta, if Augusta be its first destination.
The vague hints of the Richmond papers indi.
cato that they arc in possession Of information
which they either will not or are not permitted
to publish. 1t is their way to make light of
what they most dread; so the comments on the
reports Of Sher1nan's new campaign are meas.
urc Of the alarm with which it is viewed.
Aside from its positive military results, conceive
the effect upon the Georgia and Carolina troops
Of learning that their States and their houses arc
invaded, over-run, subjugatod and preyed upon,