The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-25

Grant said in his letter that we were
reduced TO the strait Of robbing the grave.
Whether this be 30 or not, some thought to
be sleeping beneath the sod have recently
reappeared. This has been particularly
the case in Lewis Kentucky brigade, since
the order to mount them was made public
many of the soldiers, thought long since
dead, having corue forward and resumed
their places in the ranks.
The War Transferred to Ten
a.ga s'ssE e.i4s nessee. - a go
Two weeks ago we called attention to
the fact that Hoods flank movement rest
ed on an alternative base at Tescumbia.--
The rich prairies of central Mississippi and
Alabama have sent forward to that point,
trains of cars laden with supplies, by way
of Corinth. Two thosand men, who lately
moved up the Tennessee in gunboats for
attack on that line of communication, have
been driven back with d loss that includes
two hundred drowned in the retreat near
PASSPORT. That rout of supply is, no doubt,
strongly defended, and places the present
advance of Hoods army in possession Of q
secure base above the shoals of tie Ten>
nessee at Tuscumbis. The inland route of
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad east.
wardly from that point, lying, as it does,
safe from access by gunboats, leads to the
presumption that We will hear before long
of the transfer OF the Confederate stores on
the Tennessee to Decatur. D.
Mr. Jefferson Davis announced more than
three weeks ago to the men Of Chatham's
Division that they would soon press the
soil of Tennessee. The trickery of the cen.
sors attempted some days ago to make him
false prophet, by declaring that Hoods
army was being driven 10 defeat to the
South. The apparently retrograde move
ment Of the Confederate General from
Ships Gap turns out, however, to have
been real advance on Tennessee; and we
have no doubt that his long lines are now
being pressed forward in Q strategic tri-
umph, after the advance that has already
crossed the Tennessee at Guuthur's Land,
ing. s.a !
Sherman has clearly been deceived by the
combinations which have resulted in throw
ing part or, by this tune, probably all of
the Confederate army, across the Tennessee.
From Dallas or some other point Of Hoods
advance toward Sherman's communities
tions, Cheatham's Corps, under pretense of
being held 10 reserve, moved to the left, and
passing up the valley of the Coosa, marched
by way of Gunthur's Landing for, probably,
Huntsville. Hood, having struck the rail-
road, moved along the track toward Chat
tanooga, and, tearing it up as he went
along, succeeded in drawing after him the
army of General Sherman. Decoying the
Federal chief still on, he crossed Taylor's
Ridge at Ships Gap; and, moving south
wardly in apparent retreat, tempted him on
toward SomerviIle, while the real advance
of the Confederates moved nerthwardly
along the western slopes of the Raceoon
range of mountains. About the tenth of
this month Hood was, ii is said, encamped
at Cedar Town, in . position to either fall
upon the Federal corps holding Atlanta, or
to move forward, as We presume be has
done, from that point to q junction with
the TenuesseAns under CheatEam.
The political wire VOL king of the censors
has kept back all references to the Confed-
crate advance across the Tennessee. The
suppression ofnews from Sherman for some
days past places US at fault as to his present
Whereabouts. II the Southern accounts be |
true, Huntsville may have been invested
week ago; and with the successful ruse
which drew Shel man soutowardly from its
relief, may, for all We are allowed to know
by Mr.. Lincoln's political trickery, be by
this time captured. Hood will, in any event, |
move upon shorter line TO junction with |
Cheatham than that which Sherman must |
pursue in rstracing his steps toward Hunts |
Vile by way Of Chattanooga, or, if ihe
Raccoon Mountain presenta practicable
crossing, by way Of Stephenson. The great
tanker is thus, it appears, not only outaank-
I'd, but Notwithstanding his great genius,
very decidedly outwitted. 9
The Confederate forces are probably con-
even now, near Huntsville
Twenty-Five or thirty miles Of wagoning
them, at that point, with the rail /
way trains that bear their supplies from
the far South as fer, probably, as sDecator
Covering the investment Of Huntsville the
main body will, in ell likelihood, move east
wardly to the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad, and, destroying as muchsof that
line % possible befors Shormsn's arrival,
decline to give him battle until compelled
to do 90 In defense of their own communi-
,ations. These specnlatiuns are, we think,
Esir deductions from the leading facts We
are allowed to learn touching this bold and
brilliant movement Of Hood and Besure-
gard. In general, however, we may con-
:lude from what we are permitted to know
through Southern sources, that whatever
nay be the specific form it will hereafter
AXE, or Whatever may be the particular
point of its operations, the Federal invasion,
Fhieh month ago appeared 10 the shallow
brilliant success at Atlanta, has been, in
he brief interval that has elapsed sincel
hen, flung back at one fell swoop for . dis
ance of upward of two hundred milesl =
aaving gone back in it's apparent progress
lilly two years, the main conflict in the
West has now again to commence its work,
appears in Tennessee. I