, 1864-11-24
IN prisoners were removed from Anderson,

ion prisoners were removed from Anderson
wv When sens she1@ s4 ptqrea Atlaata th,, were
hastily removed Nom AndersonviIle and scat
tered at various points nts-Sayaunah, Charleston
and elsewhere Sherman should take q
pnn;i,1e @ to Nbsgrte item. Alfred Onderkigk,
a member Of the First District Of Columbia
caya1,y. captured in May last In the fighting
below Petersburg, and who was sent t. An
dersouyille, and afscE~am (at the time Of the
rebel ecale e) sent to Savannah, and made his
cscare By jumping from prisoners traia 60
Ing out Of saEaana ana whose that eatlTal In that
haTe now located their main prison not ut
Arderxonrille, but al Mil1en, Georgia, point
1T The junction of the Georgia Central Rail-
road and the Savannah and Augusta Railroad
ohout e;;phtv miles from Savannah, and sixty
miles frcm Anguish, and ninety miles from
1t Ills point they have now gathered some
TWENTY-FIVE thousand Union prisoners very
tempting little inducemcnt for Sherman to
ray Milien q visit, supposing him to be really
making Tie bold advance toward salt water
report assigns to him. Furthermore. Millen
is on the direct line to be taken. by Sherman,
enpposing him to BE- aiming, not at Charles
nah. 4 glance ut the map will show that sa-
yaunah Is the nearast point on thec Sher-
man could reach from Atlanta and Onder-
kfrk'a statements, as well as others, 20 to
show that Savannah is more weakly defended
on the land side than are either Charleston Or
Mobile, which places hare been strongly forti-
fed heretofore on the land side, In anticipa-
tion Of attack in that direction from our land
orces.
Onaerkirk states, too, that Savannah Was
very weakly defended, SO much 80 that de-
tachmeuts Of marines from the {rcssels in the
harbor were compelled to do shore guard
duty every third night. The country, too,
travelled BY Onderkirk on foot from Savannah
to Atlanta, presented no serious obstacles to
and the streams shallow for the most part.
The country, too, was amply stocked with
sweet potatoes, corn and peas, sufficient to
sustain IN army moving rapidly through.
This line Of march would take Sherman d.
rect]y through the district where the rebels
havc stored millions Of bales Of cotton, and
would enable him to Pay attention to The i'm
mense manufacto5ies for cannon, small arms,
powder, locomotives, &C., at Macon, Colnn-
bus and Augusta, which! afford the main sup
ply at this time for .febeldom. Sherman
starting with sixty days provisions. eked ont
form tfis work and reach tide water via Sd
yannah probably Without encounterfns any
obstacle that his daring genius could not
overcome.
But he Wonld not be ID plight after 5nch
march, and would not be pfoyisioned su1t1-
cicntly to enable him to sit down to the siege
Of cities defended on nil sides Ike Charleston
and Mobile.
The othef programme allotted to him by
some Of our contemporaries, with a march
through npper North Carolina {pausing to cs-
tablish goyernment) to Wilmington, and then
nortllward, is too impracticable, from its
length ofmarch, and the fmpossbility Of pro-
yietrninsr an artTY to have nrob0bflitY
The weight Of Presumption, then, Is that II
Sherman has really entered upon movement
to the seacoast, be is heading towards sa-
ynnnah,