Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-09-19
THE NEWS.
gTEREs1IEs FROM GEORGIA.
rgE ATLANTA HILLS.

The A-s train for the reception of the t1lles from
Atlanta bad been sent up to meet them ct Rough and
Ready, and the operation of removing them would be
proceeded with daily until they are all taken away
Too helpless among them-AUd who HrO they that are
not 90 YW9ul b. taken to Barnesville and provided
With food aud quarters by the State As Sherman
states that ne Is determined to remove all the population
Of Atlanta from that city can imagine bow extensive
will be the depopulaon, bs tbs people sent south or
North. Admitting the population to have been about
Is OOO and that half have left since the operations
10 lis vicinity have some idss OF the numsH: Of
persons who have been prescribed by the military sA-
trap, whose coLduc has parallel OF barbarity and
6endishneIs.
1t has been often remarked during this wa- that the
Yankees have beop the mos! merciless castgators-n
their li.ersry productiOnsof all the oppressive
cures of OhSr nations; witness Motley in bis Dutch
Republic and Washington Irving ia bis tragedy on thu
expulsion of the MOoIs from Grenada but now these
very examples which they have zsaously deprecated
seem TO be adopted by them their rule OF action.
TIE ARHIsuoE.
% Thursday morning the arm,stoe for q ten days
truce entered into ts;Ween Sherman and HOOD will sx
pirs There have been mauy spssulatlOns ths sub
sct Some and the great orIty, believing that it ia
policy tRst will opsras III, aJtr0usy interests 9TH
ers that the sole object Of Sae in akngs suspension
of hcs!iltes NO! SO muel 70 remoye the oinEsns
from Atlanta as TO CARR out some sinister design.
few days will devsiop3 the uu.h Between this and
Thursday we will know Whsthsr sherman msditates u
raid on the West Point railroad intends W forIfy
aud hold his own a. Atlanta
TIE CAMPAIGN IN GEORGIA.
The sudden halt 10 which Sherman has CONS 10 bis
career in Northwestern Georgia, q nature to yex
us with doubt o. hid future moVem snts II no bs
true representative oil hs race might take hs prom.
Use OF long res; 70 lis troops evidence Of the
Yankee character, that b!GbI publicly what he in
GeEds 10 do. In thet eveds We might oOl Sude that
considerable time will ,lApss before hs undertakes
lur4her military movements.
II the capture o. Atlanta, whioh has been his obeo-
tive point curing tbs whole of campaign jus. closed
was hs only aim iE Is fair to presume that no will risk
iurher d4nSe, as If shs capture. wss intended 10
USED polGca oIpsl by the Lincoln party he has
OOmpassed 'ha. OtjsCi fh5 halt may also indicate
lsCuperaiiOn anG roofsauz alton, and instead Of mac
.iVlty, Sherman may soou be on the move, trying
anOhsr aAnk movement, tArOqgi fIye.teYills Aua
Z,puon on BaruesVIlIe Bat We shall See soon what
ne medhat6s.
HAMPToNs GREAT AoHIEvEMINT-THE OFFICIAL Ao
COUNT.
IA elegrapLc column We give two reports of the
grea! raid upon the ensmJs cattle, in Psiuce Gsor. a.
as: week. The following is G,neral Lees efical re-
port OF the tfAir:
HEAr9UARTsSs Sept. l7th, 1854
Hon. J. Il. Seldom. Secretary Of War:
a. dAyngLs, yesterday, tins enemy's skirnlh line
west OF The jerusalem Plank Road was driven back
upon LIS intrencnmeats SiOng their whole exteut-
Ninety prisoners we're Iakeo in the opera ion.
A. the same hour, Gen. Haml ton attach cd hi,
PosiuOn north OF the Norfolk Railroad near Sycamore
Ohd'oh and captured about three hun ired prisoners
.eme arms, wagons, large number OF horses, and
twenty i've hundred cattle.
Geo. Gregg attacked Gen. Hampton on bis return in
i4e Lefnooa, at Bs!cber's Null, on the Jerusalem
Plank Road, but was repulSed and driven back.
Every thing was brought eff safely Our entire os,
DOES not eIo!ed Afty men.
CITY POINT AND VICINITY.
Persons who have recently visited City Point, have
informed the Petersburg Exprsss that the locality would
nOw toArOey be recogu sd by persons who knew it in
.msely three or four mODths ago. An immense wharf
been erected by Grants order extending from the
old steamboat landing on James River, around up the
ApPomattcx for half mile or more Oommsaary
ordnance and qlsrermsser depot over three buudfed
feet IN length, have been constructed and suffers shan
ties nnumerAbie, have sprung up on every hand
Soldiers and civilians who raise gree nOacks, are en-
Abed TO purchase any article they may desire, from
glass of sarsaparla pop up to an overcol or an UNI
brsls.
From D5ctos Epes residence uo to Jordan's farm in
the immediate vicinity OF Psttr .buIg. ell the Valley of
the APpOmI IOX lie one vast camp. Oitiz,ns who re-
manned have leen repassed upon and all their horses
and cattle Appropriated Iniignities OF the grossest
ohGrAo CAly o'red and everything calculated TO
render lie burden 10 imposed upoH these defer csess
PooTls. We hope that change in slirs in that SEC
ZION Is not far distant.
az From CHARLESTON.
The Courier ofthe ID say that sixteen shots were
fred ct Fort Sumter aud twenty three at tho city since
last report. The only casually was the bsheadng of
unfortunate dog standing in the gateway OF build
ing, struck by q hundred poulder PArrott The enc.
mJ's working parties arc It'll busi'y engaged on Bite
ries Gregg and Wagner. Cirs were also busy hauling
during the day to these batteries usual
activity also observed 10 the ensmy's feet, large
number C tents reported recently erected on Horse
Hand aud tho also active in that locality There
haJ baeu no msterisl change in the fact.