, 1864-10-21
FROM TAE sOUEH.
1HfereatinE RebeI News summary
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lspec!ai Dispatch to the Chicago Tr,buue.1
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, Oct, %.
Rebel papers OF Tuesday, 18th, have been
received.
THE SITUATION IN GEORGIA.
The Examiner has nearly colu m of news
from the army at Georgia.
The Montgomery {Ala.} Appea. says that
Beauregard and staff paesed through Ope|ika,
Ala, on the way to the Tennessee army, to
assume command. 1t further says toat it is
able to state, on good authority, he will per-
soral1y direct the movements and operations
Of the army until the fall campaign shall
have been fully closed.
Georgia papers think there is no doubt of
the fsct that Sherman's communications are
cut. A correspondent writes to the Au.usti
StHt5Net: lit 10 now well known that Gen.
Hood IL In the rear Of Shermau's army. that
NO cars have passed over the State Road to
atlanta Tor ten days, aud that Hood has
that route. That this Formidable foe Is
doomed to destluc1ion,'1 regard as inevits
ble. Go where he may now, he cannot feed
bis army since the affairs at Big sharty and
A}latoOua,h
The depea!saysa1eport reached Newman BIZ
ceeded In completely destroy Ing the railroad
Tor distance OF seventeen miles. Near Biz
Shanty the track Is co1n pletel& den oli3hed'
The embankments have b:eT. undermined
nhd torn down, cuts filled up and bridgeg
burned. On Friday he still held the road
mel 1umor came that French's division was
Iepu1eed on an attack on the Federal f,rce
posted on Atlatopna Heights, with loss Of
eco; but another VERSION wa3 received h,r re
that Gen. French While engaged in destroy.
Ing the road Was cut of from the main army,
INT ErrNat3a3
some loss.
The Richmond Etan,iner says the must In
tersstipg questions connected with the sin.
alton in Georgia are: What is Sherman's
true condition at Atlanta? Can be suosist
hse army i his lines of Communication are
Gnt? What quantity Of supplies has he?
ihese are Important questions. aud much
dtpends upon them. The Ge.rgia papers
themselves are EXTREMITY contradictory 10 an,
swering the impoitalt questions put By the
EIdm1reT. y
sen gentleman who LEFT Atlanta on the
7th. He ssys The Yankees have nothing to
sat but hard-tscst and the whole OF their
atny except one corps has left the city, rad
they are very uneasy in reference to the sit
na1ion. No trains NJ re arriving. HI savs
The late reports ct large Quantities OF sun-
pies having been accumulated with the enc |
ny, a1e without foundation
=, 4ue Ieoe' papers LABOR Gnrd to chow that !
sherman is short Of provisions, This seems
to be their only hope.
The Macon Co,Jsde1ate says reports all
concur in REPRESENTING that, With the single |
exception of bard bread, Shermsn's commits
sariat is In desperate condition. He has
been industrious1y engaged in foraging
through all the neighboriI z. country, bat Il
1s believed with no important results. Meat
fresh ard salfed-aour, meal and corn, are
commodities exceedingly scarce, If not alto
gelher exhausted In Atlanta. The draft
and cavalry horses are 6ubsisted wholly on
forage obtained from the vicinity, and this
Muet be quite Insufficient sherman's con
clifton Is believed to be desperate. lie can't
speedily overtake md destroy Hood vhan
his communications to Chattanooga are sut-
ft1ipg.
The enemy's line Of defeuses hare been
greatly contracted, go as not to embrace tue
whole city limits. The Federa1 cavalry have
been called otf elsewhere. The counties out.
side Of the Federal pickets are feeling q
sense OF secutity which they have not en-
loyed for come time, and many of the inhab-
liants are employing respite IN moving their
wagons, stock, snd other valuabies. There
lre no communications with points on the
Atlanta and West Point Road, which were
expected and provided for. He has another
base, Where We netd noS mention.